FB Fake Account Hunt

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I've had some problems with facebook deleting accounts of mine that had fake names.
I've been suspicious that the past few times, the "reporters" were folks from "native american" groups on FB.

So..  I spent about 6 hours reporting about 2,000+ accounts with fake names.

It would probably work better if they were reported by multiple people.

Here's what I do. I join groups, copy the member list of those groups to excel.

Find obviously fake names...

Go to their profile, copy their friends to excel..  then report them.

Sometimes if I want to get really fancy I save the excel sheet as html and run the html file through a program called "addrview"

With some renaming I can fix the url strings...  with a macro I can automate the process (there is a learning curve but the automation saves your wrist from all the clicking. This is just a more advanced method, not needed but makes it easier)

With spreadsheets full of names it can get a bit overwhelming so you don't need to save everyones friends list. its just fake names usually have a lot of other fake names on their profile.

I am attaching some spreadsheets to this post so that you can see how it goes.

Oh a quick note...  when you copy FB member/friends list it copys the pictures as well.


You can press F5 to select special stuff.. then select "objects"...  this will highlight all the pictures..

you can then delete them all at once.

I also seen that after you copy the lists to excel, while it is in the process of copying, if you disconnect from the internet it still copys the code, but does not transfer the images.   This saves you some time.

Slower computers trying to copy lists of like, 5,000 folks, might end up having the browser freese so..  be careful.

If I can't have fake names, neither can they.  Happy hunting.

[Grimm]

You can get addrview here:  http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/addrview.html 


Also, making use of the "Text To Column" feature really helps clean the lists up. You can then see what URLs are connected to which link and then, for example..  replace "-String339948564" with "@!"  then "text to column" using "@" as a separator..  then the next column will have "!" in them..  then sort by that column, then delete the rest and tadah..  clean.

before text to column though you need to move everything from column B to column C (or whatever) so that it isn't overwritten with then names.   Then you can scroll through the list and be like "fake, fake, fake, fake", delete everything but the fake ones, program your macro.. click go, and watch it run.

[Grimm]

Some video that might help....   link to next part is in the video description:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzooV9XbmKg