Someone keeps trying to reset my Facebook password
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Re: Someone keeps trying to reset my Facebook password
#2Funny I keep getting login codes for my Microsoft account. Also there is seemingly no way to figure out who is doing it or how to stop it.
I wish I could just disable that form of login, I have a very safe password so the login via email isn't necessary.
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#3At this point, I would not be at all surprised if this is a guerrilla tactic for accounts that have not logged in in a while to create engagement/MAU.
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#4Getting this on my second fb account, good to know it’s not just me
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#5I just assumed someone was going through a database of known FB accounts and triggering the reset looking for people who accept.
It is strange that they appear to be able to avoid being blocked for bulk/frequent requests though. Seems like a big flaw.
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#6Funny I keep getting login codes for my Microsoft account. Also there is seemingly no way to figure out who is doing it or how to stop it. I wish I could just disable that form of login, I have a very safe password so the login via email isn't necessary.
I’ve seen that and the FB one in recent months.
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#7I think the better question is why facebook sends mails from facebookmail.com and metamail.com? Any sensible person would expect those to be scams, but they are real.
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#8I’ve accumulated, what, 3 Facebook accounts over the years? Many mornings I wake up to see that recovery codes have been requested for all of them, at a similar time. Surely this is enough of a signal to act on!? It really speaks to the fact that Meta really just doesn’t give a rats.
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#9Happened the other way to me once. When I made my Gmail account I had a . in it. Emails sent from me go from this email address.
My Facebook email for ages was my school email (as is tradition, right?) and one day someone registered as my actual email around the time I was doing a bunch of address consolidation because my school was moving all historical accounts to a separate subdomain.
I clicked to confirm foolishly (should not have done that) and it became associated with someone else's Facebook account.
Facebook has a process for this. You request an email to your address and it sends you one and you reply and it removes the email from the other guy.
Well, I did that except he set it without the '.' and when I replied from mine it wouldn't accept it. I tried again as it was and only realized after three tries what the problem was. Facebook's difference in verification processes (click to confirm / reply to dissociate) meant that I was not doing the right thing.
Repeating the action means I looked like a fraudster so that must have been why even though I added the dot version as an email to send as it would no longer accept me.
To make matters worse, I decided I'd just fix it by resetting my password and logging in and removing my email.
Well, I succeeded in the password reset but Facebook protects you here by requiring friends to verify it's you. Well, I didn't know his friends so I just let it go: he could no longer log in except via phone number (I hope, or he was locked out) and I couldn't associate my email correctly.
Then one random day I tried again and it worked.
Re: Someone keeps trying to reset my Facebook password
#10I think the better question is why facebook sends mails from facebookmail.com and metamail.com? Any sensible person would expect those to be scams, but they are real. https://www.facebook.com/help/1634546593478660
If you ask a Meta employee this you’ll no doubt get some internal structural / political justification, and they’ll say it to you with a straight face.
Let’s also all think back to 2011 or so when Facebook thought it’d be a good idea to try to vacuum up all its users’ emails by giving us all @facebook.com email addresses, buying fb.com in the process. As I recall they killed it after a couple few years.