Just like Facebook, Twitter also has a verified account feature that helps you spot the real account in a sea of cloned or fake ones. Accounts with only professional photos and bios filled with grammar mistakes are probably bot accounts used to send spam messages with phishing links or other nasty content. If an account barely posts anything, yet it has thousands of followers, then chances are the follower count was inflated using blackhat methods such as botting. That big follower base might act as social proof to impress a user into clicking a malicious link or purchase a fake product or service. Here are some websites that can do that or
Seeking bogus LinkedIn profiles
LinkedIn is actually a less hazardous social networking than just Facebook, however, fake pages perform are present, and you will simply hit round the one occasionally. This is how you can pick a phony LinkedIn account:
Quality of its photographs
Since it’s LinkedIn, you’re kind of supposed to bring your best photos forward. But many scammers go for typical stock photos which are easily recognizable, with their big smiles, perfect exposure, and pearly white teeth. Supply Dig a little deeper if you see one of these too good to be true photos, maybe even do a Facebook search for the person in question and see if the data matches. Continue reading