HOW TO: Report Fake Facebook Profile Pages
Written by S.Pradeep Kumar in Facebook - Print This Post
Facebook is the most popular social network site in the world. But unfortunately, it is also a popular target amongst phishers and other social engineers. Tonnes of Fake Profiles and the game is to identify which one is genuine. Check these Useful Tips to Identity Fake Facebook Profiles. We have also discussed about the steps to Report Abuse on social networks and also to Report Child Sexual Abuse online.
Believe me, if you find a fake profile with your real name then it may be a sign of serious identity theft. They would have imitated your profile and prepared it for some illegal online activities or they may even use against you. They will also use to bully you or in other words, Cyber Bullying.
Facebook fake profile holders have the same intention as Phishers, they will use your name to obtain more info. You can report a fake Facebook profile through two ways. These two come handy if you are harassed by imitation of your profile or if you find some profiles cloned for some illegal purposes.
Report A Fake Profile On Facebook
How To Report A Fake Profile Page On Facebook?
You can report through two ways.
1. Go to Facebook “Report a Fake Profile” page, fill the details and submit or you can use this link.
2. Or send an email to login [at] facebook [dot] com and explain them that a fake profile has been created in your name. Also provide your contact information so that Facebook Support team can contact you for further info.
And before reporting such fake profiles to Facebook, you can make sure they have the characteristics of fake profiles.
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Perhaps we should all do a bit of searching on facebook or even on twitter and other social sites, and if someone is using our brands for illegal activities or impersonating us, we should surely report them. Thanks for letting us know about the reporting procedure.
Thanks for the tips
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How Facebook team judge reporter of the fake profile is genuine? because if genuine person claim it than why faker can’t do?
Good Question. See, there are some things which a fake profile lacks. It is somewhat easy to differentiate a fake and a genuine profile. Will post an article related to that soon..
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hii erm thers a fake profile of me on facebook iitsz called “sanam jane” iive reported iit so many tyms on my friiends account but facebook arnt doiin nuffin about iit, ii havnt got a facebook account but someone has made a fake account of me an has got my pictures on iit, cud sum1 plz help me get iit deleted, jus email me on my bruvas email iits sohailqe@hotmail.com.. cud sum1 plz help me a need iit 2 get deleted, ii went to poliice statiion but dey sed dey cudnt du nuffin bou iit, cud sum1 help me plz
Yea man thanks for the tips!
Well Facebook is mainly created to connect with old friends and make new friends and to stay connected to the rest of the world. Facebook make people happy though friendship and networking. If fake profiles destroys peoples personal lives and families, then facebook authority must take the responsibility to shut the fake profiles down. If there are 1 million complaints about fake profiles, then Facebook should take a look at all of those profiles and remove the profiles. While removing fake profiles,if a real profile is removed, then it can be re activated, but if 1 fake profile still remains, then it is harmful for that 1 person who goes through the agony of wrong judgment, false reputation in the eyes of that persons family, friends, close persons and to the whole world. And the persons who are committing the crime get away with no punishment, where the victim of fake profiles suffer. Facebook is supposed to make people happy, not to destroy lives. I would strongly suggest it to take some necessary actions.
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nice info friend. after reading this i searched for my fake profile…
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Thanks a lot for showing us how to report fake profile, I seriously did not know. By the way I think the report link below the profile can also used to report profiles. Isn’t it?
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Yeah, you can also use it bro..
Thanks for this info Pradeep. Well I am more active on twitter than facebook.
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This makes me wonder how many of the 400 million plus facebook accounts active at present are actually real accounts, and how many are fake accounts! It does seem like they are pro-actively trying to weed out the fake accounts, but there has to be a certain percentage of fakes. I got just on 400 friends, and am quite sure there are a good couple of aliens inbetween them
I personally report those profiles which are created to make some unrest online.. aka misuse of online social media.
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Worthy… Thanks boss.
Robin
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Thanks for this info Pradeep.!!
I think this fake report page would help so many women and celebrities.
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Thanks for the info….just wondered what should be done if a band profile is used inappropriately. My friends band has 30,000 friends, the profile was started by someone unknown to the band and fans just keep joining up unknown to them the page is run by an imposter. Anyone help?..thanks
just to add to that, they have since started another profile page (official) but its impossible to advise the 30,000 or so who have joined up to the other page…cheers
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my facebook was teminate what will i do i dont do somthing on it… then they terminate it…
Hello,
Is login@facebook.com a valid email? Would i get a response from it? Someone is impersonationg me on facebook. Some of my friends and I reported however, it has still not been removed. What should i do?
Thanks.
Pleeeease help!
You can try that email address or use this form Jennifer.
http://www.facebook.com/help/
You need to prove that the profile is violating their policies. Give some extra proof.
I have a problem, and my wish is to help me somehow. My name is Kinga, i have account on Facebook wich i suspended right now, because there is a Facebook user, who haz several accounts, and he use some phishing programs to still other people accounts and passwords. This i know for sure, because he broke my account to.
I really want u to do something about that, i wanna ask u to block this user for not getting acces to Facebook.
This user name is Razvan Timbus, it is from Romania, profile : facebook.com/razvi.razvi, and he also have this accounts with this names: Razvan Razvi; Cinthya Maria; Soos Maria; Ala Bala Unu; Spartacus Mures; Din Mures; Cerchez Marius; Ferma Mea; Julin Cu.
Please help me somehow and im waiting an answer.
If you think he is misusing Facebook, you can contact Facebook Team for reporting this issue mate.
Or you can suggest some of your existing FB friends to report abuse against him. Cheers.
