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Re: How My Facebook Account Of 8 Years Was Hacked And Hijacked, A Cautionary Tale by Seequadry(m): 9:50am On Nov 07, 2017
Lol
Re: How My Facebook Account Of 8 Years Was Hacked And Hijacked, A Cautionary Tale by Nobody: 9:50am On Nov 07, 2017
a lot of People fall victim of this

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Re: How My Facebook Account Of 8 Years Was Hacked And Hijacked, A Cautionary Tale by shinarlaura(f): 9:53am On Nov 07, 2017
That s how my account was hacked too. The person used it and was discussing with all my Facebook friends and doing other stupid things

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Re: How My Facebook Account Of 8 Years Was Hacked And Hijacked, A Cautionary Tale by EvilMetahuman: 9:55am On Nov 07, 2017
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
hack or stole his password?

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Re: How My Facebook Account Of 8 Years Was Hacked And Hijacked, A Cautionary Tale by Triniti(m): 9:55am On Nov 07, 2017
Hackers everywhere,protect your online account........or else I will hack too

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Re: How My Facebook Account Of 8 Years Was Hacked And Hijacked, A Cautionary Tale by Austin234(m): 9:56am On Nov 07, 2017
Liberty Reserve still dey function?
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
Re: How My Facebook Account Of 8 Years Was Hacked And Hijacked, A Cautionary Tale by olowobaba10: 9:56am On Nov 07, 2017
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Re: How My Facebook Account Of 8 Years Was Hacked And Hijacked, A Cautionary Tale by HELPMEWITHSEX: 9:56am On Nov 07, 2017
Can you teach me programming sir?

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

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Re: How My Facebook Account Of 8 Years Was Hacked And Hijacked, A Cautionary Tale by HELPMEWITHSEX: 9:58am On Nov 07, 2017
Hope no one was scammed on your name?

shinarlaura:
That s how my account was hacked too. The person used it and was discussing with all my Facebook friends and doing other stupid things

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Re: How My Facebook Account Of 8 Years Was Hacked And Hijacked, A Cautionary Tale by NkayTiana(f): 10:00am On Nov 07, 2017
mine was hacked... same tale though but I got it back...

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Re: How My Facebook Account Of 8 Years Was Hacked And Hijacked, A Cautionary Tale by Austin234(m): 10:03am On Nov 07, 2017
Could u help me with a Camerounian platform just like Nairaland. I know u are from Cameroun
shinarlaura:
That s how my account was hacked too. The person used it and was discussing with all my Facebook friends and doing other stupid things

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Re: How My Facebook Account Of 8 Years Was Hacked And Hijacked, A Cautionary Tale by samsard(m): 10:20am On Nov 07, 2017
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
You always have a story to tell on every thread, and as usual, they don't correlate.
Re: How My Facebook Account Of 8 Years Was Hacked And Hijacked, A Cautionary Tale by romeorailss: 10:24am On Nov 07, 2017
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

Then move to another guy who isn't cheating and later hack his account too to discover grin cheesy

angry angry . Well wouldn't know if u have dumped his ass. The next guy might just be cheating not on fb but whatsapp

angry .
Re: How My Facebook Account Of 8 Years Was Hacked And Hijacked, A Cautionary Tale by mamuzoOMAH(m): 10:27am On Nov 07, 2017
that was how my account was hacked too. The person changed my name to will Wallace although my pics still appear. so when I want to get some of my old pics, I just go there and download it. since then I have decided to never vote for anybody on my Facebook. if u like beg from now til tomorrow. Facebook of 7 years. by now it would have been eight year as it happened May last year. I had to open another account and funny enough this current account happens to be more productive that the previous. The only sad part is when I see my friends celebrating 5 years as friends but I'm just celebrating one year. Nonsense and ingredients.

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Re: How My Facebook Account Of 8 Years Was Hacked And Hijacked, A Cautionary Tale by Emmyxclusive: 10:31am On Nov 07, 2017
mine too, someone named kian matteo took over it, i know one other guy had thesame issue. its common these days

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Re: How My Facebook Account Of 8 Years Was Hacked And Hijacked, A Cautionary Tale by kirchofff(m): 10:32am On Nov 07, 2017
wisino1:
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
how the hell will they know your new password when I didn't click any more link? Bros once you've recovered you account back, they have no power over it anymore.
Re: How My Facebook Account Of 8 Years Was Hacked And Hijacked, A Cautionary Tale by encryptjay(m): 10:38am On Nov 07, 2017
Papadoh:
Tell the truth, you didn't really hack his account, you stole his password.
grin
The bf made a mistake and she's claiming hacker

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Re: How My Facebook Account Of 8 Years Was Hacked And Hijacked, A Cautionary Tale by link2ok22: 10:43am On Nov 07, 2017
SoftDealz:
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.

