Security News > 2020 > July > Facebook hoaxes back in the spotlight – what to tell your friends
It's time to talk about Facebook hoaxes once more.
Looking at the Naked Security articles that people have not only searched for but also read in large numbers over the past few days tells us that we're in what you might call a "Market uptick" for hoaxes at the moment.
The top two resurgent hoaxes in the past week have been the Instant bank fraud "Warning" and the How to post to more than 25 friends "Advice".
Lots of people are desperate for more online friends and followers, and it no doubt sounds appealing to trick Facebook's algorithms into posting your content more widely simply by posting some special text of your own.
Which we discuss in the video below, made back in 2019, is the "BFF" hoax that tells you to type that very text into a post as a way of checking that Facebook's additional security precautions are activated for your account.