This is my story about the FBSTARTER.COM scam on Facebook, from 10:30am Thursday, April 30. So it started with an innocuous email from a recent "friend" on Facebook. 
And the page, when you get there looks legit. 
But the code behind the page is wrong. 
And the POST action is odd looking. 
And of course they are looking for one thing. 
But things don't work quite like they should. 
And who is Boris? 
So I enter some bogus info to see what happens. 
And I am taken to the my Facebook page, since my cookies are set to load my page. Hopefully, I didn't do something stupid and reveal my cookies to Boris. My guess is what I did was send him a @scammer.com email address with a scammmy password. BUT... Maybe I'll go change my password just in case. Update: I DID change my password. And just now got the following message from Facebook. 
The lesson, keep alert out there folks. And don't let Boris steal hijack your Facebook account. Who knows what might happen then. Your social stream could be derailed. @jmacofearth permalink on uber.la: http://bit.ly/phishing-Facebook Another version by TechCrunch Facebook Phishing Attack.
Friday, May 1, 2009
A new Facebook Phishing Scam - FBStarter.com - Where's Boris?
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