Have you or anyone around you fallen victim of the various social Media scams?
It's so annoying to discover that someone you had been conversing withon social media say Facebook is just a pure criminal in disguise.
Nowadays, so many fake accounts are being created in tens of thousands on social media (FACEBOOK) all with the aim of ripping people off their hard earned wealth.
I personally have noticed that people fall victim of this cheap scam not just because they want to, but because they are ignorant of some basic features a real Facebook account should have.
The little time I have to write this post I want to point out some features you should be looking out for from every account that sends you are you send a friend request on Facebook.
- PICTURES: It is very important to checkmate the Profile pictures of people that send you request.
On profiles, when you begin to see picture with blurred images, or pictures of well dressed and too beautiful lady, know that something is wrong. Some of these pictures are pictures of unpopular models. Because these pictures are good looking, scammers download them to catch the eyes of young men (female accounts).
For the male accounts, you will see pictures of military personnel. This is to lure ignorant ladies to make them fall in love and start spending money on them in the name of help.
I had a chat with a lady on Facebook sometime ago and I found out she was already hooked up with a military guy. I requested her permission to investigate on the guy's account. Finally she granted and I found out the guy was fake. It was only when I broke the news to her that she paid attention enough to detect all what I told her for herself.
NOTE: There are usually low number of pictures on fake profiles than on a real profile. The reason is that they (the scammers) cannot afford to display all the pictures of the impersonated individual they were able to lay hands on. They disclose more pictures while chatting privately.
Please always pay attention.
- FRIENDS LIST. Every fake Facebook account has a low number of friends on the list. On some accounts, you will notice the friends list says "nothing to show" while some will have few number of people on it.
It is important to note that for every real account that exists, there is a mixture of both male and female on the first friend list that appears on Facebook. For the male accounts there are almost equal number of male and female on the first page while for the real female accounts, there are more female friends than men for a real account.
On the other hand, every fake male account has only female on the first list while the fake female accounts has only men on the first list. This is because they have to add only their target here with the little time they got.
- TIMELINE. So many fake Facebook profiles have has no feed on the timeline. This is because they are fake and cannot be updating their wall daily. Even if they do, they are limited because there are little number of pictures to show for it.
When you try scrolling down a fake account, it wouldn't take two pages for you to see things like "posts from 1992" for instance. Without any much realistic feed on the timeline. Whenever you notice this, know that the account is fake or very close to being fake. A real person on Facebook will always have something on their timeline. If not posts they make by themselves, it will be a post of their friends they commented on or liked.
With these few points, one can be able to detect fake accounts that are designed to rip
them off.
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