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Facebook Account Recovery Code Scam
Facebook Account Recovery Code Scam

Facebook users who have received the fake "Facebook Account Recovery Code" message below, which claims Facebook received a request to reset their password, is a phishing scam. If they did not make a Facebook password request and receive an email claiming you have done so, delete it. And, do not click the links in the email or follow the instructions in it.

The Facebook Account Recovery Code Scam

From: Facebook

Date: October 10, 2019 at 1:40:51 AM PDT

Subject: 5***88 is your Facebook account recovery code

Reply-To: us@lolaca.club, reach@lolaa.site, rex@contacthouse.website

Hi,

We received a request to reset your Facebook password.Enter the reset code from the following password :5***88

If it was not you, please let us know:

Not my request

You did not ask for this change??

If you have not asked for new password, please let us know

Facebook users who have been tricked by the "Facebook Account Recovery Code" scam, they are asked to change their passwords immediately.

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Comment sectionComments / Answers (19)

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by an anonymous user from: Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

No code

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by an anonymous user from: Wereda 02, Ethiopia

I had my account hacked and now I'm blocked out because they chose to change my email address which I used when I signed up to Facebook in 2005. and they remove all of my phone numbers. they repulsed their own email account please anyone help

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by an anonymous user from: Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Yes

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by an anonymous user from: Central Business District, Singapore, Singapore

My Facebook account has been hacked and being controlled by someone else. I was receiving multiple post about Facebook Recovery so I reported some as spam since then my Facebook page is frozen. I was receiving many posts from several sites, not to my interest. I have no profile or friends shown. Please stop this intruder!

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by info

Go to the following link to recover your account:
https://www.facebook.com/hacked

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by an anonymous user from: Central Business District, Singapore, Singapore

My Facebook account has been hacked and being controlled by someone else. I was receiving multiple posts about Facebook Recovery so I reported some as spam since then my Facebook page is frozen. I was receiving many posts from several sites, not to my interest. I have no profile or friends shown. Please stop this intruder!

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by an anonymous user from: Robertson County, Cedar Hill, Tennessee, United States

My Facebook account has been hacked and being controlled by someone else. I was receiving multiple post about Facebook Recovery so I reported some as spam since then my Facebook page is frozen. I was receiving many posts from several sites, not to my interest. I have no profile or friends shown. Please stop this intruder!!!

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by an anonymous user from: Bratislava IV, Bratislava, Bratislavský kraj, Slovakia

yes never respond to those emails I also lost my previous account and report them to police

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by an anonymous user from: Dudley, England, United Kingdom

I had my account hacked and now I'm blocked out because they chose to change my email address which I used when I signed up to Facebook in 2008. It's wrong. Why won't anyone help

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by Sherrieab from: Medford, Oregon, United States

Agreed same here. I was hacked friends reported it. I was able to get into my account once. After an hour it told me 8 needed to re input my password, that I just changed and it told me my password was wrong. Never again could I get into my account. They had it up and running for over a year. And nobody did a d**n thing. I felt so violated not only for myself but all they did to my contacts. Some contacts were only in my messanger and Facebook. So of which I was doing business. They stole them, my pictures. Yet Nobody did a d**n thing. Why? Who is protecting us? Nobody is. It's a crime and I just don't understand why nobody does anything about it. Sorry it was one of the most invading, flusterating, helpless feeling ever. No I did not open another. I am not on social media at all. I miss my groups, my thousands of pictures, my family. And that's where your left Alone to "TRY"
to figure it out, retrieve it blah blah.

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by an anonymous user from: Rewa, Suva, Central Division, Fiji

I can not reset my password because I can not access the email address associated with my account.

Email :... - let me know if you can help. Looking forward.

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by an anonymous user from: Eti Osa, Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

I lost my phone so I need fake Facebook account recovery code

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by an anonymous user from: Lusaka, Lusaka Province, Zambia

I lost my email account so I need my the fb source code

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by an anonymous user from: United States

I get these emails on a daily basis, but I find them on the Facebook security page under "See recent emails from Facebook" So how can they be a scam?

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by an anonymous user from: Tyler, Texas, United States

I get these emails about 2 times a day. Luckily I dont have a facebook page so the scam was easy to spot

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by an anonymous user from: Montgomery, Alabama, United States

Just received this in my email. I definitely didn't request a change.

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by an anonymous user from: East Lansing, Michigan, United States

I received a similar message saying someone tried to log in to my account. It had buttons to report the user or say that it's me, but there were many "Â"s scattered about the email. These addresses were included: us-lolaca.club, reach-lolaa.site, rex-contacthouse.website, contact-facebksupport.website

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by an anonymous user from: Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom

I just received this message and I do not and never have had a facebook account. Very weird. Fortunately I am running Linux so it is unlikely anyone will have been able to access my system.

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by an anonymous user from: Ashburn, Virginia, United States

Just got this facebook account phish e-mail (password change) and fell for it. Thought I maybe requested e-mail address change prior day... since email is still my old one.
Running malwarebytes to try to remove anything left behind. Suspecting the got my real facebook info, at least.

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