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How to Trace a Fake Facebook Account?

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Facebook is one of the most used and loved social media sites in today’s times. Almost everyone has an account on this platform. If used wisely, Facebook can be beneficial in different ways.

This platform helps to build networks, stay updated, promote business, and much more. However, this social media site can also be a threat in many different ways. These threats especially come from fake accounts that are created on Facebook. As per Meta, face accounts are created for non-human entities or with malicious intent.

One of Meta’s reports suggests that in the first quarter of 2022, Facebook took action on around 1.6 billion fake accounts, down from 1.7 billion during the previous quarter. Also, in the first quarter of 2019, approximately 2.2 billion fake accounts were removed by the platform.

Looking at the number of fake accounts that people create, we thought to aware people of fake accounts. Some people, who have been using Facebook for quite a long time are by now able to identify fake accounts. But there are still some people who still can’t differentiate between a real and a fake Facebook account.

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And for those, we are here with a blog on ‘how to trace a fake Facebook account’. It is not very difficult to identify fake accounts, but still, there are some accounts that are hard to detect.

Before we move further, let us tell you that there are 20% to 30% of fake Facebook accounts. Now, let us get back to the topic and see how these fake Facebook accounts can be traced or identified.

Here’s how to trace a fake Facebook account

People often create fake Facebook accounts pretending to be someone else, either for fun’s sake or for threatening and misguiding people. These fake accounts usually use a girl’s picture as their DP.

This is because people easily fall for girls. Pretending to be a girl and misusing the Facebook account is an easy task. Girls can be trusted easily and this is why people use their identities.

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But don’t worry there are still ways to trace a fake Facebook account.

Tips for tracing fake Facebook account

Look at the user’s display picture closely

This is the first thing you can do before identifying a fake Facebook account. Look at the user’s profile picture closely and you may come to know if it’s a real or a fake account.

Do look closely for accounts with no display picture or maybe they are using a celebrity’s picture or a picture from someone’s account. Also, most of the time people with fake accounts don’t change their profile pictures for years.

This is another sign of a fake Facebook account.

Also read: How to Improve Privacy By Hiding Your Photos From Strangers On Facebook

Go through the user’s profile link and email id

There are times when people change their name and DP for some time so that they can pretend to be someone else. In this situation, chances are that you will be able to see his/her original name in his profile link. But remember, this is possible only if the person hasn’t changed it.

Another way to trace a fake Facebook account is to go to the user’s about and check his email id. In most cases people forget to hide their email id linked to their Facebook account. And chances are that the person has used his original email id to create that fake account.

Look at the uploaded pictures

A user with a real and active account will always keep his profile updated. This means the user will upload a picture from time to time.

But if you ever come across an account that hasn’t posted any picture for a long time or posts pictures of different people, then the account is fake for sure.

A real account will always have pictures of the same individual.

Go through the user’s timeline

Now, people on Facebook usually update their status and pictures whenever they go out or achieve something. If not always, but most of the time you will come across posts that people create to share their experiences or achievements with others.

And this is one of the most important signs of a real account. However, a fake account owner doesn’t care about posting anything on the timeline.

So, a timeline with few or no posts could be a fake account.

Another way to figure out a fake Facebook account through a timeline is by going through the links posted on the timeline. These links could be shared to increase the reach of the page or to gain some likes.

So, these are some of the ways you can use to trace fake Facebook accounts. Besides this, you can also use some fake account finder tools. We will now take you through the Facebook fake account finder.

Also read: How to get 1000 Likes on Facebook Photo

Facebook fake account finder

You can check out some of the best fake account checkers mentioned below.

Fake FB extension- Fake account checker

This fake FB profile finder on your Chrome lets you identify the fake profiles.

How to use this extension?
  • First of all, install FAKE FB on your chrome
  • Now open that Fb profile you want to check on any browser
  • Click on the extension and you will see a pop-up
  • This pop-up will tell you if the account is fake or real

FB Checker v2. 9.0- Facebook Fake Account Checker

It is a free Facebook fake account checker tool. The tool finds similar images from the web and informs you if the profile picture is fake or real.

