Is anyone else getting random tags on Facebook?

I was but 2 of my friends got hacked so I assumed that was why. I reported the hacked account and the random tags stopped.

same here and same response - remove tag, report tagger (spam), and block tagger

I see this happen frequently with spam or spoof accounts. Usually the post has a link and something exclamatory like "I can't believe he did this (link)!"

DON'T CLICK the link and report the account.

This happens on local 'private' groups  - local town info etc - apart from that I'm locked down pretty well.

happened to me alot last year My FB blocked list is massive

I ended up leaving a load of groups . Now My FB is friends & family only no games no groups apart from local ones

The tag requests I've been receiving lately are not spam posts, but videos of a certain genre.  And those video tag requests have been happening for at least the past several weeks, apparently.    I first searched to see what I could find out about it the 20s of April, and I found many other people all reporting the exact type of tag reviews I was receiving.

Unfortunately, to report them, you have to at least see the thumbnail of the video they want to tag you in, which was a bit irritating.

But once I saw it was a "thing", I just stopped clicking on my notifications at all. the first few days it happened to me I was getting numerous ones each day. After 2 days I decided to take a break from FB for a few days and see if FB would work it out on their own, and when I came back all of the notifications had disappeared, as if all of those people's accounts had been removed.

Then I went a few weeks with no more of those type of things at all.

But now, the past 2 days as well as today, I saw one notification per day. I didn't even bother to look at them, so I don't know if they're the same type of videos as before, but I imagine they are.

My personal page is private, but I did belong to a lot of public groups, and I imagine that's where these spam bots were/are getting my name to add to their list of people to try to tag. So I did delete some groups I no longer even bother with, but there are a few local groups that are public that I kept. (And I kept all of the private or invisible groups.) So if my name is being picked up in any of those, I guess I'll have to live with getting a few notifications from time to time.

I'm hoping FB will eventually figure out a way of preventing these instead of just chasing after them all of the time, because there are a TON of the accounts. I realized that when I tried to block the first few.

It might have a weird name like ContentedTree58394 and when I would search that, there would be countless ContentedTree accounts all with different numbers after them but the same avatar, the same location, etc. And each one was like that. So FB will have its hands full of reported accounts if they can't figure out a way to prevent them.

Aren't at least some of these tags because you 'follow' that particular group and the person creating the post has tagged all followers? I get many tags in that respect, they are not to me personally as such, just everyone following the group.

In some groups I'm in, the 'owner' has decided not to do that or has told us how to alter our settings to avoid being part of an all-tagged post but i tend to ignore tags anyway so I didn't bother looking sorry.