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Ask HN: Facebook Account Disabled

Not sure if anyone has the answer but I had a bunch of emails from Facebook today asking whether or not I requested my password to be reseted. Of course I didn't.

Just to be sure, I decided to add my mobile number to my account to add two-step verification. As soon as I added my number and verified the PIN they texted, my account was disabled and they requested I upload a government ID to prove who I was and requested that I do a social verification with a bunch of random photos to verify my friends.

I'm confident I got 100% of the tagged photos right but it keeps going in an infinite loop even though I finish tagging everything correctly (5/5 each time). Eventually it said I exhausted all my verification, essentially getting me nowhere.

I took a picture and uploaded my ID but I'm curious how long this process actually takes and why my account would be flagged by adding my number (a number I previously had on my Facebook account before).

Anyone who works at Facebook or dealt with this knows? As of right now my entire account is disabled and even a friend looking me up can't access my page or anything. This also means I can't access messenger or anything else utilizing my FB login.

2 points OafTobark 10 years ago 3 comments

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