What is actually happening when a Facebook account is “hacked”?

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I’m specifically referring to things like the ads for cheap sunglasses that I’ve been seeing for what seems like over a decade now and the more recent “look who died in an accident” video links that three of my elderly aunts have had on their accounts in the last year. Who is “hacking” these accounts and what are they gaining from it?

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The accounts aren’t usually hacked, they are just being imitated. It’s a social engineering scam that doesn’t even involve the target.

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