Next, they will create an identical profile to yours (clone your account) and begin finding the people on your publicly shared friends list to begin friending as you. First, they will copy your public facebook profile and your cover photo. 2 – Your friends list is publicly available. 1 – Your facebook profile and cover images are publicly available.
#CODE BLOCK FACEBOOK ACCOUNT HACKER PASSWORD#
Always follow the reset my password link.Ĭloned accounts prey on a couple factors. Sidebar: You should always try and RECOVER your account by resetting your password to the email/phone number you set up your facebook account with. Scammers totally take advantage of this, as your friends may think you just created a new account because you forgot your password. Have you ever created a new facebook account because you didn’t remember your password? Exactly. People forget their facebook password all of the time. However, in MOST cases that we encounter, the facebook account has been cloned. Some people have had this happen because they admin a popular facebook page or have something that can be monetized, like an ‘OG’ handle on twitter, instagram, or snapchat. They can do this with phishing to get access to your account with bogus sign in pages or scammy emails. They were able to ‘crack your password’ or used social engineering to get access to your account. When you say you were “hacked” this means that someone has taken control of your account. Then, I’ll walk you through the settings to prevent this situation from happening to you. First, there’s a difference between being hacked and what is actually happening – I’ll explain that briefly.
In the title of this post I put “quotes” around “hacked” because most of the time this is not a hack, but a cloned account.
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