I have been spending some time catching up on facebook today and noticed that a few of my friends have WALL postings that include a url that LOOKS LIKE it goes to a facebook account. But in reality it is really a Numerical Chinese domain name that has subdomains tucked onto it to look like it’s a facebook url.
An example is this one: http://www.facebook.com.profile.php.id.371233.cn
Some of the messages being posted through friends of friends account look like this:
“lol i cant believe these pics got posted….its going to be BADDDD when her boyfriend sees these- http://www.facebook.com.profile.php.id.371233.cn”
You’ll notice that the domain name is reall 371233.cn and is made to look like a profile # page on facebook.com - The best solution it to tell your friends through a non-facebook messaging system.
January 2nd, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Bummer - I’ve been waiting for the inevitable fake friend requests to start coming too, from Facebook, Linked in and others
January 3rd, 2008 at 12:35 pm
I was hit, I sent the info to abuse@facebook.com
Below is their answer but it was not from a hacked friend account. Someone that I did not know became my friend (i did not request or approve friendship) and posted on my wall. I saw his profile; I was his only friend. How did they do it to more people? It was the same message as Guy has above. Sounds like an internal FB problem.
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Thanks for providing this information for this issue, which we are currently investigating. Please only log into Facebook from http://www.facebook.com and https://www.facebook.com/login.php. If you feel that your account is not secure, please change your password immediately. Let me know if you have other questions.
Thanks for contacting Facebook,
January 3rd, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Thanks everyone that has brought this story to at attention of others.
It looks like this story was picked up at Techcrunch.com and Wired.com + many more!
June 9th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
I got caught in facebook phishing n lost my account
June 16th, 2008 at 5:32 am
I stupidly typed in my password and seconds later realised what I’d done. Argh! Changed password and set my status message to warn people.
June 26th, 2008 at 12:58 am
Thank you for this article. I think we should all use https://www.facebook.com instead of http://www.facebook.com https verifies SSL certificates so to be secure always use https when providing user name and password.
September 28th, 2008 at 3:36 am
my FB account has just recently been hacked..is there any way to get it back? any help from you guys will be greatly appreciated..
November 20th, 2008 at 11:52 am
LiveJournal has a problem with this. I abandoned my LJ blog months ago with clear notifications on the last post that the blog had been abandoned, but I still get 4-5 emails a week saying that Suzzi McLiveJournal has added me as a friend. They clearly didn’t even view the blog.
January 22nd, 2009 at 6:13 pm
I had an especially frustrating and clever hack of my Facebook. Somehow my account was hacked and my user name (email address) was changed from xxxxxx@gmail.com to a bogus email address, lastname.firstname@yahoo.co.uk. I lost complete control, could not log in, could not deactivate and could not delete. It was very difficult to get support’s attention because they were suspicious of my identity and it was very difficult to validate that I was indeed the owner of the account. I sent over 23 emails to abuse and support and finally after one week my profile appears to have been deleted. Very frustrating to know your account has been hacked and you have no control.
February 19th, 2009 at 12:19 am
hello my friend as my orkut accunt as been hack
February 19th, 2009 at 11:55 am
How to find Ip Address from people who hacked your ACC ???
February 23rd, 2009 at 8:05 am
Hi, I have all the information regarding my account of Facebook. But someone hacked into my account now i can’t get into it, they changed my secret answer and password, I was wondering if you could help me get it back please, I have everything you need to know that this is really my own account, I can’t even get into my Hotmail or anything, but i opened up another one so you can send it to that one, it is robert666park@live.ca, I need this i have all my friends and family on fawcebook. thank youu!!
March 6th, 2009 at 6:43 am
My account got hacked, and next thing I knew, it had posted about 13,000 stupid topics on a group I had just joined. Now it seems fine, but I was pissed when I found out. Also, I went on google to see what others did when their accounts were hacked, and I saw sites telling out to “hack a facebook account fast” and “ruin someone’s reputation!”.
May 13th, 2009 at 2:39 am
My account is been hacked and I send several emails to support. No answer. Also tried to change password but it say that there isn’t a account on the emailaddress that I used to log in. A few day’s later I found out that with my email account another account was made. I don’t have access to the email anymore also. Please help me to get my account back on Facebook, My friends and my fiancee are there and I need it back.
May 23rd, 2009 at 12:32 am
I had a similar experience to Julio just this evening. Someone named Sylvienette Pires somehow got added to my facebook account and I wouldn’t have known if the stupid s.o.b. hadn’t put their birthday two days from now. I was their only friend, they had no information. I looked at the help center, and the only info I got was “you need to either request or approve friends for them to appear on your facebook list” or something to that affect. Obviously that isn’t the case. I have since removed them and changed my password, but my concern is that they’re just going to do it again (btw my password is not an easy one to hack, letters and numbers and not relevant to anything about myself). So what do we do? what course of action do we have? I have no idea how to report this to anyone, even after exhaustive searching of the help center. So if anyone knows how to make their account completely safe, or at least mostly safe, please share!
Thanks!