Facebook Attacked by Spammers and Phising Messages

Jack M. Germain of TechNewsWorld has this report:

Have you received some odd messages from your friends on Facebook lately? Are they suddenly attempting to sell you pharmaceuticals? Or perhaps you’ve received a cryptic “Check this out!” followed by a link to a page that looks something like Facebook, only it asks you for your log-in information again? It’s a common phishing tactic, and scammers have recently been blanketing Facebook with it.

A new wave of phishing and spamming attacks is hitting Facebook users as scammers attempt to get hold of their passwords, the social networking site acknowledged in a statement.

Similar phishing and spamming scams — in which messages supposedly from their friends lure victims to a malicious Web site — have been occurring with greater intensity since the end of April.