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Someone Can Change Your Facebook Credentials by Just Sending in a Fake Passport

• minimaxir 10y ago
  Context: https://reddit.com/r/technology/comments/4q8ywp/til_that_someone_can_change_your_facebook_email/ https://reddit.com/r/technology/comments/4q8ywp/til_that_som... Latest update is that Facebook restored access.
• jessaustin 10y ago
  ...lost all my business pages... In future perhaps one's businesses will use and publicize their own domains, rather than Zuck's?
  • detaro 10y ago
    And then the domain registrar will be the one duped ;)
    • ultramancool 10y ago
      My personal favourite was the guy who stole sex.com using only a fax on company letterhead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_M._Cohen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_M._Cohen
  • lostcolony 10y ago
    Who says they don't? Many businesses that have their own domain also have a FB presence.
  • lips 10y ago
    I've consulted on strategy with a small biz that has both their own site and FB, it's absurd how much more attention the FB content gets. It would be absolutely self-destructive for them to not put work into their FB presence.
• amyjess 10y ago
  This is well known in the transgender community. Facebook has a history of forcing trans people to verify their names by providing legal ID. This hurts people who haven't yet been able to legally change their names for one reason or another even if they go by their new name exclusively in real life. So to deal with this, the community discovered a while back that you can just scan your ID and Photoshop in whatever name you'd like, and Facebook will accept it. They don't look too closely.