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One thing to consider when deleting your FB account is that someone can then create a new profile with your name and pics and start adding your friends etc. Mos
by thelittleone 8y ago
One thing to consider when deleting your FB account is that someone can then create a new profile with your name and pics and start adding your friends etc. Most will believe it's you and accept. It's a goldmine for personal information gathering for social engineering attacks.
- joshbetz 8y agoBeing on FB doesn’t prevent that.
- biql 8y agoI believe you should be able to report the impersonator although I don't know whether or not it actually works.
- thelittleone 8y agoYou can only report it if the legit account still exists.
- thelittleone 8y agoThat's true, but it does have some advantages. Firstly, your friends are more likely to notice it's a scam because they're still connected to your legitimate account. Second, if this does happen to you and you've deleted your account, you can't report it to Facebook. Reporting this issue to Facebook requires either: 1) You (the victim) report the cloned account from the legit account. Or; 2) One of your friends reports it but they must select the victim from their list of friends. Can't do either if your account is deleted. That being said, I followed their process for several clients and Facebook refused to do anything about it.
- thsowers 8y agoThis is a dangerous precedent that FB has set and that theoretically has no end (Twitter, LinkedIn, Github). Where to draw the line?
- Buge 8y agoIs this a precedent that FB has set? It seems like a problem with any website with an account system.