There is a new spam message coming into Facebook Messenger that purports to be from a known friend.
The best thing seems to delete it if possible and not open it. Some of my friends have either sent a messenger message alerting everyone to not open it once they know it’s been sent from them. It’s disappointing that this scourge has infected what was a relatively free from hacks platform. Tim Sent from Tim's iPhone > On 23 Apr 2018, at 11:37 am, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > > Hi Rosemary, > > I have never used Facebook and never will for numerous reasons, and one is > lack of security & privacy. > > Your problems sound like you have installed a rogue App. > “if you are seeing this happen in your Facebook inbox as IM's rather than > e-mail then it is probably caused by a rogue app that you have allowed. You > may have clicked on a post someone else has shared that installed an app > without you knowing it. Spammy posts that promise things that Facebook > doesn't allow are notorious for this... things like "see who has been > visiting your Facebook page" and things like that. > Go to the applications area in your settings and look for applications that > are new or ones you are unsure of what they do and get rid of them.” > > Cheers, > Ronni > > Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB > > >> On 23 Apr 2018, at 9:28 am, Rosemary Spark <arkaysp...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> My friends have reported getting messages on Messenger from me that I >> haven't sent. I changed my Facebook password. What else can I do as the >> messages seem to kept being received. >> and now I’ve had email messages from my gmail address that I haven't sent. >> >> Any suggestions? >> Cheers >> Rosemary Spark >> -- >> Kind Regards Rosemary Spark 0414268043 arkaysp...@gmail.com > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
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