Is buying and using stolen Facebook accounts—belonging to non-Muslims or Arabs—to extract advertising coupons, and then alerting their owners to change their passwords without viewing their personal content or harming them, considered a forbidden act?
Source: FtawySummary from Ftawy's records · added here Sep 2, 2026
You are not permitted to purchase accounts not owned by their sellers, nor are you permitted to access an account you do not own without the owner's permission, whether the owner is Muslim or non-Muslim.
Summary from Ftawy's records · added here
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