Fake accounts are getting younger! Not only Facebook fake accounts are rampant, but e-commerce platforms are selling Dcard, IG and Douyin accounts publicly, and any identity topic can be fabricated

Fake accounts are rampant across social media

A few years ago, many people must have found that there are a large number of fake accounts on Facebook. Every time they open Facebook, there are always a bunch of friend invitations sent by people they don't know or even have no mutual friends.

These accounts often use idols, cartoons, and illustrations as their avatars. They can't see him in the dynamic walls and photos at all, and they don't interact with any Facebook friends . They just keep conveying certain thoughts or ideas. is a specific website

There are also fake accounts that use the same photo but have different names and have different educational backgrounds or hometowns

The problem of fake accounts is even more serious on Line, because as long as you choose a name and put a photo on it, you can pretend to be anyone, and it is even possible that you added a certain Line named "Xiao Ming". Later, he became "Xiaomei" in your Line, and you can't recall who he is through his past information, because you can't see it at all

However, this kind of thing is not just happening on Facebook and Line. Fake accounts will move with the crowd. In recent years, they have begun to penetrate into the social software of the younger generation: such as Instagram, Dcard and TikTok

Just like we warned you before, as long as you look up keanu charles reeves on IG, there will be a lot of fake accounts claiming to be Keanu Reeves

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

E-commerce platforms are selling "fake accounts"

Where did so many fake accounts come from? In fact, there are people who treat the creation of fake accounts as a business! Take a look at the fake account of Dwayne Johnson in the picture below, which has already reached 53,000 fans, and directly stated in the personal information that the account will be sold

Even on e-commerce platforms (such as Shopee and Taobao), many sellers are openly selling fake accounts or providing customized services to create fake accounts

Moreover, on Shopee, these fake Facebook accounts are not only promoted by the Facebook community and are not easy to block, but they are also sold very cheaply, only ten yuan per account!

We also found that Dcard , a social platform that Taiwanese college students love, can even buy accounts on Taobao , and even specify which account of a Taiwanese university they want to buy . I have to say that these fake accounts are really powerful. Even the Dcard that needs to verify the student ID can be forged

Any "personal organization" can be created

Just like the Dcard account sold on Taobao above, no matter which school you want to become, you can get the identity account of the school's students through this seller.

Even the Dcard that needs to verify the student ID card is still like this, not to mention the Facebook, Line, Instagram or Twitter that everyone can name.

This shows that no matter who you want to be, behind the screen is possible

What is the purpose of the fake account?

1. Create a "popular topic" with the wind direction

The appearance of these fake accounts is also often to promote a certain topic and create the appearance that many people are discussing, but in fact, it is all from the same person, and the public opinion is shaped by the army of fake accounts discussing a certain topic at the same time. , with the wind, and these contents are sometimes even mixed with fake news , but the uninformed people may believe it because they see the same content being said by many people

The product name of the fake account in the Shopee store is directly called the " promotion number "

According to a comprehensive report compiled by ETtoday News Cloud, researchers from Stanford University and social media analytics firm Graphika found that hundreds of fake accounts have been active on eight different social platforms for five years , posing as news outlets or non-existent ones. People, and published articles in at least seven different languages, and the content is praising the United States' aid to Central Asian countries or Iraq, while criticizing Russia, China and other countries.

2. Internet Fraud

Because fake accounts do not reflect real identities, they are often used by fraudulent groups as a medium to contact victims. Even if the victims finally report to the police, it is difficult for the police to trace their real identities. Therefore, they may conduct various fraudulent activities through fake accounts. Here are some common cases

love scam

This type of fake account usually looks handsome in men and beautiful in women. In fact, they are all stealing other people's photos. We have previously found that there are many photos on Facebook that are obviously different people's accounts, but in the friend seeking post The LineIDs are all in the same group

Some love scams will even start with fake celebrity accounts, attracting fans of these celebrities to take the bait

No matter where these love scams start to contact you, or no matter how you start this "scam relationship", he will greet you at first, and he will start loving you in just a day or two, and the baby will keep calling, but every time If you want to meet, you will use all kinds of excuses, because they are not the same as the people in the photo, and even the gender may be opposite!

Of course, the ultimate purpose of these love scams is to defraud you of money~ It may be under the guise of absurd reasons to ask you to send money to him for emergency , or suddenly introduce you to investment tools , and then let you lose everything, and he himself makes a full $ commission $$

job scam

Some Line fake accounts will be named after well-known brands, such as momo, Binance, etc., and they will promote themselves in the community and are recruiting helpers

Others will directly claim to be a human resources company that can assist in finding a job or training. In fact, what you are doing may be assisting a fraudulent group, such as becoming a driver or a head account , or being dispatched to some deposits that need to be paid. " Order Fraud " That You Can Work For

stock scam

Everyone must have received a lot of "I'm sorry" text messages, and they even feel unbearable and want to simply turn off iMessage

These Lines claiming to be Cathay Pacific, Yuanta, and KGI commissioners are actually fake accounts! These people are not employees of well-known brokerage companies at all, but they want to recommend to you stocks that will not make money at all, but will make you lose a lot of money.

Of course, the above examples are just the tip of the iceberg. There are hundreds of online scams, and all of them use fake accounts to contact you. If you want to know what new tricks these fake accounts have at any time, you must target fraud prevention experts . We We will tell you the latest scam news and tactics analysis!

Use fraud prevention experts to check fraudulent fake accounts

The Criminal Bureau of the National Police Agency 165 cooperated with fraud prevention experts to launch the LINE ID query function. We not only combined 165 people to report fraudulent LineIDs, but also fraud prevention experts collected a large number of fraudulent IDs through technology and manual work. In the first half of 2022 alone, people used fraud prevention experts to inquire, and found that there are as many as problematic and dangerous Line accounts. 1.06 million (1060677).

When the public sees the advertisement of Jialai, they can directly enter the LINE ID left by the other party in the chat window of the fraud prevention expert, and it only takes one second to check whether this LINE ID has been reported as a fraudulent account by other victims. !

Not happy to be deceived! You can also use fraud prevention experts to report fraud LineID

If you have been deceived unfortunately, please do this with me:

1. Save the conversation records of the other party and you, and which Line IDs were originally added.
2. Report the case to the police station and provide evidence to the police to assist in the search of evidence
3. If you want to notify other people faster, you can report the fraudulent website to Trend Micro fraud prevention experts as soon as possible, and provide us with a LINE ID to prevent more people from being deceived! !

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