Over the weekend, you might have seen a wave of panicked friends in your Facebook news feeds posting warnings: Their accounts were hacked, don’t accept friend requests from their accounts. Or maybe, even more alarming, you received a private message warning you that your account had been compromised.
The
warning spread in the form of a message, sent from a friend or
“friend.” The message claims that the sender received a suspicious
friend request from you, and that the proper way to address this
disturbing news is to immediately share the message they sent to you
with all your friends.
It reads something like this:
It reads something like this:
“Hi....I
actually got another friend request from you which I ignored so you may
want to check your account. Hold your finger on the message until the
forward button appears...then hit forward and all the people you want to
forward too....I had to do the people individually. PLEASE DO NOT
ACCEPT A NEW friendship FROM ME AT THIS TIME.”
Should
you be worried? Well, we have some good news and bad news. The good
news is: Chances are, you were not hacked if you received this message,
nor are you being impersonated on Facebook, and no fraudulent friend
requests got sent. The whole thing is a viral hoax. The bad news is:
People are falling for yet another copy/paste hoax on Facebook, a
website with a long history of spreading them.
Entire article at
https://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/trending/beware-the-viral-facebook-hoax-that-s-tricking-people-into/article_9f591ab8-07f6-5dd9-b66c-77acedec0221.html
Entire article at
https://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/trending/beware-the-viral-facebook-hoax-that-s-tricking-people-into/article_9f591ab8-07f6-5dd9-b66c-77acedec0221.html
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