Infographic: How To Spot A Fake Facebook Friend Profile

snoopy · Feb 3, 2012

Thursday, February 2, 2012 Around the Web
Infographic: How To Spot A Fake Facebook Friend Profile

A whopping 97 percent of fake Facebook profiles purport to be female, according to this infographic based on a new study, announced today, from security firm Barracuda Networks. In order to expand their networks and entice would-be victims, 58 percent of the phony profiles also claim to be bisexual and on average, have 726 friends while 68 percent claim to have attended college.
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Screenshots here: https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/infographic-how-spot-fake-facebook-friend-profile-020212

snoopy · Feb 3, 2012

Thursday, February 2, 2012
How to Win Friends and Steal Their Facebook Accounts

CANCUN--Facebook is a lot of things, and one of the things that it's become of late is a fertile green field for attackers and scammers of all stripes. The Koobface worm is perhaps the most famous threat to hit the network, but the more mundane ones, such as scammers generating fake profiles automatically to spread spam and malicious URLs are becoming more and more prevalent, researchers say.

Paul Judge, the chief research officer at Barracuda Networks, said that the research his team has done shows that the scammers and attackers are having little trouble finding new victims and methods for spreading their scams and malware. One technique that's become quite prevalent is the automatic generation of fake Facebook profiles that are then used to gather friends and contacts to spread dodgy URLs and likejacking scams.

Many of the affiliate scams rely on users clicking on a given URL or "like" button in order to get some sort of reward, such as a restaurant gift card or discount on some expensive item. Those gift cards and discounts, of course, don't exist and the end goal of the scammers is simply to get users to visit some page or click on ad. The attackers typically will get some commission for each click in these campaigns, and it's not short money.
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Story here: https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/how-win-friends-and-steal-their-facebook-accounts-020212

kaichou22 · May 26, 2012

Hi! I do agree also that most fake Facebook profile pretend to be female. As the growth of Facebook popularity increased, Fake Facebook profile/account do increased also. Some tips to identify fake profiles on Facebook are the following:

1. Fake profiles tend to send mass friend requests to anyone.
2. Fake accounts tend to have friends of the same gender
3. Fake profiles will rarely have any real photos.

I had found this very helpful article to identify fake FB profiles: http://darktips.com/11-tips-to-identify-fake-profiles-on-facebook/

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