How to use this tool?
  • Firstly, install the desktop software on your system
  • Now, you have to simply run the test along with the profile link
  • Then the results will be displayed

Fake account checker for Facebook

This one is the open-source fake account finder that works on the display picture. It also tracks the timeline activity of the person you think has a fake account.

How to use this fake account checker?
  • Just install the app on your phone
  • And add a profile link
  • Wait for the scanning to complete and your results will be displayed

These tools are worth trying for sure. You can easily trace a fake Facebook account with these tools and report those accounts.

I hope this article helps you in one or the other way. Do follow TechThirsty for more such articles.

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How to find & trace an IP address of a fake Facebook account?

According to statistics, there are over 2.2 billion users on Facebook, out of which fake accounts on its platform account for around 4%. That means, out of 2.2 billion active users, there are approximately 88 million fake profiles.

Somebody creating a fake account of yours is not a big deal for Facebook unless you represent a law enforcement agency or an expensive legal firm.

Most fake Facebook accounts are set-up by adolescents in relationships seeking to either destroy the reputation of their ex-partner by uploading private pictures or to stalk on other people while there is another group of people who use fake accounts for spamming, spreading promotional content, building fake page likes, etc.

Someone stole my daughter’s picture from her Facebook page & created a fake account. now that person is sending abusive messages from that account to everyone & trying to ruin her image as she is a very sincere girl. This profile is creating chaos in my neighborhood which was identified as her. Could you please hack this fake profile for me?

I often receive such requests from people who find themselves or their relatives in this situation. Identity theft on Facebook is prevalent, But somebody using your image to harass or play with other people you know, thereby defaming you is embarrassing and malicious.

While you can always report such imposters on Facebook using their report form, it takes a hell of a time for Facebook to review the account and disable it. Also, Facebook will never disclose to you any details about the fake profile, like when it was created and from which computer or network it was operated.

Facebook is bound to disclose Information regarding fake accounts only when there is police intervention and this is indeed a very long process.

Moreover, the police will not go through the hassle of contacting Facebook and behave like loyal dogs to track down the imposter unless the matter is grave.

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Can police track fake Facebook accounts?

If the matter is serious, police will contact Facebook with all the information about the fake account in question. Facebook will then investigate and will get back to police officials with geoinformation about the fake account, like the IP address & devices being used to access the account, basic profiling of the said culprit, and his private messages.

Once they have the IP address of a fake account user, they will then need to get a court order for the ISP to reveal the information and billing address of the person involved to find out who made a fake Facebook account over this network. Remember, if the phony profile user had used a proxy server to hide real-IP, it would be tough to trace a fake FB account holder.

Here in this post, I will show you how exactly you can get someone’s IP address from Facebook and teach you how to trace a fake Facebook account to capture the culprit.

All I will be doing is, apply some social engineering skills and using the default ‘Banner grabbing’ technique of a web server.

Banner Grabbing is an enumeration technique used to get information about a particular computer system on a network/internet (Info consists of OS, browser, IP address, etc.)

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How to trace a fake Facebook account?

The first step in tracing or tracking a fake account from Facebook, Involves finding the IP address of the person operating the fake account in question.

Once we get the IP address and the associated device details used by the culprit, we can further enumerate the information and try to trace the location or match it with the people you are already friends with.

Steps in finding the IP address of a Facebook account:

Step 1
Collect as much information about the fake account as you can and identify all of the people who are connected to it as friends. Make a list of connected people to this account who are your real-life friends.

Step 2
Select any of your close friends or relative on that list. The person which you have selected will be doing all the job for you. If there is nobody in his friend’s list that you know personally, then you can always create a new account or ask one of your friends just to befriend this fake user and make contact.

Step 3
Ask your friend to start casual conversations with him/her and gain their trust

Step 4
In this step, we are going to create a specially crafted tracking URL that will fetch us all the details of the fake profile user (banner grabbing).

Go to https://grabify.link and enter any URL(userwillberedirectedtothisURLonceheclickstrackinglink) in the text field and click “Create URL” to generate tracking URL and Code.

TIP! You can find the list of other tracking tools here: List of IP tracking tools

Step 5
On the next page, you will get all the tracking information as shown below.

