How do I report a friend's Facebook hacked?

Charliezoo

In the last couple of days I've noticed some very offensive posts on my friend's facebook. They have gone from being mildly anti-gay to getting more and more nasty and last night I noticed posts containing death threats towards my friend and his family.

I have no way of contacting my friend other than facebook and I'm not even sure he's aware of the hacking as he isn't a frequent user.

I can't find any way of reporting this, can someone please point me in the right direction?

**Patty**

Click on the timeline.
There's a * next to "Message"
Click that, then select Report/Block.

Follow the prompts.

scooby088

There is a possibility that it is your friend who is actually posting.

Charliezoo

scooby088 wrote: »

There is a possibility that it is your friend who is actually posting.

Absolutely not. Unless something's happened I'm unaware of and he suddenly wants to violently sexually assault himself for being gay and kill all his family.

Charliezoo

I'm not sure I can do it, I just get this message -

I think my friend’s account was hacked and taken over by someone else.
If your friend can't get into their account because it was taken over by someone else, please tell them to visit us here to get immediate help.

sassyblue

Charliezoo wrote: »

I'm not sure I can do it, I just get this message -

I think my friend’s account was hacked and taken over by someone else.
If your friend can't get into their account because it was taken over by someone else, please tell them to visit us here to get immediate help.

I've just tried it too and it takes you back where you started. I guess your friend has to be the one to report it so you'll need to contact him somehow.

Charliezoo

He lives abroad unfortunately and I don't have any other contact details for him. I'll just have to hope that someone else who has his phone number/email address gets hold of him soon.

scooby088

You could always report the profile as someone pretending to be your friend.

meer53

If he doesn't use Facebook very much, just send him a message now for when he does log on. If he's not seeing the posts, it won't be worrying him will it ? Once he does log on, he can report it then.

How come you can't contact him by some other method ?

globetraveller

are you his only fb friend? Surely he must have other friends/family there who could contact him. If you think about it- the threats are against his family. If they are not aware of them they wont be bothered. If they are aware, then they will contact him themselves.

Yorkie1

Do you have any mutual contacts who you could send a message to (either FB or another method)?