Mary Kay Lady
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Post by Mary Kay Lady on Aug 12, 2015 4:43:22 GMT
A friend of mine on FB posted the following:
WARNING EVERYBODY: New hackers on Facebook and what they write is aggression from you and it's insulting. It's really nasty and it appears to come from you. You do not see it, but your friends do. One result of this can be that you will be deleted on your friends list. I just want to say, if you get something that is offensive, malicious, vulgar, etc., it is ABSOLUTELY NOT from me! Copy this and let your friends know. If you get anything like this from me, please tell me and report it immediately to Facebook. Apparently it can come in messages too. PLEASE do NOT share! "COPY AND PASTE from the comment area"
Has anyone else had problems with their FB account being hacked?
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Post by sacteach on Aug 12, 2015 4:51:36 GMT
99% of the time, I do not believe the "copy/paste this message" posts. So my initial instinct is that it's fake and I don't believe that accounts are being hacked to send vulgar messages.
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anniebygaslight
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Post by anniebygaslight on Aug 12, 2015 5:02:27 GMT
These things do the rounds from time to time. -Click- |
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Mary Kay Lady
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Post by Mary Kay Lady on Aug 12, 2015 5:47:31 GMT
Thanks for the replies and the link to Snopes. I'd completely forgotten to check there. I haven't read anything on my FB feed that is rude and insulting, so that was another reason I thought I'd check here.
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Post by pmk on Aug 12, 2015 6:52:43 GMT
Slightly off topic, but is it just me that wants to now go and write something really honest (which might just end up being insulting!) to a few people and pretend it's hackers who did it?!
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Post by kraft4fun on Aug 12, 2015 8:28:59 GMT
Actually I had new friend requests from three people last week that I was already friends with. I called all three and it was not them with the request. One was my husband and he barely knows how to use his phone and no clue how to turn on a computer. So yes it do happen.
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Nink
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Post by Nink on Aug 12, 2015 11:44:12 GMT
My account got hacked years ago right after I signed up. Whoever hacked it sent really vulgar, sexually explicit messages and posts to my friends & family, one being my teenage nephew. It took a couple days to straighten out, but everyone figured I'd been hacked. So it can happen, but as I said, it was many years ago.
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Post by wholarmor on Aug 12, 2015 12:00:21 GMT
A lot of my friends and family have fallen victim to the duplicate accounts made- as kraft4fun mentioned. I know better than to add people who I'm already friends with. If I receive a friend request from someone I'm friends with, I look them up on Facebook, and I have mostly found that they already have accounts. Those who have accepted those friend requests have said they got messages from them asking for money and stuff.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2015 12:15:12 GMT
Actually I had new friend requests from three people last week that I was already friends with. I called all three and it was not them with the request. One was my husband and he barely knows how to use his phone and no clue how to turn on a computer. So yes it do happen. Sent from my NX008HD8G using proboards These weren't hackers. They were people making duplicated accounts. You can set an account up in any name and it is easy to save images from someone else's profile so you look like them. It is a scam to be sure. But not a hack because they don't have access to your actual account. They just set one up that looks like they do. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2015 12:15:19 GMT
The timing of this is kinda funny. University of Michigan's Football, Basketball, and Athletics FB pages had been hacked during the night and had been posting all kinds of sexual articles and links. Their Hockey page posted that they know about the hack and are fixing it and removing the offensive material. There's several comments about hockey having a better defense.
Hackers suck.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2015 13:57:44 GMT
i remember reading statistics a few years ago that approx 600,000 accounts are hacked on facebook daily
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Post by lonr on Aug 12, 2015 14:28:59 GMT
I had a hack attempt just on Sunday. FB blocked me signing in because someone had tried to from Japan. I changed my password and yay! No inappropriate messages to my friends and family.
A couple weeks ago my cousin was tagging me in weird posts. Ya, that wasn't her.
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Post by happymomma on Aug 12, 2015 14:50:56 GMT
I had a hack attempt just on Sunday. FB blocked me signing in because someone had tried to from Japan. I changed my password and yay! No inappropriate messages to my friends and family. A couple weeks ago my cousin was tagging me in weird posts. Ya, that wasn't her. A few years ago, when I was a consultant with Scentsy, I created a separate account to keep from clogging up my personal page with Scentsy stuff. My friends and customers were on the friends list because they wanted to be and to keep abreast of any specials, new items, etc. When I resigned from Scentsy, I stopped using that page, though for some reason never deleted it. I remembered it the other day and logged in. To my surprise, someone with Middle East ties has apparently been using it! The 'friends list' was full of all kinds of foreign people, posts were in a foreign language and "I" had 'liked' several other foreign pages. Yikes! I deleted the page immediately. So, it can happen. I have no idea how it did happen, or how they got my password or access to the page or why they would even pick that account to run with. It was my fault for not deleting the page in the first place. I guess I had kept it to re-work it for my Perfectly Posh business, but never got around to doing that. Lesson learned! I just hope it didn't get my put on some kind of government watch list, lol. |
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