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>>c420+(OP)
Sounds like the idea is that the fake profiles are created so they can make mass "friend requests". Then, when those friend requests are accepted by some amount of your actual friends, it unlocks more access to your data. Or even more if you're fooled and accept one of the fake profiles as a friend/follower.

I guess NYPD's way around people that don't make their profiles fully public.

It would be interesting if Facebook is willing to punish/ban/etc not just the companies directly doing this, but their clients as well.

>>tyingq+W4
This is an old strategy, and one of the reasons I don't accept random friend requests.

It isn't just the NYPD that does this, it's advertisers, data mining companies, financial institutions, employers, nation-states, ex's, stalkers, etc.

It's cheap and easy to do, so why wouldn't organizations mine that data that have the resources to do so?

>>heavys+V6
Have you ever had friend requests from a "clone"? An actual IRL friend of yours, but it's a scam duplicate of their profile. It's not always immediately obvious if this isn't a friend you interact with regularly, like someone who accepted a request from years ago.

>>aqme28+Ee
Hasn't happened that I know about, but I only accept requests after confirming with the person who added me that they sent it. I spent too much time in parts of the internet where catfishing like that was done routinely as trolling.