Fake Facebook Accounts is Proving out to be a new Trend on Facebook. Probably 20-30% of total Facebook Accounts are fake or even more, This Number is Anticipated to be Increasing in Future. Fake accounts on Facebook are mainly Created with an intention to Spam all over Facebook and Spread Virus. Many people Create Fake Girl’s Profiles to Dupe Some innocent Fb Users too.
Its Sad that Facebook Can’t Identify Fake Facebook Account and Delete them all Manully,and One Should not expect it from Facebook because of obvious Reasons. But yes they will Definately Block your account if you send lots of Friend requests to Unknown People and if you post or Comment Spammy Links over and over again. Facebook Catches you and then next time when you try to Login again, it asks you to Identify Photos of Friends, This is where Fake Account Users Get Caught.
But This Don’t Stop Spammers to Create another Fake Facebook account, So in this article we will Discuss Some Tips that will Help you to Identify Fake Facebook Account easily, So that you don’t fell in thier Traps, Report that Account to Facebook which will Help to Make Facebook Safer to all of us.
4 Tips to Identify Fake Facebook Account
1) Profile Picture :
- First Thing we see about any Facebook account is thier Profile Picture, If you Find any Facebook Account on your Friendlist suspicious, First thing you will do is Use Reverse Image Search. This helps you find out if Similar Pictures are available on Internet. First Download the Profile Picture of the account you find suspicious
- Goto Google images Click on Camera icon which says Search by image, Click on Upload an Image, now choose the Picture you had downloaded earlier , Now once the uploading Completes, google will show you Similar Images that already exist over internet.
2) Timeline:
- The Facebook timeline of a Facebook accounts says a lot about that Profile. Most Fake Profiles have “Female” as a gender, this doesn’t Mean all fb accounts with “Female” Genders are Fake, There are many other things to Identify Fake Facebook Account.
- if thier photos folder shows only 1 or 2 Pictures that too of random Celebrities then probably its fake.
- if the Person does not update Status, or if he does, the Comments does not read like his Real friends or the profile does not comments on others status,then its likely to be a Fake profile
- The “About” tab will Give you More information about the Profile, if the “About” tab don’t show you any info about the persons profile then thats an indication about fake profile
3) Wait for 1st january:
- This is kind of Funny, Why Would one Wait for 1st jan to Identify Fake Facebook Account, Well Fake Profile Makers Most Probably Enter 1st jan as thier birth date while creating Fake account. So on 1st Jan, Facebook will Show you People who have birthdays today. Go through that list and Unfriend them if you dont know them Personally.
- On 1st jan 2014, i was shocked to see 28 people Having thier birthday, Guess what i performed the above Proccess.
4) Girls Profile :
- Most of the Fake profiles are created with Girl Identity and with a Beautiful face as a Profile Picture, You may even find Cell phone Number, Girls Hardly will Share thier Contact number in Public.
- A girl Profile with Lots of Friends and Followers indicates a Fake Profile.
These were some tips to Identify Fake Facebook Account , which i wanted to share with you all, if you find any Fake profile then you and your friends can report it to facebook.
This what happens really
Really your blog is very informative and attractive.
I want to find fake acount in fb easily
Thank you so much! The Image search idea is brilliant!
Thanks
thank’s for this tips
but i have a confusion about a fake acount u said that a fake girl acount upload a beauty face and only 1 or 2 pic if someone upload a walpaper on his profile pic and have least friends and folowers then how may i know her/him????????
Plzzzz ans?
Wow! it is helpful for me to identity some of fake profile on my friend list, thanks!
“A girl Profile with Lots of Friends and Followers indicates a Fake Profile.” is not true…= =
i have some female friend .., they are pretty and she has many fb friends , followers and likes too….
Fake facebook accounts used to shares suspicious post and also have lots of friends in their friend list, also they newer fill their timeline information completely.
Lmfao.. Dude even i have a fake acc0unt, but i can challenge any0ne, you guys w0n’t be able to track me, c0z um just to0 damn clever huhuhaha :-D :3
I really facing a critical issue
I was using fb I’d for storing my childhood memories
But one day my brother changed its email and password and forgot to Inform me
When I saw fb email I click to ” these changes not made by me ”
And since than that I’d is locked a d fb is asking for any licence or document to restore it and problem is I’d user name is not orginal
Please help me in restoring my I’d I have got passwords for both new and old emails now also pass of fb but I can’t open until I submit any document like license or else
Waiting for response
Good!!!!!ineed it
Nice
yeh thanks friend
It is the most wanted trick in these days.
The count of fake accounts in facebook is increasing rapidly.
You are Right, I am happy to know that this article somewhat helped you.
Thanks for the trick. I will apply it today
There’s one more simple tricks, check the profile URL, it applies only some profiles, where user name is showing; check the name, sometimes it appears boys name in girl’s profile.But need to verify all other tricks you mentioned in this blog.
Nice article. Thanks for information. Please write formally and take care of character case.
Facebook always not show my new account after some weeks …why and what problem and when i open account take some conditions…
It ain’t tru at all, a got 3206 friends. i can’t i remember evry picture of my friend, and that doesn’t mean my fb account is fake
I hate fake account.
dey r rely disrespectfull
irritating, fearless.
dey r d 1 hu spoil ma status.
But U knw, Some of other also have unknown frnds… or some people uploads another pic than their pic… like cebraties’s pic or another… then taht time we can’t Identify our frnd… then…… bcoz It happens with my Uncle…
If facebook randomly ask name of friends photo question. All fake account holder have too much unknown friends………… They may be unable to identify them.
Yes Deepak you are Right.