{"id":12729,"date":"2021-08-01T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T16:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialcatfish.com\/blog\/?p=12729"},"modified":"2026-01-22T11:24:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T19:24:32","slug":"national-friendship-day-how-to-tell-your-online-friend-is-fake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.socialcatfish.cloud\/scamfish\/national-friendship-day-how-to-tell-your-online-friend-is-fake\/","title":{"rendered":"National Friendship Day: How to Tell Your Online Friend is Fake"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most of us have hundreds of friends on social media<\/a>, even though we barely talk to half the people on our list. We share our personal photos<\/a> and status updates<\/a> to the world on a daily basis, showcasing our lives to people we don’t know. Sometimes we don’t even check whether or not we know someone before adding them to our social media friend lists. Because of this, we could be sharing our personal information with a scammer that could help them access our bank accounts.<\/a> This is why it is important to know how to tell your online friend is fake this National Friendship Day so that your profile is only visible to your real friends.<\/p>\n

How to Tell Your Online Friend is Fake on\u00a0National Friendship Day<\/h2>\n[aesop_image img=”https:\/\/socialcatfish.com\/scamfish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pexels-artem-beliaikin-3032138-scaled.jpg” panorama=”off” imgwidth=”100%” align=”center” lightbox=”off” captionsrc=”custom” captionposition=”center” revealfx=”off” overlay_revealfx=”off”]\n

1. They Either Have 1,000 Friends or No Friends At All<\/h3>\n

Most of the time, scammers can buy followers for their social media profiles<\/a> to make it look like they have friends. However, if you look at their online friends’ profiles, you will see that a lot of them barely post on their profiles. This is due to the fact that most of their bought online friends are also fake profiles.<\/p>\n

You can also tell when a fake profile<\/a> has bought engagement when their fake friends like their posts or leave generic comments, such as “Pretty pic” or “Congratulations.” They usually won’t say anything personable. If they have no friends on their friends’ list, this might also mean that it’s a fake profile.<\/p>\n

2. Their Photos Look Too Good to Be True<\/h3>\n

Scammers will claim to be the person in the images they post, even though these photos look too good to be true. Usually, the photo is edited, looks like it came from a professional photo shoot, or doesn’t look like an average person. This is because usually, scammers steal images from models, social media influencers<\/a>, or celebrities that are not as well-known.<\/p>\n

When they post a photo, they also come up with a cheesy quote rather than a personable caption like everyone else comes up with when posting an image. They might also post either too many images in a day, or barely any images at all of themselves. If you are questioning whether or not an image is real, you can run a reverse image search with Social Catfish<\/a> to see whose photo it actually is.<\/p>\n

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