How to clear an account on Facebook?

I’m trying to understand what they did. So when you did the password reset, FB sent the confrimation to your email and that’s how you found out? I’m wondering why, when they set the account up, the confirmation didn’t go to your email and you would have known then.

Are there two accounts now – your right one and the fake one? In any case, I would report it to FB and ask them to delete the fake account.

@jca2 I’m not sure if Facebook does email confirmation to create an account? I should probably research this, because if they do that probably means someone hacked my email?

I may have gotten an email from Facebook in Italian and ignored it thinking it was spam.

@janbb Yes, two accounts. The real one. And the fake one. They didn’t really post anything. I cleared the information they had (birthday and hometown). And set security and privacy settings.

I’m wondering if I should just keep this account and not use it. If I ask Facebook to delete it, someone could try to use that email again, right? Since it won’t be associated with an account?

@raum If it were me, I would want to delete the false account which actually you could probably delete yourself. But I would be concerned that someone was able to use your email address.

Ugh…what is happening.

So I went into the fake account to change the language to English. But it already says it’s set to English?

But I’m still getting emails for that account in Italian.

And also now when I’m trying to search about what to do in this situation, I keep getting directed to Facebook in Italian.

Help!

I would just delete it – just go to the account itself, since apparently you can get into it, and go to settings and delete.

I’m going to delete it. Wonder if Facebook will let me create a new one with that email address to keep it from being used.

I wouldn’t want that email address associated with FB, just to be on the safe side. If need be, create a new email address and a brand new account with it. If you already have a FB account, then why have a second one anyway?

@jca2 I just want to be sure that no one else can use that email address again. Seems like the only way to do that is to have one that I have control over?

@raum The only way to do that is to change that email address for yourself. Is it a secondary one that you rarely use?

@janbb It’s my primary email. The pitfalls of having a super generic name. :/

I use my secondary email for social media. And would rather keep my primary for important things.

Ugh. This is so annoying.

Change the password on the email account but I wouldn’t use it for FB. Put another one (exclusively created for FB) on the FB account.

@jca2 I deleted the account.
Well, it’s now pending deletion.

If they let me use the same email to create another account after X days, I think I’ll just make a new one so that no one else can use it.

What a pain in the butt. Facebook should just require email verification.

I’m surprised they don’t, but it’s been so long since I created a FB account, I don’t really remember what the setup was like. I just know it sent friend requests to everyone I ever emailed for them to accept my friendship.

@raum “It’s my primary email. The pitfalls of having a super generic name.”

Given this, are you sure you haven’t just deleted the account of someone who accidentally mistyped their email address when signing up? I get that trust is generally low when it comes to the internet, and there may be incriminating details about the account that you haven’t shared, but it’s possible this is just a real person with the same name as you and no malicious intentions.

@SavoirFaire Seems unlikely since the user is based in Seoul, Korea, the language is Italian and there’s actually nothing posted on the account. I don’t think it’s malicious intentions per se. I’m guessing bot?

Though, human or bot, I don’t want them using my email address either way.

Normally, I’d suggest:

First, change the password, both on that Zuckface account (except you deleted it already) AND on your email, and anything that might be connected or use the same password.

Then, use Zuckface’s pages for reporting that someone’s abusing your name and using your email (somehow – that’s the weird part).

I would also try to figure out how they managed to use your email, and what else they may have done. Usually, I would expect that creating a Zuckface account involves being able to receive an email sent to that address, and follow a confirmation link from your email. How did they manage that?

@Zaku Damn it. Now that my Facebook search results are back to English (after deleting that account), I found a way to report them. There’s a pull down menu for reporting that an account is pretending to be you or using your information.

At this point, I’d be reporting myself. Since I’m now in the account and deleted everything. (Which wasn’t much.)

Yeah, I’m concerned how they created an account using my email. Unless the email verification is a recent requirement, it looks like you’d need access to my account to confirm. :/

Why don“t you set up two-step verification so that FB has to send you a code every time to get into your account?

I downloaded the Google Authenticator app last night to get into the account.

If you have the password you can close the account in settings.

@SnipSnip I reset the password, went in and deleted the account.