Warning: Facebook Scam & How To Avoid It

It's both insane and pathetic the lengths scammers will go to, but they stick with a routine because it works.  Once one scam is figured out, like the Nigerian scam, they'll try something else until that well runs dry.

This one will definitely fool more people because it comes from someone "you know," but people need to come up with personal, preventive measures to be on their toes.

I've not been hacked yet, on Facebook anyway. But I got this same scam when a friend's account was hacked (brother's dealer I think). I never thought to have a little fun with them, get their hopes up. Nice!

I have a question regarding Facebook and http vs. https --> I was using https (just in case better security) but most of the apps doesn't work when I have https on. Any suggestions?

My email was recently hacked. Took a few days to get control again. And I still wasn’t receiving any emails. The hacker had added a forwarding address to an account that was similar to mine with one extra letter! What a creep.

My email was recently hacked. Took a few days to get control again. And I still wasn't receiving any emails. The hacker had added a forwarding address to an account that was similar to mine with one extra letter! What a creep.

This happened to me! They hacked my gmail account and sent it to all my contacts. I managed to get my account back for about 4 hours and remove mail forwards and as much else as I could. A few of my friends had fun, some where shocked and ready to help, but realized it wasn't my language style! fb closed my account for about three weeks! Then I got it back and finally three months later my gmail account was opened back up. All my contacts were deleted (copied) and my newer emails - I had most routed through gmail - big mistake! Good warning, Sean Ciao Graeme

This is interesting. Thanks for the heads up.

Thanks Sean. That's a great share.

Hi Sean, You could help many more people by writing up a short description of the scam and adding it to this post. There are still Internet users who are unable to watch videos because of the type of Internet connection they have or their PC is older or has issues.

I have this same thing come to me by e-mail from a past client. I called them

Sorry about that, that came from my account. When I was trying to reclaim my facebook account I saw you and my aunt on my chat. I knew my aunt had the same thing happen because she called me and told me what was going on. Someone had hacked my facebook account and was doing this. The only reason my aunt noticed is because I never chat on facebook. I thought I had fixed it but facebook deactivated my account until they can be sure I am who I say I am. Again I am sorry this happened to you as well. Hopefully I will get my facebook account back today without to many issues. Dawn Avery

Great post! Thanks for a video... piggy bank with 7k$?! I wish i had one of those when i was young... =) my twitter @agentjobssmith