Nobody needs these “friends” on Facebook!

Have you noticed? For several days now there have been an increasing number of friend requests from people all over the world on Facebook. We explain why you don't need these friends!

She smiles so friendly, this nice woman from Southeast Asia. And he, he waves so sweetly in his profile picture, this little boy from Central Africa. And – wow – she looks so pretty, this young, busty woman. And they all want to be my friends on Facebook.

But stop, these profiles all have something in common: There are no people behind them who are interested in a real connection in the sense of social media. These are spam profiles that have their own agenda!

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There are various reasons why spam profiles try to sneak into a friends list. Most of the time it's about money that the people behind these profiles want to earn. So they're not real friends, they're just wallet friends.

In this article we explain the possibilities of fraud through fake friends.

False friends: subscription traps

At this point we are talking about the “sexy” profiles. Visually appealing profile pictures with young women or men want to get into your circle of friends. However, a quick look at their profile quickly shows: They offer that you can also see them naked!

And they supposedly like to expose themselves for you, but not on Facebook , but on a flirt portal where you should register. Well, bravo, at this point at the latest you should notice that something isn't right.

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You are lured by these profiles to websites that are tough and where you fall into very expensive subscription traps, sometimes costing several hundred euros. The profiles themselves do not exist there because they were already fictitious on Facebook ( compare ).

Scam profiles

The term scam means advance payment fraud. Here, strangers try to build a basis of trust. These fake friends lead to a kind of pen pal relationship via messenger. It's very friendly and trustworthy. A story of suffering often plays a role in the background, so that a certain degree of pity is aroused.

However, at a certain point things get serious. A major stroke of fate occurs, the person on the other end needs money (for whatever). So the request comes if you could help out. Initially these are small and affordable sums of money that the supposed friends need.

But once such a scammer has managed to do this, the pleading requests for help become greater and the blows of fate become more severe! We warn: The Sammers are not idiots! They know their game and know exactly what tricks they can use to soften their victims. We have reported on a variety of scams over the last few years, please also take a look at our archive .

Fake friends as sleepers

In the end, you also have to be careful about sleepers. Some profiles simply want to get on a friends list in order to collect information about the corresponding profile or to ultimately lure their own circle of friends into fake shop traps.

This system is not new, we have known it for many years ( compare )! People wonder why they are tagged in fake shop ads on Facebook. This is because they have a “bad egg” in their friends list who anonymously manages a fake shop page and can tag the friends of their profile there.

So be careful!

Therefore, if a request comes in from an unknown person on Facebook, you should be careful. In principle, it is not wrong to make your own profile so closed that strangers cannot even send a request. We recommend our article “ Your Facebook profile: Secure in 5 minutes ”.

But who can you trust now? Our colleague from the music editorial team says clearly: “Mimikama! Because we are on the good side!”