This post is for all those Facebook users who wants to report a fake or impostor profile. You can report any such Facebook profile that violates Facebook’s terms and conditions or Facebook’s statement of Rights and Responsibilities. There is a hair line difference between a fake and an impostor profile and here we need to understand that as the method for reporting both of them are slightly different.
We are using the term ‘Fake’ here for the profiles that are using Fake profile name and if that name is yours (or anyone you know) then that will be an impostor profile that is if someone has created an account to impersonate or imitate you or someone else.
When I can report?
You can report a fake profile to Facebook whenever anyone violates Facebook’s terms and conditions.That can be:
- Profiles that impersonate you or someone else
- Profiles that use your photos
- Profiles that list a fake name
- Profiles that do not represent a real person
- Profiles that have been hacked
How to report a Fake/Impostor profile?
If someone is impersonating you or someone else, go to his/her profile page an click on “Report/Block this person” link on the left bottom of the page.
Then check the “Report this person” box and use “impersonating you or someone else”. Enter the Impersonated profile link in the box given there and add required comment which is mandatory too.Finally click submit.
However if someone is using fake profile name then just use “Using a fake name” option in the report type and add comments in “What makes it fake” box, click submit.
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Okay, so i have been having a problem with an imposter profile for a very long time, but I can’t figure out how to report it because every time i search for his/her profile, he or she must have me blocked from seeing it or something and therefore i can’t click that ‘report’ button. I have messaged facebook about it many times and nothing has been done. Please help me! this person is adding my friends and asking for naked pictures and stuff. it is terrible.
@Korinne, sure we’ll help you. Please check your e-mail.
i have a problem with a fake profiles and i have follow the how to report and remove.But through email or other account can still be see.
Guys pls help me…..someone created a fake profile in my name n been sending friend requests to everyone…he also using my picture n sending vulgar msgs and other stuffs..i reported in fb..but no response…pls help me guys..this person s givin me a hard time in fb….
@amar,
Please post your and your fake profile’s link here, I can see what I can do….
Hi – I hope you can help – I have tried to report the above page several times through Facebooks tool to do so – but whenever I do, it says that I don’t have a web address in there – which I do – This page was not created by the teacher Arlene Walk – and of course, she would like it taken down – I have tried to contact facebook several different ways with no success. r you can email me for confirmation. Thanks in advance if you are successful!
This page is fake. I have tried to report it several times to FB, but their form comes back and says that it is the incorrect web address. This page does not represent the teacher listed & she would like it removed as soon as possible. Any help would be much appreciated!
@Evelyn
All you can do is just report abuse and they will review it after submission. We can not report abuse it from our side because we don’t know which one is genuine and which one’s fake. Anyone can post a link here and ask everyone to report abuse cuz it’s a fake profile. So you have to do it on your own.
I’m wondering how long facebook takes to respond. I know they must have many submissions but should it take more than 48hrs?
I’ve got my mother crying on the phone because there’s a picture of me and a link to an escort service on the fake profile. What a day…
You can attach a scanned copy of any identification which proves that you are the genuine user of that account. That will definitely make the whole process faster.
http://www.facebook.com/home.p.....0644735128 this is the link for a fake profile made of me..could you please help me, the profile is sending requests to lost of people, put pictures up of me and my family and making very nasty comments about me..iv reported it and emailed fb but no reply..please could you help me it is casuing many problems for me and making threats..please please help
Just wanted to update and say that facebook is completely INCOMPETENT. My situation has gotten even worse at this point. This reporting only gives you a false sense of security because facebook doesn’t respond to the reports, emails or phone calls. Even the abuse@facebook which they set a 72hr response deadline still goes unanswered. I’ve given more than enough information including having the COMPANY INVOLVED contact facebook/report pictures and had at least 6 other people report the profile as fake. The article helped me get through the steps unfortunately facebook dropped the ball on this one.
@s
Your profile is redirecting me to my homepage, moreover please provide a link of your original profile aswell.
