Who is the Real Facebook Admin !?

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Anyway, today we'll talk a little bit about the email from Facebook Administrator. First, I would like to thank Li Ling for bringing this up.

As the Facebook users, we are receiving a lot of notifications from Facebook to your mailbox. These are including the 'message replies', 'your friends tagged you', 'game notifications'', etc... So you have your fun with your friends, owning the mailbox to keep track of every new reply and update, blah blah blah...

Real Case Scenario:

One day...you received a email from the Facebook Team.

And the message is:

Now, if you're a naive user with the brain of a 12 y.o, you might be redirected to malicious site, phishing site or even accidentally download the malicious scripts to your computer just by clicking 'Here'. Before we proceed any action, we have to make sure that the sender is the exact sender.

How do I know the real Facebook administrator?

As long as you're the email user, you're always given the features to check the origins of the email. Here's the example for the Gmail user:

1) Click on the drop-down box beside the 'Reply' button, choose on the option 'Show Original".

2) A new page will be open and you'll be seeing this:

3) In the original message, check for the "Return-Path" and "Received", you'll noticed it's from a mail server

 which is hosted by Pakistan~!!!! It even show you the server IP: 67.159.60.54.

4) Therefore, you're now able to identify which is the real message sent by Facebook Team :-)

I'm the Hotmail user, am I able to do so?

Yes honey, you are able to perform the similar checking. 


1) Right click on the selected email, and click "View Message Source".

2) You'll be redirected to a opened new page, check for "Receive"

3) And you'll see it's another phishing mail from a China mail server: mail.haicheiung.com

Final Reminder
Facebook is a fun social network, however it's so popular that the hackers always come out with a lot of creative ideas just to compromised your account, steal your account credentials or even exploit them. Therefore, when you're enjoying all the fun with your friends, keep your mind sharp as well.