Fake Facebook Profiles - why and how to detect them? Fake Facebook Profiles are one of the most annoying and even dangerous issues that facebookers (facebook users) face, and one of the most challenging problems for the facebook admins, so efforts to eliminate such profiles are set to the max! According to some breaking weird news, Facebook Fake Profiles were dangerous enough to get some guy from Morocco arrested for making a fake facebook profile for Prince Moulay Rachid, the younger brother of King Mohammed VI. Expensive enough to get another one sued by £17,000 for damages against a former schoolfriend accused of putting a fake GAY profile of some businessman on the social networking website Facebook. And serious enough for the Dean of one of the biggest colleges at Cambridge to set up a fake Facebook profile to keep an eye on his students after they have formed some protest group to complain about a change in drinking laws. So here are some tips to guide you detect fake facebook profiles!
Yeah but if they did this (e.g. in order to spy someone), you would still need to accept their friend request. I guess there must be a lot of people that accept friend requests from people they don't recognise.
Thanks for telling Glad I ain't that famous that people would make fake profiles from me But yeah.. I hate sites like facebook, myspace etc... In my eyes it's an 'I want virtual friends.. I have no friends in real life' But that's my vision Greetz
What is quite amusing, is the idiots that tend to fall for these profiles. An example is a profile on Facebook for a popular Nuts model. You have thousands of desperate guys sending msgs every 2 minutes, adding comments and so forth! Took me 2 minutes to figure out that this was a fake. On the main profile, there was 2 messages asking people to add as msn contact. On message board, there were these same reminders all of the time and if you looked at the groups, they had joined all of the adult boards that attract lotza interest. This is simply a scammers way of collecting thousands of email contacts and then spamming the hell out of them with all sorts of crap. But hey, I guess they probably send out 1000s of emails and probably get 4 or 5 people going ahead and applying for a credit card and well, that's an easy £100.00 for them. There are thousands of them on that site and many will only provide one such photo, which is a big hint. There are as many idiots though, which balances it out well.