BHOPAL:A message from her friend on her Facebook messenger gave Anjali (name changed) — a student pursuing engineering from a reputed college in Bhopal , a shock of her life.The hacker, posing as her friend, a student of SGSITS College in Indore — wrote she received a friend request from a fake Facebook account opened in Anjali’s name.And the hacker posted a message to Anjali saying her nude photographs were posted on the fake account and also attached a link with the message, asking her to check it herself. Terrified and curious, Anjali clicked on the link and suddenly her Facebook account was hacked. When she tried to login into the account again, it notified a wrong password.Subsequently, similar messages were sent to people added in friend list of Anjali’s Facebook account and their accounts were hacked, too.Anjali is not only victim of Facebook hacking. SHO Cyber Cell police station Bhopal Manish Rai told TOI a sudden rise was seen in number of Facebook hacking cases in the city.Six cases of Facebook hacking were reported at cyber cell in past two days in which girl aged 19-21 years, all college students, were victimized by unidentified hackers. The accused sent malicious link through Facebook messenger and hacked their account. Subsequently, hackers sent extortion messages to members in their friend list.Rai said there was a demand for Rs1000-Rs2000 money and in most cases, the hacker posing as victim, demanded money from those on victim’s list. Luckily, none of those who received message deposited the money in account number given by hacker. In two cases, hacker even sent extortion message.Rai said there is an urgent need social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram to be cautious and secure their accounts. All victims in such frauds were highly qualified, but were making silly basic mistakes, which exposed them to threats on Internet. He said number of victims of Facebook hacking may rise in near future Rai said cyber cell will soon release an advisory for such social media platform users to make them aware of the dos and don’ts while using their accounts.

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