Being tracked by Keanu Levi's small account, the other party still chats with you? ! There are many tricks in social dating scams, don't add IG friends!

Recently, a popular article appeared on Dcard, a card friend said that he was "tracked by Keanu Levi!?" Keanu Levi even chatted with him, causing many netizens to want to see what is sacred

Read the original text here: I was tracked by Keanu Reeves! ?

In this era when almost no one has a social account, making friends is as simple as moving a finger to press track and confirm, as long as you press confirm, it seems that the other party can know everything about you without any effort. For the average person, of course it is A very handy tool, also for scam syndicates!

Many people now think that making friends online is not a problem, so when was your social account no longer just for acquaintances? Some even make their accounts public and stop reviewing friend requests

But have you found it? In recent years, there are really many people you don't know who try to add you as friends, whether it is from Facebook, Instagram, whatsapp, Douyin, National Party, or even actively want to chat with you, be careful! they may not be pure

"Fake" Keanu Reeves IG

😈 Claiming to be an official account or me

Let's take a closer look at Keanu Levi's encounter with Dcard card friends. Why does the editor know it's fake at a glance?

We tried to search for Keanu Charles Reeves on IG and found a lot of Keanu Reeves

Of course, there are some accounts that indicate that they are fan pages in the self-introduction section, which are neither official nor Keanu Reeves himself. Such accounts can be followed by fans and look at the latest photos of their idols on weekdays.

However, some accounts (such as the picture on the left) deliberately put a "blue tick" on their headers , and they also claimed to be "Keanu Reeves Official" in the self-introduction, trying to convince others that they were the official with various fake signs, but The number of fans is very small , only more than 500

There are also some fake accounts (as shown on the right) that even though there are a lot of fans, they still deliberately put blue ticks on the photos, and they introduce themselves as accounts that I use to chat with a small number of fans. These are all fake!

⚠️ The real blue tick should be next to the username , not the photo

Don't believe the other party's statement that this is a small account opened for publicity or chat, because most people don't do it so deliberately, and they even put a blue tick on their head, and this kind of thing itself needs to be official. Giving is useful, not people putting it directly on the photo in an attempt to confuse the public

This kind of practice is like, job scams often overemphasize in talent postings that they are "not scams"

😈 Private message chat

These fake Keanu Reeves IG self-introductions all have a link at the end. After clicking on the editor, I was taken to Telegram , which is another account that looks like Keanu Reeves (Is Keanu Reeves such a good friend... ?)

His user name is @keaun_reeves1 , you may have noticed that he even misspelled Keaun Reeves' name ... and marked "1" at the end, as if there was Keanu Reeves 234567

The editor tentatively asked him if it was himself or a fan account, but he still insisted that he was himself, and put a public photo on the Internet that can be found by searching for pictures as his current selfie (the fraud is correct!)

Social dating scams

In addition to fake Keanu Levi IG, there are many ways for scam groups to contact you through the community, deceiving your personal information, money, and feelings... The following are a few common methods

Fake celebrity accounts

Just like Dcard's article, some people will receive invitations to make friends from international superstars for no reason, so that some people really think they are chatting with their idols. Fraud groups use their popularity and the public's admiration for them to quickly break the heart

There are also some people who received messages from politicians, and even in response to Pelosi's visit to Taiwan a while ago, some people also received fake Pelosi messages:

Hello, I'm Pelosi. My special plane was shot down by the communist army. I managed to swim to Taiwan. I still need NT$2,000 to buy a plane ticket. If you help me, I will definitely make you mayor of New York City afterwards, thank you very much.

IG Porn Legion

There was a period of time the year before last that IG had a large number of pornographic corps, and they would use various channels to let you access accounts that seem to be very emotional, including taking the initiative to leave a message under an online celebrity post, taking the initiative to privately message you, or posting a lot of marks after pornographic posts. A bunch of accounts just to lure people to unsafe dating sites

Reference article: Attention! IG is attacking a large number of pornographic fishing corps! Are you also attacked?

Stranger tracking + private message

Obviously nothing is posting Douyin, IG posts or using whatsapp, but there are always so many people actively following and even private messages, and they are still strangers

We observed that the strange accounts received by men and women were not the same

For example, men will receive a large number of dating invitations from unfamiliar accounts that appear to be "women", and all of them have good looks and body .

And women mostly receive stranger invitations that look like "men" or " daigou ", and sometimes even strangers call directly through whatsapp

These accounts are always inexplicable to say hello and want to make friends

Recently, even the singing app " National Party " has been attacked by fraud groups. Some people met a strange man through this app, and finally found out that he was an investment fraud

What are fake community accounts deceiving?

These unfamiliar fans and fake celebrities spend their time chatting with you and don't really want to make friends. They may have the following purposes

1. Fraud personal information, steal photos

If it is through IG, when you press the button to confirm that you are being tracked by the other party, the other party can get your life photos at will, just need a screenshot, he may take your photo as a head post, pretend to be you , or even See your birthday , where you might live, and more from your account

Especially if you really have a chat, maybe during the chat, you have been unknowingly providing him with your information, even private photos , and these are tools that he may use to sell , outflow or use your identity fraudulently

For example, the fake Keanu Levi I met on Telegram asked me which country I was from and asked me for photos as soon as I started chatting.

Further reading: Youth Purgatory: A Book of Internet Hunting Deceptive Intimate Video Events

2. Scam dating site/investment platform

Chatting with friends will inevitably recommend to each other things that you find useful and share good-looking articles, but if the other party is malicious, every link that comes may be a trap

When you start chatting, the other party may soon introduce you to a dating site , claiming that it is more convenient to use there. In fact, many of them are scam dating sites that charge users handling fees , guarantee fees , etc. in the name of matching. , and finally remove the website without warning

Or falsely claiming to have made a lot of money by investing, and wanting to take you with me, I shared an investment platform with you. You may still be able to make a small profit at the beginning of the deposit, but just after your confidence has greatly increased and a large amount of money has been invested, the website begins to have problems, saying that your account has been frozen and you need to pay high fees such as unfreezing funds and handling fees.

Remember! You can first pass the suspicious link to the anti-fraud expert , let him help you identify whether the website is safe, and then proceed to the next step!

3. "Urgently Needed Money" asks you to borrow money

TV news often reports that people who go to the bank to send money are blocked by the banker and the police. Most of these situations occur when making friends online. There are many people who fall in love on the Internet, but they have never met each other in person, but the other party often asks for help, which makes people think that this is true love

And these love scammers will often borrow money from you, often very large amounts, under the guise of illness , war , or wanting to come to you .

Reference news:

Men fall into love fraud trap, police and civilians join forces to stop fraud

Lian Jingwen was defrauded of 30 million by her ghost boyfriend by mistakenly stepping on the Internet love trap

4. Tricked into being a piggy overseas

Recently, there has been a lot of work fraud in Cambodia , but the Taiwanese who go there and are imprisoned are not all based on " work fraud ", some are caught by relatives and friends who have been trapped inside, and some are caught by their own "Internet friends/lover" abduct

These unfamiliar accounts seem harmless at first, but after in-depth chat, he may break your heart step by step, making you think he really wants to make friends with you, and after gaining your trust, he asks you to do things again, By then you may not be as sane as you are now, so please! Be vigilant before pressing the confirm button and even after starting a chat

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