Have you experienced a clone of your Facebook account? Where another person copied your Facebook account, then reached out to your friends with friend requests or personal messages? Then you need to change some of the security settings on your account. I will walk you through doing this in the mobile Facebook application.
- Block who can see your friends list.
- Open your Facebook Mobile App.
- Touch your profile picture in the upper right.
- Touch the settings gear icon.
- Scroll down to “How people find and contact you.”
- Make sure “Who can see your friends list?” is set to ‘Only Me’. Feel free to set others to only me as well.
- Control the audience of your posts. Most posts will start out as for friends only with a dropdown option, just make sure each time.
- Ever click on a friend request and approved it without making sure it was a real request? Remember this is about cloning of users and some people just approve friends because they have the same and PIC they have stolen from another profile. So make sure you verify it’s the person you think before approving.
- Make sure you use a unique password for your Facebook account rather than reusing the same password you’re using on another service. Most account takeovers are due to users using the same password across all their accounts. This goes for all your online accounts, but if a threat actor (hacker) gets your password from another site then they will try them on bank accounts, social media accounts and other high value accounts. Make sure your passwords are unique across all sites. If this seems daunting, then use an online password vault, such as LastPass or BitWarden for businesses.