Facebook is the biggest social network worldwide. There are roughly 2.8 billion monthly active users as of the fourth quarter of 2020..and counting.
Last year Facebook estimated that more than 10% of these accounts are fake or duplicate. How to know and identify a fake Facebook account?
Facebook is one of the largest social networking sites. If you have a Facebook profile, I am sure you must be getting lots of friends’ requests. Guys get more friends to request from girls.
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But how can you know whether it’s a fake or real Facebook profile? How to detect fake Facebook profiles? So next time you get a friend to request a beautiful girl photo, beware before you click on the “Accept” tab, it could be a fake Facebook profile.
Don’t worry, we will show you how to detect fake
A simple method to identify a fake Facebook account
Click on the name to go to the person’s Facebook page. Here is an example of a Facebook profile named Lema Noori, and we need to verify if this account is real.
The first step is to go to images.google.com. On this page, click on the Camera icon ( search by image)
And you will get this pop-up option.
Search with image URL
Next step, now go to the profile page of the person, right-click on the image, and from the options select and click on the “Copy image URL“. This will copy the image URL.
Now go to the image.google.com page, and right-click on the box, and paste the image URL.
Now press enter or click on the search by image tab and Google will show you all related image search results
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From the result, as shown above, you can easily identify whether it’s a real or a fake Facebook account.
The image search of the above account clearly reveals that it’s a fake Facebook account. So here is proof that this profile which we have just checked is a fake Facebook profile.
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So next time you get a friends request from a beautiful woman or a smart-looking person…check if it’s a fake or real Facebook account. Be-aware there are lots of fake Facebook profiles out there.
These persons might be spies, who may try to steal your personal information photos, etc. so be safe…
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But many girls don’t use their own photo because of privacy reasons.