Pay no attention to the fake accounts and their fake messages.
He wanted to know who the people in these photos actually are, and if they realize their digital selves are being used to front fake Twitter accounts.
For Labour, Baroness Jones of Whitchurch suggested social networking sites should stop children from being able to use fake names or set up multiple accounts to disguise their identity.
Its responses to spambots or fake celebrity accounts is reactive .
This is when hackers set up hundreds of fake merchant accounts to simultaneously withdraw small sums of money from a single account--no one knows it has happened until it's over.
People can hold fake accounts, pretending to be someone they're not.
The group, convicted of engaging in illegal business activities, used fake electronics companies and bank accounts to help clients evade China's capital controls, prosecutors alleged.
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Twitter has limited front-end, proactive methods of weeding out fake accounts, because it wants it to be as easy to join as possible.
For the first time, we used a service called "Fakers" as part of the formula to eliminate followers that are either inactive or are fake twitter accounts.
Even if you were inclined to do so, it is exceptionally difficult to get an accurate hold on which Twitter accounts are actually fake.
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Match.com stands accused of quote "date bait, " which is making up fake emails from sexy potential partners to lure back customers whose accounts are about to expire with Match.com.
The purpose was, in part, to help train their machine algorithms to detect real names versus fake names and real account versus spam and fake accounts.
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The real-name rule also addresses issues such as fake accounts and real rumor mongering that Chinese users don't actually object to.
Fake and hacked accounts are everywhere on social networking sites and are frequently used to send malware or occasionally to extort money out of friends.
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Some of the accounts on the list of 20, 000 names appear to be old, unused or fake.
Sheffield Crown Court heard how the pair communicated using Facebook and Pooley even set up two fake accounts on the social media site so the girl's parents would not spot he was talking to their daughter.
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