Facebook activated my dormant account and won’t let me deactivate it

lolol

Fairly sure someone is. I haven't been using FB for months and last week received a "messenger sign in code" SMS from FB. (I use LastPass btw with each site their own pw, I highly doubt they need your actual current password to login)

It may not be Facebook themselves that caused the account reactivation.

I'm was very recently in a similar situation having a Facebook account that was deactivated about 5 years ago (I thought I had deleted it).

I received the exact same account reactivation notification email as in the article and I also started receiving photo post notification emails.

Upon attempting to sign in to my Facebook account to investigate, I was presented with a screen informing me that my account had been locked due to recent suspicious activity. In my case I did recall my password and as such didn't encounter the ID verification process.

I was presented with the details of the most recent login which was shown to be from a Samsung phone and from a Russian IP address. I have never owned a Samsung phone nor have I ever visited Russia.

My girlfriend's Facebook account was also recently accessed in similar suspicious circumstances.

I suspect that account credentials acquired from breaches of non-Facebook services are being used to attempt to access Facebook accounts.

At least they emailed you about it.

In my case they reactivated it for some reason and I had no idea for months until someone told me they saw my Facebook page.

I had just deactivated because I wanted to take a break from all the fake relationships, but I never really hated the company itself.

But now that I know this company just does whatever they want and doesn't care about the contract with their users, I despise them with passion. It's one thing to change privacy policy, but reactivating someone's account without permission when he clearly has deactivated is almost illegal.

I ended up completely deleting my account (that's different from "deactivating". It's actually all gone (hopefully)

I'm sure there are many people like me and OP out there. It's sad that people can't do much about it as individuals even when their privacy is fucked with.

I'm in the same situation, I didn't use my account several years. Than I tried to login, and account is locked. I was asked to send my ID. I did it. Now I'm waiting fifth month to unlock it and nothing happens. They have my ID, I don't have account access.