Is it fake dust, do you think? It's hard to tell. I wonder if all these bottles have wine in them, or are they empty? Next time I go to Valençay and into the château, I'll go equipped with a corkscrew. Anyway, this is the wine cellar, la cave à vin, at the Château de Valençay.
I don't have time to write anything else this morning because I'm trying to work my way through a Facebook crisis. Apparently, a hacker has created an account using my name. I don't know how to go about deleting the hacker's account. Meanwhile, the hacker is using that fake account under my name to send out weird stuff on FB messenger.
A friend in Australia wrote to me on e-mail this morning to say she had decided to find out if the weird messages were coming from me, or not from me, by replying to one and asking the sender a simple question: "I finally asked if it was true that Bertie is getting married. They said yes. So, either congratulate Bert from me, or maybe check your fb account." I asked the friend to go to the fake account with my name on it and unfriend the hacker. That's what Walt had to do, because he also had accepted the FB friend request from the fake me.
A friend in Australia wrote to me on e-mail this morning to say she had decided to find out if the weird messages were coming from me, or not from me, by replying to one and asking the sender a simple question: "I finally asked if it was true that Bertie is getting married. They said yes. So, either congratulate Bert from me, or maybe check your fb account." I asked the friend to go to the fake account with my name on it and unfriend the hacker. That's what Walt had to do, because he also had accepted the FB friend request from the fake me.
You actually need someone else to report the false account. I just tried to do it, but I guess I deleted the request and don't find it, doing a search. Maybe someone else reported it for you already?
ReplyDeleteI have exchanged messages with FB support services and they are investigating the situation. They say they will get back to me soon.
DeleteSo much dust!!!
ReplyDeleteSorry about the FB problem. Maybe google can help somehow. It happens to all of us who are on FB sooner or later. I never accept double friend requests anymore. I also don't do links on messenger. I've been hacked several times, the last time someone reported it like Judith mentioned.
Good luck with the FB problem. That can be such a pain.
ReplyDeleteOh no about FB...this is why I don't have it, which has its plusses and minuses. I think that dust is real. It's so much more artful than the mannequins.
ReplyDeletei have a FB account because I need it to open other websites, but don't use it otherwise. Very seldom look at it to remove unwanted "friends".
ReplyDeleteWhat Evelyn said--my experience and practice exactly regarding double friend requests and links in Messenger. (e.g., Supposedly Jill sent a link yesterday to everyone on her FB account.)
ReplyDeleteWHAT??? Nobody wants an answer to the question of the day?
ReplyDeleteWHO DID BERTIE MARRY? fb hackers are no fun.
and does this mean that we are to send something for Bertie's trousseau?
DeleteBertie and Tasha have been going steady for 3 or 4 years now.
DeleteBoth of them already have the most beautiful black fur coats, and they don't wear much else. Reminds me of the British expression "Fur coats, no knickers..."
DeleteI cannot remember the numbers I read yesterday about the number of people affected by the FB hackers but it was easily in the 6 figures. There was a link I could have checked to find out if my info had been hacked but I decided the risk of further hacking wasn't worth it.
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