Facebook really doesn’t seem to care about profiles impersonating someone unless the someone being impersonated is a so-called celebrity. Someone set up a fake profile with my name and photo, it’s been reported by me and many of my friends, and weeks later, it has still not been removed, nor have the dozens of other fake accounts the same person has set up to harass people with. However someone sets up a fake profile of Justin Beiber and it’s removed within hours. So it’s not a matter of lack of manpower on Facebook’s part, or there just being so many Facebook accounts to patrol… they just really don’t care what’s going on if they don’t think you’re important enough.
hello S.Pradeep Kumar
my problem is the following:
someone out there (i’m actually pretty sure who) created a fake profile of mine and sent himself threat-msgs to then send the screen shots of it on to my future wife. the mails are really terrible and frighting. obviously i dont have those mails myself and i’m of course not friends with this fake profile of mine. this profile also sent 2 msgs to a friend of mine (maybe the only way to back track it?)
the thing is, this terrible story messed up my whole relationship. people started trusting the wrong group of people. ALL i want now is a proof that this wasn’t me. how can i do that?
can facebook help me here? can they backtrack stuff or find ip-addresses. i really need to solve this problem.
thank you very much for answer.
best regards
tim
Hey Tim, if that guy is misusing or impersonating your name, you can report that to Facebook using “Report/Block this Person” link. Choose ‘fake profile’ as the reason while submitting. You can also tell your friends to do the same.
And fake profiles are common these days, just make sure you don’t reveal too much personal data on your profile.
hello sir
thank you very much for your answer. the problem is. i dont have any of these mails. because he sent himself those mails to show other people. as if i was the person that wrote it. one friend of mine got a mail. so he could actually report this. but for me it is really important to proof that this wasn’t me. so can anyone help me proof this. like showing from what ip-adress this is coming from or something like that. i need a proof.
thank you for another answer.
best regards
tim
Tim, if you know your Facebook friends in person or if you are close enough, kindly email them explaining the whole situation & ask them to remove that impersonator from their friends list.
And also recommend your friends to report this incident.
And make sure this thing don’t get worse.
hi again
yes i know them and there not friends with this fake profile of mine.
the thing is, I NEED PROOF that this wasn’t me.
like a statement from facebook or an IP-address showing where this came from. the right people trust the wrong person at the moment and it absolutly destroys me. CAN ANYONE HELP ME HERE?
thanks for all good answers in advance…
tim
Am sorry Tim, I guess it is not quite possible on Facebook, even in any other social network.
Maybe you can persuade the ‘right people’ to realize that they are dealing with the ‘wrong person’ by contacting them directly or something like that..!?
Try this Facebook Discussion Tim, maybe the top contributors can fix something.
http://www.facebook.com/help/?section=community
where did i found this application how to report a profile,pls need your answer
cant see the application how to report a fake profile,pls need your answer
Please chk this link :
http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=12256
please delete this fake account
hi….pls help my sister is being impersonated in facebook pls help me
he is using my sister’s pic so badly
i reported to facebook so many time but still no effect
pls help me
do something
this is the fake profile id
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Suren, I removed the impersonating Facebook Profile for security purpose.
If he/she is violating your Sister in any terms, then you have to call the cyber crime immediately and I request you to do so. Facebook badly needs lots of proofs & information to take action.
This one will be useful : http://hellboundbloggers.com/2010/11/18/report-child-abuse-online/
And kindly ask your Sister to remove unknown friends or strangers from her friends list (if she is in FB or any social n/ws).
If you know any Cyber Crime offices in your locality, report this matter to them now. Believe me, they even caught foreigners for involving such identity theft & other illegal activities.
okie but will our parents get involve in this if we report it in cyber crime.???
Obviously yes, but if you are an adult, you can handle this issue all by yourself. If you are not, please take an adult with you or a person who can explain things.
oh!!!!!but our parents shouldnt be involved because my sister will be screwed if they come to know it
we reported to facebook so many times and many of our friends to reported but no effect
can u track the id of that fake facebook profile.???
pls help na,i will be grateful to u if u can help in this
tell some solutions na
we hav a doubt tat my sister’s class mate is doing it but we are not sure ,is there any way to track the id ..??
pls help na
Suren, tracking Facebook profiles is not an easy thing. However if you have that fake profile’s email address, it will be useful in some cases.
oh!!!!!!tat guy hided the email from tat profile
tell me solution na pls
Dude, it’s something more tedious. Report to the Cyber Crime & rest assured.
let me knw how to delete fake profile somone has hackd it created fake one & misusing it help ugent
Did you notify Facebook regarding this? If not, kindly do it.
a fake ID has been made with my photo and name amit singh khatti. please help me to delete this ID.
How do you report an ex friend who has hacked my account on facebook? She also did some stuff of facebook on my account that i do not approve of one but!! Please help me
You can just mail me the details – pradeep@hellboundbloggers.com
Thanks.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002556040299
She's got the charastristics of a fake profile but I cannot report her as she's faking someone I know, or me. I reported her as not representing someone real, but facebook has done nothing. She has been adding everyone and I can tell you that because all I see on her profile is "WHO'S THIS?" being asked over and over again
Ive been trying to delete this imposture but facebook refuses to do it. Even after I sent them a copy of my valid drivers license. Can I get people to help report her?
Is this your own Facebook profile Trisha?
Hi, I sent you an email. It would be greatly appreciated if you could respond as soon as possible. Thank you very much.
I replied to that Heather, kindly check that.
hi this is lyn theres a fake profile of me on facebook she used my pic and my name also ,and i report that already in facebook but that fake profile of me is still there,pls help me ……