How To Find Out Who Made A Fake Instagram Account
Many cybercriminals use fake Instagram account generators. As their goal is to create hundreds of accounts in a short amount of time, they don’t have time to fine tune or curate them. Given this, it’s usually easy to spot fake accounts if you look closely.
These are some signs that an account could be fake:
- 1. The profile photo doesn't look realistic, often it shows a pretty girl or boy.
- 2. The account has unrealistic photo gallery with only a few photos in it. Sometimes it's full of selfies, but somehow the person in the selfie doesn't match the person in the profile photo. Or the gallery is full of beautiful photographs that look like they have been shot professionally, but if you read the bio, it says a completely different narrative (professional photographer normally says about their passion and their job in the bio).
- 3. You can also check when the photos in the gallery being posted, if they have been posted roughly at the same day, then it's one of the signs that they have been uploaded by a bot.
- 4. The number of followers are far exceed the number of followings.
- 5. Check the first photo in the gallery and when it was posted, if it's just recently then it could mean that it's a new account. Combine with the numbers of followers it starts to be suspicious.
Do the following to find out if a fake Instagram account is messaging you or not:
- 1. Check their engagement to follower ratio with the DMPro app. If their engagement rate is lower than 1%, then there is a good chance that they are fake.
- 2. If their engagement rate is very high, then it could be a fake account.
- 3. Fake users use bots to get an excessive amount of super generic comments. Fake bots may send irrelevant DMs with different content like marketing and other things.
- 4. You can analyze their audience quality with some free IG Audit tools. Normal users won’t have a 100% real followers estimate.
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