The uphill task of recovering your Facebook password
Social networking sites are the favorite haunt of online hackers and malware planters. These networking sites like Facebook, offer a veritable and large resource of accounts – over 250 million – that can be rigged. Hackers often use keyloggers and network sniffers to hack Facebook accounts.
Posts and messages on Facebook are all about personal communication. When anybody posts you a message, or you respond to your friends, the connection works on the basis of trust. You would rarely assume that the friend you are “talking” to via Facebook is actually not the real guy but someone who is acting as his proxy. Many a times, hackers posing as one of your known friends, ask for money on an urgent basis. If you are a Facebook user, however trustworthy you are of your friends, make sure you call them or meet them face to face before transferring any money. For all you know, you may end up a fool while the hacker laughs his way to the bank.
Many a times hackers not just change passwords, they change the entire Facebook profile of the user. To their shock, many users could not log into their accounts before figuring out that these have been totally overtaken and rigged.
Sadly, there are not too many known ways of how to reset your password after your Facebook account has been hacked. Since the fraudster is faceless and may be too far off to track, the best possible solution is to just sit back, stay off your Facebook account for a few weeks and then start afresh.
You may not be very successful in using tools such as Faceboos because if you have a few failed attempts at accessing, Facebook will block your IP address.
However, Curl is touted as a powerful command line tool that can help recover any Facebook account password that has been lost or forgotten.
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