“Copy and paste please. Do not share!!" This is now a classic and many warning texts end on it. Warning texts mean that Facebook users like to warn each other again and again because they have noticed something themselves and want to protect others from disaster.
Often they themselves have become victims of a Trojan or a dubious and harmful browser extension, which then creates these small texts that are reproduced from person to person.
However, it is sometimes not entirely clear what is being warned about, as only the symptoms are shown. The reasons often remain hidden, but it is important to know why something happened in order to be able to take safety precautions.
One of these phenomena is the following warning text, which is not wrong in this sense (except that no “hackers” were involved), but also does not say what can be done about it.
The status post as wording:
A NEW VIOLENT HACK ON FACEBOOK!
… Between the comments from your contacts, there is a hurtful sentence that comes from you and it seems that you wrote it.
You don't see him, but your friends do. This situation can cause many misunderstandings. I would like to let all my contacts know that if something seems shocking, it definitely didn't come from me and I would be very grateful if you let me know
. Thank you.
Please copy and paste. Do not share!!
Let's just take this apart.
1. “A NEW HURTING HACK ON FACEBOOK!!”
We already know this statement from other status posts that sounded similar. However, these are not hackers, but rather, for example, a browser extension, which in most cases only affected users who used the “Google Chrome Browser”, or applications, or a previous phishing attack.
For example, dubious browser extensions then published dubious videos on Facebook in the user's name, which the user himself knew nothing about.
2. “Between your contacts’ comments, it contains a hurtful sentence”
We have never seen this information / comments like this ourselves. We don't know what affected users really saw or perceived here. It may well be that an application has involuntarily posted something on behalf of a user, including offensive material. In principle, however, there can only be 3 possibilities that trigger such comments.
a) This is the same malicious browser extension that also posts the videos mentioned or
b) a stolen access token or
c) a Facebook application
What can you do about it?
If you, as a Facebook user, post such status posts/videos/comments unintentionally, then...
a) Please check the extensions/addons of your web browser and remove those that don't tell you anything and/or seem dubious
b) Log OUT of your Facebook account and then log back in
c) Please check your Facebook applications/apps and remove them that don't tell you anything and/or seem dubious
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