Is Your Orkut Profile Hacked ? Fake Profiles Troubling You ? Get Solution Here !

As you all know, some people misuse orkut by creating fake profiles and especially when it comes to girls, they misuse their picture and stuff.. Even people get hacked by some scripts and fake pages (or) phishing pages.. Here is the solution for all the problems you face on orkut..

If you’re an Celebrity, then surely you can see many fake profiles and people misusing with your pictures.. and Some innocent people click unwanted links and become prey to the hackers..

How to report these fake profiles on Orkut ?

1. Report impersonation on orkut – Link

How to avoid these Fake profiles -

1. Use privacy settings on orkut and lock your albums

2. My personal advice is – Girls don’t put your picture on profiles as display picture .. because we can save the display image also .. just put some common flower image or something ..

3. Don’t accept unknown friends over orkut. If you’re accepting then don’t upload your images on orkut.

How to safe guard your orkut profile from hackers ?

1. Keep strong passwords

2. Don’t click unwanted links and make sure that every time you login orkut – check the address bar for http://orkut.com -

3. Unwanted links means – For e.g.: if your friend or stranger sends you some scrap like – hey I like your photo – http:// some website link (or) You look so good , hot , blah blah .. don't click these kind of links.

4. On settings page – Make sure that your email id is known only to your friends and not in public profile.

Your Orkut Profile Got hacked ? What Should you do next ?

1. Now try Reset Your Google Account Password – Link

2. You can consider contacting Google by filling this form – Link

3. For Accounts not linked with Gmail – Try filling this form – Link

Many people get hacked by silly fake pages. So just see your address bar before logging into orkut. If it is not http://orkut.com – Please don't login with your username and password.

If you find any phishing pages or Fake pages like – http://freehostia.com/orkut.html or some with orkut look alike homepage design – Donut Login ..

You can report those fake pages here – Link

You can find all these things on the orkut help, but i just wanted to spread the awareness and you can access the links here quickly instead of searching on the help forums.

Some pictures from the source – Orkut sucks your life until you use it properly – Beware guys !

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