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Woman said hackers hijacked her social media and defrauded her friends

Katherine Langford
Editor-in-Chief · Thursday, November 12, 2026 at 3:24 PM · 1 min read
Woman said hackers hijacked her social media and defrauded her friends — Lakewood Ranch Community news

PHOENIX (Aging Untold) — An Arizona woman says her Facebook account was hijacked. Now, the hackers are scamming her friends out of thousands of dollars and even sending the victims to her home. Melissa Stombaugh is fed up with Facebook after hackers reportedly took over her account. Posing as her, they posted messages claiming she had to put her father in assisted living, and she was forced to sell his stuff.“My dad sent me a text, trying to be funny,” she said. “Like, ‘Hey, you’re not going to wait till I’m dead to start selling all my things?’ And I’m like, what are you talking about?”That’s when Stombaugh checked her Facebook account and saw a post with a list of items for sale, all very cheap.“Everything from a truck, (to) a Peloton. Pretty big-ticket items,” she said.Stombaugh’s friends started sending money, thinking they were helping, but all the funds ended up in the hacker’s Venmo account.When Stombaugh’s social media friends started arriving to pick up their new belongings, t

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