Scam Alert: Your Trusted Friends Can Hack Your Facebook Account

Haythem Elmir
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If you receive a message from any of your Facebook Friends asking for urgent help to recover their Facebook account, since they’ve added you as one of their ‘Trusted Contacts‘—just don’t blindly believe it.

Researchers have detected a new Facebook phishing scam that can even trick an experienced technical user into falling victim to the scam, helping an attacker gain access to your Facebook account.

This latest social media scam is abusing « Trusted Contact »—a Facebook account recovery feature that sends secret access codes to a few of your close friends in order to help you regain access to your Facebook account in case you forget your password or lost access to your account.

To read the original article:

https://thehackernews.com/2017/10/facebook-account-hacking-scam.html

 

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