Facebook is not immune to phishing scams. The popular social-networking site has been infiltrated by scams that send Facebook users to faux login sites such as yesterday's fbaction.net, or today's fbstarter.com. Today's scam, for example, is delivered in the form of a message from a Facebook friend that says, "Look at this!," and includes a link to fbstarter.com. The site takes users to a fake Facebook sign-in page, asking for your username and password. Users who fall for this will essentially deliver his or her login credentials to the scammer.
Mashable's Adam Ostrow gives some basic advice:
"Our advice remains the same as yesterday: As always, don't enter your Facebook password if the URL is not Facebook.com, and contact Facebook if you're no longer able to access your account. Of course, this gets a bit trickier as more and more legitimate websites implement Facebook Connect, though we're yet to see any scams that look to exploit this."
If you do sign in by mistake, change your password—on Facebook's site—as quickly as possible.
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