I was connected to Facebook the other day, and I obtained a chat message from an old friend of mine, someone I knew at the college, and to whom I never talked since that period, that's some 19 decades ago.After some chat about how each one was performing, he asked me if I could do him a favor: He needed a charge card for a mobile phone for someone in Paris, and he told me that he'll transfer money to me with a money transfer service.I was feeling that it was unusual to get a favor request from a friend to whom I've not talked for ages, but it was perhaps sensible since his place of residence was not exactly like mine. Therefore, I asked him when he needed the card, and he said 'at the moment, today.'Then he added 'I do not like to ask anything from anybody, but I really need it, and as you are like a brother in my experience, I am asking you... 'I was never just like a brother to that person! Was there a key online attachment between him and me without me realizing?Still, since the favor he asked for wasn't a big offer to me, and since I like to assist friends, I was planning to follow. I enquired more, and h-e told me to get him a 3 months recharge card or 2 cards of 1 month, which is not so familiar to me because I do not understand how the recharge cards process works.All that occurred through Facebook chat. Immediately after, and while I was preparing myself to go get the card, I began reasoning:-What was the scenario of a friend to whom I've not talked for 1-9 years contact me abruptly and ask for a would a to whom I was never quite close tell me I'm just like a brother to him?And then it stumbled on me that it was not him, that it couldn't be him. It was someone using his account to request charge cards from his contacts or other favors.There was without doubt to me anymore that my friend's account was compromised, and that the one who approached me was a hacker wanting to take advantage of the ties and associations of my friend. Maybe if I asked him a problem about my friend or how I understood him, and so on. he could even answer because Facebook contains a large amount of personal information.I appeared in my own friend's Facebook page if any information regarding his mobile number or email was discovered (even though email is not even protected because the hacker may have reached his Facebook account from coughing his email, or he may have also hacked his email account) to contact him and inform him that his account was hacked, but I couldn't locate any.I then told the hacker that I'll contact him to give him the card number, and as expected he told me that his mobile wasn't with him (under restoration ): really I didn't even know the number, I was just bluffing. I told him that I couldn't give him the card if I could not call him, he first asked why, then he said that he will contact me.In my case, and although the friend that approached me was some one that I've not spoken to for decades, I assumed at first that it was him. Nevertheless the hacker may have performed better, and read in the hacked account past conversations or in the account contact friends walls how a hacked account loop used to socialize which what friends in particular, when, in which way, etc. and ergo the likelihood is there.This is why I decided to create this article, so that:- If a friend (actually a near one) contacts you via email or Facebook or whatever electronic means (chat computer software, little communications, etc.), you do not talk private information to him or her until you make certain in a way or yet another that it's him or her- If you feel someone is asking you for anything strange or uncommon, do not hesitate to be suspicious, because it's the right attitude.- Most importantly, use different complex accounts for your entire electronic email and cultural accounts with a lot of particular people and a mixture of figures and letters both upper and lower case.
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