Here are some tips to protect you
✅ Do not share too much information or photos of you publicly.
Indeed, if this information is accessible to everyone, it can more easily be used to create a false profile with your identity.
✅ When there is a photo, record it and do your research on Google to find out if this photo is associated with another identity. The latter may have been usurped or is attached to other sites that have nothing to do with each other. When you can: inform the person that his identity has been used.
✅ Check the lists of friends/followers to identify their type of contact. But be careful, some false accounts are in the contacts of your friends to better go wrong. Always ask your real friends if they really know this person.
✅ If you have clicked on a link and entered your personal data such as your banking data, report it to your bank and block your credit card.
✅ To find out if your device is always secure, analyze it with an antivirus program. This will make it possible to make sure that no malicious application has settled on your devices.
✅ Remember to reset your passwords, this will prevent them from connecting to your sessions again. If you have the same password on different accounts, be sure to change them too.
✅ Before accepting an invitation or responding to a message, always remember to check the identity of the person. If the account seems suspicious, block the profile to avoid receiving requests that are at risk.
✅ Finally, it is imperative to point out the false profile and the fraudulent messages which are conveyed to the platform.
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