Facebook activated my dormant account and won’t let me deactivate it
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Re: Facebook activated my dormant account and won’t let me deactivate it
#2I uploaded a picture of my driver license with my finger covering my D.O.B. and address. They responded by deleting my account I was locked out of and did not want online any longer.
Re: Facebook activated my dormant account and won’t let me deactivate it
#3What would the alternative be? Allow anyone to request that an account is deleted? Facebook needs some form of verification due to the password being breached (and its great that they are checking for that sort of thing)
Re: Facebook activated my dormant account and won’t let me deactivate it
#4For those who still have access and don't just want to deactivate- https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account
Re: Facebook activated my dormant account and won’t let me deactivate it
#5What would the alternative be? Allow anyone to request that an account is deleted? Facebook needs some form of verification due to the password being breached (and its great that they are checking for that sort of thing)
Send a verification email as for a lost password?
Re: Facebook activated my dormant account and won’t let me deactivate it
#6My guess is that someone is using password db dumps and then using those credentials to login to Facebook accounts, in this case it reactivated it.
TL;DR Don't use the same password on multiple accounts, no matter how "unimportant".
Re: Facebook activated my dormant account and won’t let me deactivate it
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Re: Facebook activated my dormant account and won’t let me deactivate it
#8What would the alternative be? Allow anyone to request that an account is deleted? Facebook needs some form of verification due to the password being breached (and its great that they are checking for that sort of thing)
Additionally, the only info they need is your name, birthday and photo. Anything else can be blocked out. I don't really consider that 'giving them my government issued id'.
Re: Facebook activated my dormant account and won’t let me deactivate it
#9Since his Facebook account is clearly important to him, he shouldn't have reused a password that he shared with unimportant sites.
Re: Facebook activated my dormant account and won’t let me deactivate it
#10Is this a possible phishing attack?