NewsFacebook is the one site on the internet that is probably the most used. The amount of Facebook users are increasing dramatically on a daily basis. Facebook started out as a social networking site which mainly consisted of lots of young users but as Facebook currently stands there are users of all ages and walks of life. 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. The question that may be asked is why are people setting up fake Facebook profiles? The fake profiles are generally set up by a combination of either 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.
Facebook does have an extremely clear and precise policy with regard to fake profiles. According to Facebook and its policy a fake profile will be deleted when the Facebook teams becomes aware of it. Fake profiles are causing huge problems for many innocent Facebook users who have genuine profiles. The factor that spammers and virus writers are using fake Facebook profiles to their advantage means that people will stop at nothing in order to get people online to do what they want. Computer security in general is a great concern to all internet users worldwide.
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Social networking sites are being targeted by spammers at an alarming rate. Various virus writers as well as cybercriminals are using the creation of these particular fake Facebook profiles to their advantage. One of the many tactics which are used is to persuade users to visit the fake profile page. This is achieved either by sending a friend request or sending a personal message. The profile page redirects the user to a malicious malware site. Another one of the tactics used is to persuade users to click on links leading to dangerous sites. This is done by placing the links on other people's walls or on fascinating blogs. People see the link and automatically assume that it is just another legitimate link and don't even think twice about clicking on it.
It is interesting to note that besides people creating fake Facebook profiles for the usage of malicious purposes or spam, people create fake Facebook profiles of celebrities and actors all the time. If you are a regular Facebook user and do a search for a celebrity of your choice, chances are very likely that this particular celebrity has a Facebook profile. The question that arises is if this a genuine Facebook profile or is it a fake? The majority of the time there is no real way of telling. It can thus be said in conclusion: Don't take everything on Facebook at face value.
User Comments
- get 17 different people to report it
- (not sure if this is true) make a proof photo and tag the fake accounts. facebook then deletes the fakers. again not sure if this is true
sum1 has made a fake account of mine...plz delete it as early as possible...:(
my name is rohit
and sum boday has make fake id and talking about ***
he has written rahul bohemis on his wall
link of his profile is
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=10000143 7798487&ref=ts#!/profile.php?id=10000143779848 7&v=wall&ref=ts
plz delete dis link as soon as u can
regards rohit bohemia
m in trouble
plz delete as soon as u can
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1000014 37798487&ref=ts
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/ profile.php?id=100001388107678&v=wall&ref= ts
On twitter they put a tick then vertified account next to it, to let them no if it is a real account. Facebook only use pages for real accounts, so then they can have as many fans as they want.
Thanks, hope that helped kinda :)
please delete this fake id if it is possible.
fake id is coolmuktika42@rediffmail.com in name of sharma kutiya
fake id is -coolmuktika42@rediffmail.com in name of sharma kutiya. please help as soon as possible
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/profil e.php?id=100001426992357
Betty philip,LA,USA
THE FAKE ID IS
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1000013 50740702&ref=search
NAME;RADHIKA ADHIKARI
I am aged 14 and this does effect my social life (& school life)when people ask me about things I have put on the internet when I really have not. (you know how irritating people spread rumours all the time)
It really gets on my bloody nerves. No offence to anyone but the person who is offending me by putting info about me on the internet.
plz plz plz help me to block this id.
link is http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1176876132# !/profile.php?id=100001306306773&ref=ts
plz help me. i'll be very grateful 2 u.
I saw there is an profile with one of my friend's name. that profile had only added friends with half naked photos.
But i know that it is not my friend's profile.
May be some one trying to destroy my friend's name.
How can we stop such things????????????????????
someone has created a fake profile of my friend kripal and he is abusing other people by his name . can u plaease please help ??
