The security system of social networking on Facebook was not so strong, as any ordinary person can break into.
A Spanish builder stumbled on an online loophole that enables users to send Facebook messages in other users' names, prompting an alert by authorities, he said on Wednesday.
Spain's Internet watchdog said it had alerted the US online networking site after Mr Alfredo Arias, 37, warned them of the glitch that allows a hacker to use Facebook e-mail addresses when sending spoof messages.
Mr Arias found that anyone who knows how to create an online messaging form - a simple procedure for a website designer - can enter another person's e-mail address in the 'sender' field and send a message as if it were from them.
The procedure is a common trick of online frauds, but Spain's government Internet watchdog Inteco said it was concerned to see that Facebook's e-mail service did not have safeguards to stop its addresses being misused this way.
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