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Friday, January 21, 2011

How to Avoid Typical Facebook Hacks Online

   Honestly,Not even Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook is necessarily safe. To lots of people all over the globe, this is bad news. However, being the top social network hotspot, it is highly unlikely that Facebook will not come face to face with online crooks and hackers. Not to mention other harassing spies that might consist of a person's wife, ex lover, or other inquiring parties.
 
The most often method used in scamming Facebook accounts is phishing. Here, people are tricked into entering their password or other critical data or information details into a fake Facebook login page found on the so-called phishing url. This tricky Facebook login page is typically made of an uploaded phishing script, which does not only simulate the appearance of the Facebook login url but also allows the phisher to save the given user's details as plain text, and thereafter permits the former to access the Facebook account. The Facebook users are then warned against logging into their FB accounts outside the official site that is facebook dot com. To be sure, one must only log into Facebook directly through the aforementioned official site.

 
Another problem area is inducing Facebook lock a specific account. Using only the specific account's email, this fraud consists of a robot that automatically and repeatedly tries to sign in to a Facebook account with the wrong information, which forces Facebook to lock out this particular account that not even its real owner can login. This is potentially more of an issue if the owner is away on a cruise to Jamaica or off with his or her family on one of those Disney package deals.Therefore, people are told not to share their email login information with anyone. Alternatively, they may share their account
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A third FB hacking method is key logging. This involves the installation of a keylogger program, which allows all keystrokes to be remembered in a log file and to be sent directly to a specific location. Keylogging is made easier when the scammer has direct access to the person's computer. Therefore, everyone must be careful in using shared computers as well as in leaving their own computers and laptops unsecured.
 
A fourth FB hacking method is through personal request, which simply requires getting or asking for the login info or its security question directly from the customer. This is best choice for scammers when the parties involved or their intermediaries are acquaintances.

 
Lastly, there is the primary email address scamming attempt. Facebook hacking may be done once a person's log in email account has already been accessed. Here, the scammer can simply click on "Forgot Password", and can access the same from the previously hacked email account.
 
What multiplies the FB hacking problem is that there are now downloadable Facebook hacking software and Facebook scamming-to's that have been spreading online and which are freely and readily made available to the public.  The real info here is that everyone should always be vigilant about the security of his account information particularly the security info as well as in accessing only the actual, legitimate sites.
 
 
By: Justin Cooke ( author, business promoter, and internet marketer)

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