Facebook Preparing To Ban Fake Accounts
If you maintain several facebook accounts, there is word that the social giant is about to bring out the Big Axe to disable these profiles. Joe Sullivan, the chief security officer for Facebook told CNN that the company is committed to finding and disabling fake accounts. It is estimated that there are over 83 million fake accounts on Facebook. That’s almost 9 percent of their monthly active userbase which is around 955 million! Facebook understands that this is a problem and as such has taken measures to classify (3) different types of fake accounts:
- Undesirable Accounts – Facebook user accounts that are used for nefarious reasons
- Misclassified Accounts – Facebook user accounts that have been made for companies, groups or pets
- Duplicate Accounts – Facebook user accounts that are a replication of another existing account
Facebook will be using their new discovery system to sniff out these accounts. They will be looking for accounts that aren’t active. Once Facebook finds what they think is a fake account, they will make no apologies for deleting everything associated with that account. If this occurs on one of your accounts from your IP, you will be banned from making future accounts. This is not to be taken lightly. You have been warned.
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How many 'REAL' accounts will be effected in this sweep? Hmmm?
If they are going to do this, they better do it right.
Just last week, my Facebook account was locked out. My account is not fake by any means and Facebook is asking me for a government ID such as a driver’s licenese, passport, or social security card.
This is ridiculous. Who do they think they are,the FBI?
It’s been very frustrating for me because I can’t trust Facebook with such a personal and important information. Why can’t they verify my account with information they already have such as my email, my wife’s name, etc. Even worse they don’t have a good customer support system in place. I already submitted the issue through their help section and nothing.
This really sucks and I am ready to dump Facebook for good.
this is supposed to be new? They do their best to ban accounts already, including real ones. My bet is that this goes very badly for them.