Queenslander Michael Meyrick has spent the past five years working to build up his roof and home exterior cleaning business.Meyrick would post paid ads, spruik his services on Facebook groups and regularly send potential clients to his business page, which has 900 followers. There, they could check out his reviews and before-and-after photos showing his work.Michael Meyrick has been left reeling with the impact Facebook hackers have had on his roof and house cleaning business.
None of these ads or photos have come from Meyrick, who no longer has access to his own business's page after hackers infiltrated it just over a month ago. The Facebook user then no longer has access to their personal account, clearing the way for the hackers to make themselves admins on the user's business page.
"But a couple of days later, when the credit card charges came up, I realised someone had gone and accessed my account.About a month after the Facebook ads were charged to Meyrick's credit card, the first nose hair trimming ads started appearing on his business page.