Dhaka, Aug 5 Beware of friend requests from unknown people, precisely because there are 83.09 million fake Facebook accounts.
The company in its latest regulatory filing said that almost 8.7 percent of its 955 million monthly active users worldwide are actually duplicate or false accounts.
While Facebook does not encourage the creation of a fake profile, creating one is no big deal and just requires an alternate email ID.
According to reports, Facebook has divided the fake accounts into categories such as duplicate 4.8% (45.8 million), misclassified (22.9 million) and undesirable (14.3 million) accounts.
Undesirable accounts are ones clearly created for spamming.
"We believe the percentage of accounts that are duplicate or false is meaningfully lower in developed markets such as the United States or Australia and higher in developing markets such as Indonesia and Turkey," the company said in the filing.
Facebook says it disables false accounts and wipes all information associated with it.
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