I woke up some days ago with a message in my Facebook inbox from one of my friends. I suspected foul as it was not in a manner I expected. But I decided to play along but with caution.

Here is the message he sent “There is a big job opportunity I want to disclose with you ….Are you interested”. You know, I didn’t want to take for granted the message so I quickly reply “Lets see it bro.” After few minutes, what I got was a link which was supposed to lead me to the supposed job but what I got was a page requiring me to enter my facebook username and password to proceed. Having learned about phishing before, it was easy for me to detect as the page was a dommy facebook page. So, I ignored.
Fast-forward to 15minutes later. I was at work and decided to call bae to inform her to be cautious of such messages especially from the sender as the sender was a mutual friend. Bae who is currently a graduate and searching for job told me she already sent her details!

Omo, that was how my working day began with a counter-hacking race. I quickly logged in to her Facebook (we don’t have secrets, have always had her password) and decided to change her password. After changing the password, I logout of all devices and decided to cool my head. I thought perhaps, the hacker was yet to make use of the details she sent.
While chilling, I decided to refresh my the page only to see I have been logged out. An attempt to loggin said I have changed my password, then it dawned on me that at the time that I logged out, they had changed the linked e-mail as well as well as phone number which was used to change the password! At this point, I felt defeated and felt I celebrated too early.

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