Fake Facebook Email Claims Your Messages Will Be Deleted – Pharmacy Spam

According to this email, which looks like a genuine Facebook notification, you have a message on Facebook that will be deleted in one day.

The message advises that you have not been to Facebook for a few days and a lot has happened while you were away.

It invites you to click either a ‘View Messages’ or ‘Go to Facebook’ button to access the missed message before it is deleted.

However, the email is not from Facebook. And neither of the buttons will open any missed Facebook messages.

Instead, the buttons open a decidedly dodgy website that tries to entice you into buying equally dodgy health products.

Of course, it is a very bad idea to buy products from these spam websites. Because you do not need a prescription, you have no way of knowing if the medication you are buying is the real thing. In reality, it could be some dangerous or useless substitute. The medication may be ineffective or it may interfere with other medications you are using with adverse results.

Moreover, these sites usually do not use secure pages to process transactions thus putting your credit card details at risk. And, any organization willing to use deliberately deceptive tactics such as sending fake Facebook messages certainly should not be trusted with your personal and financial information. In some cases, the sites may also harbour malware.

Spammers have used this tactic repeatedly over the last few years. Apparently, at least a few recipients of these emails actually stay to buy the spam website’s products after they have been tricked into visiting.

If you receive one of these fake Facebook emails, do not click any links that it contains. If you do inadvertently click a link and end up on a pharmacy spam website, close the site immediately.