(Dan Tri) - The article below will guide you on how to identify fake Facebook pages, even when these pages have been assigned a "green check mark" to authenticate the account and have a large number of followers.

Forms of fraud are flourishing on Facebook

Facebook is the most popular social network in Vietnam. According to statistics as of early 2025, Vietnam is one of the countries with the largest number of Facebook users in the world, with more than 86 million users, equivalent to 83.8% of the population.

For a long time, Facebook is not simply a social networking site, but has become an indispensable part in the lives of many Vietnamese people.

Many people have used Facebook as a personal diary to share perspectives, opinions or a place to connect with friends with common interests. Facebook has also become an e-commerce platform, used by many people to exchange and sell products and services.

Many bad guys have even used Facebook as a tool for online fraud.

One of the most common scams on Facebook is selling poor quality goods, goods not as described, receiving money but not delivering, or tricking people into booking airline tickets or resort rooms at hotels or resorts...

For example, recently, a woman was defrauded of 1.1 billion VND when booking a room at a resort in Ninh Binh.

The reason stems from the fact that this person trusted the Facebook page with the green check mark and mistakenly thought that this was the resort's official Facebook page, without knowing that this was a fake Facebook page created by scammers to appropriate property.

Be wary of Facebook pages with green ticks

"Blue check mark" is a feature on many social networking platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, X... to confirm that an account belongs to a celebrity or a company, brand, organization...

Normally, social networking platforms will issue green tick certificates to accounts with a large number of followers, helping to verify the "authenticity" of that account. Information shared on accounts with green ticks will often be more accurate and reliable than normal accounts.

However, in March 2023, Meta (parent company of Facebook and Instagram) launched a green sales service called Meta Verified. This service allows Facebook or Instagram accounts to have a green check mark to verify their account through a monthly fee.

This means that any Facebook user can have a green check mark to verify their account, instead of just celebrities or big brands like before.

In addition, in Vietnam, green check registration services for Facebook accounts are also flourishing. These services often use many tricks to bypass Meta to register green ticks for Facebook accounts without having to pay a monthly service fee, as well as without having to verify too much personal information.

Taking advantage of the psychology of many social network users who often trust accounts with green ticks, scammers have created Facebook pages impersonating celebrities, companies, big brands... then registered for green check services to deceive users.

Many social network users in Vietnam mistakenly think that this is an official Facebook page, thereby texting to order products, providing personal information, and transferring money without even knowing that they have fallen into the trap of scammers.

Ways to identify fake Facebook pages to avoid being scammed

Because the green tick icon on a Facebook account can be achieved by registering for a service or using tricks to bypass Meta, a Facebook account with a green tick is not always the "official" account.

To prevent becoming a victim of scammers on social networks, users can follow these steps to identify fake Facebook pages, even if that Facebook account has a green tick or has a large number of followers.

Check the transparency of your Facebook page

To check the credibility of a Facebook page, users can view information about the transparency of this Facebook page.

To do this, visit the Facebook page you want to check information, click on "About". At the interface that appears, click on "Page transparency" and click the "See all" button.

In the dialog box that appears, you will clearly see detailed information about the Facebook page, including the page creation date, page name changes and a list of Facebook page administrators.

If a Facebook page is newly established or the page name is frequently changed, but the names are unrelated, it is likely that this is a Facebook page created for fraudulent purposes.

The reason for this is because hackers can attack and take over a Facebook page with a large number of followers, then change the page name and add a green check mark to commit fraud.

In addition, based on the administrator information of the Facebook page, you can also guess whether it is a fake page or not.

For example, Facebook pages that have the blue check mark of a famous foreign football player or music star, but only have administrators from Vietnam, are almost certainly fake Facebook pages created by Vietnamese people to attract interaction, sell goods or scam users.

On the contrary, if a Facebook page often provides information about Vietnam or bears the name of a famous person in Vietnam, but has a list of administrators abroad, this will almost certainly be a fake Facebook page to trick users into accessing websites containing malicious code.

After checking the transparency of the Facebook page and noticing signs of suspicion and lack of trust... users should absolutely not text or make transactions with these Facebook pages, even if the page has a green tick or has a large number of followers, to avoid becoming a victim of scammers.

Check interactions with posts on Facebook pages

One thing users need to check carefully is the number of interactions with posts on the Facebook page. Many people are often subjective when they see posts introducing products, offering services... with high interactions or many comments praising and responding... so they trust the content of the article.

However, fake Facebook pages often use tools to increase fake interactions, including the number of people clicking "Like" or commenting on posts.

To check if the interactions on the Facebook page are fake or not, open the list of accounts that have interacted with the post and visit the personal pages of these accounts. You can easily recognize that most of the interactive accounts are fake, newly created or barely active accounts on Facebook.

These are accounts created by automated tools or hijacked by hackers from Facebook accounts that have been inactive for a long time. They will then use these "ghost accounts" to create virtual interactions for posts to serve their fraud.

If users detect posts with fake interactions, they should immediately ignore those posts and put the Facebook page with fake interactions on the "blacklist".

Be wary when accessing websites shared from Facebook

One thing users need to pay close attention to is when accessing websites shared via Facebook.

Many people, when contacting Facebook pages to purchase goods or register for certain services, will be asked to access external websites to declare personal information, log in to their Facebook account, email or bank account...

However, these may be fake websites created by hackers to steal personal information or take over users' bank accounts, Facebook, email, etc.

Usually when accessing these websites, users will see a website interface very similar to the interface for logging into Facebook, email or a bank account.

Many people, without suspicion, immediately logged into their Facebook account or bank account, without knowing that the login information would immediately be appropriated by hackers to infiltrate their accounts.

Therefore, before declaring any information or logging into an account, users need to carefully check the websites they are visiting.

First, you must carefully check the website's path. Although these websites look very similar to the real website, the domain name cannot be faked.

Scammers often register fake domain names that are very similar to the address of the real website, such as facebooks.com or facbook.com... but this can be recognized with the naked eye so pay close attention.

Another way to identify phishing websites is that these websites will use unencrypted HTTP protocol, instead of HTTPS protocol.

Mainstream websites today all use the HTTPS protocol to protect user data. Therefore, if accessing a website with HTTP protocol, users absolutely do not log in or declare any of their personal information.

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Forms of Internet fraud are becoming increasingly sophisticated in order to appropriate personal information, property or social network accounts, emails... Above are a few notes to help users identify fake Facebook pages, thereby increasing vigilance to avoid becoming victims of scammers.