There was once when I almost shared my account for a certain part-time job. They will offer to pay you for using your facebook account. They will post 3 articles a day at your page and after a month, you will be paid. At first I was hesitant to agree but I bit the offer after a while since my good friend referred that post to me, and I trust him. While we were trying to setup my facebook account, my good friend reported that he was scammed. They took out money from his paypal account. Immediately then I removed my facebook affiliation from them, reset my password, etc.
It was something awful and I feel sorry for my friend whose intention was just to look for decent part-time job.
I also feel sorry for your friend and it hurts when a good act of kindness was paid back by bad experience. There are still millions on people who go through this everyday.
Well, sharing social media account is very sensitive especially for people who use the same password for every site. It is possible that the scammers took the email found on your friends Facebook account and used the same password to withdraw from PayPal.
Anyway, we all learn from experience and strive to inform our friends not to fall for a scam.
Social media has been a great platform for online businesses nowadays. The more followers or friends yoi have the greater the volume of audience there is to see what you are promoting or advertising however, allowing someone you don't know to use your account is never a good idea. You'll never know what might happen next. Our social media accounts are for personal use and if someone offers to pay just to use your account for advertising then why not compromise? Post on their behalf instead and get paid for advertising their product or whatever they want to promote. I think that would be a win-win situation
You are absolutely right. Posting on their behalf is the only way to protect your account. I think the risk will come when what you are posting for them turns out to be scam as well.
For example, when you advertise a product on their behalf and it turns out to be fake. It might make authorities question you and maybe the real people you are advertising for have already blocked you and so you can't report them.
I think that anytime we say yes to an offer, we should always be ready for anything. The good and the bad.