While there might not be a direct method of finding whether the account who just sent you a friend request is genuine or not, however, there are a few tips or signs which can be highlighted to identify such fake requests to avoid any sort of damage.
Why Would Anyone Send You a Fake Request on Facebook
There are all sorts of people in the world and that is why some fake friend requests might be harmless, where people just want to be your friend without any more reasons. While on the other hand, some might have an agenda behind their fake friend request, which can be harmful to you or anyone around you. The following is a list of reasons why anyone might send you a fake request.
What are the Signs to Know it is a Fake Friend Request?
The following signs and clues for guessing whether the friend request that you just received is a fake or a real one could be very helpful for you.
Look for Common Friends. The biggest and the most important sign of a fake request would be NO common friends. While there might be possibilities that you have met the person face to face but cannot recall their appearance through the display picture. But, higher chances of the request being fake because why would anyone even add you if they don’t have a common friend or haven’t met you before?Minimum to no Facebook History or information. People who use fake profiles to send fake requests often keep their Facebook profiles very limited with very few pictures of them. The information that they share on their profile is also not enough for the other person, which again is an important sign of this being a fake friend request. Be careful if you get a friend request from such a profile.Analyze the Friends of this profile. If the list of friends for this person has more of the same gender in their profile, then chances are that it is a fake profile, where the person is only adding more of the same gender for whatever harmful reasons they have in mind. Another thing that you can examine for this purpose is whether they have few or more friends. Fake profile holders often keep their profile undercover, and therefore often have very few friends, or are focusing on the gender same as yours.
Be very careful the next time you receive a friend request and make sure you thoroughly examine the profile of the sender before accepting their friend request.
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