Trace a Fake Facebook Account and Find it Out

Your Quick Answer:

To identify/trace a fake Facebook account, you go to the Facebook profile of that person and look for the three most important things: profile picture, timeline stuff, and personal info.

If you see anything suspicious there you can spot the fake profile.

If you have found a person who does not have a DP on their profile nor has any mutual person who comments on his/her pictures as a friend, that could be the fake one.

Implementing this with a Fakebook profile is not that easy. But, if you want to know how to determine these, read this guide till the end that you’ll get in this article.

Although, if you want you can track someone’s location on Messenger.

In this article, you have a few ways that you can track a Facebook user and find out whether the person is a fake Facebook user or else this will help you spot the fake people on Facebook.

What Are The Signs that it is a Fake Facebook Account:

Spotting out a fake Facebook account is not a hard thing especially when you know how to implement the facts with the profile.

The ways discussed here to spot a Facebook account do not mean always that this method can mark it as fake, you have ways to tell confidently whether it is a real profile or not.

1. Check his Profile Link:

You have to look for the profile link and check if anything that tells the reality of that account. Usually, the fake account holder behind tries to increase the followers and if the account belonged to someone else previously, you will see the name in that profile link (if not changed).

Sometimes the name looks like any cool name on Facebook that does not disclose the real name behind it, so by looking at the profile link you have a chance to find his name or surname.

If the person made any changes to his profile link while making that fake account, you can catch it from there, as you know Facebook does not allow you multiple times to change your profile link username and that is the advantage you can take to catch a profile if this is a fake account on Facebook by looking at the profile link.

2. Look at Uploaded Profile Picture:

Another thing that you have to check, is the profile picture. The fake account holder uploads different types of pictures of different people in that profile.

If he uploads different types of images on his profile and tries to attract more followers, it’s a sign. The main intention, you have to look if it’s to get more followers on Facebook. The person who is behind the fake account always tries to attract followers count to use that fall into his own personal use.

How to Trace a Fake Facebook account:

Follow the below steps:

Step 1: Shorten the article link on https://iplogger.org/

If you’re trying to trace a fake account on Facebook, you’ll need to use a tracking link from the IP Logger tool. It’s a free tool. You need to shorten the link and then send it to the fake profile via Messenger.

Follow these few steps to track a fake Facebook account. First, copy any article’s link and then open the IP logger tool from the link: https://iplogger.org/.

Then, you need to paste the link into the input box and click on Create a Shortlink.
You’ll be taken to the next page, where you’ll get the shortened link. Copy the link to your clipboard.

Step 2: Send in Facebook Chat

After copying the link to your clipboard, you need to open the Facebook application and then search for the person or fake profile using the search bar of Facebook.

From the search results, click on his name and enter this profile. Next, you need to click on Message and then you’ll be taken to the Messenger chat page. Paste the shortened link in the text box and send it to the user.

Step 3: Wait to Get Them Clicked

After seeing the link to the user, type and send another message asking him to click on the link to check out the interesting article associated with it. You need to patiently wait for the user to see your message and click on the link. As soon as he clicks on the link, the IP address as well as the location of the user will get recorded by the IP Logger tool.

Step 4: Open Access Link & Track IP

After waiting patiently for some time, you need to access the results link or the tracking code by entering it into the input box of the IP Logger. Then click on the It’s a tracking code button to go to the results page where you’ll be able to track the user’s details.

Step 5: Track From Where the Facebook user is

After you’re taken to the results page, you’ll be able to see the IP address of the user, country, and city of the user, as well as the date and time of clicking the link. You can use the IP address for tracking other information about the user from any online IP tracker.

How to find the phone number of a fake Facebook account:

Try the following methods:

1. Find on Profile

If you’re trying to find the contact details or phone number of any fake Facebook profile, you can check in the About section of the Facebook profile to see if it has any phone number linked to the account or not. But most of the time, in the case of fake Facebook profiles, you’ll not find any phone number in the About section as the owner hides it to protect his identity.

2. If you Have a Phone Number to Search

However, if you get the phone number of the user on the fake Facebook profile, you’ll need to first note down the number and then save it to your contact book. After saving it to your contact book, you’ll need to turn on the contact syncing on Messenger so that the accounts linked to the phone numbers on your device will be suggested to your Messenger suggestions list.

From there you can find out the account linked to the phone number. But if you don’t find any Facebook profile linked to that particular number, you can search for the owner information of the number using Google search and check if you can find useful data from the results.

🔴 Steps to turn on contact sync on Messenger:

Step 1: Open the Messenger app.

Step 2: Click on the profile picture icon.

Step 3: Then, click on Phone Contacts.

Step 4: Click on Upload Contacts. Click on Turn on.

How to Know who Created the Facebook Account:

If you are confused about whether someone created a fake profile on your name, finding that is very easy. If you are wondering whether it is possible to trace an IP address of a fake Facebook account or not, yes you can do it.