@Sarah
You have to provide complete information to Facebook which proves that the original account is yours. And please be patient cuz it’s not easy to manage more than 350 million Facebook profiles.
someone has created an impostor profile of my friend’s ex-boyfriend saying that they are still together and posting pictures of them both on the page. it is causing problems for both my friend and her ex. is there a way to get the impostor profile deleted?
@hannah
Report it to Facebook by the procedure mentioned above….
i deleted my own profile, because i couldn’t hand;e the messages from the fake profile. the fake was deleted last week, but a friend of mine that is still on facebook, told me the profile had been reactivated. if you click on to the link without being logged in it might direct you to the profile..please let me know if there is anythinhg you can do, bacause obviously facebook hasn’t removed it, and this is making things hard for me.
I have reported an imposter page that was made of me several times and nothing has been done about it. Its happened to me on myspace and they took care of it everytime. but with facebook nothing is being done about it. many of my friends tell me the person is friend requesting them and they even friend requested me which is how i found out about it in the first place. the imposters link is http://www.facebook.com/profil.....8496318..1 I can take a picture of myself with my facebook link to prove its me saying that they are impersonating me or something. thats what i did with myspace… i mean something needs to be done its starting to irritate me that i try reporting it and it seems like no one cares… please help! thanx. -Angelina
@Angelina Santiago
I’ve reported abuse your fake profile, hopefully facebook will remove your fake profile now. After reviewing all the comments of this post all I can say is that Facebook’s reporting system isn’t good at all.
You got that right… Their reporting system really sucks. But thanx for your help anyway!
the fake profile that has been made of me is being put on facebook, and then again being deactivated. i don’t understand why, the profile had been again deactivated now. facebook should have done something about it earlier to prevent any of this happening. i will make a request to you when or if the profile is activated again..
http://www.facebook.com/people.....0644735128
The fake profile has been put back on facebook. please can you do something about it.
Please please could you help get the fake profile removed. It’s still there and more people are being added. It is casuing alot of problems for me please help.
@s
I need your original profile link as well cuz I’ve to submit it while reporting. Please post it here.
i dont know it becasue i have deleted my original profile beacsue of it..the email i use to post these comments it the one i used for the profile..will that do??
please do something asap.
In case you have deactivated your old profile kindly re-activate it else make a new one.
i have reactivated it but have taken everything off of the profile can there still be something done.. this is the link for my original profile http://www.facebook.com/#/prof.....1811738078
There is someone who has created an account pretending to be me. They use my photos, add friends, and send messages in an unacceptable way. This problem actually goes beyond a fake profile and has been taken up with the law force in other matters. But for now, how can I get FB to delete the profile? Everytime I try to report the abuse it keeps giving me an error saying that I have an invalud URL…but it’s valid! Even my friends and family have tried doing for me, but they seem to get the same message. Please email me with any possible help that you can give me since I don’t want any information we exchange to be shard publicly. Thank you!!
why is nothing being done about the fake profile?? i have reported time after time for the last 2weeks and yet nothing ..when will some action be taken, when things get more out of hand than they already have???
why in my facebook page there is no report/block person link? how can i report the person impersonate me? and what about if this person blocked me from his/her list friend?
I reported a fake page of me like a week ago and nothing has been done about it and the person is posting other people pictures saying i had sexual relations with these people and i did not i need that page taken down as soon as possible
a person sent me a friend request with a fake profile, after I accepted it i call the person who they were pretending to be and she told me it was not her. I have the confirmation e-mail what can I do to report this http://www.facebook.com/n/?req.....7G505299G2
Write it to facebook.com while reporting….
delete her from your friend’s list and report it abuse….
Kindly read the above post again and carefully. Also read All about “Block People”/”Ignore User” on Facebook
Someone made a page under my son’s name and is adding his friends and now teachers. Sexual emails were sent to the teachers this past weekend. I have attempted to report this to facebook and no action has been taken. One of the teachers is taking this to the police…can we find out who this person is?
@Andrea It is indeed an issue and you can surely report the matter to Facebook for abuse as shown in the post. Taking it to the police would be one way to find out who this person is as I doubt Facebook would reveal the identity or log details unless it was a legal or police matter.
So I have just recently found out someone is using my photos but using another name.. I’m trying to report it but it keeps giving me the error message.