FROM MASHABLE

 http://mashable.com/2011/01/26/mark-zuckerberg-fan-page-hacked/

Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook fan page seems to have been hacked, with the hacker posting a message calling on the company to transform into a “social business.” 

The message, seemingly posted on Facebook from Mark Zuckerberg’s account, was quickly removed (together with the fan page), but not quickly enough to go by unnoticed, receiving more than 1,800 “likes” and hundreds of comments in the process. 

The message read: “Let the hacking begin: If facebook needs money, instead of going to the banks, why doesn’t Facebook let its users invest in Facebook in a social way? Why not transform Facebook into a ‘social business’ the way Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus described it? [LINK] What do you think? #hackercup2011″ 

Facebook made no statement about the incident, but if Zuckerberg’s fan page was indeed hacked, it’s a big deal. If the Facebook CEO (more accurately, the PR team that’s handling the page for him) can’t keep his Facebook account safe from intruders, who can?

We’ve reached out to Facebook about the incident and will update the post when we hear back.

Harwich man's Facebook hacked, sends money plea
No, he wasn't mugged in England and doesn't need your financial help

The Cape Codder reports that many people with their IDs listed on John Bangert's Facebook as friends, opened bogus messages during the last few days and learned that East Harwich resident John Bangert had been mugged while on a trip to the U.K.

If you look at John's Facebook page, just don't sign on as a friend just yet. He has some fixin' to do first.

Like other fake emails that aim to scam money from unsuspecting recipients, this one asked for cash transfers to sustain the mugging victim until he could return home.

"My Facebook page was hacked, and they got into my gmail account," said Bangert, a political activist and community organizer well known up and down the Cape.

Read The Cape Codder story here.

Facbook's way of a dog chasing it's own tail!

Recent Contact Email Change

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6. If you still cannot find the notification email or would like to report your account as compromised, please click here. 

facebook here is the unending loop, facebook asks us to input the email connected to facebook account. If the hacker has changed that email or the addy is also hacked into or password changed (where facebook sends me notice) 

1. I should have been notified by email sent to a secondary email 
2. instant message on my cell phone as an extra line of defense

Not too smart phone!

Hacker also changed the land line number listed as well as cell number listed, with no over site or input from facebook security. By the way, my smart phone linked to Gmail was also wiped clear of all my email, phone numbers and addresses.

This is where my paperless life was ended!

For more information on how to protect your account, visit Help Center: Security

Help me! facebook won't!

What is Identity Theft?

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Identity theft is a criminal offense that is used to refer to all types of crime in which someone wrongfully obtains and uses another person’s personal data in some way that involves fraud or deception, typically for economic gain.   Personal identifying information includes “any name or number that may be used, alone or in conjunction with any other information, to assume the identity of an individual, including any name, address, telephone number, driver’s license number, social security number, place of employment, employee identification number, mother’s maiden name, demand deposit account number, savings account number, credit card number or computer password identification.”

My facebook was taken over and is stilled control by impersonator!

Facebook Telephone Number: 1-650-543-4800

Press: 2 for Law Enforcement

Press: 5 for Press

Facebook has not returned any emails and my facebook account is no longer in my control and the cyber-criminal is still chatting and sending fraudulent e-mails to my contacts saying this!

"  I'm writing this with tears in my eye, I came down here to West Midlands, UK for a short vacation and got mugged on our way back to the hotel where we are staying, all our cash, credit card and cell were stolen off us at GUN POINT but luckily for us we still have our passports with us but don't have enough money to sort the bills so we can get out of here.

We've been to the embassy and the cops but they're not helping issues at all and our round flight leaves soon and the hotel manager won't let us leave until we settle the bills, I'm freaked out at the moment and wondering if you could help us with a quick loan, I promise I'll refund it once we get home. Please write me so i can send you the info for the wire of the money to save me from the embarrassment of not being able to cover "

My facebook was hacked and my friend wrote this email to all his friends.

Dear Friends,
 
Over the past couple of days a friend mine was scammed by a hacker who got into his Facebook and Gmail accounts and stole his address book and deleted all of his emails. The hacker then used the address book to impersonate my friend and pretended to be in trouble in the UK. He said that while he and his family were visiting the UK over Christmas they were mugged at gunpoint and all of the money and credit cards were stolen. He said he needed money to pay for the hotel bill and other expenses. Concerned about my friend, I responded saying that I would help pay his hotel bill.
 
The scammer responded that it would be better if I were to wire the money to him via Western Union, which I did. Western Union told me that the funds would be available to be picked up at any Western Union office in the UK within the next 45 minutes. Shortly after wiring the money it occurred to me to give my friend a call just to make sure he was ok. In doing so I discovered that he had not taken his family to the UK and that he had been victimized by the scammer.


Knowing this information, I reviewed the email address that the scammer was using. For example, say my friend’s name is: “Bill Baldwin” (not his real name). The name “Bill Baldwin” appeared in the return address box at the top of the email, which seemed ok. However, when I clicked on the name to find out the actual email address, I discovered that instead of what should be, say, wibaldwin@gmail.com (again not my friend’s actual email address), the email address used by the scammer was very similar, like, wibaldiwin@gmail.com
 
By this time over an hour had passed and I feared that the scammer had already picked up the funds. I called Western Union and told them the story and fortunately the funds had not as yet been picked up and I was told that my money would be refunded.
 
During this ordeal I found out about a number of web sites that would be helpful to know about in such circumstances. Here they are:

•  FBI

• www.IC3.Gov    

• National Fraud Center

• www.fraud.org    

• National Consumer League

• www.fakechecks.org  

• Western Union – click on “Consumer Protection”

• www.westernunion.org  

• International – Click on Information Technology Crime

• www.interpol.int 

• Federal Trade Commission ID Theft

• http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/idtheft/  

The moral of the story is to check out the validity of a request for money even it you think it is from someone you know or someone in your own family. Had I bothered to check the return email address when I received the first email from the scammer, I would have known it was a scam.

Best wishes for a Joy Filled New Year.
Peace,

Bob