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Sanity Check Number Eighteen:
Do you accept friend recommendations from
online friends you don’t know well?
Social media fraudsters sometimes setup
one fake profile in order to recommend
other faked profiles to people.
The first profile is never used for fraud or to
collect data – only the recommended
profiles do that.
This approach allows the fraudster to
create the impression of an innocent
network of friends where, in fact, there is
only one person - the fraudster.
This may lead innocent users to trust the
recommended fake profiles on the basis
that they are ‘friends of a friend’.
R is for…
Recommendations
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