How to recognize false profiles?
Powerful disinformation tools or means of obtaining personal or banking data from other Internet users in order to scam it, false profiles multiply on social networks.
But, how can we locate them when you have a doubt about the authenticity of a profile?
Here are some clues to detect them:
✅ The account has no profile photo or only has very few photos.
✅ The account has not or almost no publications. Conversely, when there are publications, these are often for promotional purposes where it is only emojis as well as onomatopoeias.
✅ The user's biography is not complete, too banal or it has absurdities.
✅ The profile is written in a foreign language.
✅ The account may claim to be famous but it has no certification.
✅ The name of the account seems strange. Trust your instinct!
✅ The account has just been created and has few followers where it often has more subscriptions than subscribers.
What are their intentions?
Sociations, manipulations, spam, cyberbullying ... people behind false accounts do not always have good intentions. They may have significant consequences on people or public or private organizations. When it comes to scams, the purpose of these false accounts is to extract money from the victim. For example, with the technique of "phishing", the potential victim receives a private message from an account with which he never interests before.
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This account encourages him to click on a link redirecting him to a fraudulent site. The goal is to recover your data such as its connection identifiers to hack your account. Sometimes these are false proposals for collaboration, false competitions or advantageous false offers. The crooks make the victims believe that they earn a gift or another advantage in order to obtain their personal data or their banking data.
Cyberbullying, cyberbullying?
When it comes to cyberbullying or cyberbullying, these false accounts, thinking of anonymity, send countless insulting or hateful messages to the victim. They can usurp his identity in order to harm his reputation by creating rumors online about him, etc. Bots are automated accounts generated by an algorithm, which are therefore not managed by a real person.
They often serve to increase the size of an audience in order to make believe that the content is attractive by commenting or interacting excessively. They also make it possible to inflate the number of subscribers to suggest that these people have notoriousness. These bots can thus give a lot of visibility to fake news.
The trolls are unlike real people. When used for political purposes, they aim to attack a politician or increase the popularity of another candidate. They can influence debates, feed animosity or convey false information.
Vigilance is therefore in order to detect false profiles on social networks!
