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United857 | 5 months ago

These are not hackers but Meta employees/contractors who make money on the side by using their access to internal support tooling/channels. It's a fireable offense (it's only intended for actual friends/family) but still happens a lot.

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qingcharles|5 months ago

There are plenty at Twitter and TikTok too.

Sadly I can't find anyone to pay off at Google yet to fix my gmail (I have the username, password, and everything is forwarded to the recovery email I own, I just lost access to the phone number and they enabled 2FA without asking).

Reddit also, I can't find anyone there to unban my friend's account that got locked (due to a server outage), even after speaking directly to spez about it.

One tip: if your IG/FB account get suspended, then it's way cheaper to get it unbanned via black hat routes than if you roll the dice and try to appeal it. Appeals often end in perma-bans that are much harder for Meta employees to undo.

randycupertino|5 months ago

I'm permabanned IP-banned from reddit and it is so aggravating. Appeal is auto-rejected. :( Wish I knew someone there to help me out!

pogue|5 months ago

The only blackhat routes I came across were thousands of dollars...

pogue|5 months ago

Do you have proof of this though? Otherwise, we're just speculating it's a likely possibility.

randycupertino|5 months ago

There's this woman who slept with meta employees to get her account back:

https://www.newsweek.com/onlyfans-star-slept-meta-employees-...

> "So, I stalked them on Instagram through my backup but still slutty account," she said. "I managed to find a couple (employees), not from that department but still people that worked at Instagram in LA."

> She said she allegedly met up "with a couple" employees in the L>os Angeles area, adding that they know about her podcast.

> "We met up and I f*ked a couple of them and I was able to get my account back two-three times," Kitty Lixo said, recommending others with locked accounts to continue reaching out to the platform for eventual ban reversal.