Face Book Hijacked
Saturday, December 12th, 2009Excerpts from Today at ChannelNewsAsia
SINGAPORE: Right before her eyes, Julie Chiang watched the computer screen as someone used her Facebook account – pretending to be her, asking her friend for money and claiming she had been mugged in London.
“It was surreal to watch the conversation happen right in front of me,” said Ms Chiang, who had been woken up in Singapore by her friend’s phone call on Friday morning.
“He told me he was on Facebook now, talking to ‘me’, and I was saying I needed money to go home.”
The hacker even used Ms Chiang’s husband’s name, which could be found on her Facebook profile, in the conversation.
It is glad that Today carries such reporting as to alert Face Book users of the risks involved in using Face Book or just about anything online. Pay Pal, Ebay, the Online Banks and now Face Book, no one is spared from the Scammers’ radars. Typically they send an email as below, but with the link going to a separate site where they collect your login details :
Face Book
Never click on such links in the emails. If you really want to check go physically to the address bar and type in http://www.facebook.com.