WEBVTT 00:00.140 --> 00:03.290 We're gonna be talking about making a Facebook sockpuppet account. 00:03.870 --> 00:06.960 In order to help build a more secure Facebook account. 00:08.230 --> 00:11.590 Now, first of all, why is Facebook sockpuppet account? 00:11.890 --> 00:16.390 Well, technically, we should be using a sock puppet account for any social media account. 00:16.840 --> 00:18.880 And the reason for that is. 00:19.700 --> 00:27.260 Having a sockpuppet account or a burner account is essentially a safe way to do an investigation, because 00:27.500 --> 00:32.570 when we're doing an investigation, we want an account that's really not associated to us. 00:33.220 --> 00:35.290 We want to make sure the account is fairly clean. 00:35.290 --> 00:41.440 So again, if we're using our own social media accounts, we have tendencies to have different people 00:41.440 --> 00:42.730 that we're friends with. 00:42.850 --> 00:47.170 We're connected to a bunch of different posts and whatnot, and we don't want any of that during the 00:47.170 --> 00:48.040 investigation. 00:48.040 --> 00:52.900 We want to use an account that's pretty clean and completely disassociated from us. 00:53.970 --> 00:58.710 So the reason for this is if we're doing an investigation, people might not want to be found. 00:58.950 --> 01:04.040 We might these people might look to get revenge on us and whatnot. 01:04.050 --> 01:07.890 So again, a sockpuppet account is a safer way to go. 01:10.090 --> 01:13.840 So building a Facebook Sockpuppet account. 01:13.870 --> 01:18.790 Now the old way used to be you hop on the Tor browser and you build your account. 01:18.790 --> 01:27.270 That way it's using a browser that really doesn't associate to your location, your machine and whatnot, 01:27.280 --> 01:36.670 or use a VPN or use a disposable email service like 33 mail or gorilla mail, or even use a service 01:36.670 --> 01:40.210 like tax free, give it a bogus phone number and create your account. 01:41.360 --> 01:46.760 Now, I do say the old way was using these methods, and I did recommend this before and I used to use 01:46.760 --> 01:47.500 myself. 01:47.510 --> 01:55.820 However, Facebook constantly does updates, including security updates and using these will get your 01:55.820 --> 02:00.650 accounts banned and you might be able to get away with it for a little while, probably for a day or 02:00.650 --> 02:03.290 two, and then your accounts are going to get banned. 02:03.290 --> 02:07.940 So we want to make sure that we don't use any of these methods, don't use a Tor browser, don't use 02:07.940 --> 02:12.920 a VPN, don't use sturdy three or grill email, any of these disposable email services. 02:12.950 --> 02:19.850 Don't use these bogus voice over IP or text numbers or phone numbers. 02:19.850 --> 02:21.020 Again, you will get banned. 02:21.050 --> 02:27.140 Facebook does a very good job about vetting these types of things and it will find it right off the 02:27.140 --> 02:28.460 bat when you create them. 02:29.600 --> 02:38.060 So the current steps to take to create a sockpuppet account for Facebook is use a dummy email, take 02:38.060 --> 02:43.230 the time to actually create a real Gmail address, a Yahoo MSM what have you. 02:43.260 --> 02:44.370 Create an email address. 02:44.370 --> 02:48.570 Don't use your name, don't use your real password again. 02:48.570 --> 02:52.920 Create a bogus email account with a legitimate email provider. 02:54.040 --> 03:01.300 It helps to have a Facebook image I found and activity and we'll get into this in a minute and only 03:01.300 --> 03:03.910 use this account for Austin Investigations. 03:05.180 --> 03:08.720 So let's take a look at one method for generating data. 03:08.930 --> 03:14.710 So this is this website is called data fake generator.com. 03:14.720 --> 03:20.450 And this just really makes things a lot quicker when generating a fake account. 