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I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted, they actually lock people out asking for an government ID[0] (AFAIK not necessarily yourself in the photo). I also k

by bilkow 6y ago

I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted, they actually lock people out asking for an government ID[0] (AFAIK not necessarily yourself in the photo). I also know someone who wanted to change their last name (their current one is already fake) and the system didn't let them without sending an ID. [0] https://www.facebook.com/help/community/question/?id=101616510396306 https://www.facebook.com/help/community/question/?id=1016165...

prophesi 6y ago
Yeah, I created an account a few years ago, since a few of my friends relied on Messenger / FB Events to coordinate plans. I used anti-tracking plugins, on mobile I used an unofficial F-Droid client for Messenger, desktop only used the mbasic.facebook.com It was probably two months before my account was flagged for "suspicious activity" and asked that I submit a photo of a government-issued ID, which I never obliged.
- mroche 6y ago
  You’re lucky. I made it 30 minutes after changing all the privacy settings and not providing a phone number then signing in on my phone browser. I accidentally sent in my profile pic for the “suspicious activity” verifier which is totally on me. Instantly got my account disabled and have been unsuccessful at recovering it since June 2019 despite several attempts at sending in my ID as they requested. However, now the create a new account page says there’s an existing disabled account with this email address, but the account support portal says one doesn’t exist! Top notch engineering. Luckily I have my IG account for Messenger login, but I can’t use it for desktop sign-on’s which is pretty dumb.
squeaky-clean 6y ago
My group of friends has an in-joke about an imaginary friend of ours that we blame whenever small inconveniences happen. ("I didn't eat the the last slice of pizza! Marcelo did it!") We made a Facebook account for Marcelo a few years back as a joke. One day a couple years in, we could no longer log into his account without proving his identity. We probably tripped some internal flags because it was being logged into by several IPs that also had their own Facebook accounts is my guess, that or someone not in on the joke reported Marcelo. Either way, Marcelo can't use Facebook anymore... A small inconvenience in our case, but this is definitely something that can and does happen to fake accounts. Annoyingly, someone/somebot made a full mirror of my Facebook account one day and sent me a friend request as well as several of my friends and family. I reported it and eventually got back a response that the account was not in violation of any rules. That was years ago and I had forgotten about it until just now. Just checked today and it seems it's actually gone, but it was very creepy at the time.
cma 6y ago
I've seen them ask for the person to be in the photo with the license.

by bilkow 6y ago

prophesi 6y ago

Yeah, I created an account a few years ago, since a few of my friends relied on Messenger / FB Events to coordinate plans. I used anti-tracking plugins, on mobile I used an unofficial F-Droid client for Messenger, desktop only used the mbasic.facebook.com It was probably two months before my account was flagged for "suspicious activity" and asked that I submit a photo of a government-issued ID, which I never obliged.

mroche 6y ago
You’re lucky. I made it 30 minutes after changing all the privacy settings and not providing a phone number then signing in on my phone browser. I accidentally sent in my profile pic for the “suspicious activity” verifier which is totally on me. Instantly got my account disabled and have been unsuccessful at recovering it since June 2019 despite several attempts at sending in my ID as they requested. However, now the create a new account page says there’s an existing disabled account with this email address, but the account support portal says one doesn’t exist! Top notch engineering. Luckily I have my IG account for Messenger login, but I can’t use it for desktop sign-on’s which is pretty dumb.

squeaky-clean 6y ago

My group of friends has an in-joke about an imaginary friend of ours that we blame whenever small inconveniences happen. ("I didn't eat the the last slice of pizza! Marcelo did it!") We made a Facebook account for Marcelo a few years back as a joke. One day a couple years in, we could no longer log into his account without proving his identity. We probably tripped some internal flags because it was being logged into by several IPs that also had their own Facebook accounts is my guess, that or someone not in on the joke reported Marcelo. Either way, Marcelo can't use Facebook anymore... A small inconvenience in our case, but this is definitely something that can and does happen to fake accounts. Annoyingly, someone/somebot made a full mirror of my Facebook account one day and sent me a friend request as well as several of my friends and family. I reported it and eventually got back a response that the account was not in violation of any rules. That was years ago and I had forgotten about it until just now. Just checked today and it seems it's actually gone, but it was very creepy at the time.

cma 6y ago

I've seen them ask for the person to be in the photo with the license.