Facebook Phishing Scam Snares Board Member
Imagine how hard it will be for this guy to live this one down.
Imagine how hard it will be for this guy to live this one down.
On Saturday evening, a Facebook event invitation was sent to some of the over 2,300 friends of Jim Breyer, the Accel Partners venture capitalist who sits on Facebook's board of directors, asking "Would you like a Facebook phone number?" As it turned out, this was a scam: Users who entered their passwords in response to the spoof message from Breyer in turn had the whole thing sent to their friends lists, too. "This was a phishing scam and Jim's account appears to have been compromised," read a statement from Facebook.
