“Are you in this video?” This is how the scam that wants to recover your data starts. The process is particularly efficient because most of the time, it is an acquaintance who sends it to you. The intriguing question, along with a link, arouses little suspicion.
When you clicked on the so-called video, you are asked for your Facebook credentials, so you can watch the footage. This is when the scam starts. When you enter your data, the program sends the same catch to all your contacts.
Whatever, please don’t click on this video!
In order to defuse such traps, you must ” ensure the security of your profile. If the situation described has already occurred at your level, we invite you to change the password and activate the two-step authentication that you will find in the “security” section of your profile settings. Also do a cleanup in Messenger and delete all conversations of this type”, advises Olivier Bogaert journalist of the RTBF.
If unfortunately you clicked on the link, you must “quickly go to Facebook’s security settings to change your password”, or go ici.