14 DAY TRIAL // An interesting Facebook lottery scam is making the rounds, trying to trick users into handing over information and money. The scammers are leveraging Facebook’s recent 10-year anniversary to make everything more legitimate-looking.
The scam emails found by Kaspersky purport to come from the “Facebook Rewards Program” and they read something like this:
“As we Celebrate our 10years of internet Journey and Global Communication we are glad to Announce to you that your facebook account have been randomly selected as a beneficiary of $1,000,000.00usd in the 2013 Facebook Account of the Year {Grand Rewards winner}.”
Recipients are asked to send their Facebook username and country of residence to an outlook.com email address. The fake notifications also contain a link to a Sydney Morning Herald article about the Facebook “Look Back” videos.
The emails are apparently signed by Eduardo Saverin, one of the five co-founders of Facebook.
If you come across these emails, ignore them. Facebook hasn’t started giving out millions to random customers.