In a survey conducted by the Weber social agency, 14 percent of Russians use fake accounts. In most cases, these accounts are created out of a desire to hide their identity (37%), but some also use them to monitor the lives of people who have blocked their main account (15%). transmits Results of the 360 study.
15 percent of those surveyed use fake accounts for work, 8 percent admit they open fake accounts to prank their friends, and 5 percent admit they open fake accounts to spy on their ex-partners.
Moreover, in most cases, participants describe their behavior on social networks as private. At the same time, 35% said that they could superficially describe their lives on websites, and 32% said that they were not ready to share any information.
75% of respondents never talk about personal problems, tragedies and experiences on social networks.
Sometimes the purpose of creating a fake account is to hide from scammers, but sociologists warn that even the smallest amount of explicit information can trigger an attack. 69 percent of survey respondents reported attempts by attackers to break into accounts to extort money; another 7 percent admitted that they had been harmed by such actions. More than a third of survey respondents said their social media pages had been hacked at least once.
A total of 1.5 thousand adult Russians participated in the research.
Experts to warn Russians are talking about a wave of account thefts in Telegram and WhatsApp messengers, including the use of domain name registrations and phishing forms.
scammers before deceived a Muscovite using the fake account of actor Ivan Okhlobystin.