I’ll try to keep this short. Had setup two factor authentication for FB, a month or so later I forgot I had done this and found my number in Facebook so I deleted the number.
Did a reset on my phone, had to re-login to FB and not getting the SMS code (since I had removed my phone number).
Attempted to reach out to Facebook and follow their recovery steps. One option is to upload a photo of your ID (which I did, in retrospect not the smartest but I blacked out everything with markup on my phone except name and photo) and I did get an email back from them - one saying my ID didn’t upload so I resent the picture and others (again I submitted multiple times since I didn’t hear anything) and those gave me one time passwords which I hand typed and did work. To me that seems legitimate (especially since I initiated).
My questions:
Anyone dealt with this and actually gotten back into their account?
The emails come from @support.facebook.com which from their site is a legitimate domain but I still don’t like it. They are plain text with no Facebook letterhead but my understanding is that the domain name of an email is a good sign of its legitimacy. Thoughts?
I’m assuming the risk is pretty minimal with the ID being sent because it’s just name and a photo - one could get that with a google search. I don’t like putting any more info out than necessary but I like having Facebook to stay in contact with people.
Thanks
Did a reset on my phone, had to re-login to FB and not getting the SMS code (since I had removed my phone number).
Attempted to reach out to Facebook and follow their recovery steps. One option is to upload a photo of your ID (which I did, in retrospect not the smartest but I blacked out everything with markup on my phone except name and photo) and I did get an email back from them - one saying my ID didn’t upload so I resent the picture and others (again I submitted multiple times since I didn’t hear anything) and those gave me one time passwords which I hand typed and did work. To me that seems legitimate (especially since I initiated).
My questions:
Anyone dealt with this and actually gotten back into their account?
The emails come from @support.facebook.com which from their site is a legitimate domain but I still don’t like it. They are plain text with no Facebook letterhead but my understanding is that the domain name of an email is a good sign of its legitimacy. Thoughts?
I’m assuming the risk is pretty minimal with the ID being sent because it’s just name and a photo - one could get that with a google search. I don’t like putting any more info out than necessary but I like having Facebook to stay in contact with people.
Thanks