has anyone ever had this happen to them? today i woke up to a friend calling me, saying how my account was probably hacked. It looks like they emailed all my friends on facebook and said that i was stuck in london and that i needed money to get back home. gmail account resolve form is a bunch of BS and doesnt work. i cant get my account back. i'm also paranoid about my bank accounts/ credit cards/ paypal being touched...this wont be a fun road
Yes, my Facebook was hacked. I got an SMS from some girl back in Harrisburg a couple months ago freaking out because I supposedly sent her a message through Facebook that I was in trouble and needed money. She was trying to find out what was going on. Later that day I get home from work and there is an email from Facebook Security saying that my account was hacked, and quite possibly my email account also. The email said to reinstate my Facebook Account to reply to the email with my Secret Question Answer. If my Facebook account was hacked, and they are also saying that possibly my email account was hacked, why would I respond to an email on the possibly hacked account with more information? I have not been on Facebook since. I have deleted my email account with Comcast and started another one, and will have nothing to do with Facebook again.
No way!!! I got this in an email from you this morning!!!! Here it is.... From: This sender is DomainKeys verified"Patrick Chang" <p.chang4943@gmail.com>Add sender to ContactsTo: undisclosed-recipientsAm sorry i didn't inform you about my urgent trip to London, i don't have much time on the PC here,so i have to brief you my present situation which requires your urgent response actually, I had a trip to London but unfortunately for me all my money got stolen at the hotel where i lodged due to a robbery incident that happened in the hotel.I had been so restless since last night because i have been without any money moreover the Hotel's telephone lines here got disconnected by the robbers and they are trying to get them fixed back i have access to only emails at the library because my mobile cant work here so i didn't bring it along,please i want you to help me with money so please can you send me 850 Pounds or any amount you can afford so when i return back i would refund it back to you as soon as i get home,Am so confused right now and don't know what to do, I had been to the embassy and they are currently looking into my case,Please send the money through Western Union Money Transfer so i will get it immediately its sent,i want you to please transfer the money as soon as possible.Here is the details you need for the transfer below, Receivers Namesatrick Chang Receivers Address:328 Mile End Road City- London Country- UK Zip Code- E1 4NS
^^ I believe so.. going back and forth about the xbox live acct etc... I recognized the name, but assumed it was just a spammer and the name was a coincidence...
I keep getting spoofed emails from Facebook asking for account updates and login updates and security updates. They all go to urls with facebook as the sub-domain :rofl: Use some common sense and dont be clicking links
yea thats the thing, i dont remember "updating" anything they got my email too, so its obvious that they started out with my email, then went onto facebook from there with a password recovery
more bad news, i recently made a few sales on half.com and i guess they saw that and stole my ebay account and bought a bunch of stuff
I have gotten that stuff in my junk email but it I never had it go anywhere past that. delete,delete,delete...
my ex girlfriend got the same message this weekend from one of her friends... Same thing: European trip, cash stolen deal. Thats crazy!
thread title is misleading. you got phished from some kind of redirect site. nothing happened to gmail/fb
Finally, two people with some sense. A few months ago I started getting Bank of america, paypal, home depot, lowes and other type emails and in the url it was obvious it was a phishing scam. I typically see 3~4 emails a day about how my bank account is frozen, paypal frozen, my house being repo'd by home depot due to my $1,328,302.44 outstanding balance on my biz card....the list goes on. Some of the links are really good...YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT THE URL!!!!!!!!!!!! Altho I would be interested to see what kind of phishing attempt it took for facebook, that is one thing I have yet to receive...myspace/facebook phishing email.
BOA and Paypal are daily for me I talked to BOA and gave them all the info and URL now I only get Pay pal bs emails... I should call them too. NEVER EVER GIVE YOUR PASSWORD OUT!!!
cool! when I type in my social security it automatically comes up as ***-**-****. but seriously, that happened to me once and all i did was change the password. I have stupid hard passwords that I have to write down on paper to remember. It never got to my email. I am thinking it probably takes your email and trys the same password it used for FB. FB is fine, just stop using all the apps because it's the apps IMO.
Well gmail has already been hacked. I pointed this out earlier with their captcha being broken. The problem is there is simply no anti-human spam preventions that will not disrupt normal use. Spam has been rampant on facebook for a while now. This is just a new kind. The password reset account crack combo always seems to be the goto choice since it is so easy.
I accidentally texted my gmail password to a couple members… One of them you'd never want to have your password. It was a pretty crazy password. Key word, was.
my wife's e-mail was hacked and someone sent spam form her account. We had the computer checked for viruses, changed her password and haven't have an issue since. Sorry you have to go through this ordeal. I know how stressful it can be.
Do you not view breaking a security or checkpoint with the intent of creating accounts for a malicious use not hacking?
no, and neither does google or any other people that work in secops/netops like I said, bypassing a captcha scheme doesn't compromise security - it's just an annoyance for the provider
I noticed that my me and my wife had to re-enter our user name and password when we logged on to facebook after the new year. i wonder if the cookie expired or if they purged their data.