Got an email alerting me that my cousin has a FB message for me. I never use messenger but I thought, oh shit, did someone die? So I open messenger reluctantly suspicious that it was really some FB nonsense getting me to sign-in in order to see my cousin had posted another picture of the thermometer showing 100F in Redding.
But nope, it was a message that didn't use my name and claimed someone has asked to friend him, my cousin, using my name and I should do XYZ and forward the message or something like that. I've already deleted it.
So instead of doing what the message instructed I opened his FB page and there was another one of his friends that asked him what was up, pasting a screenshot of the same message.
Turns out his FB messenger page was hacked or something and the malware sent that message to everyone on his friend's list. He said he had to shut FB messenger down.
Since then two of his friends posted the same thing about the spam-ware and FB is messaging me with the usual [person b] also commented on [person A's] post.
Thought some of you might want to know in case you get the same message.
But nope, it was a message that didn't use my name and claimed someone has asked to friend him, my cousin, using my name and I should do XYZ and forward the message or something like that. I've already deleted it.
So instead of doing what the message instructed I opened his FB page and there was another one of his friends that asked him what was up, pasting a screenshot of the same message.
Turns out his FB messenger page was hacked or something and the malware sent that message to everyone on his friend's list. He said he had to shut FB messenger down.
Since then two of his friends posted the same thing about the spam-ware and FB is messaging me with the usual [person b] also commented on [person A's] post.
Thought some of you might want to know in case you get the same message.
