My Facebook account has been hacked, and I can't contact Facebook to fix it or delete my account!
By The Horse
@TheHorse (218931)
Walnut Creek, California
August 30, 2021 6:42pm CST
Someone managed to hack my Facebook account. If I try to reset my password, the code is sent to an email in (I believe) Davenport Iowa (a small city of the Illinois/Iowa border). My email address is no longer associated with my account.
If any of you who are also my Facebook friends see any weird posts on my Facebook page (Mary Taylor Greene ads, naked people, etc.) they are NOT from me. If you can, can you "flag" my account somehow? Facebook has no phone number or email address and there is no way I can contact them if I am not logged in.
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Addendum:
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I heard that, long before I was here, a member tried to delete his MyLot account. After all other measures failed, he posted a photo of a large erect penis on one of his posts, and finally managed to gt his account deleted. Veterans: Is that really true? I am temped to ask all MyLot friends to post large erect penis photos on my YouTube page with the text: "This account has been hacked. Please help its rightful owner!" But please don't do so yet.
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In all seriousness:
It's kind scary thinking about who has all of my Facebook information. My posts are pretty benign, but the hacker could easily gather information about my friends, my business associates, and others who visit my pages. Any suggestions?
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16 responses
@rebelann (112873)
• El Paso, Texas
31 Aug 21
Yikes. This has happened to a lot of my friends and once way back to me. I wish I knew something you could do but I will see if I can find something on facebook that might help.
I'm not sure this will help but I found a link
I don't know what else to look for but I do remember when it happened to me many years ago that I simply went in a created a new account but then I don't have many friends who actually use facebook so it didn't impact anyone or me.
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@allknowing (136566)
• India
31 Aug 21
May be you can open a new account just so that you can contact FB and have your other account deleted or revived.
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@allknowing (136566)
• India
1 Sep 21
@TheHorse Good. Did you get your old account back?
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@rsa101 (38166)
• Philippines
31 Aug 21
Oh no sorry to hear about your FB page getting hacked and used by others. The only thing you could do is have your friends notified and have them report to FB so that they will act on it. I do not know if that one that you did will work but it might.
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@allen0187 (58582)
• Philippines
31 Aug 21
Sorry to hear about this.
Hope you are able to get your FB account back.
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@LindaOHio (178870)
• United States
31 Aug 21
Yes. Maybe this page will help:
https://www.techgyd.com/contact-facebook-directly/6579/#:~:text=Contact%20Facebook%20By%20Phone%20Call.%20Facebook%20customer%20care,sure%20to%20add%20international%20calling%20code%20for%20U.S.
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@DocAndersen (54402)
• United States
31 Aug 21
First - this is the link to regain access to your FB account
I suspect I am not here long enough (roughly 3 years give or take) to know if that story is true. but it is very interesting
Unsupported BrowserYou're using a browser that isn't supported by Facebook, so we've redirected you to a simpler version to give you the best experience. facebookReport Compromised AccountIf you believe your account has been compromised by another person o
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@DocAndersen (54402)
• United States
1 Sep 21
@TheHorse sorry about that - there is nothing more frustrating.
@BarBaraPrz (47343)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
31 Aug 21
It wasn't me! I tried to friend you a while back but you never responded. Guess there's no point now.
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@kaylachan (69894)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
31 Aug 21
Just let your friends know. Ask a friend to report your account as hacked/stolen, and ensure they give the correct e-mail in which to contact you. Same thing happened to a friend of mine, but the hacker was stupid enough to change her password before changing her e-mail. And, I had to do the same for her.
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@LeaPea2417 (37355)
• Toccoa, Georgia
1 Sep 21
How would it been hacked I wonder? I have an idea for you. Create a new account, then search for your hacked account and report it. Anybody on MyLot who are friends on the hacked account need to report it. If enough of you report it, it could then be put in Facebook jail for awhile then it could be taken down.
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@LeaPea2417 (37355)
• Toccoa, Georgia
1 Sep 21
@TheHorse That's good. I really hope the hacked account gets deleted.
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@TheHorse (218931)
• Walnut Creek, California
1 Sep 21
@LeaPea2417 We shall see.
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@xander6464 (44250)
• Wapello, Iowa
31 Aug 21
Davenport is a small city??? Excuse me? Since when is a population of 101,724 small????
SanFransisco has some suburbs that aren't even that big!
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@xander6464 (44250)
• Wapello, Iowa
31 Aug 21
@TheHorse I don't know you ever became Governor Of Iowa but I'm glad you did it. We really need to talk about my Iowa tax refunds.
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@TheHorse (218931)
• Walnut Creek, California
31 Aug 21
@xander6464 Now I'm going to have to check the populations of the most throbbing cities in my other "adopted" state, Montana. We have Bullings. We have Great Falls. And then there are the college towns: Missoula and Bozeman. HUGE!
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@wolfgirl569 (106425)
• Marion, Ohio
31 Aug 21
Hope you get it figured out. I have never had a problem.
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@RasmaSandra (79929)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
31 Aug 21
Here is my recent story. I am not sure if my FB account was totally hacked or how this all happens, What I know is that someone kept sending friend requests to my friends who were asking me what was happening. I told them just to delete the request. Then one friend sent a link and it was to a fictitious account that had my profile photo but none of the posts I usually make, So I blocked that profile and that worked and then one friend reported this and now it seems that all is well again, However, I could always keep getting into Facebook and never had an issue with my password or anything else, I hope you get your account figured out,
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@JudyEv (340223)
• Rockingham, Australia
31 Aug 21
Although I rarely use FB, somehow I ended up with two accounts. When I tried to delete one, it deleted both but I had three weeks or whatever to change my mind. So now I still have two accounts!! And still rarely use it. Good luck with sorting out your problems.
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@adeprafir (75)
• Indonesia
31 Aug 21
Sorry to hear about that. Must be scary.
I left FB years ago, so I didnt really know how to deal with hacker
I hope this link can be a little help,
Unsupported BrowserYou're using a browser that isn't supported by Facebook, so we've redirected you to a simpler version to give you the best experience. facebookReport Compromised AccountIf you believe your account has been compromised by another person o
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@lovebuglena (44553)
• Staten Island, New York
1 Sep 21
Are you saying you cannot log in to your account? I'd think the email you use to log in to FB is the email you'd get notified of anything related to your account, including attempting to reset your password.
@spiderdust (14760)
• San Jose, California
7 Sep 21
Something similar happened to my aunt in the past few weeks. She hasn't been able to resolve it either.
