Facebook/Yahoo scam?

Factual Questions
1

I just got two emails with the same time stamp.

The first, with subject “Facebook Account Confirmation”, said
Hey BLA BLA

You recently registered for Facebook. Please confirm your Facebook account by clicking this link:

Where BLA BLA is **not **my name.

I think, “Fine, as long as I don’t click on the link, I should be fine, even if someone tried to open a Facebook account using my email address”

However, the second email, with subject “Welcome to Facebook”, and with the same timestamp as the first, says
Hi BLA BLA,
Your account has been created — now it will be easier than ever to share and connect with your friends.
Here are three ways for you to get the most out of it:

Find Friends
Find people you know on Facebook using our simple tools.

I guess the bad guys could have hacked my email account and clicked the link to activate the Facebook account, but did they do it instantaneously, and then Facebook sent the welcome message instantaneously? The timestamps are 1 second apart.

So I think it’s unlikely that this was done by hacking into my email address. Which means that the emails are fake, i.e. not from Facebook.

However, the emails seem to be from Facebook. All the links are to www.facebook.com. The email addresses are from facebookmail.com and WHOIS lists facebookmail.com as belonging to the same company that owns facebook mail. I of course did not click on anything in the email.

So, my questions are
[ol]
[li]Has my Yahoo email account been hacked?[/li][li]Are these emails from Facebook or from a scammer?[/li][li]How the hell do I contact Facebook about this? They seem to have no way to inform them about such a thing.[/li][/ol]

2

I’ve never used facebook, but some sites send a welcome and confirmation email at the same time and you (or whoever) could possibly sign in but not edit anything until the confirmation is complete.

3
  1. not likely
  2. scammer
  3. won’t do any good, don’t bother
4

Ignore the second “Welcome” email, but open the first one and click on the confirmation link. It takes you to a page where you can click on a “report” button to tell them the email was sent to the wrong email address.

The signup page doesn’t have a second box for confirmation email to be typed (where you have to type it the same twice), so it’s possible someone with a similar email address to yours, typed theirs wrong and it turned out to be yours by coincidence, which is why you got a confirmation email instead of them, and which is why Facebook sends confirmation emails.

5

Wait. If you start getting lots of emails with Facebook in the subject, then they are all scams.

I am currently being overwhelmed with fake Facebook spam. I know they’re fake because I do not have a Facebook account, and yet the text tells me I do.

Plus, after 50 of these emails that are almost exactly similar, some of which have attachment zip files containing viruses, I can safely say it’s all a big load of bollocks.

I hate spam.

6

Your emails sound different than the current spate of “reset your password” virus loads.

Just because an email has a link that says www.facebook.com doesn’t mean that’s where it actually resolves. I suggest you View Source (or whatever your email client lets you do) to see where the link actually goes.