This is a cautionary tale of how my Facebook account of 8 years was hacked and hijacked.
So many things goes on in the spiritual realm that we as mortals may not know, at least that's what 'spiritual people' say and we can only imagine until we are opportune to catch a glimpse of what it feels like.

In the same vain, a lot goes on in the internet like cyber crimes and hacking. For most of us who have not seen or been a victim of any of it, we could only imagine and sometimes dismiss the possibility of ever being their victim until we are hit!
That's what my case was, I have been an active Facebook user since 2010, with over thousands of memories in form of posts, pictures and videos.

HOW IT HAPPENED:
The hacker came through my Facebook friend whom I know in person.
I first noticed that I have an active friend whose name were all in Arabic words so I became curious to know who this friend was, a friend I couldn't remember sending or accepting friends request from.

After going through his profile and previous chat I had with that account, I found it was actually someone I knew from 'home', at first I wasn't suspicious of the account because I knew people could be 'Crazy ' to the extent of changing their social network names to whatever that pleases them probably for fun or popularity so I did not border to ask him what was with the Arabic stunt. I just decided to ask him about school because the supposed owner of that profile (whom I knew) is a student.
His reply was very normal like the real owner of the account, He sent me a link pleading with me to Vote for him in a contest he was a participant by following the link. I obliged but when I opened the link I found that the design of the site was like that of Facebook and my log in details (Username and Password) were demanded.
After a while, I decided not to just type in my log in details immediately and ask my friend what the whole voting-contest was all about. I switched back to Facebook and asked him, he told me it was one "Street stuff" he was into and that it meant a lot to him, according yo him, he really needs my vote because he was very passionate about winning.
At that point I gave up asking even though my heart was telling me that something was not just right(but the thought of being hacked was not there at all).

I followed the link again and had my facebook log in details put in after which i did not see any thing like 'vote' or 'contest', rather it displayed something that read "This is an IP..... I can't fully remember, the site actually told me that my log in details has been disclosed to it.(yet it didn't occur to me to even change my password).
I really didn't understand what it meant but I was sure that something was going to happen.
I went back to Facebook and told him I wasn't comfortable with the site and that I fear my security has been compromised. He apologized and said that the link might be the wrong link, that he was going to ask for another from " The link providers ". I resolved I wasn't going to clique on any other link he was going to send unknown to me that the process of hacking my account had already began!

My mind was taken off the issue with replying other messages and comments and for the rest of the night, I did Facebook without noticing anything, the next morning I did Facebook up until noon when I decided to take a Nap. I was still half my sleep when my younger brother called me and was asking why I changed my Facebook name to 'Abdulsalem Mohammed Loni', a name that sounded very strange to me. I quickly stood up from bed and told him I never did, he said to me that "Your account has been hacked".
That was when I told him about my encounter the previous night, I hanged up on him to check things out and behold my account has been logged off and displaying a strange name(Abdulsalem Mohammed Loni) with my picture (He later changed the picture).
I tried to gain access with my password but to no avail, I was very tensed and my head was blank for more than 3 minutes.
When I started thinking again, I called my brother back and asked him to send me the phone number of that my Facebook friend through whom the hacker got access to me. I was later told that His(my Facebook friend) account was being run by a hacker for some time, that he has been trying to gain access to the account all to no avail. That was when it became very clear to me that I HAVE BEEN HACKED!

I explored all the means provided by Facebook and others to get back a hacked account but they yielded nothing!
Meanwhile, the hacker was online and busy deleting my personal informations and putting up fake ones that was meant to be his, I watched my account of 8 years being raised down bit by bit!

WHY I COULDN'T RECOVER MY ACCOUNT
After reading this post, there is every possibility that you will blame me for my ordeal well, that is your thought/opinion, you are entitled to it and I respect that. For me I have come to reality with the fact that my account is gone for good, the main purpose of this post is for people to learn from my story and avoid being a victim because every now and then, accounts are been hacked, and if people don't have access to this type of report, more accounts will be lost!
One will argue that people's account have been hacked in the past and they later retrieved their account through one way or the other but not losing it completely, yes its true, let me also add that my friend through whom the hacker got to me later got his account back! Yes, I was the Aaron!

Now, I was unable to recover my account basically because I didn't have an active recovery email on my Facebook account as at the time of the hacking. I had my email on my profile sometime ago until I got fed up with receiving unending notifications right inside my mail inbox, now instead of simply turning off the email notification from my Facebook account settings, I decided to remove it completely. Had it been my email was registered on my Facebook profile as at the time of the hacking, Facebook will automatically send me a mail that my password changed, regardless of who did the changing.

With your email activated on your Facebook profile, what Facebook does when your password changes is to alert you via your recovery email, providing you with a link that allows you undo any changes made on your account if you're not the initiator, once you clique on that link, you will be made to answer questions about your account which they believe that only the real owner of the account will know and after that you will be able to retrieve your account with new log in details and that was exactly how that my Facebook friend, whose account was hacked and got to me, recovered his own.

WARNING/ADVISE
If you are reading this post and you don't have at least one recovery email registered on your profile, please you need to put em up like right now to avoid 'Had I know/story that touches the heart'.
It is very important you have a recovery email on your profile.

Please do not expose your security online by disclosing your log in details to any site you are not sure of its authenticity.
But if for any reason you happen to disclose your log in details, especially password, please do change them immediately.

