{"id":17462,"date":"2017-07-10T12:43:27","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T16:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/?p=17462"},"modified":"2019-11-15T06:46:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T11:46:16","slug":"jayden-smith-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/jayden-smith-hoax\/17462\/","title":{"rendered":"There is no Jayden K. Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019ve been lucky enough not to receive a message about him, you\u2019ve still probably heard about him anyway: Jayden K. Smith, aka Facebook hacker extraordinaire.<\/p>\n

Well, that\u2019s what we\u2019re being told by our friends and families, anyway. This Facebook hacker is ready to steal your account the instant you or one of your contacts accepts his friend request. The only thing is, it\u2019s not real.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re reading this blog, you\u2019re probably already a pretty switched-on, skeptical person, able to spot a dud a mile off. But for some reason this hoax made the rounds pretty quickly over the weekend.<\/p>\n

Well-meaning friends thought it best to share the message after receiving it themselves, and thus the message went viral:<\/p>\n

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For those of us old enough to remember, it has the whiff of the chain letters we all used to get back in the day with admonitions to share or suffer 90 years bad luck (or something to that effect). But in this case, there\u2019s a key point that people are missing: A simple trick to avoiding this kind of complication is never to accept friend requests from unknown people. Not only is it a privacy nightmare, it\u2019s also a potential tool for criminals<\/a>, who friend people to learn more about them.<\/p>\n

So, in short \u2014 if you ever receive a message like this, either ignore it or delete it \u2014 and be sure never to accept friend requests from people you don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

Now might also be a good time to do a good spring cleaning of your Facebook privacy settings \u2014 you can find how to do it properly here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s why you need to ignore the Jayden K. Smith messages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":17463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1788],"tags":[20,367,2558,43,211],"class_list":{"0":"post-17462","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-privacy","9":"tag-facebook","10":"tag-hoax","11":"tag-messages","12":"tag-privacy","13":"tag-social-media"},"hreflang":[{"hreflang":"x-default","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/jayden-smith-hoax\/17462\/"},{"hreflang":"en-in","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/jayden-smith-hoax\/10883\/"},{"hreflang":"en-us","url":"https:\/\/usa.kaspersky.com\/blog\/jayden-smith-hoax\/11779\/"},{"hreflang":"en-gb","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/jayden-smith-hoax\/11321\/"},{"hreflang":"pl","url":"https:\/\/plblog.kaspersky.com\/jayden-smith-hoax\/7048\/"},{"hreflang":"ja","url":"https:\/\/blog.kaspersky.co.jp\/jayden-smith-hoax\/16989\/"},{"hreflang":"en-au","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com.au\/blog\/jayden-smith-hoax\/17559\/"},{"hreflang":"en-za","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/jayden-smith-hoax\/17556\/"}],"acf":[],"banners":"","maintag":{"url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/tag\/facebook\/","name":"Facebook"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17462"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29952,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17462\/revisions\/29952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}