Facebook Account compromised. Is there any way to stop the phishing?
The “From” address in email messages is absolutely untrustworthy, I can just as easily send an email that looks like it comes from owner@facebook.com as I can my own. What’s likely happened is this person has gotten into your cousins facebook account and scraped all the information into a database, then every X days it just fakes an email using that old information to get some clicks. Doesn’t matter that the account is dead since it’s not actually touching Facebook. Unfortunately, there’s very, very little you’re going to be able to do to solve it. It’s not really Facebooks problem (since the email isn’t actually orignating from them, only seeming to) so there’s nothing they can do to actually stop it. My only suggestion is to get your cousin to email all his friends, let them know what’s happened and tell them to ignore any emails that seemingly come from his facebook account.
