Administrators of Facebook groups began receiving messages on Messenger in which scammers offered to follow a link to avoid the page being blocked.
As reported by Ukrinform, the Center for Combating Disinformation reported this on Telegram.
“Administrators of Facebook groups began to receive messages on messenger for serious violations of the community, allegedly their pages will be blocked within 24 hours. To prevent this from happening, scammers offer to go to the link and appeal the decision to block this or that group. In any case, the center is of dubious type “The scammers aim to force users to click on such links in order to later gain access to the Facebook page or obtain users’ personal data, including bank accounts.” reading your message.
CPD also emphasized that Facebook management does not send notifications of similar content in personal messages.
“If you received such a message, you need to file a complaint about the post and block the source of distribution! If you have become a victim of scammers and lost access to your page on the social network, contact the cyber police (https://t.me/CyberpolUA) or other competent authorities,” the center advises. said.
As Ukrinform reports, since the beginning of the large-scale occupation of the Russian Federation, one in every nine people surveyed in Ukraine has become a victim of scammers. The majority of fraud cases occurred when buying or selling goods over the internet.
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