Phishing campaigns on social networks are not new. The scammers are not satisfied only for pushing spam to sell “Canadian” pills. Now they are using all sorts of phishing campaigns to steal your Facebook password, and constantly change their tactics such as trick the users to download a keylogger so that they can collect your credit card numbers, and etc.

Now the main issue is, how can you tell if your personal information is being phished in Facebook? Here are some useful tips provided by TrendMicro:

- Check the email’s content. Misspellings and grammatical mistakes are very common in spammed messages.

- Do not click embedded links. If you need to update your login credentials, go to the site’s homepage and log in from there.

- Check the URL in the message body. A legitimate Facebook link will not continue beyond .com as in the two bogus email messages.

- Check the time stamps. Facebook has millions of users worldwide so it really is very unlikely that the site’s administrator will send out email messages to all users within the same day.

- Check the sender’s email address. A legitimate Facebook email sender will have a facebook.com and not a facebookmail.com address.

Don’t be misled. Facebook Watcher strongly advise that you follow the aforesaid tips and stay safe when networking with all your friends in Facebook.

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