Email received from Facebook . Plus another suspicious looking email received this morning ..

another_casualty

Howdy ! 

I hope somebody can advise about the above .  Slightly complicated to explain . 

1) I receiced an email which I thought was from my friend . ( my friend has a double sounding name say , smithjones no hyphen) 
Email from Fred jones . It was a link from the Daily mail about losing weight . I moved that to junk after opening it . ( hopefully no harm done in opening it 🤞) 

2) my Facebook account is under a virgin email I had back in the mid 2000's ages  old  . I do have Facebook messenger which my personal trainer gives me a weekly video workout on once a week .  I don't use Facebook anymore . I was going to delete it altogether, but I went into the Facebook preferences a couple of months ago almost deleting my account keeping just the messenger app . 

So the message I got from Facebook ; Hi AC we've noticed you're having trouble with logging into your account .." etc
There is a Log In With One Click button should I want to use that . ( yeah, right 😸) 

Regarding Facebook , the onl thing I could imagine is that the trainer has inadvertently done something that has triggered off this email.
As for the other 🤔🤷 no idea . I set the email to ":unread " 

Btw , my main account is Gmail ..

Thanks in advance .

[Deleted User]

Just delete any emails you are not sure of and move on is general advice, spammer / phishing can easily obtain your email address and some basic info about your friends and contact to make things look realistic.

Contact the non-hyphen double barrel name friend by phone and ask if they sent to a link / email if you want to be sure.

You can move your Facebook account to your main gmail address if you prefer and enable 2 factor authentication for Facebook.

Make sure all your email accounts have a long complex password and 2 factor authentication enabled.

If you re-use the same password with multiple accounts, stop that now, change them all to something different.

I don't actually know any of my passwords to any of my online accounts or email, they are all too complex, things like:

_~wZ'W3$W:wAF#dL

What I do know is a single 35 character password to my password manager and that is all I need to remember.

another_casualty

Thanks very much @[Deleted User].😼👍
A lot of my passwords are keychain passwords suggested by apple , similar to the example you have given . Yes it's true to vary passwords for everything . 

If I could delete facewipe,and just keep messenger that would be preferable . 

Have to be so careful  these days..

Jenni_D

The last spam/hack attempt I received came via Messenger - just saying.  

another_casualty

Jenni_D said:

The last spam/hack attempt I received came via Messenger - just saying.  

Thanks jenni D 
Looking at your sentance seems to concur with my situation . 

I received one " genuine " post from messenger from an aquaintance I know , wishing me a happy Christmas etc. I of course did the same , but let him know I don't use facewipe anymore . Got no response so I assume  that was that . 

If my trainer would only use zoom instead , then I'd probably delete messenger and facewipe and things would be better ..

Jenni_D

What about WhatsApp? (Although that is also now part of Facebook Meta).

another_casualty

Jenni_D said:

What about WhatsApp? (Although that is also now part of Facebook Meta).

Not sure really . For some reason it never appeals to me . 

I say that , but a group of us did a what's app conference call during the earlier days of lockdown . We didn't repeat it . I also rightly or wrongly , thought of it as an app that is prone to corruption . It seems like I was wrong , as I am out of touch with the latest trends 
Tik tok doesn't appeal at all, and I treat tw@tater like the devil and avoid ..

nearly forgot to mention that a few of my family use what's app and have conversations with nieces / nephews etc and tbh I think it all gets too messy and I can't be bothered with it all, if that makes any sense 😸

binao

Use 2FA   Never click links in emails. Hover on links for the address etc., and you should be OK.

Please be aware and inform unsolicited calls that  you're the local Bobby.