Danger in posting your Facebook status

What is the danger in posting your Facebook status? Step in the shoe of a criminal mind and you'll find out.

If you post that you'll be in a full week vacation to your friends it is fun and exciting but for a theft it is an opportunity to get into your house. Your location is a critical information don't just announce it in public don't be so excited to post where you'll go and your current location. Be careful, even if you did not mentioned your current location but if you just snapped a photo then post it online it's the same thing, the photo may tell where you are and how far are you from home. Just don't get so excited you can post that picture later when you got home.

Feel free to share this information to your friends.

Clickjacking-What is this?

For simple internet users the work click jacking is kinda too technical. To make it simple we can relate this to car jacking except the car is the click of the mouse button.It may seem not so important as losing your car, but it might be. If the click that will be jacked is towards losing your identity to an identity theft.

How does it work and how we can avoid it? Clickjacking works by hiding a malicious script under a legit website like post on facebook that would activate after a user click it. After clicking it it might send to to a well fabricated look a like of a legit website like a fake paypal website or just a fake Facebook page. When you are on the fake site your just one more click or less away from being clickjacked or you may have been clickjacked already. So to avoid this is DO NOT CLICK STRANGE LINKS even it is coming from a trusted friend. Your friend could have been victimized by this clickjacking that a automated script had taken over the account and repost it self to propagate

Do Want to see Who viewed your Profile on FB?

Do want to see who viewed your profile on FB? For what ever reason you may have better think again because this is agains FB's policy (FB faq=12903 ) 

So if ever there is an app that would offer you this capability think twice or maybe more because more likely they are fake or even worst they are just rogue apps that would steal you identity. Legitimate FB apps would probably follow the guideline set by FB.

I conclude that this rogue apps is just using your curiosity enthaising you to use their app. You may need to sign up for their free service so they could capture some information from you or you maybe forwarded into a fake facebook website asking you to log-in, if your not careful enough they will have a chance and capture your FB username and password and all the information you have there.

Be Aware You Have Been Warned.

Facebook Information Can Be Used by Hackers

Most of the time when ever I do phone transaction (banking and other such alike) the call agent would ask a question to verify my identity and the most common question I encountered are "What is your date of birth?" and "What is your mothers maiden name?". Did you know that is information could be easily access by a hacker thru you facebook account? Thus resulting for the hacker to trick any agent over the phone and can post as you. From there the hacker could stole you identy and make phone transactions in your name. The hacker would just check your facebook profile to see your date of birth and from there the hack could also do an investigation to find out who is your mother and try to check her profile too to find out her maiden name. Everything would be easy for him unless raise your security settings.

Here what you need to do.
1.On the upper rigth corner click "Accout" Tab and choose "Privacy Setting" from the drop down menu.
2.Click "Custom" then "Customize Settings".
3. On Family you may choose to be seen by "Friends Only" If you know all you friend and you trust all the friend that you would accept but if not just change it to "Custom" and set it to "Only Me". In this case there will be no direct information from facebook that will be available to the hacker to trace who is your mother.
4.Do the same for your date of birth, I bet you'll choose only me unless you want everybody to know your date of birth.

These are just specific examples but the general rule it keep your personal information private.

Fake Facebook Profile

There are lots of Fake Face book profiles. It is more than 50% of the Face book profiles are Fake means there is no real person behind the name that was registered. These Fake Profile are created for several reasons like, to keep an identity secret or it was just an alternate account for playing games. But be aware that sometimes Fake profiles are also created with malicious intent, it could be to impersonate someone and destroy the reputation of the real person or to spy on the activities to the real persons friends.

The only thing that we can do about this is to report it.


Before taking action check if you have mutual friends with the impostor, if you do contact them and tell them about the impostor, ask them to report also.

Take these steps to file the report.

Go to the Fake profile, on the lower left click "Report/Block this person" then choose "Fake profile". On the drop down menu choose the profile of the real person. Also check the box of "Block this person".

Fake Facebook Pages.

Beware, there are uprising FAKE Facebook page. Some are just a die hard copy cat some are with malicious intent. It is very easy to anybody to create a Facebook page for somebody else even wthout the permission. This is being exploited by people with malicious intent to destroy someone’s personality. The victim will have no control over the fake book account, because it was made by somebody else.

Beware, there are uprising FAKE Facebook page. Some are just a die hard copy cat some are with malicious intent. It is very easy to anybody to create a Facebook page for somebody else even wthout the permission. This is being exploited by people with malicious intent to destroy someone’s personality. The victim will have no control over the fake book account, because it was made by somebody else.

To find out if there is fake account is to search for the original account (the only way you can tell is if you know the original account) on the Facebook search bar and view the result to check it.
The fake account is usually made by the haters of the victim or a freeloader to the popularity of the victim. The freeloaders are people wants to drive visitor to their site or to cature attention. In both cases it is damaging to the victim, the haters is posting hate contents and fraudulent contents and the freeloader is capture visitor the supposed to be searching for the victim.

What to do with fake Facebook accounts? Go to the impostor profile and click "Report/block this person" at the bottom of the left column. Check the "Report this Person" box, choose "Fake Profile" as the reason, and add "Impersonating me or someone else" as the report type. Be sure to add a valid web address (URL) leading to the real profile so that Facebook can review the information.

Some impostor are just creating Facebook Page, just do the same , go to the fake Facebook page  and click "Report/block this person" at the bottom of the left column, check the appropriate report on the menu that will popup.

Protect Your Facebook Account

A stolen Facebook account is like a stolen identity, it is difficult to recover it. I bet you don't want to spend time informing all your friend that you Facebook account was hacked and stolen. There is a lot of damage a hacked account can do, the least is it will be used to send spam message to all of your friends. Once your account is stolen, it can be use to steal another account from your friends, it can damage your reputation if the hacker start posting offensive material (violence, Porn and etc). If you have personal and private information it may not stay private and personal any more.

To protect you Facebook account


1. Avoid using it on public computers and networks.


2. If your not a public person keep your profile private. Click the "Account" tab and on the drop down click on "Privacy setting" change all of the setting where in only your friends can view.


3. Never add someone you don't know. But also be aware that sometime stalker may create a fake Facebook account just to get accepted to be your friend on Facebook. If you know you are a target of someone, besure to verify the friend request in person before accepting it.


4. If your really want to keep information private NEVER put them in Facebook.


5. Never use your credit card on Facebook, no matter how tempted  you are on any of the offers even it is to good to be true (if it is too good to be true and most probably it is not)


I would like to keep this updated, please leave a comment or a question below and I will try to update this article.