How to Delete a Facebook account which is Impersonating you?
Internet spam is everywhere, you get quite a few spam emails every week and if you are active on social sites, you have seen so many spam profiles here and there.
Profile impersonification, however is a serious issue – some people can completely replicate your profile, steal photos from your albums and have the same information displayed on social sites e.g Facebook, Orkut, Myspace.
If you or any of your friends find someone impersonating a Facebook profile, here are the steps to ask Facebook to remove or block the spam profile:
Remove a Facebook Account Which is Impersonating You
1. First, note down the profile ID and the URL of the spam profile. This is required, because later you would want to check whether the same profile still exists or not.
2. Since you want Facebook to completely delete that profile, deleting the person from your friend list isn’t going to solve the problem. You have to report the profile as a spam profile and wait for some time till Facebook removes that person.
3. Open the profile in your browser, scroll down to the end of the page and click “Report/Block” this person.
4. This will open up a submission form where you can provide more information and report the profile as spam. Choose the “Report this person” checkbox and select “Fake profile” from the options drop down. Next, Choose the report type as “Impersonating me or someone else”
Next, enter the profile URL which is being impersonified. This means, you have to enter the profile URL of the person whose profile has been copied or whose images have been used.
Hit the submit button and you are done. An Administrator from Facebook will review your application and take action as a result of your report. You will not be notified whether any action has been taken to remove the profile, but you can enter the spam profile URL in the browser address bar and check whether it exists or not.
If you are redirected to the home page or get an error message, this means the profile has been successfully blocked and removed from Facebook.
More tips on Facebook:
1. Access Facebook when blocked in school office or workplace.
2. Download Facebook photo albums, videos.
Well you need to give valid reason. Thanks for the share.
hi! someone is impersonating me in facebook. i already reported the matter. but until now the fake account still exist. can you help me? thanks
@agent: Can you provide us more information on how the profile is impersonating you? Is he/she using your images or other profile information ?
hi amit! the fake profile uses my first name and other person’s family name. my picture is also posted in the profile. also some information like school and work are copied. thanks a lot
@agent: You should ask some of your friends to report abuse the profile in the same way as described in the article.
Thanks a lot Amit!! have a nice day
well someone is trying to act like me on facebook added all my friends also they have the same picure of me on facebook….i alreday reported them but the profile still exsits so now i deleted my facebook and i’m worried that they still are talking to my friends trying to act like me
also i sent everyone a message that this person is trying to act like me…and i don’t know what else i can do.
@eeheba: Why did you deleted your account ? You should tell as many close friends as possible to report the profile as spam. It will surely work out, thanks for the comment.
Hi, This person named Alice Nalbandyan , http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001211540186&ref=ts, is impersonating me by using my pictures from the albums posted on my page, and I have people telling me that this person was adding them as friends as if it was me. This person also used pictures with my friends and family members and God knows what messages were sent or received throughout all the time the account was open. This person already has 117 friends in 2 months, cause that’s when it shows the pictures were uploaded. It freaks me out, and I have friends who also reported this person as a fake account using somebody else’s pictures. I reported her couple of days ago, and nothing happened, I m waiting impatiently, Facebook Please remove this account. Thanks
@Lily: Ask as many friends as you have to report the profile as Fake or spam, Facebook authgorities will surtely take the necessary action.
best of luck
My URL, http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001211540186&ref=ts#!/profile.php?id=653412079
Hi,someone has created a profile of my friend who does not have a FB account. I have a facebook account and wish to report her page as a fake profile however, it tells me to paste the URL of the profile being impersonated. I cant because my friend does not have an account to begin with. Isn’t there an email i can report this fake profile too? and also report the person who created it? please help. thanks.
@sharon: You should ask all of your fiends to “report Spam” the profile who is impersonating your friend.