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Beginning of the end for social network scams and fake profiles

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NEW DELHI, INDIA: FakeOff has launched a new Facebook application that protects its users from scams devised by fake Facebook users, who are mistaken for genuine "new friends".

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Recent statistics show that at least 10 per cent of approx. 1.35 Billion Facebook users are not authentic. In addition, there are millions of users who take fake identities and appear as regular users.

Fake profiles are divided into several main groups - criminals, commercial, psychological, etc. -that can risk our reputation (identity theft), our children (pedophiles & sexual abuse), our property (home break-ins) and our personal safety.

The FakeOFF application is using sophisticated algorithm to investigate the behavior of suspect "friends" and rank them according to a 1-10 credibility score. The application scans up to 365 days of timeline activity for every suspect Facebook friend and checks for abnormal activity.

As fake profiles on Facebook usually can't use authentic images on their timeline, FakeOFF also runs an image scan that searches the web for the source of the suspect image. Using the image integrity test and the timeline deep scan, the user gets a definitive and very accurate result.

We like to think of FakeOFF as a social 'human antivirus' application that can offer users real-time protection through background profile investigations and safeguard our children from harm.

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