How to discover fake Instagram profiles

Su Instagram, especially in recent years, they have appeared more and more fake profiles. The latter sometimes even manage to have more than 10.000 followers, so much so that they even pretend to be influencer. In fact, despite several automatic Instagram security checks, often someone gets away with it; in spite of this there are several methods for discover fake Instagram profiles and in this article we will show you what they are.

Index

• Number of followers and following
• Number of posts
• Type of content and photos
• Number of likes and comments
• Verified account
• Tools to recognize a fake profile
• Who is behind a fake profile

Number of followers and following

The first aspect to take into account in order to recognize a fake profile is the number of followers and following. Fake profiles usually tend to emulate real accounts having many followers and few following. Do not be fooled, as very often these profiles have as followers users who have no profile picture and with few posts. If the names of the profiles being followed are not known accounts or at least they are questionable profiles, there is a great possibility that this profile is fake.

Number of posts

A very important factor that can make us understand if a profile is fake or not is the number of posts shared. For example, if an account has 10.000 followers and only one post there will be two possibilities to evaluate, namely: the person in question may have spent a lot of money to advertise their profile or it is a fake account. In fact, with a few posts it is practically impossible to reach a large number of followers. Even the most famous brands would not have that number of followers if they did not publish posts regularly.

Type of content and photos

In addition to the number of posts, the content also makes a difference. If a profile is fake, you will notice that the quality of the profile photo and that of the posts are very different. In fact, while the profile image will certainly be well defined and edited in an almost professional way, those posted will have nothing to do with the latter. Beyond that, it will be good to check the publication date, in fact, fake profiles are often created and then abandoned, or posts are shared sporadically so as to show that from time to time something new appears so as not to make the AI ​​algorithms and those who want to sponsor suspicious.

Number of likes and comments

Le social interactions they are another useful means of identifying a fake profile. If a profile has many followers but the followers who comment and like are few, then there will be two explanations: either something is wrong in the publication or it is a fake account. If the interactions are less than 10% of followers, it is clear that a guest post that you are going to publish on that profile will be a flop.

Verified account

Another useful signal to recognize a fake profile is to check if this profile is certified with the blue check. In fact the accounts with more than 10.000 followers can have the verified account. The famous photographic social network allows you to identify your identity and authenticate yourself digitally. Although it seems impossible to escape these checks, sometimes even these profiles manage to have the blue check. Often they are not accepted because Instagram is very careful to issue such a badge, but some crafty sometimes manages to get away with it, so do not take the blue check as an absolutely certain fact.

Tools to recognize a fake profile

There are several tools, completely free, to find out if a profile is fake or not. Two of them stand out, namely SocialBlade and HypeAuditor. Both of these sites allow you to view the statistics relating to each public Instagram account in detail. To know the statistics of each account through these useful sites will be enough search for username and wait for the results. You will be shown the trends of followers, following and posts, as well as demographic data of followers, including age and nationality.

These services assign each Instagram user a Rank based on their statistics. For example, if a user is found to fall into a rank A+, then it will almost certainly be a real profile. In any case, our advice is to check all the account details, above all the constant growth of followers e the average of publication of the posts.

Finally, also check the other social profiles of a particular account, in fact, if a profile has a certain number of followers, it is likely that this user is also present on other social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter.

Who is behind a fake profile

Once you find out that an Instagram account isn't real, it's not that easy to find out who it is hides behind the latter. Although there are various services capable of detecting the identity of a person and his intentions, often those who do this type of activity know how to hide. In case you are contacted and pestered through Direct messages in a repetitive way, in addition to blocking this profile, you can contact Instagram and report the story. In this way they will find out who it is; for more details and information just view this page.

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