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Hello. Last night at the beginning of the evening I was heading to a friend's house and I received a text that said:
"****** is your Facebook confirmation code." However, I haven't requested anything nor have I provided my phone number to Facebook. Moreover, there is no sender's number, just marked SMS in place of a usual number or a saved contact.
When I got home, I quickly changed my password for my account, deactivated the account, and ran a complete scan with my antivirus which found nothing (Kaspersky Total Security 2017).
I didn't want to do it from my smartphone because I was worried that if my account had been hacked, the smartphone might be affected by something (even though I ran a complete scan with Kaspersky for Android just in case, as I rarely use Facebook on the phone but sometimes I do, and it found nothing either).
What do you think I should expect and did I react appropriately?
Thank you in advance.
"****** is your Facebook confirmation code." However, I haven't requested anything nor have I provided my phone number to Facebook. Moreover, there is no sender's number, just marked SMS in place of a usual number or a saved contact.
When I got home, I quickly changed my password for my account, deactivated the account, and ran a complete scan with my antivirus which found nothing (Kaspersky Total Security 2017).
I didn't want to do it from my smartphone because I was worried that if my account had been hacked, the smartphone might be affected by something (even though I ran a complete scan with Kaspersky for Android just in case, as I rarely use Facebook on the phone but sometimes I do, and it found nothing either).
What do you think I should expect and did I react appropriately?
Thank you in advance.
2 answers
First, you had the right reflexes (and if your password is the same for your email address, change that as well; it's important to separate the Facebook password from the email password). Then, the fact that there is no sender's number on the SMS doesn't surprise me at all; this is often the case for this kind of confirmation codes. Is there a link in the SMS? If so and it's not a recognizable Facebook link, it's probably a scam.
Then it could be someone who entered their phone number on Facebook but accidentally put yours, and when they tried to verify it, you received this message on your phone. (When you add your number on Facebook, they send you a code to verify that it's really your number.)
Otherwise, are you 100% sure that your number is not on Facebook?
And is the quoted message exactly what you received, or did you rephrase it? (Because if someone tries to log into my account with my password from an unknown computer, it asks for a SMS code that I receive on my phone, and the message is exactly: "Your Facebook security code: ****" with the sender being "Facebook" but no number displayed.)
Then it could be someone who entered their phone number on Facebook but accidentally put yours, and when they tried to verify it, you received this message on your phone. (When you add your number on Facebook, they send you a code to verify that it's really your number.)
Otherwise, are you 100% sure that your number is not on Facebook?
And is the quoted message exactly what you received, or did you rephrase it? (Because if someone tries to log into my account with my password from an unknown computer, it asks for a SMS code that I receive on my phone, and the message is exactly: "Your Facebook security code: ****" with the sender being "Facebook" but no number displayed.)
As the sender, there was just "SMS".
As for the person who might have dialed the wrong number, I hadn't thought of that. So that reassures me a little bit.
For mine, I'm sure I didn't provide it, but just in case, I'll check anyway.