Thousands of Facebook users receive false requests from friends every day. Often these false profiles seem to belong to women with little clothing. Accounts whose names tell you nothing, and whose people you do not know. That sounds weird and you're probably wondering why these people want to get in touch with you? Now Facebook encourages everyone to report false accounts, and at the same time, the same website allows us to apply an easy tip to avoid this type of friend request in the future.
It seems that the main idea is to try to attract men so that they can get in touch with women they do not know by accepting their friend request. Often the goal is that the person in question clicks on a link to a site that wants more visitors (porn sites, chat sites ... etc). And it's a way that works in most cases.
There are also fake accounts of beautiful women with thousands of friends, and you can receive a friend request. Most of the time, the account is active and posts photos from time to time, the goal being to have as many friends and subscribers as possible. After a while, the account is turned into a Facebook page, which allows the account owner to start a page with a consistent number of fans without having to start from scratch.
Caution:
A false friend request could also be part of a more advanced fraud, where fraudsters attempt to access your personal information or divert your account.
There is also another way of approaching you, that of sending you directly a private message on Facebook, usually a bit long, a sort of presentation, then at the end of the message the person tells you that she wants to get to know you have to click on her email or a link to get in touch with her, which is just a phishing attempt, so be vigilant!
Here's how to stop receiving false friend requests:
Many people find it really annoying to continue receiving false requests from friends every day. Facebook has not yet found a way to completely win the war against these hackers. However, it is possible to block yourself requests from friends and this is what Facebook recommends to all its users.
Under your privacy settings on Facebook, you can choose that only friends of your friends can send you friendship requests.
This prevents anyone who does not have at least one friend in common with you from sending you a friend request. However, this does not guarantee that one of your friends has not accepted a request for a false profile.
Facebook says it removes one million fake accounts a day. This includes profiles detected clearly using false profile names, for example by using the name and images of someone else.
If you want to report an account, enter the profile in question and click on the three points to the right of the cover photo and click on "Report".
Facebook also provides its users with help pages to tell them how to fight friends' requests for false profiles, how to protect their accounts, and how to proceed if a user is a victim of account piracy . Simply click on the question mark icon "? "At the top right of your Facebook screen, then click on" Confidentiality ", you will find several questions / answers on the confidentiality of your Facebook account.
Tips:
On the Internet, and especially on social networks, we are never sure of anything, so never disclose sensitive personal information or your bank details, and never click on questionable links until you know the person which publishes them and you are not sure of the content. Internet security must be part of your usage patterns, Caution!
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