Phishing Email and Facebook Pornography

Lesson 1:  I have heard of phishing before, but never got anything that looks this valid before. Wikipedia defines it as follows: “Phishing is the attempt to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details (and sometimes, indirectly, money), often for malicious reasons, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.”
Well, I got my first truly tricky phishing email tonight. It appeared to come from GoDaddy…I sent it to my nephew, Andrew, who knows everything about computer stuff, thank goodness. Here is what he told me :
This is a phishing attack.  They list a URL in the e-mail that looks like it’s from Godaddy:

But it lands you on a page that has absolutely nothing to do with the GoDaddy domain.  They design a page to look exactly like GoDaddy’s so that you type in your e-mail and password.  And when you do, they have your login information!

Lesson 2:  Facebook.  I have had a personal facebook account for a very long time.  I have never had anyone that was able to post something on my home page before.  I started a new Facebook page for my business….over the last four weeks, I have had persons that would post pornography on my home page, not my feed page, but my own home page.  What a shock it was to go look at my page and see this.  I did delete the posts and the persons as friends and notified facebook.  Have been informed that the posts were taken off FB.  I don’t know how someone was able to post something that looked like it came from me, but lesson 2 was learned.  Always keep an eye on your social media and address these issues promptly.  If anyone has more feedback on this, I would appreciate it!!
That’s all for now, All Things Are Possible:
Susan

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