If you’ve received weird messages from me on Facebook they are NOT me.
(well, some of the weird things are from me but they are ALWAYS from a BLOG POST)
Do NOT click on any links saying you have won money or I have won money – It’s a scam.
Here’s the situation and the problem:
- Someone has hacked into my account and then created a bogus page with my picture and name and sending messages/friend requests etc. to my Facebook friends.
- I RARELY go on Facebook and have NEVER chatted on Facebook. (Facebook, frankly, drives me crrrrrrrrrrazier than I already am.)
- People think I’m on Facebook regularly because my blog AUTOMATICALLY puts blog posts on Facebook without my doing anything.
- I’ve spent 3 days trying to figure out what to do: I’ve changed my password, gone over everyone’s profile/page who shares my name on Facebook, sent numerous messages to Facebook, changed my settings, deleted, unfriended, defriended . . .
- THANK YOU TO ALL my Facebook friends WHO HAVE ALERTED ME and are still my friend!!
CURIOUS to the MAX 
I had this happen to a friend of mine on FB, she doesn’t have a blog, no outside links to her page…well little pictures she probably put up there, she’s a teacher.
I don’t know how she fixed it, but the other “her” is gone.
They used the same picture she was using at the time so it really looked like it was from her. But why were we all getting these weird reqest? I don’t think most of her friends were that stupid.
I’m sure yours aren’t either.
Good luck my dear.
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Wendy,
Facebook finally took down the bogus page with my current picture, name and all my friends! Took me 3 days to figure out how to contact Facebook to report!!!
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BTW, one more email notice–even from a friend–telling me I’ve won money will not even dent my cynicism on that subject. No worries there.
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Jacqui,
I’m with you on that one!!! Unfortunately, I had a friend who clicked on the “jack-pot link” and gave them personal information. Don’t ask me why – guess the lure of riches is seductive.
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What? You mean you didn’t win the money?
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Leggy P.
I can’t speak for Jackqui but when I win “the money” I will not be answering comments, writing blog posts, cleaning toilets, washing dishes, doing laundry or cooking my own meals (being the down-home type I probably will still brush my own teeth). . .
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I’m with Peggy–let FB know that happened. See if that clears it up.
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Jacqui,
Easier said than done about notifying Facebook. I’ve been working on it for three days – you can NOT talk to a living person and the “report” options are a stab in the dark. Several people have been able to report it as they’ve received the posts. I only use Facebook when I’m taking an on-line class and they are using a closed group.
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Oh bummer. This has happened to several friends. Alert Facebook and ask them to delete the bogus page. That seems to go a long way to solving the problem. Along with creating a complex new password.
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Leggy P.,
This is one of those “it’ll never happen to me” wake-up calls cuz it just did happen to me. I created another long and complex password . .. just like I did a year ago!
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Yikes, not happy to hear that you already had a complex password. 😦
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Judy, I’m so sorry you’re going through this garbage – the anonymous criminal hiding behind technology. Talk about blind justice. It’s one of the reasons I choose not to link my blog to every other communication opportunity out there. Pin this, loop that, cheep cheep around the clock. I figure if someone is trying to “promote” me and my blog, they aren’t doing it out of the kindness of their divided little heart – they’re doing it because their blood runs green and they’re really promoting themselves.
Free is free until the bill collector arrives. I hope you get FREE of this miserable situation and I hope the perpetrator gets a shock every time he/she tries to cash in on your work – a little electrical reminder to keep their hands out of someone else’s pocket – and off their FB account. IMHO.
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Shari B-P,
You are probably right about all the linking. I have so many people on facebook that are not subscribers but who do read the blog I’ve not blocked the feed. But if I can’t get this cleared up I may have to.
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