Prevent Your Facebook Account from Hacking

These are the tips everyone should follow when accessing your facebook accounts:

1. Never go to facebook via some link. always type www.facebook.com in your browesers address bar, If you hate typing ; type it once & then set it as bookmark in the toolbar

   Most people who loose facebook accounts loose them because some fraud scammer sent them a link to Phishing domain & got them trapped to put their user name and password on phishing page.

   when innocent people put their log-in details on a page looking exactly similar to facebook page, The fraudster gets access to username and passwords for free.

2. Choose your recovery questions wisely:

   Another popular method of hacking facebook accounts is to recover the passwords using personal details

   My friend Jay used to enjoy this stuff quite a lot, He used to login to other people’s orkut accounts and would post all the nasty stuff. Which was really funny. The most common question used to be, My first mobile number: hack; thats the stupidest question i have ever seen as password recovery option.

   Make it difficult to guess, Your seucrity qustion has to be unique, such as my Grand Father’s sister’s name: etc….

3. Increase your recovery options; Go to http://www.facebook.com/update_security_info.php?wizard=1 & update your email addresses and cellphone numbers.

   Incase if you happen to loose your facebook account, As a last resort this is what will help you out.