We're gonna be talking about making a Facebook sockpuppet account.
In order to help build a more secure Facebook account.
Now, first of all, why is Facebook sockpuppet account?
Well, technically, we should be using a sock puppet account for any social media account.
And the reason for that is.
Having a sockpuppet account or a burner account is essentially a safe way to do an investigation, because
when we're doing an investigation, we want an account that's really not associated to us.
We want to make sure the account is fairly clean.
So again, if we're using our own social media accounts, we have tendencies to have different people
that we're friends with.
We're connected to a bunch of different posts and whatnot, and we don't want any of that during the
investigation.
We want to use an account that's pretty clean and completely disassociated from us.
So the reason for this is if we're doing an investigation, people might not want to be found.
We might these people might look to get revenge on us and whatnot.
So again, a sockpuppet account is a safer way to go.
So building a Facebook Sockpuppet account.
Now the old way used to be you hop on the Tor browser and you build your account.
That way it's using a browser that really doesn't associate to your location, your machine and whatnot,
or use a VPN or use a disposable email service like 33 mail or gorilla mail, or even use a service
like tax free, give it a bogus phone number and create your account.
Now, I do say the old way was using these methods, and I did recommend this before and I used to use
myself.
However, Facebook constantly does updates, including security updates and using these will get your
accounts banned and you might be able to get away with it for a little while, probably for a day or
two, and then your accounts are going to get banned.
So we want to make sure that we don't use any of these methods, don't use a Tor browser, don't use
a VPN, don't use sturdy three or grill email, any of these disposable email services.
Don't use these bogus voice over IP or text numbers or phone numbers.
Again, you will get banned.
Facebook does a very good job about vetting these types of things and it will find it right off the
bat when you create them.
So the current steps to take to create a sockpuppet account for Facebook is use a dummy email, take
the time to actually create a real Gmail address, a Yahoo MSM what have you.
Create an email address.
Don't use your name, don't use your real password again.
Create a bogus email account with a legitimate email provider.
It helps to have a Facebook image I found and activity and we'll get into this in a minute and only
use this account for Austin Investigations.
So let's take a look at one method for generating data.
So this is this website is called data fake generator.com.
And this just really makes things a lot quicker when generating a fake account.
This could really help you fill out your your sock puppet account.
I find it useful.
I used to spend time figuring out a name, location, kind of the background of this.
And honestly, that's more detail than you generally need to go into.
But depending on how you want to leverage that account, you, this could come in handy.
And again, it just helps make make that Facebook account look that much more legitimate.
If Facebook looks at it or the individual you're doing investigation on decides to check out your account.
So let's take a look how this thing works.
So again, I'm on the data fake generator.
And as you can see here, you can select your country.
And you could select the gender.
You could select your age range.
And if you want to just have the age a certain age, you could actually just put in that that actual
number here.
So we're going to do.
23 and 23.
So it makes sure that age just hits that number and you can click generate.
And as you see here, it has a name and gender, age, birthday, occupation, address, zip code,
state country.
It gives you a kind of a bogus email address that you could use.
Again, I wouldn't use it for creating a.
A Facebook account.
Again, Facebook's really good at finding this stuff here.
So.
Also gives you the password for your temporary email.
If you click on there, you actually can get emails there.
But again, I wouldn't use that for the account.
It gives you a bogus phone number or a bogus bogus card.
Again, your pin code, your height, your weight, your blood type, your marital status, your vehicle
make model year, serial number, zodiac sign and religion.
So again, it gives you a lot of details.
Now for the image, we could use this.
This person does not exist.com And what this is it.
It's a machine learning algorithm that takes all these different images from the Internet and it combines
it into an individual that really doesn't exist.
So if we keep refreshing this page, we could see all these random images of people that really don't
exist.
Now, the reason I like using this is one.
We could use this as a profile photo and we don't have to worry about using someone's real photo.
This is a, again, computer generated image that we're using for a profile photo.
So I personally don't feel bad about using this because I'm not saying going on the Internet using a
person's real photo and saying, Hey, that's me or this is my sockpuppet account.
Again, this is just a computer generating all these random images based on machine learning.
So pretty handy.
And again, you can find that this person does not exist.com and keep hitting the refresh button until
you find an image that you want.
So these are different ways we can create a sockpuppet account for Facebook.
Thank you for watching.
I'll see you in the next video.