Since you will see that your friend has vouched for the financial hardship, you will be much more likely to give. They may even share a GoFundMe link and claim personal knowledge of a person with life threatening illness or similar tragedy - and encourage friends to help out. A story about being stranded on vacation (bonus points for being out of the country), needing legal assistance, or being seriously ill can be accompanied by a request for money. Scams – By gaining access to your friends, the cloned profile can target the people who know and trust you with a scam designed to get money from them.Data mining – Even if you have your profile security set to “Friends Only,” if you accept a friend request from a cloned profile, your data is exposed.Profile clones can serve a number of purposes: What it is, however, is an attempt to mine data from your account and the accounts of friends who would accept a second friend request from “you.” But what your friend is seeing isn’t the result of your profile being hacked – it’s a duplicate profile.įacebook has a term for duplicate profiles: cloning.įirst and foremost, understand what a duplicate profile is NOT: it is not evidence that your account has been hacked. Since they’re already your friend, it seems strange to get such a request. When one (or several) of your friends send you a message telling you they think your Facebook account has been hacked, it’s likely because they’ve received a friend request from a profile that appears to be yours. You might be tired of seeing these types of messages in your news feed, but I would encourage you to at least pay attention to what’s being said, and why.
The language of this kind of post is designed to scare you (and your friends) and encourage you to repost the information. Chances are you’ve seen the following message pop up more than once on your Facebook news feed recently:
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