  • New URL: This is the tracking URL that you need to send to your target user.
  • Tracking Code: Note down this code as you will need this code in the future to access your tracking data.
  • Other Links: Here, you can create a short link for your “New URL.”

Step 6
Click on “View other link shorteners” and then generate a short URL using the goo.gl service.

You will get something like this: . Copy the newly created short tracking URL.

Step 7
Ask your friend to send this tracking URL to the fake user along with some exciting message via messenger. Sample message:

Hey, I found this lost girl with a dumb look on her face. Any idea where she belongs?:

Step 8
As soon as the phony user clicks on the tracking link, his IP address gets recorded on Grabify’s server. To check for the recorded IP, Go to https://grabify.link  and enter your “tracking code” to view your Link Information page. The logged IP addresses will be listed in the RESULTS section.

Steps for tracing fake Facebook account and guessing the culprit:

Now that you have found out the IP address of the fake account user, you can do a lot many things. For now, we will use an IP lookup service to look up more information about the IP and try to guess the phony user.

Step 9
Go to http://www.iptrackeronline.com and enter the IP address of the fake user, click submit a query.

Alternatively, you can also use https://www.ipaddress.com/ip-lookup and paste the IP address in the box that says “lookup this IP or website” and hit enter.

Step 10
On the new page, scroll down a bit, and you will get to see all the details like ISP, Area-code, Postal-code, etc. associated with his IP address along with an approximate location of the user in the MAP.

Step 11
Relate these details with the suspect. If you are not able to suspect anyone then approach your attorney or lawyer, he will file the necessary documents for the ISP to disclose the subscriber details for the IP address.

Step 12
If you are suspecting anyone but not sure if it’s him then repeat steps 3 to 8 for this suspect. You can take the help of the same friend and ask him to craft some different message accompanied by an IP tracking link for this suspect.

Step 13
As soon as your suspect clicks this link, you will have his IP address. Now match his IP address with the IP address of the Fake user. If there is a match, well, congrats!! You have successfully captured the culprit.

Worried about your Privacy?

If you are worried about people spying on your IP address then it’s worth telling you that knowing an IP address isn’t necessarily a security risk. For example, Web sites and other servers must have their IP address publicized in order to get visitors. 

It’s like knowing the mailing address to a house: sure, it’s better if someone doesn’t know where your house is, but if they do, they would still need to bypass the home security to break in. 

Eventually, an IP address is enough for a hacker to break into your network if your Firewall is weak enough. So better be careful and always use a VPN.

Also, read our Advanced Guide: Trace Facebook user location using USER-Agent and IP address.

Hope this tutorial answers your question: how to get someone’s IP address from Facebook and then trace a fake Facebook profile. If you have any questions regarding bogus profiles, Let us know via the Comments Section below.

See also – how to find out who made a fake Facebook account

Earlier, I had posted about finding a Facebook user’s IP addresses through chat and email header, but none of these two methods works this day. The Facebook chat runs on XMPP protocol now which is not peer-2-peer, so it is not possible to determine the IP address of the user through Facebook Chat using the Netstat command.

Facebook Statistics via Statistic Brain

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How to spot a fake social media account?

In social networks, quite often you can find spam messages: “Do you want to earn a lot of money today?”, “Do you want to lose weight without getting up from the couch?” and many other appeals that promise people everything at once.

Usually such mailing is done from fake accounts. Such "users" must be identified and removed from them in time, since an attempt to communicate with them can lead to the loss of personal time, as well as really important information. This article will talk about how you can detect a fake account on such popular social networks as Facebook, VKontakte, Odnoklassniki and Instagram. nine0005

  • How to spot a fake Facebook account?
  • How to detect a fake VKontakte account?
  • How to detect a fake account in the Odnoklassniki social network?
  • How to spot a fake Instagram account?

There are no automated ways to find fake accounts in the Facebook social network, so you will have to manually identify fake users. The first step is to check the main photo posted on the user page. To do this, just do the following:

  1. Go to the page of the verified user.
  2. Right-click on a person's photo and select "Find this image in Yandex" from the context menu.
  4. Get acquainted with the results that the search engine will provide.

