Facebook Hacker Hoaxes

A post currently making its way around Facebook warns you not to accept a friendship request from a person named James Wood.

‘Hacker’ alert messages circulating on Facebook claim that, without your knowledge, hackers are posting insulting or sexual messages that appear to come from you onto your Facebook Timeline.

According to a post that is rapidly circulating via Facebook, you should tell all the people on your messenger list not to…

According to a supposed warning message that is circulating rapidly on Facebook, you should not accept a friendship request from one “Jayden K. Smith”.

According to a warning message that is currently circulating via Facebook, you should not accept a contact request from a person called Anwar Jitou because he is a hacker.

A recurring claim in many bogus security warnings is that hackers can somehow magically hijack Facebook accounts and repost messages without the account holder having taken any action to allow this.