Facebook users often like to warn each other by copying texts (chain letters) and republishing them. Some warnings are real, others inaccurate or even pure hysteria.
Hackers harass your friends and beg them for money or your phone number. This is the claim in a chain letter that is being shared. It is important to take a quick look at this chain letter because it contains a true and important core, but is inaccurate in its explanation.
Basically, it's a kind of identity theft and fraudsters pretending to be someone else Facebook In the end, this can be expensive. The exact wording of the chain letter:
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There are now also hackers who, under your identity, not only harass Facebook friends with porn videos, but also insult them in the worst possible way, beg for money or ask for your phone number!
You can't see it yourself, but all your friends can.
This can lead to extremely unpleasant misunderstandings. In view of this fact, I hereby INFORM all my FB contacts that if something like this were to happen, these comments, attempts at pumping, etc. DO NOT COME FROM ME!!!
I therefore ask you to inform me immediately in such a case! Thank you very much! Almost all Facebook accounts are doubled.
SO PLEASE DO NOT accept a second invitation with my name on it. I ONLY HAVE ONE PROFILE!!! (Please copy for your own interest)
Visually, the chain letter appears in the following form:

What is described there actually exists to a large extent. In fact, it is a form of fraud that has been observed on Facebook for years. However, a few small things are poorly worded.
Fact check hacker Facebook: That's not true
We are not dealing with hackers in this form of fraud. No existing profiles will be hacked or compromised in any way. The matter of porn videos also only applies to a limited extent here, as two different phenomena are mixed together in the chain letter that have nothing to do with one another.
The warning about dubious videos is more of a click trap where in the past you have repeatedly installed a browser extension unintentionally, which then accessed your own Facebook account and published status reports with harmful links ( see here ).
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Fact check chain letter Facebook: That's true
The chain letter is nevertheless correct because it largely warns against a method that is generally described as “identity theft” on Facebook. Fraudsters duplicate existing profiles, send contact requests to the circle of friends of the original account and in this way try to deceive the friends of the existing account and gain their trust.
With this trust, the friends are then asked to give their phone number. The fraudsters then use this number to order codes that they can use to make purchases online. You can find a detailed explanation of this process, as well as instructions on how to protect yourself from it, in our article “No, not “almost all Facebook accounts are hacked”” ( HERE ).
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