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How to protect yourself & your friends from people sending Fake Facebook Friend requests

A real problem of late is finding out your friends have been getting friend requests from someone that looks like you - but is actually a fake account. Now to be clear here - in most cases, you have not been hacked. Someone has made a fake facebook profile and account of you - complete with your profile picture and even a few posts that are duplicates of your own! It’s so real, and people don’t always remember were they your friend or not so they accept those requests. And the Scammer has tricked your friends into friending them. Now the biggest issue here is there have been tons of people who’ve fallen for this and then they get private messages from their “family” saying they are in trouble and need money - and those loyal family members are sending money to help. But they send money to those fake profiles instead. Those buggers are smart and savvy. And they will try anything… In this particular situation, it is helped when your friends list is open to the public. If it is open, anyone can search through and try to find out info about you or your friends that can be used against you to try and trick you or, worse your friends into some scam or another. The first thing to do about this is to be aware of friend requests and check for fake ones. If a friend sends you a request - someone you thought was already a friend, then check it first before accepting the request. Here’s how you check it - 1. Click the name of the friend from the request - but do NOT hit accept! This takes you to their profile on Facebook 2. The profile has a URL - we all have one. Check what the URL shows as their username. For instance, mine is   / kathycolaiacovo   3. Then go to your friends list and check for your friend you already thought was there. 4. If they are already a friend - click on their picture and visit their profile and look at the URL - I guarantee 100% you will see these two URLs are different. That’s your confirmation the friend request is from a fake profile. 5. Then you can go back to the friend request fake profile and by their name, click the 3 dots - which has an option to report them as a fake profile and Facebook will even prompt you to click through and choose what friend of yours they are pretending to be. 6. This action generally is enough to fix the issue. The account soon gets closed. 7. Then you want to visit your friend’s profile and send them a message someone is pretending to be them and sending friend requests. I like to do this as a post on their profile not a private message so that other friends see it too. In the post, I encourage them to report it as well. Just the other day my middle son sent a friend request on Facebook. I texted him to be sure - which had him laughing but it was my way of checking. Always check before you accept a friend request from someone you thought you were friends with already. You can also help this by tightening up your own Facebook privacy and security settings. What many people don’t know is that if your security settings on Facebook are not very secure and your profile is open to everyone - you make this easier for those spammers to do. If the general public can see your Friends list and your content then that means the scammers can look at your list of friends and once they open the fake profile of you, they start going thru your list and sending friend requests. Fixing this issue only takes a few minutes and then you have locked things up so that strangers, people NOT your friends, cannot see anything more than your profile images and maybe some of the pages you like and groups you belong to. Go to your privacy settings on Facebook and lock down the privacy and limit your content to friends only. You should also limit who can see your friends list to friends only as well. This protects those friends from the scammers too. And it makes it harder for anyone to create those fake profiles and connect with your friends. As a bonus, you also should; ensure that your email, phone and private info like full date of birth are private to you only. Be sure to check out the Marketing Your Private Practice with Kathy C podcast and episode #44 to learn about the other 2 annoyances on social media that can be hurting you too! Visit - https://www.pepperitmarketing.com/soc... to listen on your fave podcast player app.