{"id":137374,"date":"2022-03-26T01:02:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T08:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/4-word-facebook-message-you-must-ignore"},"modified":"2022-03-26T01:02:49","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T08:02:49","slug":"4-word-facebook-message-you-must-ignore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/4-word-facebook-message-you-must-ignore","title":{"rendered":"4-word Facebook message you must ignore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/4-word-facebook-message-you-must-ignore2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve probably received this message already \u2014 just don\u2019t open it. Details:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Facebook Messenger users have been told to ignore a four-letter message that could lead to disastrous financial consequences or stolen personal information.<\/p>\n<p>Scammers use the instant messaging platform to send out a four-word \u201clook what I found \u2026\u201d message, and a link from compromised accounts. These message also include emojis as well, <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/news\/cyber-security\/look-what-i-found-phishing-scam-grows-on-facebook-messenger-c-6191588\" title=\"7news.com.au\" data-tgev=\"event119\" data-tgev-container=\"bodylink\" data-tgev-order=\"look-what-i-found-phishing-scam-grows-on-facebook-messenger-c-6191588\" data-tgev-label=\"news\" data-tgev-metric=\"ev\">7News<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>If interacted with, the link takes the user to a site where they\u2019re asked to enter their Facebook log in details. This allows the scammer to steal sensitive information from the user\u2019s profile, or install malware on their phone or computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ve probably received this message already \u2014 just don\u2019t open it. Details: Facebook Messenger users have been told to ignore a four-letter message that could lead to disastrous financial consequences or stolen personal information. Scammers use the instant messaging platform to send out a four-word \u201clook what I found \u2026\u201d message, and a link from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":600,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}