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Anatomy of a scam? Or just a password notification?

While eating my breakfast this morning and checking up on email, I run across 2 of the following emails:

3am email about a password reset from Facebook to an email address that is not used by the family as logins?  The Spidey Senses are tingling.  Time to look at the raw email data and see what is going on....

Hmm...it looks to be legitimate.  No links are connecting to or directing to any place other than Facebook,  Bringing up the virtual machine and opening the link shows nothing but a legitimate Facebook page....

So what is really going on?  I check on my wife's email to see if she received the same email since it listed her name on the email.  Sure enough, identical email there too.  It looks like that someone did try to log reset her password and Facebook was trying to protect.  Sometimes link laden email is legitimate.  Time to tune those Spidey Senses again.....