Don’t get sucked into the machine | #48
Don’t get sucked into the machine | #48 Daily Dose of Dawn at dawn 🌞
Fake accounts, phishing messages, romance scams, and rage bait are everywhere online—and they’re designed to hijack your emotions so you react fast. In Daily Dose of Dawn at dawn #48, Dawn Super shares practical ways to spot fakes on social media, protect your accounts, and avoid getting pulled into scammy “comment bait” and viral manipulation. You’ll learn common red flags in personal and business accounts, how scammers spoof friends, what real platform notifications look like, and when to slow down, verify, and walk away. (Related: see Dose 31 for more on bots and fake accounts.)
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Scams change fast, so when in doubt, verify through official platform notifications and trusted sources.
Don’t get sucked into the machine – Daily Dose of Dawn #48
(How to spot fakes)
If you know can’t know the truth, don’t let a lie control your feelings. When I put out Dose 31 (https://dawnsuper.com/post/dailydose31) about how there are so many bot accounts, rage baiters and phishers online - several people requested I do a dose about to spot them. (If you want to see images of what I’m referring to - check out the video dose for screen grabs.)
Red Flags in Personal Profiles:
• Check the name orientation - first and last swapped, or odd punctuation, is a red flag.
• Look for misgendered bios or details that don’t match the photos.
• Someone says they “live in the USA” but all their friends or page likes are from Nigeria or other unrelated locations? 🚩
• If their timeline shows years of pictures and events all uploaded on the same day, that’s a fake build.
Red Flags in Business Messages
• Any message claiming to be from “Meta” (Facebook) is a fake. Meta doesn’t use individuals to send their messages.
• Facebook communicates through Notifications only. It’s undeniable when it’s real.
• If they think you’ve violated intellectual property, they’ll take the post down first and notify you second. So, any “warning messages” you get in Messenger or your inbox? That’s just phishing - attempts to steal your password.
Scams to Watch For:
Spoofing your actual friends:
• When you get a request from a friend and you’re already friends. Scammers will take your friends images and copy all their information and then add all their existing friends. They hope you’ll fall for it and then they can message you as the friend, claiming to be in trouble and in need of money.
• Avoid this by searching up your actual friend’s page. Message them a screenshot and then Report the requester as Pretending to Be Someone – then enter your friend’s name and choose their profile.
Romance scams:
• Military members stationed abroad – Generals are not finding love on Facebook, I promise.
• Doctors without borders – who end up ‘needing your help.’
• Freshly divorced men with small children in their profile pic – ‘starting over’
• Messages – Hello dear, I want to get to know you. Great, that’s what my walls for
• Comments – I love the stuff you post and for some reason I can’t friend request you, will you send me a request? Because they already got reported and can’t request people any more.
• Someone sends you a friend request and everyone they are following is a member of the opposite sex. This happens because when you send a friend request to certain people and they do not accept, you automatically start following them.
Highlight scam:
• Type the @ and highlight to win ___. Not happening. Adding that to their post creates a notification in your friends feed that says “Your friend thinks you should check out this post.” It’s all about getting eyeballs on their post so they can get paid – there’s never anything to win.
• If you look at the Abouts on these type pages you’ll often see six months ago they were called something else, offering something else free.
Rage bait:
• This is becoming increasingly popular – posting scenarios that are not real to enrage the people who see them so they MUST comment. Often uses vids like spousal abuse, bad child behavior, mistreating animals, even Vest Cams from police videos are being faked using actors or AI. If you see something that really upsets you - open a browser and search for more details. When I do this, I either find a news story about it, or I find it’s (bull) (poop)
Misspellings:
• When you see a commonly misspelled word – comment bait.
• When you see ‘you can’t think of a word that starts with and ends with ’ – comment bait.
OK, that’s a lot to digest lol. I accumulated that knowledge over several years of vetting group member applications and experiencing facebook as a business and person.
More than anything – take your time, look around. When in doubt – just get out. Delete. Block. Move on.
We want to stay safe online; it’s why you’re still reading this. Hopefully you got some good data and as you learn like I did, you’ll care to share it too because… we care about each other and we know that together we all win!
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