Dustin Barnes Nashville Tennessean
Published 4:20 PM EDT Oct 8, 2018
A new Facebook hoax is tricking users into thinking their online friends’ accounts have been hacked.
But the latest hoax appears to be nothing more than a digital chain letter, one playing off the recent fears of Facebook being hacked again.
Users reported getting a Facebook message from friends, usually stating something like:
Hi….I actually got another friend request from you which I ignored so you may want to check your account. Hold your finger on the message until the forward button appears…then hit forward and all the people you want to forward too….I had to do the people individually. PLEASE DO NOT ACCEPT A NEW friendship FROM ME AT THIS TIME.
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Most likely, your account has not been hacked.
But you’ve also got to learn not to forward everything you see online, too.
