Fake Facebook Profiles

Facebook is a social networking site that is enormously popular and growing day by day.In the United States Facebook has surpassed even Google in terms of traffic. There are more than 500 million active users on facebook.Unfortunately, it is also a popular target amongst phishers and other social engineers. The computer security of Facebook is reaching alarming heights and Facebook users should be aware of the growing computer security concerns. Inclusive in the Facebook security concerns is fake profiles. Facebook is currently being flooded with fake profiles. Due to the huge daily registration rate on Facebook, it is hard to keep track of who is a regular user and who is a Facebook fake.It has recently been discovered that over forty percent of new Facebook profiles are actually fake.According to an estimate,There are over 1 million fake profiles on facebook.

Why so many fake profiles and who makes it?

The fake profiles are generally created by spammers or various malware and virus writers. Once the fake Facebook profiles are set up and in existence, the virus writers then proceed to persuade users to click on links. These links are not authentic and the majority of the time will take the user to malicious and dangerous sites.Many fake facebook profiles are also made for advertising purpose.

How to detect a fake facebook profile?

1)Profile Picture

Always be suspicious of profiles featuring photos of professional models. Most of the fake profiles, especially that of females, have only one profile picture and that too a beautiful or sexy (ahem) picture. ;)

2)When did they join/number of friends? 

Check when she/he joined. If they have lots of friends and have only been on the Facebook a short amount of time, it’s likely to be a fake one.

3)Pictures

He/she would be tagged in tons of cartoon pictures than his/her own picture.

4)Description
 
If a profile is lengthy and detailed, then you can be sure that it is a real person. Fake Profile creators won’t have time to create long and interesting profiles.

5)Feeds


Fake profile’s feeds will contain only friend request adds or Advertisements.
And remember good girls dont add strangers,so next time when u get friend request from a hot babe,double check!:D

How to report fake facebook profile?

There are two ways to report a fake profile

1)Go to fake persons profile.Click on report this person.

or

2)Send an email to login@facebook.com