Universal Ramblings

Techcrunch is reporting:

Today’s is a message that appears to be appearing in users’ inboxes with the prompt to “Check areps.at.” Similar to last week’s 151.im phishing scheme the domain is not automatically hyperlinked in Facebook, but email clients, like Gmail or Yahoo, will auto-link it. Don?t click on that link and don?t copy and paste it into your browser.

Apparently the link will lead you to a Facebook log-in page. If you login to the site, the site will steal your email and password and will send all of your friends the same message. Twitter reveals that the same has been taking place all morning but I just received a Facebook message from a friend who was sucked into the scam a half hour ago.

People who’ve been scammed by the aresp.at and other links have gotten their Facebook passwords and login stolen, I’ve read.

Always just go to Facebook.com directly — type that into your URL bar correctly, and don’t click on Facebook links in emails.