Help I got seriously hacked on Facebook
- Thread starter mustangcy
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Most likely Phishing attacks or data breaches.
A data breach from another company, where hackers get email/passwords. Then they try those email/password combinations on other sites until one works.
Solution -
Make a new FB with a fake name. Inquire of one of the vehicles and offer to come look at it. Beat the guy to a bloody pulp until he gives you your facebook back.
I'm serious.
Step-daughter had her phone stolen when she was in high school. The guys put it for sale on craiglist. I contacted them to potentially buy it, met them and when they let me see it I took it and threatened to leave then dead in a ditch if they ever came near my step-daughter again.
Make a new FB with a fake name. Inquire of one of the vehicles and offer to come look at it. Beat the guy to a bloody pulp until he gives you your facebook back.
I'm serious.
Step-daughter had her phone stolen when she was in high school. The guys put it for sale on craiglist. I contacted them to potentially buy it, met them and when they let me see it I took it and threatened to leave then dead in a ditch if they ever came near my step-daughter again.
I'm guessing most of these guys are in another country and have no intention of meeting anyone. I do like your approach, though!
I deleted my facebook account like 10+ years ago until a couple weeks back my son somehow reactivated it trying to log in to messenger kids. It’s tied to an old phone number and my old ISU email address. Without a device that had been signed into the account before it’s completely unrecoverable. I just have a FB account hanging out there now and have zero access to it. Delete account evidently doesn’t mean delete account.
Yeah, the smart ass "Ha, ha, you use Facebook!" is lame. It's the go to for small interest groups, small non-profits, and community groups. It's where most of my photography friends share there photos. Even the pros and semi-pros use it to generate interest for their web site otherwise no one would see them.
Yep...this is most likely the way they got in. They hacked my Netflix first the night before. I quickly changed the password to my private email account but didn't think about facebook. Obviously I've changed every password to literally everything I have. But I'm almost positive it was a data hack, then they just started fishing around to major sites to see if my passwords worked, well...I'm dumb enough (or was I should say..) that I used similar passwords on these more or less none important accounts. Thats how they got me.
But as it stands today I have lost the account. I'm super bummed about it, I had things on that account related to family members that have passed...that I can't get back or have again. Memories that I won't be able to look back on and share again. I would literally John Wick this guy if I could find him and know I could get away with it.
Ok, this VR headset hack seems like a legit way. And frankly, I can get one at Walmart, try it and take it back after I get my account back (because F the man..).
The good ones are the ones who change the email and number which your password can be changed to their own. You'll never get them back.
UPDATE!
I actually got my facebook account back this morning. Here's how I did it. Had to pay for Meta Verified on my Instagram account ($14 a month). Then once I got verified I had access to a support chat feature and I just used that to get the account back. I had to really stay at them, they really don't want to help you but if you are persistent...
So anyway, I'm still almost in shock I pulled it off because from all the research I have done it is very rare you get your account back once they hack you this bad.
So anyway, Meta Verified is the move if you or someone you knows Facebook gets totally taken over by scammers.
I actually got my facebook account back this morning. Here's how I did it. Had to pay for Meta Verified on my Instagram account ($14 a month). Then once I got verified I had access to a support chat feature and I just used that to get the account back. I had to really stay at them, they really don't want to help you but if you are persistent...
So anyway, I'm still almost in shock I pulled it off because from all the research I have done it is very rare you get your account back once they hack you this bad.
So anyway, Meta Verified is the move if you or someone you knows Facebook gets totally taken over by scammers.
Set up 2 step verifications asap on FB, and really on everything.
Good to hear. Make sure you put all your pics and stuff in a backup file and don't go into detail about much when corresponding with people on there in the future.
I have a woman that my account is now linked to. Bottom right corner I can switch back and forth between our accounts. I get notifications pop up on my phone when she gets a message.i also get notifications when her iPhone eleven logs in.
