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Re: How My Facebook Account Of 8 Years Was Hacked And Hijacked, A Cautionary Tale by GreatManBee: 5:52pm 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

Which one be diabolic imprest again? Abeg explain.
Re: How My Facebook Account Of 8 Years Was Hacked And Hijacked, A Cautionary Tale by BrightDeGea(m): 7:00pm On Nov 07, 2017
nenergy:

You could have reported him. Cyber crimes are punishable
i was pissed and mad at him but decided to let him go for some reasons but i will never roll with him again like before its just going to be good morning and good night kinda thing, he doesn't deserve to come near me.

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Re: How My Facebook Account Of 8 Years Was Hacked And Hijacked, A Cautionary Tale by Heartmender1: 9:22pm On Nov 07, 2017
sorry about that bro, same thing happened to me

https://www.nairaland.com/4125314/account-recovered





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
Re: How My Facebook Account Of 8 Years Was Hacked And Hijacked, A Cautionary Tale by nenergy(m): 9:45pm On Nov 07, 2017
BrightDeGea:
i was pissed and mad at him but decided to let him go for some reasons but i will never roll with him again like before its just going to be good morning and good night kinda thing, he doesn't deserve to come near me.
Mhen, you try o. I won't even talk to him again. Unfriendly friends
Re: How My Facebook Account Of 8 Years Was Hacked And Hijacked, A Cautionary Tale by okosodo: 11:09pm On Nov 07, 2017
GreatManBee:


Which one be diabolic imprest again? Abeg explain.
They send you a fireline coded mail, when you open it, they will locate your digits. They must have been to a website that you have previously visited to be able to predict your future actions sha
Re: How My Facebook Account Of 8 Years Was Hacked And Hijacked, A Cautionary Tale by JimloveTM(m): 11:28pm On Nov 08, 2017
https://www.alltop9.com/recover-hacked-facebook-account-secure/


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
Re: How My Facebook Account Of 8 Years Was Hacked And Hijacked, A Cautionary Tale by Mrluv(m): 12:00am On Nov 09, 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
bro pls can you teach me phishing
Re: How My Facebook Account Of 8 Years Was Hacked And Hijacked, A Cautionary Tale by Mrluv(m): 12:07am On Nov 09, 2017
lazinny:
the account will be stripped and sold. account that old can fetch up to $500 or more. I feel ur pain, all those memories... GONE!!
how bro.
Re: How My Facebook Account Of 8 Years Was Hacked And Hijacked, A Cautionary Tale by lazinny(m): 5:47am On Nov 09, 2017
Mrluv:
how bro.
There's a market for old Facebook accounts, your profile will be stripped off of everything relating to you. Then it will be sold
Re: How My Facebook Account Of 8 Years Was Hacked And Hijacked, A Cautionary Tale by haryomikun(m): 10:23am On Jan 03, 2018
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.
2 way auth not available for African gmail accounts?

Do you even know what you're saying?

Go and explore your gmail well before making baseless utterances
Re: How My Facebook Account Of 8 Years Was Hacked And Hijacked, A Cautionary Tale by Sanemind(m): 10:53am On Jan 03, 2018
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
how did u do it?
Re: How My Facebook Account Of 8 Years Was Hacked And Hijacked, A Cautionary Tale by pinkyruledworld(m): 11:41am On Jan 03, 2018
This is called phishing...one got to be really careful these days
Re: How My Facebook Account Of 8 Years Was Hacked And Hijacked, A Cautionary Tale by ontechbuzz: 6:29pm On Feb 01, 2018
Source: https://digiwonk.gadgethacks.com/how-to/get-your-hacked-facebook-account-back-0147366/
Step 1:
First goto this link. https://www.facebook.com/hacked
Click the button "Your account has been Compromised".
Step 2:
Now for this step you got to enter your account's password. Well if you knew the password you won't be here anyway, cause you don't know your new password the Hacker's changed, enter your old password. The password that you use, to enter into your account before you got HACKED
Step 3:
Then cause you entered an old actually now wrong password this page will come up.
Well no need to be down yet. Just click the reset my password button.
Step 4:
Your primary email would be changed so well of course you don't want to send your reset your password link to the hacker's account so, Click "no longer have access to these?" link.
Step 5:
Well now you almost got your account back.
Now write your new email address that you want to send the change password link as well set as your primary email.
Step 6:
Well now, follow the next steps and you would have your account back in 24 hours. XD

Recent post: https://ontechbuzz.com/facebook-introduces-birthday-video-cam-to-let-you-send-15-second-birthday-greetings-to-your-friend/
Re: How My Facebook Account Of 8 Years Was Hacked And Hijacked, A Cautionary Tale by Likel69: 1:03am On Dec 31, 2019
Your Facebook account needs to be secure.... please chat me up on WhatsApp via 08139160935..... strictly on chat........ let's help you secure your account..... don't wait till it is hacked before you will look for solutions....... cos there won't be any at that point except the hacker is a novice....

When we are done I guarantee you to paste uŕ login details on ur status for anyone to try and gain access
Re: How My Facebook Account Of 8 Years Was Hacked And Hijacked, A Cautionary Tale by Naijaarchive(m): 8:16am On Dec 31, 2019
I don't know why people fail to use 2FA Authentication provided by Facebook... I do get locked out at times self if i try logging in from a strange browser....

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