What the fake? My new Twitter follower who isn’t real

OSINT Essentials
4 min readMay 18, 2021

A few quick tips on some of the giveaways that can help you spot fake accounts

The technology for creating fakes is getting better all the time. And a determined and resourceful faker can make life very difficult for you. But sometimes there are giveaways that make it a bit easier. This post is a quick run through a few examples that came up when I got a new Twitter follower on May 17.

Twitter notification of a new follower called “Brenda Henley”.

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