For example, this image sprite and this style sheet are both off the same Akamai CDN domain. In terms of the phishing page itself, most of the content is loaded up off Facebook’s own CDN. There’s a point to be made here about the multi-purposing of sites for various scams. If we jump back to the root of the site there’s a directory listing and the only resource that discloses of any interest is : The URL gives you a sense that we’re probably not about to see what was originally promised, indeed this is just the Facebook logon phishing page. The site above is nothing more than a frame which then embeds a page from which also fires off Chrome’s phishing warning. You’re on your own.Īnyway, let’s stay in Chrome and take a look at the source code. on their phone), there’s zero phishing protection. What’s interesting about this is that in the context where people are most frequently using Facebook (i.e. We’d better follow the link to their site:Īh, better log back into Facebo… hold on a minute, wasn’t I already logged in?! I’ve been solely in the iOS app until now, let’s just switch over to Chrome on the desktop and take a look: Popular indeed.īut what’s this – they can’t show the uncensored versions of the photos on Facebook – where’s the fun in that?! Why is this 10k more than the likes in the first image in this post? Because I took this image today (Monday) and the earlier image only two days ago. Not bad for a fortnight old page! The 106k odd likes are legit too, at least insofar as it’s genuinely that many Facebook accounts that like the page. Looking at the Leaked Snapchats 18+ page on Facebook, we can see it’s rather popular: By extension, “leaked” Snapchats are just the sort of stuff that appeal to a whole different audience. Snapchat allows you to take a pic or a video and set an expiry date after which it’s “theoretically” destroyed, just the sort of stuff that appeals to sexting teens. The more salacious content you find around Facebook often has a hidden agenda, for example the classic She did WHAT in school scam I wrote about last year. I’m frequently amused by the sort of stuff my Facebook friends “like”.
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