Why am I all of a sudden getting so many Facebook friend requests? The answer is: You receive a huge number of friend requests because Facebook is showing your profile in the People You May Know section to a lot of people. The People You May Know section appears under Find Friends, but will occasionally appear in the News Feed or Notifications.
The answer is: You receive a huge number of friend requests because Facebook is showing your profile in the People You May Know section to a lot of people. The People You May Know section appears under Find Friends, but will occasionally appear in the News Feed or Notifications.
Why am I getting friend requests from people I dont know?
Today most of the friend requests we get are from people we don’t know. Many of them are fake accounts, set up by spammers and hackers trying to get some of your information. You may delete those friend requests but that is not always the end of the story.
Why do I get so many fake friend requests on Facebook?
Scammers are making virtual copies of real Facebook accounts by copying the photos and info from the real account’s “About” page to the fake ones. They then send friend requests to the friends listed on the real account.
How do you put someone in jail on Facebook?
How to put someone into Facebook jail? As per the announcements made be the CEO at Facebook, anything you say or announce that falls under the “Objectionable content” category can land you into Facebook jail.
Accepting friend requests from strangers can increase the risk of scammers spoofing YOUR profile, collecting personal information to gain access to online accounts (like your mother’s maiden name, a common verification question used for resetting passwords), etc.
What happens if you don’t respond to a friend request on Facebook?
If you take no action on the request they’ve sent you, they will not be able send you another friend request. You will appear instead as a pending friend request when they view you in Search or elsewhere on the site until you either accept or ignore the request.
What happens when you decline a friend request?
When you decline a friend request, the sender is not notified by Facebook. That person doesn’t know that you’ve declined the request, just that you haven’t (yet) accepted it.
What is it called when accepting a fake friend request?
Phishing Scams
Many fake friend requests are run by computer programs that are designed to search for people that fit a certain profile. When a person accepts the request, the program is then set to make posts, tag people in photos and make additional friend requests.
Why do random guys add me on Facebook?
If they’re in your area, they’re probably trying to make friends, have sex/sext or get into a relationship, and add people on fb they think look interesting/attractive. If they’re further away, they’re looking to sext or be friends, unless they are a bot or a scammer. But most aren’t bots.
Why did someone get a friend request that I didn’t send?
Any friend requests they see are from other, very likely fake, impersonation accounts. The right thing to do is to report the fake accounts to Facebook. Hackers seem to use this technique to eventually impersonate you and attempt to scam your friends.
Can someone become your friend on Facebook without you accepting them?
it definitely happens, I’ve had it happen to me 3 times with people I don’t know but have mutual friends with. They are names I have never seen before. Stop telling everyone they are wrong. In my case, I discovered that a person made a fake account, then changed his profile name onceI added him.
