Re:What kind of password reset scam is going on at Facebook?
by renewiltord on Thursday September 07, 2023 @06:23AM
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Happened the other way to me once. When I made my Gmail account I had a . in it. Emails sent from me go from this email address.
My Facebook email for ages was my school email (as is tradition, right?) and one day someone registered as my actual email around the time I was doing a bunch of address consolidation because my school was moving all historical accounts to a separate subdomain.
I clicked to confirm foolishly (should not have done that) and it became associated with someone else's Facebook account.
Facebook has a process for this. You request an email to your address and it sends you one and you reply and it removes the email from the other guy.
Well, I did that except he set it without the '.' and when I replied from mine it wouldn't accept it. I tried again as it was and only realized after three tries what the problem was. Facebook's difference in verification processes (click to confirm / reply to dissociate) meant that I was not doing the right thing.
Repeating the action means I looked like a fraudster so that must have been why even though I added the dot version as an email to send as it would no longer accept me.
To make matters worse, I decided I'd just fix it by resetting my password and logging in and removing my email.
Well, I succeeded in the password reset but Facebook protects you here by requiring friends to verify it's you. Well, I didn't know his friends so I just let it go: he could no longer log in except via phone number (I hope, or he was locked out) and I couldn't associate my email correctly.
My Facebook email for ages was my school email (as is tradition, right?) and one day someone registered as my actual email around the time I was doing a bunch of address consolidation because my school was moving all historical accounts to a separate subdomain.
I clicked to confirm foolishly (should not have done that) and it became associated with someone else's Facebook account.
Facebook has a process for this. You request an email to your address and it sends you one and you reply and it removes the email from the other guy.
Well, I did that except he set it without the '.' and when I replied from mine it wouldn't accept it. I tried again as it was and only realized after three tries what the problem was. Facebook's difference in verification processes (click to confirm / reply to dissociate) meant that I was not doing the right thing.
Repeating the action means I looked like a fraudster so that must have been why even though I added the dot version as an email to send as it would no longer accept me.
To make matters worse, I decided I'd just fix it by resetting my password and logging in and removing my email.
Well, I succeeded in the password reset but Facebook protects you here by requiring friends to verify it's you. Well, I didn't know his friends so I just let it go: he could no longer log in except via phone number (I hope, or he was locked out) and I couldn't associate my email correctly.
Then one random day I tried again and it worked.