[SJRA-Members] Facebook Warning

[Grumps]

The best defense is simply this:
NEVER, I say again, NEVER open an email if you don’t clearly recognize the sender.

Slep 
WB2LKO 

Sent from my aye phone

> On Jan 14, 2021, at 9:35 AM, Bob Turner <n2scj at outlook.com> wrote:
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> Folks,
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> Two friends, KD2EPM and KC3JJT Facebook accounts appear to have been "p0wned" by  someone else.  It could also be a bot.  Could be a human with bad intent.  First it stars with an emails in the early morning.  At first they are innocuous like "Hi, How are you".  If you reply then a day or so later you get something like "You have got to see this", or "Have you heard about the new program".   I asked both of these FB accounts an amateur radio question that either of the real persons could have answered.  These guys/bots totally ignore that as they are not amateurs.  They just go on and on.
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> At first with Jerry's FB account I was not sure.  Then about a week later the same exact MO on the attack comes from Dom's account.  I have since unfriended both accounts.
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> Dom, Jerry if you are listening, at the moment your Facebook account is no longer your account.  Someone else and/or a computer program owns your account.  They may be sharing it with you or they may have taken the account away from you.  If they did not change your password, logon and update your password.  That may stop them, but the damage may have already been done.  If they changed your password you are probably SOL unless you enlist Facebook for support.
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> There is also the possibility that they just created new bogus Tom/Jerry account with data scraped from the real FB page.  This info is then used to dup your friends into friending the bad account.
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> Dom, Jerry - This is an accident, I understand.  My unfriending you guys is to make it harder for the malware/person to attack me.  I'm sure they are attacking other club members.  Had I continued the discussion sooner or later they would have sent me a link with some bait to click on.  Had I done that, now my account would be attacking my friends.
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> I have no direct contact info for Dom and Jerry.  Those that do, please relay this info to them.
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> Bob
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