Daily Archives: November 2, 2016
How Not To Get Fooled on Facebook . . .
or, Look Before You Click.
As many of you have already noticed, and have let us know, Jan’s Facebook account has been ‘cloned’ again.
Note I said cloned, not ‘hacked’.
When this happens, no one has stolen your password or broken into your account. They just created a NEW Facebook account in your name, copied a couple of the photos and a few items of your profile data, and BAM! you’ve been cloned.
Then they scroll down your real page, noting the friends you’re corresponding with, and then send them bogus Friend Requests from the clone account.
Why do this, you might ask? You can learn more here – Facebook Account Cloning
So what can you do to stop this from happening to you?
Pretty much nothing. There is no way to stop this.
But you can help protect your friends, and your friends can help protect you.
If you get a Friend Request from someone you think you’re already friends with, check it out. Go to your Facebook profile page and click on Friends in the menu in the middle of the page. Here you can see a list of all your friends.
Unfortunately FB doesn’t list them in any logical order, so just look down through the list to see if you’re already friends with them. If you are, delete the Request and then mark it as SPAM. You can also report it as a Bogus account.
Now, how to protect yourselves against bogus Friend Requests that aren’t masquerading as personal Friends. Jan regularly gets Friend Requests from people we don’t know, so we then check two things.
First, after the person’s name it will show if you have any mutual friends. If not, that’s the first red flag.
Second, click on the person’s name. This will take you to their Profile. Now look and see if this is a real person. If it’s a bogus one, you will see a couple of photos and then nothing.
Here’s what Jan’s Cloned Page looks like.
Note there is nothing after the first two photos.
And here’s Jan’s real page.
Her real page has years of posts as you go down.
If it is bogus then you can report it.
Click on the three dots at the bottom of the cover photo of the bogus page.
Then click on Report, and then Report This Profile and Continue.
Next select They’re pretending to be me, or someone I know, and then Continue.
Then select Someone I know, unless it is a clone of your page and again Continue.
Then click Done and you’re done.
If everyone reports a bogus account as quickly as possible, they won’t last long.
So Report, Report, Report.
Let’s practice Safe Facebooking out there.
Kenedy doesn’t wait around to put their Christmas decorations up, getting them up promptly on November 1st.
As far as this afternoon, we went back to Bella Sera again, hoping it would trigger another last minute call from Todd, giving me a gate like when we were here last Saturday, but not such luck.
But the food was still delicious.
Thought for the Day:
“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” – Mark Twain
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