Hunter Sailboat Owners Under 30 on Facebook has been fending off attacks for 3 years now without their help. For Admins on FB it is a nightmare getting locked out of your account and the steps you have to take to recover is ridiculous, hours spent deleting fake accounts from the members list, deleting inappropriate content, stopping childish arguments while striving to provide information and archives to members of the fleet. Not only do these hackers need to be identified, their permanent removal is what we seek! NO FAKE ACCOUNTS! HOIST THE BLACK!
Question for Sean, if you were going to take over a FB page to exploit the trust of users, with the intent of phishing or other nefarious activity, wouldn't it make more sense to do so clandestinely rather than overtly, as has been done here?
Has anyone translated the test shown on the page with the seemingly distraught young man?
I think they intended to be clandestine. They made no announcement nor did anything else to upset the applecart. But there is no hiding who the admins of a group are, so anyone who takes the time to look will see that neither Kim nor her staff are still listed, and instead the two clearly fictitious profiles shown here are listed as admins. So, they've been outed. That is, perhaps, one of the reasons why they've made no further moves as yet (although a bigger reason is probably just that this is the SOP -- let everything run along smoothly for a while). The image of the seemingly distraught man is found all over the 'net (without the text) -- either a stock image or one that makes the rounds. The text says (according to Google Translate):
Hunter Sailboat Owners Under 30 on Facebook has been fending off attacks for 3 years now without their help. For Admins on FB it is a nightmare getting locked out of your account and the steps you have to take to recover is ridiculous, hours spent deleting fake accounts from the members list, deleting inappropriate content, stopping childish arguments while striving to provide information and archives to members of the fleet. Not only do these hackers need to be identified, their permanent removal is what we seek! NO FAKE ACCOUNTS! HOIST THE BLACK!
LOL - "We contacted Facebook support immediately". Good luck!
Question for Sean, if you were going to take over a FB page to exploit the trust of users, with the intent of phishing or other nefarious activity, wouldn't it make more sense to do so clandestinely rather than overtly, as has been done here?
Has anyone translated the test shown on the page with the seemingly distraught young man?
I think they intended to be clandestine. They made no announcement nor did anything else to upset the applecart. But there is no hiding who the admins of a group are, so anyone who takes the time to look will see that neither Kim nor her staff are still listed, and instead the two clearly fictitious profiles shown here are listed as admins. So, they've been outed. That is, perhaps, one of the reasons why they've made no further moves as yet (although a bigger reason is probably just that this is the SOP -- let everything run along smoothly for a while). The image of the seemingly distraught man is found all over the 'net (without the text) -- either a stock image or one that makes the rounds. The text says (according to Google Translate):
"Now there is fear
Believe me what people say?"
Sean,
Thanks for the explanation, and that translation sounds ominous:-/