"I've been hacked..."
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My problem is I often get these types of friend requests from older people who are already friends. With some of them it’s completely plausible that they forgot their password and created a second account.
When this happens I usually hold off accepting for a while until I can see if they are using their new account and seem like themselves.
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I've seen a couple of people create second accounts as an alternative to culling their friends list and upsetting a load of people they don't know very well. They then invite a smaller, select group to the second identity and let the original account disappear quietly into Bolivia.
I was only joking
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I've seen a couple of people create second accounts as an alternative to culling their friends list and upsetting a load of people they don't know very well. They then invite a smaller, select group to the second identity and let the original account disappear quietly into Bolivia.
@Doctor-Phibes said in "I've been hacked...":
… let the original account disappear quietly into Bolivia.
Like Butch Cassidy and Che Guevara?
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@Doctor-Phibes said in "I've been hacked...":
… let the original account disappear quietly into Bolivia.
Like Butch Cassidy and Che Guevara?
@jon-nyc said in "I've been hacked...":
@Doctor-Phibes said in "I've been hacked...":
… let the original account disappear quietly into Bolivia.
Like Butch Cassidy and Che Guevara?
and Mike Tyson.
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Lots of people use the same password across services.
There are lots of data leaks that include <email> <password>. Some % of those are going to work on facebook, twitter, instagram, etc.
I don't think there's much "hacking" going on. Just basic low-tech stuff.
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Scammers need lots and lots of places to post ads claiming to have something to sell. If you go to marketplace you'll see too good to be true cars for sale. For example, "2017 Chevy Silverado 1200". In the description it will say something like "only 24,000 miles, always garage kept, no rust, etc". If you click on the little round picture of the "seller" it will take you to their "commercial page", and you'll see the truck pictured as a listing, not once, but dozens of times.
They know that people in say Chicago won't be looking at ads in Sacremento for example, so they will hack into a Chicago persons account and from there post an ad saying they and the truck are in Sacremento. They'll hack into someone's account who is from Sacremento, and post ads they will list in Topeka. And so on. They try to find accounts to hack where the real owner of the account never uses marketplace. That way they can feel certain the owner won't know to check the marketplace section, and the can list the truck hundreds of times at once in hundreds of locations.
The truck isn't for sale, of course. If you're dumb enough to think you're going to get a 40,000 truck for 1200 bucks, you'll also be dumb enough to go buy 1200 dollars worth of gift cards and give them the info from those cards so the "seller" can "pay the storage fee to get the truck out of storage and send it to you." No one ships a truck to you of course, and since they have your 1200 bucks they just stop texting you. Gone without a trace.
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Occasionally I see a message like this from a friend on Faceypage.
Do not accept any friend requests from me, I've been hacked. Sorry for the inconvenience.
How does that happen?
@George-K said in "I've been hacked...":
Occasionally I see a message like this from a friend on Faceypage.
Do not accept any friend requests from me, I've been hacked. Sorry for the inconvenience.
How does that happen?
It isn't that the person's account has been hacked (ie broken into) but that's what people think. Most comments tell folks to change their password because they have been hacked.
Not true.
What is happening is someone (who is NOT your friend) has created a FB account, saved your profile picture and used it on the fake account they created to make it look like you. Then they send friend requests to people in YOUR friends list because they can see it.
There are two reasons this happens to people.
First, they have the security setting on their profile picture set to "Public". This is the default, unless you changed it. On your account ,click on your profile picture, click on "view profile picture". On the top right, click on the three dots, select "Edit Audience" and select something OTHER than Public.
Second, set your "Who can see your friends list" to something other than "Public". You will find this under Settings - Privacy - Who can see your friends list.
I've set my profile picture and friends list to only allow "friends" to see them.
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I think anyone could create a knock-off account using your profile picture, which is usually public. Then if your friend list is public, as many are, you can just send friend requests to those people, no hacking involved.
@jon-nyc said in "I've been hacked...":
I think anyone could create a knock-off account using your profile picture, which is usually public. Then if your friend list is public, as many are, you can just send friend requests to those people, no hacking involved.
Sorry... didn't see your post. You are absolutely correct. This is what is happening.
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@George-K said in "I've been hacked...":
I've had my stuff set that way for a long time.
Me too. Which is why I've never been cloned.
Many times I would get "friend requests" from people I knew I was already friends with.
I'd check, before accepting the request and yep, they'd been cloned.
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Also, don't click on attachments sent via Facebook with names like "This made me think of you" or "I thought you'd like this"
I know, that's kind of obvious. Until your sister in law sends you one, then it's less obvious.
