Here's how you can block them!
No, these profiles have no real interest in connecting with you on Facebook. They pursue a completely different goal. Using stolen photos from the Internet, fraudsters create numerous profiles on Facebook and repeatedly send new friend requests to Facebook users.
These profiles are not interested in you, they are not real names, but fake profiles. In the end, it's all about money.
Once accepted, they spam the new friend with dubious links to websites in the hope that he will click on them.
If you now follow the link, you will end up on a paid dating portal that asks you to register. The friend request itself only serves as a lure. What is interesting is that you are not taken directly to the dating site, but the link from the Facebook profile leads to an intermediate website, which in turn leads to the dating site and inserts a commission code. The owners of the dating portal can therefore see where their flow of visitors comes from and who they have to thank for it.
This means: Whoever creates these fake profiles also receives a commission for every registration on this dating portal.
But you can easily stop that!
Such dubious friend requests can be curbed somewhat! To do this, simply click on your friend requests (1) and “Settings” (2). It is very likely that many users have set this up so that any other user can send them a friend request. This happens when “All” is selected here. Now switch to “Friends of Friends” (3) and you will no longer receive friend requests from these fake profiles.
With this method you only receive friend requests from people who are already friends with one of your contacts. But the same applies here: Check who is behind a friend request!
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