In reality, a scammer can “clone” a Facebook account without ever having login access to that account.Īll a scammer needs to do in order to clone an account is open a new account and then use the information and photos that’s publicly available on the real account to populate the new fake one. Take for instance the account cloning scam that’s been spreading all over Facebook for a good while now.įake accounts that mimic a user’s real account are being set up to trick that user’s friends into accepting a friend request from the fake account, thinking the new account was actually created by their friend. While there are reports of “hacks” on Facebook all the time, most of the incidents reported aren’t really true hacks. Rick’s answer: That’s a great question Elaine, and my answer is this: Facebook isn’t anywhere near as easy to hack as most people think it is.
Why is Facebook so easy to hack? You’d think they could afford to provide better security. Question from Elaine: Every day we hear about Facebook being hacked and it seems like my friends are getting hacked all the time.
