That was my first thought too, @Remy . I get phishing emails that Amazon is going to close my account but they never use my name and of course it's not true... they just phish for private information. I've gotten the same for eBay and other places. If I'd get one from FB, I'd seriously ignore it... unless I actually *did* break terms, and in that case I'd think they would put me in FB jail and not ask for a private ID. EDIT: Just researched a little, and FB can indeed ask for ID if there's risk that the account is fraudulent. So.... not really sure if I'd feel safe providing that or not.
Yes, I agree it's legit with the secure https. Are you going to give them ID?I know what you guys mean, cybercrime is through the roof, but what I'm talking about looks legit: see the URL
Absolutely NOT, it's a matter of principle.
You're nicer than I was. I sent photos of me hiding behind a RUDE hand gesture and I sent it often. I then found an old account and switched to that.
So you went through the same thing: they are trying to push this crap on certain people. Good to know they didn't start this silly experiment with me ..
So you had 14 years of fun with the social media, I wasn't quite that "lucky". What are your eBooks about?Last time, all 4 of us were on FB all accounts were hacked. When we first noticed, we believed the rules had changed. So, we read the steps to do to recover our accounts. WHOA NELLIE! They were requesting 4 birth certificates proving we were American Citizens!!!!
That's when I realised it was hacking...
We cleaned out and deleted as much as we could and changing all our emails. That was 2009...
Recently, I considered returning to Instagram. I signed into my account, updated all and did one post that I was returning. Thirty (30) days later, I was ready, went back and found myself banned without any explanations.
Went to my email account to contact them at Instagram, when I noticed a new email in my other folder. There was ranting, raving, raging and swearing from someone I'd trusted as a friend. She backstabbed me just because she was jealous. She also put my old series (which she'd bought from me, fair and square) on illegal free ebooks websites. I ended taking it down and rewriting a new series.
I'm so untrusting now, that I've only few sites on which I'm active and still I'm always doubtful
Agree, I don't care much about FB, I can bitch on Twitter until ... they'll ask for my ID ...
No @Evada nearly two years from 2007 to incident in early 2009. I'm having fun here, but FB is banned and add to that Twitter too. So many immature people who think that because they're anonymous they can be so rude and getting away with it.
I can feel your pain, I was also alerted that someone was trying to withdraw $5,000,000 from my Swiss bank account ...I don't do Fakebook, or GramInstant, or Pik Pok, and I don't Twit. I have no interest in or need for any of them. However, I do get regular spam emails saying that someone tried to log into my nonexistent Fakebook account.
Won't find me there... I detest Twitter with a fiery passion!
Very true... and it wouldn't even have to be them doing it. There's a whole lotta hackin' going on, and if even Yahoo and Equifax can be hacked, FB is not immune. And then there's the dark web where a lot of stolen private information ends up. Shivers.
Agree. Once nosy forum owners (or whatever business) are messing with my privacy I'm out. The other day I tried to create an AOL email account and providing my phone # was mandatory. So I do not have an AOL email account ...
Gotcha! I've never never into vampires, witches and angels but you never know how the next pandemic (there are already cases of bird flu that jumped to humans) will rewire my brain and make me devour your books ...
