Wed Dec 08, 2021 5:43 pm
#1887196
My Facebook account seems to be hacked at annoyingly short intervals -approx 8 times in last 12 months - plus 3 times within the last six weeks!!
I get phone calls, texts and emails from friends all telling me that they have received multiple Messenger messages purporting to be from me, and either
a) asking them for help,
b) asking them to email (me) back
d) asking them to buy something,
d) asking them to access a link to some (probably fake) charity website.
One person has received almost 20 messages including several failed video calls - all allegedly from me.
What’s strange is that I never (ever) use messenger myself (Except that there is one forumite who regularly sends me stuff via Messenger).
Each time this has happened I have :
Firstly logged out of Facebook on all my internet devices Second, shut down (powered off) all my internet devices
Third, restarted one internet device and Gone onto my Facebook account and changed my password -( not a system generated, but nonetheless a quite complex and “impossible to guess” combination of text, numbers and special characters). - then saved that password to that device.
Lastly, open my other internet devices and logged onto Facebook using the new password - and saved that password onto each device.
I’d be grateful for any expert advice on what to do.
I get phone calls, texts and emails from friends all telling me that they have received multiple Messenger messages purporting to be from me, and either
a) asking them for help,
b) asking them to email (me) back
d) asking them to buy something,
d) asking them to access a link to some (probably fake) charity website.
One person has received almost 20 messages including several failed video calls - all allegedly from me.
What’s strange is that I never (ever) use messenger myself (Except that there is one forumite who regularly sends me stuff via Messenger).
Each time this has happened I have :
Firstly logged out of Facebook on all my internet devices Second, shut down (powered off) all my internet devices
Third, restarted one internet device and Gone onto my Facebook account and changed my password -( not a system generated, but nonetheless a quite complex and “impossible to guess” combination of text, numbers and special characters). - then saved that password to that device.
Lastly, open my other internet devices and logged onto Facebook using the new password - and saved that password onto each device.
I’d be grateful for any expert advice on what to do.