Facebook CEO Mark Zurckerberg just isn’t sending out privacy notices, requesting that users verify their accounts. That’s because no such messages would ever come from the Facebook CEO. There’s also that pesky little detail that the CEO of Facebook isn’t Mark Zurckerberg.

This one should immediately throw up some red flags, given that the scammers can’t even spell “Zuckerberg” correctly. a brand new phishing scam making its way around Facebook is simply a brand new riff on a classic ruse.

Hoax Slayer is reporting a message hitting some users’ inboxes claims to be from “Mark Zurckerberg” and states that…

Mark Zurckerberg

Dear Facebook user, After reviewing your page activity, it was resolute that you simply were in violation of our Terms of service.Your account could be permanently suspended.

If you suspect this can be a mistake,please verify your account at the link below.This might indicate that your Page doesn’t have a contravention on our Terms of Service.

We will immediately review your account activity,and we can notify you again via email.
Verify your account on the link below:

Clicking at the link will direct users to a faux Facebook login page. Although made to see just like the real Facebook login page, this malicious site will simply steal your info when you enter it in.

This type account verification scam is old, but persistent. Most claim that the user has violated some Facebook terms and must verify their account so that they can keep it from being suspended. Prior to now couple of months, we’ve seen a pair variations of this scam hit Facebook. One version imagined to come from the Facebook Security Team. Another scam message claimed that users have been “annoying or insulting” to other users and they face account suspension. Either one of those scams, like this “Zurckerberg” one, asked for private info to “verify” the accounts.