WARNING: Do Not Turn Over Ownership Of Your Facebook Pages
Facebook page administrators, beware: While the social network does have verified pages, do not respond to notifications from a page called Verified Page that request permission to take ownership of your pages.
Facebook page administrators, beware: While the social network does have verified pages, do not respond to notifications from a page called Verified Page that request permission to take ownership of your pages.
Freshome fell victim to the scam, losing control of its Facebook page, which was unpublished by the scammer. The online design and architecture magazine wrote about its experience in a blog post to warn other page admins:
When we first saw this notification, we thought that Facebook finally decided to verify the Freshome Facebook page — Facebook is very vague on how this process actually works — but it seems that this notification was actually a scam that left Freshome without a Facebook page.
How this scam/hack actually works: Somebody (with bad intentions) created a fake profile with a fake user name (Verified Page) and a very misleading profile picture (that actually looks like the notification came from Facebook) and asked us to...
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