You get a message on Facebook, you open it and you're shocked. You see your first name and after it it says, “Are you the one in this video?”

The most important thing about the video message in brief:

  1. Users receive a dubious “OMG, are you the one in this video” message on Facebook
  2. If you click on the video, you should apparently log in to Facebook again
  3. However, this gives fraudsters access to your own Facebook account. There is never a video to be seen!

Many users receive a message from friends and acquaintances on Facebook with the text: “Are you the one in this video?”, along with a link to a supposed video.

The video message with the alleged video
The video message with the alleged video

What you should do: Write back that your friend urgently needs to change their Facebook account login details

What you should NOT do, however, is to click on this picture sent via Facebook Messenger out of sheer curiosity and fear.

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The hacker is yourself!

Users are repeatedly sent this video message and click or tap on the supposed video with curiosity.
But this video does not exist, it is a fraud trap. But not from hackers, because the hacker is you!

  • Imagine someone asks you to give them your front door key. Then you do that without asking any more questions, why at all?
  • What happens if you leave and the person then walks into your apartment and takes all the expensive equipment?
  • Was this a sneaky burglar then? Or wasn't it you yourself who acted naively?

And that's exactly how it works with the videos!

Instead of watching a video, you'll be taken to a page that just looks like Facebook! You can tell by the address at the top of your browser: Does it say “facebook.com”? No? Then don't enter anything there!

On this fake page you are supposed to log in to Facebook again. But this is exactly how the fraudsters get your login details! You basically hand them the front door keys because they seem trustworthy and you don't look closely!

This fraud method is called “ phishing ,” a portmanteau of the words “phreaking” (older slang word for “hacking someone”) and “fishing”: The fraudsters “fish” for your password, but do not directly “hack” your account , because you yourself gave them access.

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Conclusion

If you tapped or clicked on the supposed video, you should change your Facebook password immediately Also check whether the fraudsters have not changed other information in your profile. For example, your email address. Otherwise it may be that you change your password, but the fraudsters notice this and change the password again using a new email address... and then you no longer have access to your account.


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