03:20.690 --> 03:24.900 This could really help you fill out your your sock puppet account. 03:24.920 --> 03:26.180 I find it useful. 03:26.210 --> 03:31.460 I used to spend time figuring out a name, location, kind of the background of this. 03:31.460 --> 03:36.410 And honestly, that's more detail than you generally need to go into. 03:36.500 --> 03:40.960 But depending on how you want to leverage that account, you, this could come in handy. 03:40.970 --> 03:44.990 And again, it just helps make make that Facebook account look that much more legitimate. 03:45.020 --> 03:51.140 If Facebook looks at it or the individual you're doing investigation on decides to check out your account. 03:51.710 --> 03:53.900 So let's take a look how this thing works. 03:55.180 --> 03:58.840 So again, I'm on the data fake generator. 03:58.840 --> 04:02.200 And as you can see here, you can select your country. 04:03.120 --> 04:05.670 And you could select the gender. 04:05.880 --> 04:07.830 You could select your age range. 04:07.830 --> 04:14.430 And if you want to just have the age a certain age, you could actually just put in that that actual 04:14.430 --> 04:15.330 number here. 04:17.240 --> 04:19.520 So we're going to do. 04:20.350 --> 04:22.960 23 and 23. 04:22.960 --> 04:27.580 So it makes sure that age just hits that number and you can click generate. 04:28.240 --> 04:35.860 And as you see here, it has a name and gender, age, birthday, occupation, address, zip code, 04:35.860 --> 04:37.900 state country. 04:37.930 --> 04:40.840 It gives you a kind of a bogus email address that you could use. 04:40.870 --> 04:43.810 Again, I wouldn't use it for creating a. 04:44.670 --> 04:45.810 A Facebook account. 04:46.140 --> 04:48.840 Again, Facebook's really good at finding this stuff here. 04:49.510 --> 04:50.410 So. 04:51.480 --> 04:54.810 Also gives you the password for your temporary email. 04:54.810 --> 04:57.270 If you click on there, you actually can get emails there. 04:57.270 --> 04:59.310 But again, I wouldn't use that for the account. 04:59.310 --> 05:03.210 It gives you a bogus phone number or a bogus bogus card. 05:05.250 --> 05:10.620 Again, your pin code, your height, your weight, your blood type, your marital status, your vehicle 05:10.620 --> 05:15.600 make model year, serial number, zodiac sign and religion. 05:15.600 --> 05:18.180 So again, it gives you a lot of details. 05:18.210 --> 05:20.190 Now for the image, we could use this. 05:20.190 --> 05:24.270 This person does not exist.com And what this is it. 05:24.300 --> 05:30.750 It's a machine learning algorithm that takes all these different images from the Internet and it combines 05:30.750 --> 05:33.420 it into an individual that really doesn't exist. 05:33.420 --> 05:38.940 So if we keep refreshing this page, we could see all these random images of people that really don't 05:38.970 --> 05:39.840 exist. 05:39.870 --> 05:42.450 Now, the reason I like using this is one. 05:43.250 --> 05:48.230 We could use this as a profile photo and we don't have to worry about using someone's real photo. 05:48.260 --> 05:53.630 This is a, again, computer generated image that we're using for a profile photo. 05:53.630 --> 05:59.000 So I personally don't feel bad about using this because I'm not saying going on the Internet using a 05:59.000 --> 06:03.020 person's real photo and saying, Hey, that's me or this is my sockpuppet account. 06:03.560 --> 06:11.000 Again, this is just a computer generating all these random images based on machine learning. 06:11.090 --> 06:12.470 So pretty handy. 06:12.470 --> 06:18.050 And again, you can find that this person does not exist.com and keep hitting the refresh button until 06:18.050 --> 06:19.700 you find an image that you want. 06:20.090 --> 06:24.200 So these are different ways we can create a sockpuppet account for Facebook. 06:24.320 --> 06:25.190 Thank you for watching. 06:25.190 --> 06:26.120 I'll see you in the next video.