I now use it but someone knows my email and i dont know who
Ahmed Hany Hassanain, is A writer and a doctor. I'm writing in both the Egyptian Gazette and the American Chrobicle about Middle East and Strategies. a novelist and scriptwriter. and his face and name has being used on minekey, he do not have an account in your page and such content violates our editorial copyright terms and is considered illegal in several countries around the world. Therefore our moderators will take immediate steps to report to internet police (FBI) this fake account asking first for your cooperation to disable the user account to avoid legal charges.
our editorial requires you help Copyright 2010 Thomson Reuters. Editorial Editions: Africa, Arabic. Thanks so much for your help.
This are the profiles in your site we request immediate minekey community to disable as soon as possible.
Ahmed Hany Hassanain- the writer he do not have an account they using his face and name
Jacqueline Rossieau- the person who has violated his privacy and created this fake account ( we have IP address and more info that will be send to FBI )
Ana Keith
Secretary
Thomson Reuters
Attorney in law
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/author.asp?author id=86245
please can you help remove this profile
Same thing happened to me. Don't worry you can have it deleted automatically. I wrote a post about it here http://sambakker.com/how-to-ban-a-facebook-identit y-thief/
you can check out the manufactured da date just established about 2-4 days ago.Please help me out it gona ruin my every relationship
Because then, they befriend everyone they can, and then when they have a new product they tag spam (tag as many people as they can) so it shows up in their profile... even worse is, if its my friend that is tagged but im not a friend with this company I can still see them.
So 100 friend with a company, if each of them have 100 people, that's 10,000 people seeing the post.
I keep telling my friends not to befriend these, but no one cares... because "what's the problem".... grrrr. With distant friends I can just drop them, but family that I want to have on list is annoying.
So I specifically search for "shop" and other names in their friends lists and report them all as "this profile does not represent a real person".
If you want to help, do a PEOPLE search for "shop", usually these shops will have other shops on their friends lists. Report as many as you can! And stop this spam menace!
If there wasn't the possibility for someone to have the surname "shop", I would have written a script to crawl and report all of these anyway.
BBBBBBUUT... facebook rarely does anything about it, and everyone else just ignores them and doesn't report them, grrrrrrrrrr
That's why we need more!
ProPakistani.pk
Someone misuse my face book. I opened face book in
July.Then I used my original name, photos and date of birth.
So, I have many difficult to using face book. I already reported to you through my friends.I can't use my original name.Now I use my nick name. You should take an action immediately. If you need to contact me please write on this email address - sarankan@live.co.uk. (personal mail)
My original facebook profile details :
face book name - SaRan Arumugam
my D.O.B - 05.01.1990
E-mail - sarankan05@goolemail.com
This my nick name : SaRan Arumugam
link - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1628838957& amp;v=wall&ref=profile#!/profile.php?id=162883 8957&ref=profile
now i am using....
fake facebook profile details :
Face book fake profile name - Sarankan Arumugam
D.O.B - 05.01.1990
link - http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/profile.php?id =100000574796570&ref=ts
Please replay...
Thanks you,
yours faithfully
Sarankan Arumugam.
I just have to report this afghanisthan guy who worked with me in same organisation UN,his name is Mohammad Ali Sakhi, he created a fake profile on facebook since a year,he is also on facebook and I came to realize too late,you need to publish this case on facebook so the world wide will know about him,and once if he tried again to abuse me like he did me and my family we are ready for him,I believe that once when he smook marijuana he is out of his mind,but he better forget about me before it will be too late for him,I ask strongly facebook to publish this.
Linda karitanyi
Linda Karitanyi
The fake girl I was talking to for a year called herself Shawna Russel,and used many other names such as Alison Stiles, Sara J Wilkins, Amy Sheradin, Kelly Gram, Missy Stevens etc.. she did all the fake conversations back and forth and told some crazy stories. I even got messages fro her ex boyfriend Derek M Hall and brother Brad telling me how I needed to help her with all her emotional/drug problems. She claimed to be from Brantford Ontario but after a year of lies it turns out she was stealing the pics from girls living in Massachusetts. After I found that out I actually found the real girls(they wore shirts like UMass Amherst class of 08 so it was easy to find them) and let them know what was going on. Apparently she was using some of their pics for over 4 years.