Please what's 2way Auth?
Re: How My Facebook Account Of 8 Years Was Hacked And Hijacked, A Cautionary Tale by luciangelymail(f): 10:52am On Nov 07, 2017
dagreensblog:
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.


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

Exactly what happened to me few days ago, infact while reading this, It felt like I was reading my story. That guy knows me so well because when I confronted him on why he is using a foreign name and picture, yet he wants me to vote him for mr Imo bla bla bla, he cursed and mentioned my dad's name. My reason for clicking the link was to know who that person was, anyway i recovered my account but it was tough, that person kept on changing passwords, and recovery phone numbers and mails, facebook later asked for a valid ID, i snapped and sent my intl passport to recover it. I know better now
Re: How My Facebook Account Of 8 Years Was Hacked And Hijacked, A Cautionary Tale by Nobody: 10:53am On Nov 07, 2017
XXLDICK:
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
sofly dey lie.
Re: How My Facebook Account Of 8 Years Was Hacked And Hijacked, A Cautionary Tale by abbeyty(m): 11:01am On Nov 07, 2017
I even want mine to be hacked maybe that wiĺl make me spend less time on the Internet
Re: How My Facebook Account Of 8 Years Was Hacked And Hijacked, A Cautionary Tale by ugolinze123(m): 11:01am On Nov 07, 2017
was a victim too even my recovery email was changed but i never gave up cus i made sure i fought the bastard with every ict knowlege i had..like u said facebook sent a unique code to 3 of my friends i dont even have there number i had to start calling and calling before i could send them the link to help me input the code.. It was hell for me those two days and the idiot has already started chatting up all ma foriegn friends about a gold deal men even after i got my fb back they were all scared of me till i ahd to convince them on how i was hacked...dont use ur fb at a cafe even if u have to make sure u loggout and also go to the browswer history and clear the history. Be care full
Re: How My Facebook Account Of 8 Years Was Hacked And Hijacked, A Cautionary Tale by deloon(m): 11:18am On Nov 07, 2017
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

Never heard of diabolic imprest before.
What is that?
Re: How My Facebook Account Of 8 Years Was Hacked And Hijacked, A Cautionary Tale by paradigmshift(m): 11:21am On Nov 07, 2017
XXLDICK:
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

baba how you dey do am pass?
I need am o
Re: How My Facebook Account Of 8 Years Was Hacked And Hijacked, A Cautionary Tale by Mercylix20(f): 11:28am On Nov 07, 2017
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
please how did you do it??
Re: How My Facebook Account Of 8 Years Was Hacked And Hijacked, A Cautionary Tale by Nobody: 11:30am On Nov 07, 2017
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
Hack ke? Abi u simply did forgot password and changed the password?? Go sleep... No one is safe...Hardcore Programmers aren't on social media for fear of been tracked....The all and powerful eye watches....Stay Woke People.

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Re: How My Facebook Account Of 8 Years Was Hacked And Hijacked, A Cautionary Tale by darlingjoylyn(f): 11:32am On Nov 07, 2017
Lolz!
Will love to learn! Inquistive fella here

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
Re: How My Facebook Account Of 8 Years Was Hacked And Hijacked, A Cautionary Tale by XXLDICK(m): 11:36am On Nov 07, 2017
paradigmshift:


baba how you dey do am pass?
I need am o
Business secret. cheesy

I sell old Facebook accounts cool
Re: How My Facebook Account Of 8 Years Was Hacked And Hijacked, A Cautionary Tale by nellyelitz(m): 11:36am On Nov 07, 2017
XXLDICK:
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
na so

Re: How My Facebook Account Of 8 Years Was Hacked And Hijacked, A Cautionary Tale by ganie(m): 11:47am On Nov 07, 2017
mamuzoOMAH:
that was how my account was hacked too. The person changed my name to will Wallace although my pics still appear. so when I want to get some of my old pics, I just go there and download it. since then I have decided to never vote for anybody on my Facebook. if u like beg from now til tomorrow. Facebook of 7 years. by now it would have been eight year as it happened May last year. I had to open another account and funny enough this current account happens to be more productive that the previous. The only sad part is when I see my friends celebrating 5 years as friends but I'm just celebrating one year. Nonsense and ingredients.
I knw someone who says this too, what's the ingredients in nonsense? Ayam not understanding.
Re: How My Facebook Account Of 8 Years Was Hacked And Hijacked, A Cautionary Tale by Hemcy1(m): 11:48am On Nov 07, 2017
Only the novice hacker will hack you with phishing method (by sending link),but we professional don't use phishing but coding. grin





grin

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Re: How My Facebook Account Of 8 Years Was Hacked And Hijacked, A Cautionary Tale by softtouch2(m): 11:57am On Nov 07, 2017
SoftDealz:
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.

Check Gmail security setup again, i'm using 2WA on a Nigerian account.

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