Recently, are you getting emails from FB with a code to change your password?

No.

If you do change your password, do it from the actual site and not from the email.

I gave up Facebook years ago after Facebook facilitated 2 years of death threats against my husband. It was widely covered in the news media as well.

He was eventually proven innocent after a trial, but the people who read Facebook apparently know the truth, cuz Facebook wouldn’t ever allow anyone to publish misleading information, right?

Anyway, after that experience, I have learned to question anything that happens on social media, or the news.

No

Two months ago and 6 months ago.

I haven’t seen any.

None yet.

Not me. But I think this happened to my dad. The account looks like it’s run by a bot now. Their new post generates a ton of comments from no one I recognize and talking about a shared history that doesn’t exist. Super weird.

Maybe to look more like a real account?

I had several earlier this week – not from Facebook, but one from social security and one from a bank. My guess is that someone bought a bunch of hacked data and is trying it out.

What is this thing called “Facebook”?

A few months ago for Instagram, but I know I don’t have an Instagram account.

Thanks!
But, something is going on. Every few days I get a code to reset my password “per my request”.
There is also a statement stating “If you did not request this change you may simply ignore this message.”
I believe some bot is unsuccessfully trying to get into my account

@jca2 Absolutely! I would never change it from an email.

@worriedguy…..a few times I’ve been in a position to have to actually log in to FB, like when changing devices, and it throws fits for a while. Have you had to actually log in to FB recently?

@elbanditoroso That sounds plausible – someone trying hacked data.

I reported the attempts. So far there have been about 8 – 10. Good thing my password is so hard to figure out: “Passw0rd” .. They’ll never guess that one. :-)

@Dutchess_III I did log in successfully. This is different,. This is an attempt to change my password. They clicked the “Forgot Password” link.

I changed my password on facebook when it happened to me even though it was prompting Instagram. Some people suggested putting additional security checks on your account. Facebook has some options for security.

One of my fears is always getting locked out, because there are lots of stories (in the news and elsewhere) about people who get locked out of their accounts for whatever reason and there’s no human customer service to help, so they’re locked out permanently. I have lots of photos and things in my FB and I would hate to lose them.

When that FB problem occurred in March, 2024, where lots of people around the globe were locked out, I was really worried I wouldn’t be able to recover my account. Then I found out it was a glitch, but my account took a day or two longer to fix than most. It was very concerning at the time, and a big relief when I finally could access it again.

I just looked at my spam email and the other day, I received an email with the title, something about “sign in attempt. Someone on an unrecognized device attempted to sign in” but I didn’t open the email. When I hovered over the return address, it’s something like Facebook @ one hour loans .com which, obviously that’s not FB but someone might not check the return address, they’d just open it.

I get those junk emails too. Also my Netflix / Amazon / Apple/ payments did not go through.
All junk.
But, these are definitely from FB. Some POS is clicking “Forgot Password” when trying to get into my account and they are sending the code to my email.

@LuckyGuy I think there’s a way you can lock your account. Some accounts I see, it says something like “locked account” – it’s more “locked” than “friends only.”

I constantly get notices here on Fluther that my account has been compromised, and to click the link provided. I never do, of course. I’m on an iPad.