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Basically, there are two main reasons why scammer need a Facebook username and password.
Why Facebook? Facebook tends to have a wider audience than most social media sites, Giving scammers a competitive edge to catch their prey over other social media.
Why Other People's Account? Why Not Opening Up A New Account For Their Scamming Operations?
Facebook prevent an account opening especially from a laptop and a smart phone from Countries like Nigeria, Ghana and among others, that are popular know to be where scammers operates.
Hey, let me not divert from the topic , what we are still taking about is why scammers need Facebook username and password.
scammers need Facebook username and password because of the following 2 reasons
1. To Scam Your friends and relatives.
The scammer contacts people close to the victim and tells them that they are in trouble of some kind, usually stranded on vacation, arrested or in some other legal trouble, etc. This is accompanied by an urgent plea to send money. The one that is trending now is that, they use the victim Facebook account to scam their friends and relation using employment or job proposal. is just a simple way they use for scamming
This is just like local scam which is like that of 419 Scammer Format For Yahoo , but on this method they choose to run it local or using international method.
This Is How They Go About It;
They go about creating a fake website that provide people job opportunity, so all they have to do is to target the friends and relation of the owner of the Facebook account. Before they go about it they have already have:
1. Fake website
2. Fake brand
3. Fake and responsive social media pages
4. Custom email address
people who knows the victim account would like to joined thinking that is the person they know and would like to do any offer presented. After getting members to join their fake website all in the name of searching for job, they will then send them a congratulation message that the have gotten the job.
The next step is to them to pay acceptance fees to claim the work.
When they receive the payment they will kick the guy out , that is blocking him or her.
2. For Exploit.
Scammers find it hard to open new Facebook account. Most of their Facebook that were in used are now disabled. In other to Carryout their work, they use existing account. since they cannot create a new one, they will edit an old Facebook account to match whosoever information they choose.
they need the username and password in order to get unauthorized access. after which they edit.
Once they succeeded editing the existing account, they Carry out their operation.
Since it is an old existing account, it will serve they for some weeks before Facebook can wdetect it and disabled. There major aim is for them to get their victims on Facebook and take them to hangout before Facebook will detect the account.
In hangout, they have an absolute freedom that it won't be disabled and thereby giving them more room to complete their operation with their target victim. Whenever they ask you to chat on hangout, Don't just accept, if you can delay them for about two weeks, you will observed that, the Facebook account has been disabled.
The Above write up is all you needed to know about the why Scammers need Facebook username and password
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