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September 06, 2010
Fraudulent Facebook "settings" I never created and cannot delete
Quick question for anyone who understands Facebook better than I do. (Which is probably most people, as it still baffles me.) Earlier when I went to my Facebook homepage, I saw that someone using my name had posted the following phony endorsement -- as me! Eric ScheieThinking someone must have hacked my account, I deleted the fraudulent post and changed my password. But I don't have Facebook Mobile Web and never signed up for it. When I went to my account settings, it urged me to "Activate a Phone." I never did and I never would. So how on earth has someone posted to my FB account using a service I never activated? Moreover, when I clicked on the settings I saw this: [There is an email address showing, but I deleted it from this post.] Why would I have a personal email when I never signed up for one? Naturally, I can't delete that, because when I click on this settings button it shows I don't have an account. This goes in circles, and there seems to be no way to fix it. And of course, there is no way to report this or contact Facebook. I'm beginning to lose patience with Facebook. Wish I could sic Coco on 'em. GRRRR. MORE: The link to the laptop that "I" supposedly posted -- http://apps.facebook.com/squareballs/ is of course bogus. Spam is bad enough, and I hate to get it. But do I have to post it, against my will? UPDATE: I went through Facebook's account recovery process twice, and now another version of that same spam has somehow been posted. The new one reads as follows: Frankly, I don't think my account was hacked at all. I think the Facebook system has been. I suspect that whoever is doing this has figured out a way to post in my name without ever logging into my account. MORE: It gets worse. One of my Facebook friends just gave me this lovely news: "Hey Eric, Its not just posted on here it sent me a private message too saying to check out apps I know you would never go to or send... Just wanted to let you know it was sent to me and a bunch of others."And I suppose it (whatever "it" is) will just keep doing that. I'm beginning to think that Facebook sucks. AND MORE: Dave just sent me a link to a site which explains that the spammers have figured out how to use m.facebook.com (the portal designed for mobile users) to send their spam: code has been published on more than one site that uses the Facebook mobile portal to push status updates to a facebook profile.Great. They did this both before and after I changed my bleeping password -- which means the password had nothing to do with it. I don't use "Mobile Web," and never have. But obviously, someone has figured out how to use it and make it look like I did. Naturally, there is no way to deactivate a "Mobile Web" account I do not have. Typical. posted by Eric on 09.06.10 at 03:22 PM
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I don't know if it will fix your problem,but if you go to "edit my profile", on the left you'll see "privacy settings' Go there.Pick your own settings for "basic" and "sharing" and the go clear out all the "appilcations and websites" you don't want to have viewing your page. flicka47 · September 6, 2010 05:51 PM Re privacy settings: Every now and then Facebook redesigns their privacy settings. Whenever they do so, they set everybody's new privacy options to "no privacy". Just one of the reasons we know the folks who run Facebook are amoral scum. pst314 · September 6, 2010 07:05 PM That's why I haven't gotten into facebook mania. Having a blog's quite enough! JLawson · September 7, 2010 06:39 AM It could be more embarrassing. It seems any number of probably nice people continue to use their business e-mail accounts to send spam - promos for Canadian pharma, pron, etc. Its not that hard to spoof e-mail addresses. I'm just happy that my email provider has set up some decent filters, which will work until they don't. Followed by another round of tuning filters. It's a never ending war. chuckR · September 7, 2010 08:34 AM Lesson: don't do Facebook. Gringo · September 7, 2010 12:29 PM Post a comment
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