And again a wave of chain letters overwhelms Facebook users to the more or less famous hacker Fabrizio Brambilla.
Apparently Facebook users shouldn't accept a friend request from a certain Fabrizio Brambilla. He has a photo with a dog and is said to be a hacker who “connected the system to your messenger account”. Even if one of your friends on Facebook accepts the request, you will also be hacked. Of course that sounds like a serious matter – if only it were true.
It's about the following chain letter:

Please tell all contacts in your Messenger list not to accept anything from Fabrizio Brambilla. He has a photo with a dog. He is a hacker and has connected the system to your messenger account. If one of your contacts accepts it, you will also be hacked, so make sure all of your friends know. Thank you . Please forward
The fact check
This and other versions have been circulating on Facebook since 2011 .
Even if you can find some Fabrizio Brambillas via Facebook search and also receive a friend request from that name, you don't have to accept it, but you definitely won't be "hacked".
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Because this is not technically possible. Facebook Messenger is used to exchange texts and small files with other users, also called “chat”. This means that a “hack” could only take place if someone was sent an infected file and opened it. But you cannot be “hacked” by simply accepting a contact and then they write to you.
The background
But where do warnings like the one about Fabrizio Brambilla come from?
It all started with a so-called Moritz Häupl and a Christian Wick. In 2012, Christian Wick suddenly became Marcel Hohmann and then in 2014 Domenik Beuting and Andreas Opitz . It continued in 2015 with Ute Christoff. Ute Christoff became Ute Lehr and in 2017 it was the turn of Anouk Theiler Etc. etc.!
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It is therefore a chain letter that may have arisen from a wide variety of observations. Nobody can prove anything anymore, you can only make assumptions.
Article image: Shutterstock / By SikorskiFotografie
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