We can’t give you access to this account or help with your request until we receive an accepted form of ID that matches the information listed on the account. Seems simple enough … but I tried several different forms of ID, including my passport, and every message I received said: One option seemed to be an automatic ID reader: you enter an email address you still have access to and hold up an ID to your webcam. And Facebook is a multi-gazillion dollar company: they must have solutions, right?Īnd you’re not wrong: they do have systems in place. “But surely,” you’re thinking, “Facebook must have a way around this!” After all, extinct email accounts, hackers, and not taking online security as seriously as we should is practically old hat by now. I found myself in the centre of a perfect storm of my own lax security, with hackers who had engaged in the digital equivalent of pouring glue in a lock. The problem occurs when, again, it points away from the account owner and to the hackers instead. This is supposed to increase the security of a system because you need to enter a code in addition to your password. Second, they activated two-factor authentication. The default recovery-sending a code to your email address-is now useless. Everything now points to an address only the hackers have access to. While I was going through the Facebook process for securing my account and changing my password, the hackers did two things that have now made it impossible for me to log back in.įirst, a long-defunct email address that I must have listed somewhere in the bowels of my Facebook settings was re-registered and all of my other email addresses were deleted. The hackers were in and the race was on … but it wasn’t a race I could win. But something had changed: I no longer had control of the account. Whew, that was close …Įxcept that a few hours later I received a similar message. Simple question: is this you or not? I clicked the button for “not” and was told that I didn’t have to do anything else. It started in mid-December with an email from Facebook saying that someone was trying to reset my password. While I am all in favour of digital detoxes, this is not exactly what I had in mind! Instead, I hope this serves as a cautionary tale about how to potentially avoid the mistakes that have seen me locked out of Facebook for over a month. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.This is not a blog post about travel, history, nature, or tea, although, as always, a lot of tea was consumed in the composition of it. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine. There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic.
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