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Has Your Face Book Been HiJacked?

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Real Estate Agent with David Tracy Real Estate #555994

Has Your Face Book Been HiJacked?

 

Is it my imagination or does it seem to you Rainers that Face Book members have been hacked a lot here lately?

 

Just last week a Realtor instructor that is a favorite of many REALTORS® contacted me, asking for me to befriend her. I thought that was rather odd as we are or were friends. 

 

Not thinking more of it I went ahead and befriended her again. Then the messages started coming in. She asked me how I was doing. That was odd as we rarely talk but do refer  clients to each other. So I said I was fine and then she asked me if I had heard about something Obama had done. I knew right then that this was not her. I quickly text her a cell phone message and waited for a response. After 15 minutes of no response I called her. 

 

She answered and said she and was not on Face Book this particular  morning and was no longer a Face Book user. As it turned out she knew that someone had hijacked her account and had and was sending horrible messages about her to all her family members and some of the Realtors that she deals with. I quickly sent out a message via cell phone text to others to watch out for this occurance.

 

 

Then today... another old school friend of mine text me via Face Book and ask me to not send her any of my political posts. That was strange because I don't write or respond to political posts at all. I have sent her a message through LinkedIn since I don't have this persons contact info. 

 

I hope Face Book fixes this soon.

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Sussie Says…

Representing Buyers and Sellers in Friendswood, Clear Lake, Pearland, Webster, City of League City, and the Houston / Bay Area.

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Website: http://www.sussiesuttonrealtor.com/

Email Me: sussiesutton@yahoo.com

 

 

 

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Joe Petrowsky
Mortgage Consultant, Right Trac Financial Group, Inc. NMLS # 2709 - Manchester, CT
Your Mortgage Consultant for Life

Good morning Sussie. Changing your password on a regular basis helps a lot. Unfortunate when this kind of crap happens.

Jun 07, 2015 06:36 PM
TeamCHI - Complete Home Inspections, Inc.
Complete Home Inspections, Inc. - Brentwood, TN
Home Inspectons - Nashville, TN area - 615.661.029

Good morning Sussie. I would not know as I do not frequent FB that often. Haven't the time.

Jun 07, 2015 07:37 PM
Sussie Sutton
David Tracy Real Estate - Houston, TX
David Tracy Real Estate for Buyers & Sellers

Stefan Winter the bad part is that I get most of my leads from Face Book. I had an open account up until yesterday. My fan page is not good but through my personal FB I get many requests for help with rentals and buying a home. I think I need to do some work there and I may go back and make more changes. I just recently changed my "handle" from Sussie Sutton - Realtor to just my name... and I have noticed a decrease in calls.

Jun 07, 2015 08:12 PM
Sussie Sutton
David Tracy Real Estate - Houston, TX
David Tracy Real Estate for Buyers & Sellers

Yes Andrea Bedard it is very annoying... why can't these people just get a freaking job for goodness sake.

Debra Leisek I did just that last night. It is so very annoying. 

Jill Murty, Realtor - Serving Orange County, CA I usually ignore those especially the emails from an AOL address that tells me my Yahoo account is fixing to be deleted if I don't click on the link to "re-up"my account. I say go ahead and delete the dang Yahoo account. I have just about had it with them too.

Jun 07, 2015 08:17 PM
Sussie Sutton
David Tracy Real Estate - Houston, TX
David Tracy Real Estate for Buyers & Sellers

Tammy Lankford after reading your comment I went in and changed the account to where only friends can see me. I don't know how to do the photos and looked but I will have to ask someone who knows how to do that.

Praful Thakkar yes it is scary... I feel like a concrete foundation... Its not if you will have issues; but when you will have issues. 

Joe Petrowsky well I have never changed my password that I can remember. When I went in to change it last night it did note I had changed it not too long ago. I certainly don't remember doing that ... but I may have. Anyway I changed it again. I am having a hard time remembering what was changed and to what it was changed too!

Jun 07, 2015 08:23 PM
Gita Bantwal
RE/MAX Centre Realtors - Warwick, PA
REALTOR,ABR,CRS,SRES,GRI - Bucks County & Philadel

Thank you for sharing. I do not have a business FB page but I will be careful.

Jun 07, 2015 08:23 PM
Sussie Sutton
David Tracy Real Estate - Houston, TX
David Tracy Real Estate for Buyers & Sellers

Well Michael Thornton I am glad you are okay where FB is concerned. However, I am sure you have something else those dang hackers get get at.