1. Let’s Google Image search:

You have to do a reverse image search on Google to find all of your fake accounts registered on different social media platforms either on Facebook, Instagram, or any other social media platforms.

For this, you have to go to Google.com and from there click on the image-search icon.

Before doing that: just keep a few of your images ready that you have posted online on your Facebook or any other social media platforms.

Now perform the image search on Google using those pictures one by one and look at the results shown to you.

This will show your original images as you are using those for your search and also the other links if available with these similar images if on any other profile.

If the person or anyone has made an account on Facebook then images will reflect on the search with a Facebook.com link at the start.

This reverse search works in search engines like Yahoo, Bing, and Google, and this method is helpful in finding fake profiles that were present a long ago also.

While you are trying to log in, sometimes you will need your profile image to help Facebook identify the profile that you want to log into.

If you see multiple accounts present in the search results while you made the image search, you will get all of the lists of fake accounts that were added to your original account in that search result list.

This is the easiest option that you can use for checking if any fake profile is made on your name.

Alternative to Trace a Fake Facebook Account:

You can also try this:

1️⃣ Open a fake Facebook account checker on your device.

2️⃣ Enter the Facebook profile link onto that tool.

This will expose if that is a fake account depending on a few factors on the account.

Steps for fake Facebook Account Deletion:

If you have found a fake account, you can take action on that profile either legally or technically.

1. Legal Support:

Celebrities or famous persons can take action by complaining to the local authority by informing the fake account details registered in their name.

But, this is recommended only when the case is severe and goes to such an extent where complaining becomes a must-do thing rather it may work as a promotional fan page.

2. Help from Facebook:

But if you want to go for a technical approach then you can just inform the host of the platform (like if it is on Facebook), then you have to inform this Facebook. This process takes time that definitely makes your goals succeed by closing all of the fake accounts by the Facebook team itself.

When you contact the Facebook team for my account verification, they will reply within 72 hours and ask for the legal document proofs (i.e. driving license, Green Card) and once they verified the original one, all of the fake accounts on your name with personal images will be deactivated on request.

If you want to prevent someone from stealing Facebook posts or images then you can set privacy to prevent such people to make a fake account in the future with your images.

If you want to use your Facebook account with your friends you can set your privacy to only ‘Friends’ or to ‘Specific friends’. This secures your profile more in a standard way by stopping your posts from appearing on the ‘friends of friends’ timeline.

Frequently Asked Questions:

1. How to trace a dummy account in Messenger?

You can use a tracking link to trace the location of a dummy account on Messenger. You can shorten any link from IP Logger or Grabify IP Logger tool to send the user on Messenger. Ask the user to click on the link to see the content associated with it. After he clicks on the link, you’ll be able to track his IP address and location. You can also directly ask the user to send his location too.

2. How to Trace Unknown Facebook users?

If you want to know more about any unknown Facebook user or trace their account, you’ll need to first add the user to your friend list by sending or accepting the friend request. Then check his profile information in his About section. You can also send a tracking link to the user on Messenger to find the user’s location and IP address.

3. Can Police Track Fake Facebook Accounts?

The only way you can get the IP address of such a person who is using your fake Facebook account now or before is just from the local authority.

Facebook shares the details with the local law authority where they are doing business.

Once you get the IP address of the person, by taking help from the ISP the authority will be able to find out the person who was behind that fake Facebook account, and then you can take your actions accordingly, but this needs a permission letter from the Law Enforcement and then only Facebook will provide the details to the police.

Note: If the person was using a third-party server or the local authority cannot reach and even in case the third-party service does not share the data, no person is able to find him. But, remember, there is nothing impossible when the case is extreme.

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7 thoughts on “Trace a Fake Facebook Account and Find it Out”

Jeannette

February 7, 2021 at 11:58 pm

Someone sent me a disturbing message and I believe it’s a fake page. Your guide shows to find out who is behind this and I’m trying to figure out who it is so that I can take actions.
- Pranab Sen
  
  February 8, 2021 at 4:52 pm
  
  Good Luck!
Christine

March 12, 2021 at 11:57 pm

This really awesome Pranab, I could find that one friend on Facebook behaving like this.
- Pranab Sen
  
  March 13, 2021 at 12:00 pm
  
  Maybe he is fake!
Kedi

March 23, 2021 at 6:34 pm

Someone with a fake Facebook page insulting people – now deleted the account. So how will I trace the deleted Facebook account?
- Pranab Sen
  
  March 27, 2021 at 1:00 pm
  
  Hello Kedi, just follow the above guide or take help from your local authority. It’s hard but not impossible.
Meghna

August 8, 2021 at 2:08 pm

Thank you for the awesome steps. Really this made the way easier to find a fake Facebook.