Mufti Menk – Protection from BEING HACKED!

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The speaker discusses the potential for hacks on social media accounts and advises against giving out personal information. They also suggest being careful with email addresses and not opening pop-up emails. The speaker emphasizes the importance of being safe and not giving up.

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			Assalamu alaikum on social media, a day will come when people will try to hack your accounts for
various reasons. Sometimes they hack it in order to gain access to perhaps your details. Sometimes,
in order to sell your Instagram account or anything else, they would take control of it, change the
names, and then Senate. Sometimes they will do other things for various reasons. So being on social
media, you're bound to face this type of attack. From time to time, I want to tell you how to
protect yourself, perhaps just a few tips. Number one, when you receive emails from people you don't
know you don't recognize, don't open them, delete them. Secondly, when you receive emails, don't
		
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			have your auto downloads, activated, deactivate auto download of images of attachments. If you
don't, perhaps, they would automatically be able to download within your phone or your laptop, or
your computer, a bug that would then either spy or it would enable them to hack your system.
		
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			Then, if you receive an email, and you are said to start receiving payments, you need to enter some
details, what payments, you didn't participate in anything. Similarly, if you want a competition
that you did not participate in, you would be foolish to give them your details and to think that
you've won. Or if someone emails you and tells you that there is a lot of money that is stuck 20
million, and I just need 2000 from you, in order to initiate that 20 million being retrieved. That
is a well known scam. SubhanAllah people have been using it for years on end. And I'm surprised how
so many get hacked that way.
		
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			They want your account details. If anyone asks you for your password, you don't give it to them. So
panela, then we have spoofing, where they try to imitate an email that would come from Instagram, or
Facebook or Twitter or anywhere else. And if you were to look at the address where the email is
from, it's not instagram.com, it's not twitter.com. It's not facebook.com. It's something else,
that's not from them. Those are people who are trying to pretend that their Facebook. So if you were
to click on anything, it would take you to a page that looks similar to the Facebook or Instagram
page. And then you would try and log in your details. And as you log in those details, they've got
		
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			it, all they wanted you to do was to enter your password. The same applies. If you were to receive a
notification that someone is trying to enter to log in from a location, for example, Australia or
America or Russia or Nigeria or or turkey or anywhere they are trying to log into your system. Is it
you? If it is you, it's okay. If it is not you click here. So obviously, it's not you. So you click
there. When you've clicked there, it will take you to a page that looks exactly like the Instagram
login page. Or it will take you to a page that looks exactly like the facebook or twitter login
page. And then what will happen.
		
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			You enter your username, your password, and that's all they wanted. They've got hold of your
account. So be vigilant, Be alert. I'm only making this video because we've been hacked many times
people have been hacked. And if you don't have the two step verification, you're in trouble.
Sometimes even with this two step verification, people hack, they get hold of a SIM card similar to
yours if they know the number you're using for the one time pin to be sent to. And then they have
that. Obviously it would be fraudulent. This is why it's important to make sure you're safe. Don't
fall for these scams. And if you do, and if someone has hacked into your system, and they have taken
		
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			control of your account, and you cannot get it back. It's okay. You're not the first person home
that is happening to you can start again. Don't give up. You can start again. Don't be depressed,
don't be saddened. I know yes, it hurts us. We probably as human beings, to a certain extent have to
feel sad, but I'm saying don't let it go beyond a certain level because it will
		
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			happen, it has happened, it shall happen. People may hack into your system, it's not the end of the
world, you can start again, you can try your best to retrieve it.
		
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			Mostly you won't be able to retrieve it, especially if you just have an unverified small account.
Sometimes even those with lots of followers can actually be hacked and not be able to get that
account back. So you start afresh, don't worry, take it in your stride.
		
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			So I thought I'd make this video to benefit one and all. Just to tell you guys be vigilant. And
inshallah, try your best not to fall for these tricks. And I'm sure there are so many more, perhaps
in the comments below, you can leave a few of your tips you have for the ways that people hack into
systems, they get into your email, they get into your
		
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			social media accounts, take control of it. And sometimes we don't even know the reason they do all
of this, mostly for people like you and I, it won't be politically motivated, but perhaps they just
want to get hold of the account to get your details or to take all of your account. May Allah
Subhana Allah grant us goodness, let's not be too attached to things in a way that the day it goes
from our control, or it's taken. We become so depressed that we can't move on. Allah bless you all,
as salam aleikum wa rahmatullah.