As you can see in the example above, we have a well-known resident of the Comedy Club project, and it is unlikely that he would write personal messages to anyone advertising goods or offering to buy a unique simulator that increases muscle mass in a matter of days. Therefore, if someone writes from such an account, then there is a huge probability that this is done by a fake user. nine0005

You should also be suspicious of all Facebook profiles with the main photos of a model appearance and those accounts that were created very recently (the Timeline application will help you find out the date of registration of your Facebook account).

In the social network VKontakte, determining the age of a user's page is also an indirect way to determine whether it is fake or not. This is done by identifying a unique user ID.

You can find a unique identifier (ID) by going to the user's page and looking at the address bar of the browser. Based on this information, you can determine the approximate date the account was created. For example, if the user ID has a value in the region of 100000000, this indicates that he opened an account in 2020. In the example above, the user ID is 300905727, indicating that the page was created quite recently.

Next, you need to check the user's activity on his own VKontakte page. A real user in the album will always have a couple of personal photos added at different times. In addition, a real person reposts a wide variety of entries on different days, adds audio recordings and videos. The number of friends a real VKontakte user has varies from 20 to 500 people, but there are exceptions. If the number of friends of a suspicious user goes into the thousands, then most likely they are all cheated. nine0005

The Odnoklassniki social network is considered to be a platform for adults of sufficient age (those over 30), so fake accounts are especially common here. Usually they are created by people who want to try on someone else's image, chat with their friends under an assumed name, advertise something without obviously damaging their own reputation.

In principle, checking an account in the Odnoklassniki social network for authenticity is carried out in much the same way as in other social networks: you need to check the presence of the main photo of the account on the Internet, look at the date of registration in the system, as well as the quality of filling in the user profile. nine0005

If a copy of the personal page of a real person was found on the Odnoklassniki social network, you can file a complaint against the author of the "fake". To do this, you will need to go to his profile, select the “Other actions” item in the menu and click on the “Complain” button, while indicating registration under a false name and surname as the reason for filing a complaint.

To identify a fake Instagram page, follow the steps below:

  1. Check user photos: fake accounts often post photos of beautiful people in sexual or simply attractive poses, in order to maximize the attention of other users (photos in the family circle fake accounts usually don't). nine0012
  2. View photo upload dates - fake users post all their photos on the same day, and often even the same minute.
  3. The feed of fake accounts is spammed with various posts that do not carry any significant semantic load.
  4. Fake rarely responds to comments, as well as to the description of published photos.

A special case is fake accounts maintained by specially trained programs (bots). They are scrupulous about filling in all the data and are always active on the page entrusted to them. It is possible to calculate such fakes only when communicating in personal correspondence. nine0005

Summing up, it can be said that it is quite easy to identify fake accounts in social networks, but for this you need to follow at least elementary precautionary rules. You should never enter into an active dialogue with unfamiliar users, and even more so, accept any files from them or follow the links provided by them. And if you find a fake account, you must immediately report it to the administration of the social network through the form for sending a complaint or feedback. nine0005

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How to find fake Facebook accounts?

Content:

I searched a lot of people but couldn't find it in the Facebook profile. So, I read online research to find fake people on Facebook. This was really smart and tricky and now I was wondering if there was any tool that could take care of these algorithms to tell me that this Facebook account is fake.

This is how the idea of ​​checking fake Facebook accounts was born. nine0005

☛ You can also manually scan your Facebook profile to make sure it's real by seeing more personal details.

I felt it personally when I added the person, but he did not confirm. I thought that this might not be a real profile, so a close person is acting like an unknown.

If you want to know if a Facebook profile is fake or not, we have listed the best Facebook account verification apps that can help you determine the reality of such a profile. You just need to copy the URL of this Facebook profile and put it in the search app, then it will automatically run with some tests and show you accurate results. nine0005

If you know your Facebook settings and other things, you can run some tests to detect a fake Facebook account. This is a game of your intellect if you are trying to capture the brain of the person behind this profile.

In this context, I will share with you the best tools for finding fake accounts and how to use them to recognize a fake Facebook ID, as well as the actions you can take with such profiles. nine0005

? After you add fake people to the list, all of them can be deleted immediately.