Jun 07, 2015 08:24 PM
Beth Atalay
Cam Realty and Property Management - Clermont, FL
Cam Realty of Clermont FL

Good morning Sussie, it did happen to me couple of months ago, then I read about the scammers..

Jun 08, 2015 12:49 AM
Lou Ludwig
Ludwig & Associates - Boca Raton, FL
Designations Earned CRB, CRS, CIPS, GRI, SRES, TRC

Sussie

That's a big problem . . . . with Facebook.

Good  luck and success.

Lou Ludwig

Jun 08, 2015 03:25 AM
Anita Clark
Coldwell Banker Access Realty ~ 478.960.8055 - Warner Robins, GA
Realtor - Homes for Sale in Warner Robins GA

Sussie: Weak passwords are usually the culprit on these hijacks. It is definitely worth it to make the passwords hard to figure out.

Jun 08, 2015 08:07 AM
Alan Kirkpatrick
Austin Texas Homes - Round Rock, TX
Alan in Austin

Sussie Sutton The visibility we have online through active rain and our websites makes us easier targets. In addition to the facebook hacking attempts I am fielding at least 3 to 4 calls a week from self proclaimed: social network experts, web designers, lead generators. They all say they found me on Active Rain. 

Jun 08, 2015 02:08 PM
Robert Bob Gilbert
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Anderson Properties - Katy, TX
Your Katy TX ( West of Houston) Real Estate Expert

Sussie, Thanks for the tip as I was totally unaware of this Facebook issue. I doubt if they will do much to stop this problem. 

Jun 09, 2015 06:11 AM
Sussie Sutton
David Tracy Real Estate - Houston, TX
David Tracy Real Estate for Buyers & Sellers

Beth Atalay well I am not sure I got hacked but so many around me said they had and one person said I posted a crazy post. Which I had not so I panicked.

Lou Ludwig Yes it is a very big problem.

Anita Clark I changed my password and it is pretty Strong.  

 

Jun 09, 2015 07:12 AM
Sussie Sutton
David Tracy Real Estate - Houston, TX
David Tracy Real Estate for Buyers & Sellers

Alan Kirkpatrick yes I know what you mean about all the people trying to share my commission! I have been using that new App TRUE to fend them off.

Robert (Bob) Gilbert well I have been thinking about closing my Face Book down completely and starting over. I have maybe close to 800 friends. (that is including many REALTOR'S)

Jun 09, 2015 07:18 AM
Debbie Laity
Cedaredge Land Company - Cedaredge, CO
Your Real Estate Resource for Delta County, CO

My broker was just hacked yesterday. People really need to find something better to do with their time. 

Jun 09, 2015 09:58 AM
Grant Schneider
Performance Development Strategies - Armonk, NY
Your Coach Helping You Create Successful Outcomes

Sussie - this happened to my wife and now she is no longer on Facebook.

Jun 09, 2015 02:17 PM
Sussie Sutton
David Tracy Real Estate - Houston, TX
David Tracy Real Estate for Buyers & Sellers

Debbie Laity it is so aggravating! I too wish these people had something better to do.... like get a job!

Grant Schneider I am thinking about closing mine too. I will make up my mind in a few weeks. I am going to see how it goes for awhile. 

Jun 09, 2015 02:36 PM
Debbie Reynolds, C21 Platinum Properties
Platinum Properties- (931)771-9070 - Clarksville, TN
The Dedicated Clarksville TN Realtor-(931)320-6730

It isn't that secure of a platform and I have heard of this happening before. I also had my Twitter account hacked and my son got a tweet with language I do not use. He immediately told me to change my password. 

Jun 11, 2015 10:19 AM
Vera Gonzalez
RE/MAX Suburban, Inc. - Sterling Heights, MI
Gonzo For Real Estate

Very sad Sussie Sutton .  Think of all the greatness they could acheive if they used their power for good. 

Jun 15, 2015 12:21 AM
Inna Ivchenko
Barcode Properties - Encino, CA
Realtor® • GRI • HAFA • PSC Calabasas CA

I do not receive a lot of spam on FB, since I have very simple policy for spammers/scammers. I do get some dating invitations from Nigeria girls in my spam folder, but those are not my friends.

Jun 18, 2015 04:43 PM