Karl Baron on Nostr: My wife’s Facebook account got taken over. She got an email from “facebookmail . ...
My wife’s Facebook account got taken over. She got an email from “facebookmail . com” (which is apparently, the legit Facebook domain, not phishing) saying her phone number had been removed the account.
After checking it wasn’t a phishing mail, we click the “this wasn’t me” link, go through the restore procedure, and she’s logged back into Facebook in the account.
But the password and email has been changed, and the phone number is not restored, so the hacker is still in control.
Published at
2025-07-15 11:39:25 UTCEvent JSON
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