Why Are My Facebook Friends Getting Friend Requests That Aren’t From Me?

[@askleonotenboom]

Firstly, don’t jump to conclusions.

[@rickjaggers]

Kudos - again - and well done. I share your video with my friends when they panic about being hacked. I shared it twice last night: once in a TXT message and once on Facebook. On Facebook your words "impersonation account" was quoted.

[@RotaryTeamVincent]

Good info, but wish you would have shown the process for reporting to FB.

[@TomBTerrific]

No kidding! What’s the point of this if not that!

[@Eflydo]

Facebook are full of hackers and scammers because Facebook allow it to happen. I've had a large group hacked and stolen by a Vietnamese scammer. I've trace back from all their fake accounts to real profiles, and have emailed/ messaged FB dozens of times with the info. Not one response. They genuinely don't care who gets burned on their platform - it's the wild west of social media.

[@wallychambe1587]

I keep getting friend requests from random women! 🤣🤣🤣

[@billscott1210]

He should have also told them to make their friends list private. If they can't see who your friends are they will not clone your account.

[@rachelwright4682]

Thank you for your video. It makes perfect sense that your friends can’t be receiving a friend request if you’re already friends with them. One thing I don’t understand though is I have already set my friends list to allow only friends to see it. Therefore, as far as I know it is not publicly available. How is a hacker still able to access my friends list to be able to send out a fake friend requests?

[@gemmadooley7719]

They can see who's commenting on your posts though?

[@ptnsmuls9393]

I think this is the old thing scammers use to do when making fake accounts that look like the real account, but now scammers are hacking the real accounts and using them to send scam messages to people and some people really sometimes fall for it, because it's the real account that is messaging them, but little do they know the real account actually got hacked, and the message they got is not actually coming from the actual person of that account.

[@askleonotenboom]

Scammers are still doing both.

[@lornapalmer6426]

I think he said you can't friend your friends.the hacker is trying to scam your friends.

[@jackiewillis2143]

Thank you for the info Mr Leo❤

[@pjay3028]

Maybe because they've got some other friends? 😂😂😂

[@vibeatles]

Thanks it’s happening to me using my name and the II at the end. It’s happening on Facebook lately with many people. I already told my friends and reported to Facebook

[@mrinternational5185]

How is friend being added to my friend with out me requesting or adding them?

[@arinic7]

Same here . Going through the same thing

[@brenda_carr]

My friend recently had her FB account hacked and the person who hacked it, changed her profile name to another name. Reporting the profile to FB is useless as they state the profile doesn’t violate their terms of use and even trying to report to it as an imposter account doesn’t work either due to the hacker changing the name on the account. FB makes it very difficult to contact them to try to regain access to a hacked account. Any suggestions?

[@stevenwnewell79]

This happened to someone I know and the computer technical way to solve it quickly was to create a "new" account of Facebook so that the AI and verification process engages the issue of identification. It may involve scanning your state ID card and getting a notary public signature at the bank as to your ID, but this will automatically push the AI system at the platform (Facebook/Meta) because two identities can not occupy the same identification space at the same time unless a contract makes that so, and they won't tend to do that, so they will ask you "Do you want to delete the previous account?" and you just click Yes. Getting human caseworkers to figure it out with you systematically is a lot of work. But just create a new account, go through the ID verification however they ask at the platform, and when it systematically asks, you click yes to delete the previous account. That will stop the identity fraud effort that is happening there.

[@donnaabreu1124]

Thank you LEO!

[@stjs7857]

Excellent advice!

[@michaelandreas2177]

They identified your Friends from your public Friends List. Make it hard on the next scammer: change the visibility of your Friends List from public to friends-only or friends-of-friends.

[@SusieNuttall]

Why me getting fried requests on messenger from people i am already friends with?

[@Referee006]

Leo, very good video and very much needed. Can you reply to my comment with the steps to take to ask Facebook to remove the impersonators' accounts? Thanks.

[@askleonotenboom]

Visit the profile, and click the ellipsis and there should be a "Report account" item.

[@askleonotenboom]

They're ... inconsistent. I absolutely have seen them take action (albeit perhaps slower than we might want), but I've also seen them do exactly nothing. Doesn't hurt to report.

[@smartcorry8527]

@@Nick41622 true

[@mrinternational5185]

How is people I don't know on my friend list?

[@djempathie.9889]

Hi, can you please tell me if the software TRON, is safe?

[@askleonotenboom]

No idea. Never heard of it. And then it also depends on where you get it from.

[@jameswright5627]

Great video.

[@spitzsobe]

Crypto scams in messenger also

[@jasinere35]

clone accounts created by scammers

[@NoEgg4u]

Everyone: How do we know that this video is from Leo? ;-)

[@askleonotenboom]

Hell, I'm not even sure, now...

[@SusieNuttall]

Why me getting fried requests on messenger from people i am already friends with?

[@SusieNuttall]

Why me getting fried requests on messenger from people I am already friends with with?

[@askleonotenboom]

Same as is discussed in the video.