This morning I received a message in my Yahoo! inbox that informed me that I had reactivated old Facebook account.
Now, that's odd! I thought.
Then I remembered that I had been having trouble with my Yahoo! account recently and my friends had been getting strange messages advertising weight loss pills (Thank God, no one was offended! #:-S). I changed all the related passwords - combining upper and lower case letters, numbers and symbols - and the problem was solved... at least for the time being. Truth be told, it even trips me up now! :-O
Anyway, I had forgotten about that FB account, and it seems that whoever hacked my Yahoo! account reactivated that FB account, since the passwords were exactly the same and the confirmation mail from FB was stored in one of my mail folders.
I followed the link from my inbox and logged in to the account (they had not changed the password yet) and I could hardly believe my eyes! I now had 'favourite' videos that I knew not of, 'friends' who seemed 'unscrupulous', and messages posted to my REAL friends walls that I had not sent!
So I set to work to right wrongs... changed the password, deleted every single friend and all my personal information (thankfully, not much), then searched for "how to permanently delete my account" and followed the instructions.
I received an email advising me that the account is now deactivated and awaiting deletion. The process could supposedly take two weeks. :-O
You know what the funny thing is....
I remember going through this exact, same, identical (get the idea?) process before! Why can I not just delete a dormant account without all this nonsense! Is Facebook is run by politicians?
Breathe deeply, breathe, breathe, breathe....
Ok... let me go get a cool drink of water. :-<
Now, that's odd! I thought.
Then I remembered that I had been having trouble with my Yahoo! account recently and my friends had been getting strange messages advertising weight loss pills (Thank God, no one was offended! #:-S). I changed all the related passwords - combining upper and lower case letters, numbers and symbols - and the problem was solved... at least for the time being. Truth be told, it even trips me up now! :-O
Anyway, I had forgotten about that FB account, and it seems that whoever hacked my Yahoo! account reactivated that FB account, since the passwords were exactly the same and the confirmation mail from FB was stored in one of my mail folders.
I followed the link from my inbox and logged in to the account (they had not changed the password yet) and I could hardly believe my eyes! I now had 'favourite' videos that I knew not of, 'friends' who seemed 'unscrupulous', and messages posted to my REAL friends walls that I had not sent!
So I set to work to right wrongs... changed the password, deleted every single friend and all my personal information (thankfully, not much), then searched for "how to permanently delete my account" and followed the instructions.
I received an email advising me that the account is now deactivated and awaiting deletion. The process could supposedly take two weeks. :-O
You know what the funny thing is....
I remember going through this exact, same, identical (get the idea?) process before! Why can I not just delete a dormant account without all this nonsense! Is Facebook is run by politicians?
Breathe deeply, breathe, breathe, breathe....
Ok... let me go get a cool drink of water. :-<
3 lovely comment(s):
Now that's just strange!
Yeah, kinda freaking me out! It's those type of things that make you go, Hmmmmmmm! My mom is STILL having a hard time deleting her FB account. That was last year. She got a friend request and that is how she found out it is active. Thing is, she never completed the setup process (I was on the phone with her when she said "nevermind, I don't want to do this"). So, what did the account do, complete itself? I'm starting to become a little leary of FB.
@ PP: You and me both, sister... I'm starting to get the jitters.
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