Your Facebook account is worth $100
- Thursday, September 17, 2009, 23:07
- Threat Research
Yesterday I came across (thanks Sean-Paul!) the following site, which really attracted my attention: As you can see, it is an online service which promises to hack any Facebook account just for 100 bucks (!). My first thought about this was "ok, just another scam", but I wanted to see how far they could go with this. The first thing they request you is to register in their site, which I did. The next step to hack an account was to provide them with the ID of the Facebook account you wanted to hack; first I created a temporary Facebook account for this test, and then went back to "hack" it. Obtaining the ID is something trivial, and with that ID anyone can obtain the Facebook username, but that's something that people is not familiar with, so at the end it gives extra credibility to this "service". Once you enter the ID and click on the "Hack it" button, you are given the owner of the Facebook account (the username) and now you have the option to "Start Facebook hacking!":As you can see, it says it takes some minutes, and in fact it is true. Once it finishes, you will see this: (continue reading...)