If you're looking for the best fake account checkers, check them out. Here are some of the tools for finding fake accounts to automate the process:

[1] FAKE FB Extension - Fake Account Checker Online

This fake FB profile finder on your Chrome can detect all fake profiles.

Target / System:

Find fake profiles from Facebook and apply them to all random profiles using English as the default language.

Result Results:

analyzed 158 profiles that are already suspected of being fake, and this tool showed good results. The success rate is 91%.

The extension works with the suspected behavior of people with a fake profile and lists them in the list of fake profiles. If you need a special automatic fake profile check, then this FAKE FB chrome extension should be on your list. nine0005


To use this extension, follow these steps:

1. Just install FAKE FB on your Chrome.

2. Now open the Facebook profile in your browser and click on the extension.

3. A simple pop-up window will automatically show if the profile is ORIGINAL or Fake.

[2] FB Checker v2.9.0 - application Facebook Fake Account Checker

FB Checker is a free Facebook fake account checking tool that finds similar images on the web and determines if the profile using that image is fake or not. nine0108 Purpose / System:

Check profile if fake images are used in the profile. This FB checker tool only analyzes fake images if they are available online.

Results:

we analyzed over 103 profile photos with this tool and the result was 73% accurate.

If you want to analyze automatically with image search, use this checker, it's free. You must install this on your computer to use the features of this tool. nine0005


To use the FB Checker, follow these steps:

1. Install this desktop software on your computer.

2. Now run the test with a link to the profile.

3. This tool will automatically analyze the images used in the profile and show you the results if they are fake.

[3] Reverse for iOS

" Reversee " is an iOS application that helps to find out the average location of images on the web. nine0108 Target / System:

find profile pictures if they are available elsewhere to see if the person is stealing someone's picture for that fake profile.

Results:

I analyzed 304 profile pictures and this tool can provide accurate results 99% of the time.

After you launch the application for any image, be it photos on the timeline or a profile picture, this tool will show you a different location of the same image and this will confirm if the image is being reused. nine0005


To use the Reversee app, simply download it from the Apple Store and follow these steps:

1. Install it on your iPad or iPhone and view the Facebook timeline or suspect profile.

2. Now for an image, click on it and enable reverse search through Yahoo or Google.

3. This tool displays all results to confirm if the account is fake and if it uses other people's images. nine0005

[4] Fake account verification for Facebook

Fake Account Checker is an open source fake account finder that works with a profile picture and tracks the activities of the person you suspect is fake on the timeline.
Target / System:
Checking for fake accounts also depends on the same algorithm that detects similar images from the Internet. This fake account check tells you if the person is using someone else's photo on their profile and also scans for activity on the timeline. nine0005

Final results:

analyzed more than 600 profiles with Fake Account Checker and the success rate was 91%-95%.

Fake Account Checker has been installed by millions in a year and is the most trusted app for finding fake Facebook profiles.

To use Fake Account Checker, follow these steps:

1. Install on your mobile phone and add a link to your profile.

2. Wait for the scan to start and display the profile with real-time results. nine0005

3. Now check the boxes in the windows and confirm and you will see if this is a fake account.

⦿ Finding and Recognizing a Fake Facebook Account

If you want to recognize a fake Facebook account, you need to look for a few factors that will help you understand if this Facebook account is fake or not.

The absence of the original DP in a Facebook profile does not mean that the profile is fake. I found that some people who are actually real profile holders don't add real pictures to their profile and very often you don't want to show yourself online when you feel insecure. nine0005

Now, in order to recognize a fake account, you must simultaneously talk to this person and ask some personal questions that only the original person can answer if you know him well.

Instead of checking for fake Facebook accounts using search tools, you can try this method if you know the person very well and suspect that they are a fake Facebook profile.

⦿ How can I report a fake Facebook profile? nine0091

If you want to know if there is any fake ID in your name on Facebook, you can take action with these fake account search tools and you will find out all the fake accounts in your name listed if you do so for myself.

Now that you've found all the profiles, you don't have to re-check it as if it were your profile picture. Once you're sure it's a fake account in your name and you need to let Facebook know what's going on there.

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