The “Your Facebook account has been disabled by an administrator” Scam

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If you get an email telling you that “your Facebook account has been disabled by an administrator”, don’t fall for it! It’s a scam, and the link in the email goes not to Facebook, but to yet another Canadian pharmacy site selling male enhancement drugs.

The link actually forwards from a Russian domain (in the sample we have that URL is adm-ahtuba.astranet[dot]ru/supporting.html) – to the target Canadian pharmacy domain (viagralevitratestosterone.com in our sample).

Here’s what the spam says – remember, don’t fall for it!:

Hi,

You haven’t been back to Facebook recently. You have received notifications while you were gone.

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Thanks,
The Facebook Team

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Your account has been disabled by an administrator. Please contact disabled@facebook.com for more information.

P.S. Shame on domain registrar Netlynx, who should have caught that the domain viagralevitratestosterone.com could only have been intended for one purpose. Or, maybe they just don’t care.

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