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There has been an increase in the number of phishing attacks which purport to be from Facebook, its security chief has stated.
Phishing is a practice used by hackers to steal sensitive information from consumers, often in order to commit identity theft.
Usually these emailed messages will pretend to be from a trustworthy financial institution or organisation and request details by pretending they need to "validate" an account or confirm their records.
Sometimes they will include a link to a fraudulent website which will request they enter passwords or other sensitive information and there have been reports that some of these sites automatically serve up malware to their visitors.
Indian resource TechTree notes that some of the phishing attacks which use the Facebook identity state: "Hey, I got a new Facebook account. I'm going to delete this one, so add my new profile."
However, when the visitor clicks the link, they are taken to a similar but fake site.
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