[meteorite-list] Facebook

[Meteorites USA]

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 @$$!

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 @yourdomain.com suffix. 
Anything before the @ 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 
@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