Lastly, Facebook has introduced a couple of ways to maintain your security online and to get you back to your account incase you are having issues logging in, one of them is sending a unique code to 3-5 of your trusted friends, these codes when assembled together will automatically get you back to your account.
Please go to your security and log in settings to activate it today.


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http://dagreensblog..com/2017/11/how-my-facebook-account-of-8-years-was.html

cc: Lalasticlala.. #Mods...

Op, thanks a lot.....am activating 2way authentication now

Only babies get hacked

Think mine too was hacked, I just opened a new one.

Incisive

madgoat:
Only babies get hacked

you are a learner. Somebody from cuba hacked my liberty reserve account and removed my hard earned 58000 usd those days. The guy contolled my metatrader and removed my 4200 usd. What he simply did was a special type of phising called diabolic imprest. Since then i have gone to learn programming and i discovered that everyone is at risk

You all need to be computer wise



I recently hacked my bf account on fb only for me to notice that asshole has been cheating

Cases like these keep popping up everyday.

Thanks for sharing your experience so that others can learn.

Please be wary of sites that tell you to log in your details. For example Facebook would always be "HTTPS://www.facebook.com" any other link like eg, "www,.facebook.24,com" even though it's a replica of Facebook is just a Bobby trap to have you release your account details.

Mind the kind of apps you download from the internet, make sure you download apps from verified sites like softpedia.com, download.com filehippo.com and a host of verified download sites, downloading apps randomly from unverified sites and instilling them on ur PC puts you at risk of downloading phishing programs that would monitor your activities( login patterns, documents etc) and would be reporting to the hacker's remote server.

Keyloggers are almost everywhere, do not feel comfortable logging in your details on a cyber cafe, cos most yahoo boys operate from there, install keyloggers in public computers and steal ones details, to now use your identity to commit financial crimes.

Please be abreast with modern safety measures to remain safe on today's internet

Same shit happened to me, a friend of mine on fb aided his friends with his fb account in order to hack mine, I thought i was chating with the guy i didnt know i was talking to his friend, a link was sent to me requesting me to vote for his girlfriend that is a contesting in a beauty contest, i clicked the link and kaboom they're in to my account, that is how my fb account i opened 2009 was screwed, i will never forget what that guy did to me.

Sorry for your lost.......but even if you have a recovery email and even phone number you still can't retrieve your account because they will change it also.......I think Facebook need to update and reinvent its recovery process because the hacker are taking advantage of the lapses in the process .......because immediately they are able to hack your account Facebook doesn't give you enouf option to get it back.......for a start I think they should remove the edit option on recovery email and phone number

I remember waking up one day to see change password SMS in my inbox I rush change password sharply

okosodo:
you are a learner. Somebody from cuba hacked my liberty reserve account and removed my hard earned 58000 usd those days. The guy contolled my metatrader and removed my 4200 usd. What he simply did was a special type of phising called diabolic imprest. Since then i have gone to learn programming and i discovered that everyone is at risk

NO ONE IS SAFE.. YOUR EMAIL CAN ALSO BE HAVKED ESPECIALLY GMAIL WHICH DOESNT OFFER 2WAY AUTH FOR AFRICAN ACCOUNTS. 2WAY AUTH IS THE ONLY RELIABLE SECURITY FOR NOW, ENSURE IT IS TURNED ON, ON ALL YOUR ACCOUNTS.

It is called phishing. He is simply using your account for yahoo, new accounts gets blocked quickly unlike old accounts.


He is a learner for using such method when there are methods you can use and get bulk accounts at once.


I have over 1,000 Facebook account login details. This is real phishing

No more clicking of linkooooo

Okay

It's just Facebook though







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Lol.. the Facebook account pain am.. but sha sha your ignorance got you.. who still falls for phishing scams these days...

Some Tips to avoid phishing scams.
Always update your browsers.
Never enter your password on a lookalike site.
If you must enter your password look closely to be sure the URL is correct.
In fact you don't trust the links don't click it.

Thanks for the info

okosodo:
you are a learner. Somebody from cuba hacked my liberty reserve account and removed my hard earned 58000 usd those days. The guy contolled my metatrader and removed my 4200 usd. What he simply did was a special type of phising called diabolic imprest. Since then i have gone to learn programming and i discovered that everyone is at risk

Sad story, but it bores down to granting access. If you don't click it, they can't lick you. So I believe

CEEcey:
You all need to be computer wise



I recently hacked my bf account on fb only for me to notice that asshole has been cheating

Bad girl.

My post was deleted don't know why but maybe op they don't want me to help u. I quoted you and said contact me on whatsapp let me help you retrieve it, then one wicked ass licking mod delete my post. If you're still interesting @op quote me so I assist you recover it

BrightDeGea:
Same shit happened to me, a friend of mine on fb aided his friends with his fb account in order to hack mine, I thought i was chating with the guy i didnt know i was talking to his friend, a link was sent to me requesting me to vote for his girlfriend that is a contesting in a beauty contest, i clicked the link and kaboom they're in to my account, that is how my fb account i opened 2009 was screwed, i will never forget what that guy did to me.

You could have reported him. Cyber crimes are punishable

CEEcey:
You all need to be computer wise



I recently hacked my bf account on fb only for me to notice that asshole has been cheating

Tell the truth, you didn't really hack his account, you stole his password.

Huh

OLD TALES

No one is safe. As far as you are connected to the internet, the probability of getting hacked is high unless u are a hacker or an internet security personnel yourself. Just be more carefull next time