[meteorite-list] Facebook - Update

From: Galactic Stone & Ironworks <meteoritemike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:14:02 -0500
Message-ID: <e51421551001271614x4e012d30sda885b7b45a67549_at_mail.gmail.com>

This sucks Eric. I will try it later tonight and report back the results.

I'm not sure, but I think I have the most friends of any meteorite
person on Facebook, so I have to be extra careful about my account.
With over 1500 friends, I am extra cautious - I do not click on any
external links, period, regardless of who they come from and how much
I trust them.

If anyone on this List has more than 1500 Facebook friends, post here
on the List - I am curious to see if I actually have the most.

Best regards,

MikeG


On 1/27/10, Meteorites USA <eric at meteoritesusa.com> wrote:
> 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 07:14:02 PM PST