I follow many of you on Facebook and perhaps some of you follow me under Andrea Clanish. My account was taken over by a scammer and he's messaging my friends and family now trying to get them to click something or to fall for the trick of getting a hold of their accounts that I fell for. Please do not fall for it!
I swear to you I am too smart to fall for scammers yet this one got me. I'm so mad I could spit nails! He pretended to be my nephew in law trying to get back control of his account and asked me to help and foolishly I did not confirm by calling him first. But he was using Twin2's husbands account so I could see our previous conversations right there! Argh! I feel so stupid for falling for this!
As it stands, I have not been able to convince facebook that that is not me. I thought I had it, but something went wrong and now they will only accept a code send to "my" email, which is not mine! it's the scammers email! Not going to help.. There is no person you can talk to on facebook, so I'm kind of stuck at this point.
I will probably have to make a new account, which ticks me off because that's been my account for almost 20 years! Like I said, spitting mad... But if you get a friend request from a new me, it's probably me..
I'm sorry if this has inconvenienced any of you or if you've been hacked because of it. Please be safe out there, the scammers are everywhere!
The kitties are good! Leo has a cold and Glitter developed allergies, but we're dealing with it. They say Mew and they love you all!! So do I!
Here's some old pictures so you remember how cute they are!
Cashmere in front, Glitter in back
Leo being silly!
10 comments:
We are sorry this happened. Thanks for letting us know you and the kitties are OK. We send purrayers and POTP that you get things righted soon !
How frustrating and annoying for you! I hope it all gets sorted out PDQ. Purrs to the beautiful kitties.
What a bother!
Oh no, this is horrid. I sometimes think social media is a real pain and not worth having. I'm tempted to shut mine down from time to time and rely purely on email. Such lovely and fun selfies. Cats always make things better.
ERin
Sorry that happened. I hope everyone feels better soon. XO
This is so horrid a thing to have happened Andrea. LOVE seeing the cats again. I have missed all of you. XXOO
I went though that same crap but fortunately I was ahead of the creep and delelted my FB account while I could. That's how I ended up starting over. If it ever happens again I'm done with Facebook.
We're so sorry this happened, Andrea. There are some really bad people out there.
That is terrible that you got hacked? We haven't gotten any strange messages so far. We hope you get a new blog set up easily. TBT does regular drive backups daily and blog backups about once a month. And he has a non-computer binder for passwords.
It is sad that there are so many really mean people out there!
I am sorry this happened and you have been treated so badly by facebook. They are more into profit than people now.
Marjorie and Toulouse.
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