In early March, a number of users Facebook received a mysterious notification from Facebook. Which, in truth, looked a lot like spam alerting them to activate the Facebook Protect feature by clicking on a link that came to their email by a certain date, otherwise their account on the service will be locked.
The program, according to Facebook, is a security program for people at increased risk of having their account hacked. It is intended to ensure that these accounts are monitored for hacking threats and that they are protected with the two-factor authentication system. Unfortunately the email that Facebook was sending out, although it came from security@facebookmail.com, looked like generic spam, so many people ignored it.
In practice it was not spam but completely true. And those who haven't activated it are starting to receive messages telling them that they can't log in to their account and offering help on how to activate it. However, it does not always work.
There are also numerous reports on Twitter and other social media that people are being locked out of their accounts even if they have these safeguards turned on.
Others report that they were unable to complete the activation process even before the deadline, resulting in the account being locked. At the moment Facebook has not commented on the information.
