14 DAY TRIAL // A new spam campaign targets users of social networking website Facebook and tries to trick recipients into accessing links pointing to online locations that sell fake medical products.
For the unsuspecting user, the emails may appear genuine since they purport to come from “Facebook Administration” and flaunt a layout and design similar to messages seen on the social network. This facade is actually what scammers hope to convince the potential victim with.
The message pretends to bring the potential victim up-to-date with what happened on the social network since their last visit, and a link to check notifications is provided.
When security blogger Graham Cluley tested the URLs in the emails, he was taken to a Canadian pharmacy site selling drugs for better intimate relations, at a lower price.
Purchasing medication from dodgy locations represents a major risk for the customer because there is no way to verify if the drugs have been approved by any health organization or even if they are not something else.
More than this, online shopping should be done only from trusted sources to avoid the risk of having card information stolen.
The general advice is to stop the urge of clicking on links in unsolicited emails. Most of the times, nothing good comes out of it.