"So, I told them this is my account," Lindenmeier recalls telling the hacker.
Finally, Lindenmeier sent the thief a message herself. When the hacker asked this friend for $200, she answered, "Sure, I'll send it with my police officer husband, so he can see who is using our friend's account."
The scammer claims if you donate $100 to FEMA’s humanitarian assistance program, the agency will give you $1,400 in return.īut Lindenmeier’s friends didn't fall for any of it. In this scam, the hacker says she's with FEMA helping people during the pandemic. That's because unlike transactions for goods and services, payments to friends and family are non-refundable. In the message, the hacker instructs Lindenmeier’s friend to use PayPal's friends and family option. Posing as Lindenmeier, the hacker wrote, "Hey love, can you please Facebook pay me 100 dollars? Very urgent." Step two: Con friends out of their hard-earned cash. And those screenshots give us useful insight into how Facebook thieves operate. When her friends realized that she had been hacked, they got screenshots of the hacked page. "That's memories all throughout my high school graduation, all throughout my entire college career, with family members who are no longer with us,” Lindenmeier said.įifteen years of priceless pictures are now in the hands of a thief, a thief who has been very busy. After all, Lindenmeier’s life has been on her Facebook page.
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"And knowing that my Facebook account is associated with my Gmail account, I went straight to my Facebook to change that password, and as I clicked the change password button, somebody else was already in and changed the password on me,” Lindenmeier said. The nightmare started when someone hacked her email. She has faced nothing but frustration in her futile fight to get her Facebook page back. The recorded message directs you to Facebook's online help center where a nameless robot promises to help secure your account.
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