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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: Steve Scott on January 22, 2017, 03:46:14 PM

Title: Hazel Sig been hacked on FB?
Post by: Steve Scott on January 22, 2017, 03:46:14 PM: Been friends with Hazel Sig on facebook for many years but she's not terribly active. Just got a new friend request, which I accepted then started getting messaged about how to apply for a Federal Community Development Block Grant. I suspect her account has been hijacked? Thought it odd she only had 9 friends on FB.

Beware if you get a request.
Title: Re: Hazel Sig been hacked on FB?
Post by: Steve Scott on January 22, 2017, 03:56:23 PM: I've temporarily unfriended Hazel and reported the account may have been hacked.
Title: Re: Hazel Sig been hacked on FB?
Post by: Tim Wescott on January 22, 2017, 04:01:07 PM: Apparently it's easy to make a spoof facebook account -- i.e., harvest my profile picture, make an account named "Tim Wescott", send out friend requests and start spamming away.

What you're describing has all the signs.
Title: Re: Hazel Sig been hacked on FB?
Post by: Bob Matiska on January 23, 2017, 03:33:13 PM: I got a friend request from a friend and classmate who passed away in 2015 the other day. I knew it was bogus and played along and got the same bs you did. Before I could call him on it, the messages disappeared and were replaced by something from FB about the messages being deleted. Just when I was having fun! Yeah, it's apparently not too difficult to hack a facebook account. Beware when receiving a friend request from someone you're already friends with.

Bob in NEPA
Title: Re: Hazel Sig been hacked on FB?
Post by: Tim Wescott on January 24, 2017, 02:05:44 PM: Quote from: Bob Matiska on January 23, 2017, 03:33:13 PM
I got a friend request from a friend and classmate who passed away in 2015 the other day. I knew it was bogus and played along and got the same bs you did. Before I could call him on it, the messages disappeared and were replaced by something from FB about the messages being deleted. Just when I was having fun! Yeah, it's apparently not too difficult to hack a facebook account. Beware when receiving a friend request from someone you're already friends with.

Dunno if I'm being helpful or overly nerdy here, but spoofing and hacking are two different things. Spoofing means that someone's made another account in your name; hacking means they've taken over your account.

You don't want to abandon someone who's account has been spoofed -- just make sure that you delete the right one from your friends list once you realize what's going on.
Title: Re: Hazel Sig been hacked on FB?
Post by: Sean McEntee on January 24, 2017, 09:52:00 PM: Spoofing is much easier. Look at the friends list. If the person only has a handful of friends, and little to no mutual friends, don't accept.