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cubarican210

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Must read for whoever has a facebook account!!
« on: September 10, 2010, 05:37:44 pm »
Just letting you guys know that my facebook account had been compromised. Someone hacked in and started sending links to my friends making it look like it was me who posted it. It all started because I saw clicked on a video link that I thought one of my friends posted to me. It was called Laughing Baby and when I clicked on it, it prompted to me to put in my password and it was weird because I was already logged in to facebook but dumb old me I did it anyways. Instead of seeing the video of the baby a video of Justin Bieber comes up with his most embarassing moment on stage. It shows his pants falling down while he's singing. Definitely no laughing baby at all. Mind you after I clicked this video, whoever this person was started posting the video to my friends profile pages without me actually doing it. Facebook had closed my account temporarily because my page had suspicious content on it. I had to go through this whole verification process so that I could actually return to my page. So far so good. Just letting you know just in case you get the same video on your page. Whatever you do, don't click on the Laughing Baby video. Make sure you have a good anti-virus software and something to remove spyware as well. That's it. Hope you guys have a great night.

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Re: Must read for whoever has a facebook account!!
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2010, 05:57:39 pm »
Just letting you guys know that my facebook account had been compromised. Someone hacked in and started sending links to my friends making it look like it was me who posted it. It all started because I saw clicked on a video link that I thought one of my friends posted to me. It was called Laughing Baby and when I clicked on it, it prompted to me to put in my password and it was weird because I was already logged in to facebook but dumb old me I did it anyways. Instead of seeing the video of the baby a video of Justin Bieber comes up with his most embarassing moment on stage. It shows his pants falling down while he's singing. Definitely no laughing baby at all. Mind you after I clicked this video, whoever this person was started posting the video to my friends profile pages without me actually doing it. Facebook had closed my account temporarily because my page had suspicious content on it. I had to go through this whole verification process so that I could actually return to my page. So far so good. Just letting you know just in case you get the same video on your page. Whatever you do, don't click on the Laughing Baby video. Make sure you have a good anti-virus software and something to remove spyware as well. That's it. Hope you guys have a great night.

@Cubarican210 - I had the same thing happen to me...except I didn't put in my password....my facebook was hacked by someone in Columbia...I live in MN......so I had to go thru the whole verification process, too.  I hated that because I use my Facebook for business...
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Re: Must read for whoever has a facebook account!!
« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2010, 06:53:51 pm »
Thanks for posting this I just got over a virus don't need another one. :)
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« Reply #3 on: September 10, 2010, 07:54:52 pm »
Thanks for posting this I just got over a virus don't need another one. :)

I did also about a month ago. My boyfriend and I are RP Gamers and are accounts got compromised took a day to get his back and a week to get mine. Did not een realise I had gotten a key logger on comp till this happenned. They got in in between my scans so I now randomly scan a few times a week to keep track of it all. And as for some one asking me for my password on a site I am not sure of forget it.

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« Reply #4 on: September 10, 2010, 10:14:04 pm »
Facebook seems to be taken over by viruses a lot.
My friends all received links from "me" to watch videos too.

I had to contact FB and reset my account.
A pain in the butt.
I no longer click on any recommended links from them anymore.

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Re: Must read for whoever has a facebook account!!
« Reply #5 on: September 10, 2010, 10:23:23 pm »
Thanks for the heads up, I typically ignore videos etc from friends but it is always a good reminder! :wave:

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« Reply #6 on: September 10, 2010, 10:51:07 pm »
Thanks for the warning. I had my email hacked a couple of months ago. Then they kept sending Spam to my contacts. To top it off most of the spam ads were "make your *bleep* bigger".  ::)

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Re: Must read for whoever has a facebook account!!
« Reply #7 on: September 11, 2010, 02:54:08 am »
Thanks for posting this!   I will pass it along to my friends!

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Re: Must read for whoever has a facebook account!!
« Reply #8 on: September 11, 2010, 06:56:32 am »
Cool for posting. i've heard about these and like a dozen other things like it.
Guess thats what happens with one of the worlds most popular sites..
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Re: Must read for whoever has a facebook account!!
« Reply #9 on: September 11, 2010, 07:20:03 am »
Hi Cubarican,
Thank you for letting us know.

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Re: Must read for whoever has a facebook account!!
« Reply #10 on: September 11, 2010, 07:59:06 am »
I've seen it happen to a lot of my friends on there. I just ignore any and all video links, just in case. But I did have it happen to my email. It was a pain in the..  :bootyshake:  LOL! Thanks for the post though! :thumbsup:
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« Reply #11 on: September 12, 2010, 07:41:13 am »
Thanks for the info.  A few weeks ago I got an email from facebook saying to change my password because someone from Hong Kong was trying to access my account.

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Re: Must read for whoever has a facebook account!!
« Reply #12 on: September 12, 2010, 08:47:18 am »
Facebook is the new Myspace of viruses. Most people left Myspace because of viruses.

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Re: Must read for whoever has a facebook account!!
« Reply #13 on: September 12, 2010, 01:47:23 pm »
Thanks for the warning! I've already had enough hacking problems this year

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Re: Must read for whoever has a facebook account!!
« Reply #14 on: September 12, 2010, 02:25:41 pm »
Thanks for the warning. I had my email hacked a couple of months ago. Then they kept sending Spam to my contacts. To top it off most of the spam ads were "make your *bleep* bigger".  ::)

This just happened to my email accounts. All of them were hacked. I've stopped all games and apps on FB. I'm still trying to reset all of my email contacts with my new email.

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