Someone Can Change Your Facebook Credentials by Just Sending in a Fake Passport

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Latest update is that Facebook restored access.

This is well known in the transgender community.

Facebook has a history of forcing trans people to verify their names by providing legal ID. This hurts people who haven't yet been able to legally change their names for one reason or another even if they go by their new name exclusively in real life.

So to deal with this, the community discovered a while back that you can just scan your ID and Photoshop in whatever name you'd like, and Facebook will accept it. They don't look too closely.

...lost all my business pages...

In future perhaps one's businesses will use and publicize their own domains, rather than Zuck's?

And then the domain registrar will be the one duped ;)

My personal favourite was the guy who stole sex.com using only a fax on company letterhead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_M._Cohen

Who says they don't? Many businesses that have their own domain also have a FB presence.

I've consulted on strategy with a small biz that has both their own site and FB, it's absurd how much more attention the FB content gets. It would be absolutely self-destructive for them to not put work into their FB presence.

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