[meteorite-list] Facebook - Update

From: Meteorites USA <eric_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:00:19 -0800
Message-ID: <4B60D393.3070006_at_meteoritesusa.com>

UPDATE: It's worse than I thought.. I got my account back, and
everything seemed great until... Until I tried to post a link to my
Lorton Meteorite Fall page.

Those of you who are one Facebook please do me a favor and try to post a
link to my Lorton Meteorite Fall page and see if you get the same error
I received.
http://www.meteoritesusa.com/meteorite-news/lorton-meteorite-fall/

Please copy me the error message via email if you receive one.
Screenshots would be good too.

It appears that no-one can post ANYTHING containing the domain
meteoritesusa.com and Facebook displays the error message:

"...Warning: This Message Contains Blocked Content
Some content in this message has been reported as abusive by Facebook
users...."

Are ANY of you guys getting this message too?

Regards,
Eric






WARNING to ALL who use Facebook - Don't ever let you account be hacked
or phished. It can happen, it does happen, and it's a BIG pain in the _at_$$!

I don't know how many of you use Facebook, but... Don't ever mistakenly
let your account be hacked or phished. You will NEVER get it back.
Unless Facebook is gracious or smart enough to realize it's not your
fault. A hacker got into my FB account via what's called a "phishing"
page. Normally I'm keen to this sort of thing, and I'm slightly
embarrassed to admit it, but this one fooled me. I click one or two
links to view a video which "appeared" to come from a friend and then
somehow it looked as if I got logged out of my FB account. Then a screen
appeared which looked like the FB login page. I tried logging back in.
Guess what? I was already logged in and I just mistakenly gave up my FB
username and password. As soon as I realized what happened I tried to go
to the "real" FB account login page and hurry to change my account
password to protect my account. However I was not fast enough. They
accessed my account, changed my password, and I was effectively LOCKED
OUT of my own account.

The people at Facebook either some of the most intellectually challenged
people I've ever met or they enjoy making you jump through countless
hoops just to entertain themselves, while telling you that it's
supposedly to "set up a new email" under your old account. Then when you
do respond (per their instructions) they will tell you "for security
reasons" they cannot repond to the new email address that they ask to to
respond from in the first place. Then the process starts all over again,
and you're back to square one.

Not to mention the fact that if you own your own website that's a BAD
thing. They banned my entire email domain. Not just my email address!
What that means is this. The email domain is the _at_yourdomain.com suffix.
Anything before the _at_ symbol is your user id on an SMTP server to send
email under. When you send email through your ISP (Internet Service
Provider) SMTP server via your email domain it uses your ID to send that
email. Normally having your own email domain is a good thing, but not
when it comes to Facebook. Facebook will BAN the entire email domain if
just 1 email address from that domain is compromised. For example.

My main Facebook account was hacked about 2-4 months ago. Don't remember
when exactly. The email address was the eric at meteoritesusa.com email
address. But since my Facebook account was compromised by a hacker
through that email address Facebook in their infinite wisdom decided to
just go ahead an BAN my entire email domain. Which means I cannot EVER
create another email address for my Facebook account with the
_at_meteoritesusa.com email domain suffix. EVER! Or at least until the
release the block.

Since having my account compromised, the hacker(s) apparently sent out
unwanted emails through Facebook, and it appeared to have come from ME
when in fact it didn't. People reported abuse by that email address and
whammo Facebook decided to BAN the entire email domain.

Here's the ironic part. Facebook has their own SMTP servers. That means
that any email that gets sent through their system goes through their
own SMTP, and NOT mine. It bypasses my SMTP altogether. It only appears
as if it's coming from email address. Yet they banned my email domain.
Make sense to you? Me neither.

I don't know if I'll ever get my FB account back or even if I want it
back after going back and forth with them on it now for over a month.
All my Friends, and Wall posts, Photos, Videos, Subscriptions, and
everything I spent almost a year building up may be lost if Facebook
doesn't unban the email domain or at the very least, set up another
email address on my main FB account, so I can access all my friends and
subscribers again.

I hope you guys never have to go through this.

Regards,
Eric Wichman
Meteorites USA





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Received on Wed 27 Jan 2010 07:00:19 PM PST