Hack back series is all about YOU and how I can contribute to make the internet a safer place for everyone. Hack Back Series:How to spot fake pictures. A Way to figure out false social media network requests.

1. A Way to figure out false social media network requests.
By 404Whylo
©2013 www.404Whylo.com™ All rights reserved. 26 November, 2013
Hack Back Series:
How to spot fake pictures
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2. • Hack back series is all about YOU and how I can contribute to
make the internet a safer place for everyone.
©2011 www.404Whylo.com™ All rights reserved. 26 November, 2013
Summary
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3. • Based on the elevation of fake request on social media
platforms I decided to create this short practical guide on how
to spot fake pictures.
• Based on a real life LinkedIn request I will show you some
tricks in spotting fake pictures very easily.
• Follow the steps and try it out yourself.
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How to spot fake pictures
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4. Check also for the e-mail
address of the connection
request. If the e-mail
address is suspicious then
try to write to the persons email address and wait for a
reply. Or ask the person if
he or she can confirm the
e-mail or write back from
the claimed place of work.
In this example you could
ask the person to write you
an e-mail from the company
e-mail account (Dell).
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The profile of the request
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5. • Right click on the profile picture of the person and do a Google
search (i.e. Search Google for this image).
• By the way if there is no profile picture of the person who
wants to connect to you this is maybe also is not a good sign of
a legitimate profile.
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Right profile picture
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6. This easy search
reveals already that
this
picture
is
probably from a job
search webpage. If
this where a true
person you might
would find multiple
pictures in different
contexts which then
can confirm it’s a real
person.
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The results…
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7. • Advanced profile picture search (with
the help of http://www.tineye.com/ ) .
Just to let you know I am in no way
affiliated with http://www.tineye.com/
nor do I get any incentives,
endorsements etc. etc. It’s a tool and
it’s free and it works. It helps to protect
you so just try it at your discretion.
• First go to the profile picture:
• Then right click on the profile picture
and select “Copy image URL” After
that open a new browser window for
http://www.tineye.com/ There you can
paste the image URL in the ENTER
image Address box and click search .
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Tineye advance search
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8. As you can see the
picture is all over
the place, the exact
same
picture.
Conclusion:
this
cannot be an actual
picture of a real
person
therefore
you should not
actually
connect
with this person
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Tineye results
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Thanks and don’t
forget to have
fun!
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