Q&A for How to Contact Facebook

Unfortunately, it does not have a publicly available customer support number. A number with the area code 650 that frequently shows up in online sources as being linked to Facebook is actually a scam number. You’ll need to contact Facebook through their online help center.

In general, no. However, if you use Facebook ads and have an active ad account, you can get live chat support by going to facebook.com/business/help and scrolling down to the section labeled “Still need help?” There, you’ll see options to chat live or send an email to support.

No! Facebook does not run a lottery, give away money, or ask for bank or credit card info for any reason. This is a scam. Do not reply to the message.

No, that is a scam. Do not give out any personal information unless face to face with the person requesting it or applying for credit cards, jobs, certain accounts, etc.

It's a random scam. Someone is attempting to hijack your account. Change your password and use the Facebook privacy settings section to log out of all of your current devices and sessions.

If this error is still persisting, and preventing you from utilizing Facebook, they would probably like to know about it. Finding bugs and glitches is actually a big-money industry, and Facebook definitely doesn't want any weaknesses in their platform. Unfortunately, they have made it nearly impossible to contact them about specific glitches. You can submit reports about glitches with the report tool, or contact them through the BBB as outlined in this article.

Visit their profile and click "Report" in the menu options. If you don't have your own Facebook account, use this form instead.

Visit the Report Compromised Account page and follow the instructions.

Log in with that email address and do the "forgot password" option. Once they email the reset to you, change the password. If she doesn't have access to the email account, she should not be able to get the password. Be sure to log out of all active logins.

Try clearing your browser's cache, or deleting and reinstalling the phone app. If this doesn't work, just try again once a day until your access returns.

You can politely ask them not to post the pictures. If that does not work, you can report the images that are taken of you without consent to whichever platform they are being posted to. If the problem persists, you can take legal action.

Go to your Language Settings page and select English beside the question "What language do you want to use Facebook in?"

When you want to delete a message from your account or page there will be a prompt that asks you, "Are you sure you want to delete?" If you clicked "Yes," then it's not possible to recover the messages.

Try to reset the password . If that doesn't work, use this article to contact Facebook.

You can turn this feature off in your account settings. Check notifications settings, look for "email me about important updates on my profile" setting, and disable it.

You probably have your chat turned off. You have to have it on to show who is live, but you can still send and receive messages.

Send the request again. If there is no request option, then send him/her a request message or contact him/her via the mobile phone that was used in his/her account.

If you are a page admin, go to that page and click Settings > General > Remove Page. If you are trying to delete your personal account, go directly to the deactivation/deletion page .

Go to Settings. At the bottom of the page, there is an option to download your account. Once downloaded, it will show "friends.htm." Open that and find the "deleted friend requests" category.

Try to follow the directions in this article , and you might need to reset your password .

Take screenshots of the pictures and attach them when you contact Facebook. If the pictures are of you and you did not give consent to post them, or if they are of someone under 18, contact the police as well and tell them you have screenshots. If the pictures are gone and you did not get screenshots, contact Facebook and ask them if they have copies of the offending material. They probably don't keep such things, but it's worth asking.

There isn't a way that you can stop this from happening, but you can delete their friend requests, block them, or switch your account to a private setting. I tried getting help with this, too but the Facebook customer service was not very helpful.

First, you should follow the steps in this article to reset the password, then follow the steps in this article to permanently delete your account. Alternatively, you can report them if the previous steps do not work.

You might want to follow the directions above to help you with getting in touch with Facebook to get your profile whitelisted.

Someone is trying to change your password. Do not respond to that email.

Go to your settings on the page you no longer want, and select deactivate account. It will remain for 14 days in case you change your mind. After that, you should no longer see that account.

You can follow the directions in How to Recover a Hacked Facebook Account to try to recover your account.

You can report the fake account to Facebook to get them banned.

Facebook does send out login alerts like this. For extra security, you should change your password , and enable 2-step verification .

There is nothing more that you can do than tell him that it's a scam. You can try to point him to articles written by newspapers and other media outlets, the type of scam that he's falling for is called a "romance scam". If you can't convince him that it's a scam, then he will eventually find out about it. You can also report the scam .