Check Fakes

5 Tips to Identify Fake Accounts

Tip 1:
Use Reverse image search to Identify the person in the profile picture. Using reverse image search you can easily find out the real identity of the person in any profile picture . If the account is real then you will have a hard time finding out a similar photograph of the user on the internet .

Follow this link for help:
google.com/insidesearch/features/images/searchbyimage.html

Apart from Google’s Reverse image search to find similar images , there are many other reverse image services to find similar images . Here are a few of them :
•Tinyeye
•Retrievr
•Revimg
•karmadecay

Tip 2:
Most Fake Profiles very often use only a single Image
If the profile has less than one of his or her photo , then most probably it is an fake account. If the fake person does not share any image but has got many good looking (fake) friends you can assume all of them are FAKE.

Tip 3:
Check The users Timeline
Find out when the user has joined, most fake accounts are created just less than a week before they start sending out rampant friend requests.

Tip 4:
Beware of Fake profiles of Girls
Most fake profiles created with an girls identity. Its a straight fact that no real good looking Girl will ever share her real photo, email address or Cell phone numbers on her dating profile.

Tip 5:
Check the friend list
Check out the friend lists of the user , if a Fake account has many mutual friends with you , then chances are there that the Fake accounts is created by one of your friends who is trying to have some fun.

Have fun