Most of those profiles have now been deleted but I know she is still doing it, I have been getting messages from an obvious fake named Kalina st clair, Missy Stevens changed to Melissa Stevens and then that changed to her being from Englund and it goes on and on. Anywaythe girls real name is Zabrina Richard and she is married to to a guy named Junior, they are fromWaterford Ontario. I know for a fact it's her because they actually admited it to me and met up with me, even though they lied about why they did it until I found out the truth. She has either deleted or hid her facebook profile and her husbands too because people were starting to message him about it too
There is a fake profile at facebook with all mt Friends's real name and picture,
He is abusing me and my family and friends..
I m s0 disturbed because of It..
Will be Waiting for your Help .. :(
i have the cantact nbr of this person he is from pakistan
name: aamir iqbal
Phone nbr:00923232188253
pkistan karachi
E-mail : aamir_z@hotmail.com
plz help me to solve this problem, i was trying to get any cantact nbr of facebook but no result
if some body can help me to solve this problem plz do it i concel my wedding cause of this
We sent requests to Facebook but to no avail.
Thank you
I was led on by one particular faker for a year who has been (and still is) faking pictures of another girl for 2+ years. I only found out about it after a friend of mine recognized the girl in the pictures as a friend of one of his real life friends.
This person went by Heatherlea Pavetto, Heatherlea Marie, xxxheatherleaxxx, xoxheatherleaxox, and a DOZEN other names as each one was deleted by the real girl on Myspace and Facebook. What really baffles though is the length this faker went. Not only was she faking this girl in particular, she was faking ALL of the girl's friends on Myspace and Facebook. Men and women. She made fake accounts for each and every one of them and had them "talk" to each other to make her profiles seem more real. So if you add them all up all her fake accounts, deleted and current, she probably has been running 50+ fake accounts.
It's sickening what some people do to live out their fantasies online.
there is a fake profile at facebook with my real name and picture she is abusing me and my family and friends i m s0 disturbed because of her please some one help me :(:(
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=10000 0733435748&ref=ts#!/profile.php?v=wall&ref =ts&id=100000733435748
The fake profiles are still there 1-1/2 years later.
WHAT WAS IT FACEBOOK SAID ABOUT THEM DELETING FAKE PROFILES?
Myself and my friends had reported these 2 fake profiles to facebook, and the next day to find there profiles still on facebook with them still using my images and My account deleted!
I have now reopened a new account, sending facebook a message for the 6th time with regards to this and still nothing has been done! I am not happy as this is fraud! letting other people use my pictures with my face on. For all I know they are causing trouble and people are seeing my face.
What should I do now, even though Myself and my friends have both reported these!
We may be able to help. Go to www.fake-facebook.com
I would like to inform you again that this is 1 year Facebook had created a fake profile with my names and fake picture.
I would like immediately to request that after several times of reporting this,facebook never responded,please I want to take this to the level of United Nations Legal affairs that facebook had abused my identity.
Waiting for your quick response.
Linda karitanyi
This is one(1) year that Facebook created a fake profile with a picture abusing my identity,had written to you to delete the profile but in vain you never deleted,I will request if you can kindly delete this profile using my name before you pay for my identity abuse.As a staff mmebr of United Nations,I will confirm that your website it is an abuse of identity,Waiting for your quick response before decide to complain to legal affairs.
Now I need to convince "my girlfriend" that I don't know who she is and that the profile was fake.
I never liked facebook and i pissed off cause hackers can do whatever they want....so understand this as a thread:IF YOU DONT ERASE THIS FAKE PROFILE I WILL START MAKEING FAKE PROFILES AND ABUSING OTHER PEOPLE ON FACEBOOK...SO THINK ABOUT YOUR WORK????
very bad!!!thats not a good thing to make fake accounts!!:@
is dead this is a fake page
Trix Daprince Giovannie
help me out