It might be a strange thing to you to know that some people have access to your Facebook account without you getting notice of it. The access that they have to your Facebook account is after they might have ha#k#d it with your username,email or password which you freely gave to the ha#ke#s without you having knowledge of what you did.You might have being vict#m#zed of this and night have being pondering;how did these people manage to have access Facebook account , even with my s#cr#t password that is only known by me? The process is not far fetched.
You might have freely given out your s#cr#t information when you were in a chat with someone that pretends to be a contestant in an unexciting or existing competition ,requesting that you should vote for his/her picture in order for him/her to get more points that will make him/her to win the contest.When they do this, a small link will be sent to you and their website will be hidden so that you will not start suspecting of any foul play.
However, when you click on the link , the link will take you to a website known as the phi#hin#g website.This website will look exactly like Facebook website .This ph#shi#g website will require for your Facebook login information,demanding that you should login into your Facebook account.When you now filled in your secret login information, the website will keep on telling you that you have just given out a wrong Facebook account details.But without you knowing that you have just willingly or freely given out your Facebook account details to fra#dste#s.
This ph#shi#g website was basically designed in order to tr#i#ck and dec#e#ve people that there website was the original Facebook website,there is no difference between the website and the Facebook website.The only difference is in the URL and this is the main reason why they hi#de their URL in the first place using a URL shorter to dec#ei#ve people into clicking their request and if you are not clever enough and you did not notice it, after clicking the dec#eptive link .you might be a pry by feeding them with you secret Facebook login information.Once you did this, the administrator of the ph#shi#ng website will immediately laugh at you.Jump up and without wasting an atom of time will gain access to your account and then change your Login details.Once this is done,you as the rightful owner of the account will cease to have access to your account.
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I took out my time to be penning this down to the public because a great number of people have fallen vic#tim of this act by those jobless fra#dst#rs.I am really convinced that you do not desire this to happen to you.. Please,whenever, you see such link in your Facebook account be very careful before you carry out further action.
You must have being wondering, what is phi#hin#g website?Let me save your energy of contacting your Dictionary . I will do all the work for you.Yes, i know that this might be a new word to you. However, a phi#shin#g website is a website that is designed in order to resemble a popular website that is well known by the people.This popular website cut across your internet banking platforms,eg mail,yahoo mail,twitter,different banks internet banking,social media and so on.
In terms of internet banking, these fra#udst#es carry out their t#ric#ks by sending a tri#ck to you via your chat,SMS, or even via your email inbox; this link that they sent to you might be a sort of asking you that you should take quick and appropriate action in order to avoid your disabling or locking your account.
Their recent tric#k is by using Facebook chat,they perfect this tr#ick by using a profile that contain female picture ,however,this profile may be a profile that they have specifically created for this du#bio#us act or it may be a profile that they must have ha#k#ed to get access to the account, unfortunately, the ha#ke#d account might happen to be that of your friends account and in this scenario whole process may be as simple as A,B,C for them without you even caring to have a second thought because your whole believe is that it is that your friends that is the one sending such message to you.
Am advising you to be cautious when it comes to clicking any link that is hidden in shortened URL. If a chat message is delivered to you from anybody,be it your father,mother,boyfriend,girlfriend(whoever it could be) once he or she is a Facebook friend requesting that you should vote for him/her without the person using the actual link of Facebook.com;Please, i beg you do not dare to click on it. Actually,even if you later dared and changed your mind and you later clicked on it and the phishing site requested that you should provide your Facebook login details for you to be able to login. Please, stop there immediately and run for your life to safeguard your Facebook account.What i should advise you to do at this point is to check your browser and verify if actually that the website belongs to Facebook.
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HOW TO CHECK IF A WEBSITE BELONGS TO FACEBOOK
Checking if a particular website belongs to Facebook is so simple.It is not a difficult task to perform at all.You can easily check if a website belongs to Facebook by making use of the search box (where link are normally typed whenever a website is visited) In case if it is Opera mini that you are using , just scroll to the search box to check the link of the website , that is in a bid to verify if the website is Fcebooks.com,facbook.com,fac4book,faceboook.com,fcebook.com. Those are the likely malicious websites that these fra#dst#ers use to deceive the gu#lli#ble public. However, it is not a must that it will be any of the above mentioned websites. Your own case, might be different.Just as i advised earlier,whichever websites they might use try to verify it in the place where you usually type the website name that you want to visit; it is in that place that this real ph#ishi#ng website name will be exposed.
However, most people that are using Facebook have got so many em#barras#sing messages from their friends on Facebook demanding that you should stop adding them to groups, mostly that they do not like and if in yourself that you are quite sure that you have never in any time add such people in a particular group, then you should count yourself as one of the victims of Facebook account h#ac#k.
WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR FACEBOOK ACCOUNT IS HACKED
If you notice that your Facebook account had been ha#c#ked , do not worry much.There is a solution to the problem.What you are to do is to immediately change your password that you used to open the account another option is to immediately delete must of the app that you have given access authority to.
Yes, i know that at the mention of app, you must have being wondering and pondering what i mean by that.Do not worry, just sit down and relax.It is part of the reasons why am writing this article.I will tell you all that you need to know.
There is a feature that is in Facebook whereby any body that is using Facebook can create app and after creating the app, you can share share so that others can make use of it.However, in some cases, before you make use of this app created by another user, most of the app will demand for you to authorize access to certain privileged so that they can perform task in your absence; and this is where the bone of contention is.Thus, if the creator of the app has some bad intentions and you have given your access authority to the app, the person can easily post on your timeline and do other things in your account without your awareness because you have given out the authority to your Facebook account ignorantly.
HOW TO CHECK APPS THAT YOU HAVE GIVEN ACCESS AUTHORITY TO IN YOUR FACEBOOK ACCOUNT
Most of the Facebook users have ignorantly given out their authority access to one app or the other. To check the app that you have given out your access to; just follow the steps below:
- Login to your Facebook account
- Tap on settings
- Tap on apps
I hope that you understand this article and you learn a lot from it.Please, do us a favor by sharing this article so as to get others informed.Remember that an uninformed person is a deformed person.
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