Warning about a hacker
There is warnings being sent via sharing on the wall and/or messenger by a con. The creator (I am not referring to those that forwards the message or post. Those are the victims of the creator. I am referring to the creator) is trying to bog down people's walls or their messenger. They create something to scare people into sharing the post. Example 1 below an example of a message (this is only one of numerous fake posts/messages)
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The post contents may change from above. They may change the name but it is still a con.
They write something that is a warning or an issue knowing someone will share it. They will direct you to send it to everyone. Sometimes they will make it where if you don't send it, you could be in danger as mentioned above where it says "If ne of your contacts accepts it, you will also be hacked..." There is no way your account will be hacked if they accept it. It is just a scare tactic to get you to share it. They have to access your system to do that via getting your password or virus. Example 2 below, John is the one trying to overload messenger. He sends it to Steve. Steve thinks it is important and sends it to his list of Bob and Lisa via messenger. Bob and Lisa does the same thing that Steve did and sends the post via messenger to their friends. Bob has the same friends as Lisa does. Since both Bob and Lisa sent messages, their friends get duplicate messages. Then Mary sends it to Tim and Bob. Tim and Bob already got the message twice but they are getting it again. This ends up being a pyramid. If this message continues to get sent, a person can receive tons of messages and have to scroll or delete numerous messages to get to a valid message. Therefore filling up people's messenger.
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It is best if you disregard the warning! Heads up, down the road, you will probably see this fake post again using a different name or layout
For more information on this, here is an article from the Mirror on it. http://www.mirror.co.uk/tech/who-jayden-k-smith-facebook-10768826#comments-section
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for examples of other fake posts