{"id":272,"date":"2019-04-06T19:33:17","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T19:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=272"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T17:00:00","slug":"'James-Wood'-Hacker-Warning-is-Yet-Another-Hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=272","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;James Wood&#8217; Hacker Warning is Yet Another Hoax"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A post currently making its way around Facebook warns you not to accept a friendship request from a person named James Wood. \u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- HS Net Top Content Responsive --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"4870821038\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Supposedly, this person is a \u00a0hacker that &#8220;has the system connected to your Facebook Account&#8221;.  \u00a0The warning claims that, if one of your contacts accepts James Wood, your account will also be hacked.<\/p>\n<h2>An example of the post:<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Please tell all the contacts in your messenger list not to accept friendship request from james wood . He is a hacker and has the system connected to your Facebook account. If one of your contacts accepts it, you will also be hacked<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Yet Another Silly Friend Request Hacker Hoax<\/h2>\n<p>The supposed warning is not valid. Sharing it will help nobody and there is no genuine security threat like the one described.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the message is yet another example in a seemingly endless stream of very similar hacker hoaxes. Such &#8220;friend request hacker&#8221; hoaxes have been circulating \u00a0the Internet in various forms for many years.<\/p>\n<p>Pranksters tend to use an existing hoax as a template, plugin \u00a0a new name for the alleged hacker, tweak \u00a0some details, and launch a brand new version of the hoax.  \u00a0Note this version&#8217;s similarity to a previous hoax that claimed \u00a0&#8211; again \u00a0falsely &#8211; that <a href=\"http:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/jayden-k-smith-hacker-warning-is-a-hoax\/\">one Jaden K. Smith was the dastardly \u00a0friend request \u00a0hacker<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Please tell all the contacts in your Messenger list, not to accept Jayden K. Smith friendship request. He is a hacker and has the system connected to your Facebook account. If one of your contacts accepts it, you will also be hacked, so make sure that all your friends know it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And, the \u00a0Jayden K. Smith version was itself <a href=\"http:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/8689-2\/\">derived from a long line<\/a> of<a href=\"http:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/simon-ashton-email-hacker-hoax\/\"> similar hacker hoaxes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"9162856233\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<h2>&#8216;Hacker&#8221; Scenario Described \u00a0is Not Valid<\/h2>\n<p>The scenario described in these messages is technically impossible. Criminals use a range of methods to fool people into giving up access to their accounts. They might, for example, trick you into installing malware that allows them to take control of your \u00a0computer. \u00a0Or they might use a phishing attack to trick you into sending them personal information such as usernames and passwords, which would, of course, allow the criminals to access your account.<\/p>\n<p>However, even the smartest criminal will not be able to hack your computer just by being added to your contact list. For a hacking attempt to be successful, some sort of file transfer or exchange of information must take place.<\/p>\n<h2>Hoax May Damage The Reputation \u00a0Of Innocent \u00a0People<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;James Wood&#8221; is a common name and is likely shared by many people around the world. Thus, sharing this spurious nonsense could unfairly damage the reputation \u00a0of innocent people who just happen to share the name of the supposed hacker.<\/p>\n<p>Do not take any of these silly hacker warning messages seriously. If a message claims that just accepting a friend request will, by itself, give a hacker access to your computer, it should be regarded as a hoax.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Third Content Ad Responsive --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"1909104632\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- HS Net Bottom AdLinks --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\" data-ad-slot=\"1358951439\" data-ad-format=\"link\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/div>\n<p><\/br><\/br> Original Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/james-wood-hacker-warning-is-yet-another-hoax\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/james-wood-hacker-warning-is-yet-another-hoax\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post currently making its way around Facebook warns you not to accept a friendship request from a person named James Wood. \u00a0 Supposedly, this person is a \u00a0hacker that &#8220;has the system connected to your Facebook Account&#8221;. \u00a0The warning claims that, if one of your contacts accepts James Wood, your account will also be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hoax-inggris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}