Facebook Verification Selfie Issue?

[paulyron]

Hi. So I use a few facebook accounts that I created a while back and have been using it for a while. Mainly I use it to ask questions in facebook groups where I'm too embarrassed to ask these questions from my main facebook account. So you can say it's a throwaway account and I have a few of them but one main one. Recently, I got a message that said I need a verification selfie in order to continue using the main facebook throwaway account. So I can't access anything on that account.


The name of the facebook account is obviously not my real name. Imagine calling yourself Joe Samuel to make it simple. I do have a profile picture but it's like a nature picture.


Does anyone know where I can get a selfie that would work for something like this? This is my main facebook throwaway account for years and I am very frustrated by this. Can I just go on google images and look for a male selfie but check for one that is in like page 30 or something? Like if you type in male selife in google image and take one of the first few photos, then they would find out? I found this forum when googling facebook selfie so that is why I post here. Anyone have advice for this? I know I could create a new facebook throwaway account but the issue is some of those groups, I can't join unless you are a facebook member for at least a certain amount of time and you have a profile picture. Back then, it didn't require it. Not only that, I want to be able to access my information on this account like questions I asked and things like that.

[Caroline]

Yeah I don't think you can fool it with a picture anymore, you could with very early facial recognition tech but we're talking 2010 kind of tech that worked by recognising forehead, eyes, nose and mouth.

 

What it does now is run a 3D scan of your face, so you can't use a still picture anymore, in layman terms what it does is scan the general facial structure, depth, angles and changes in lighting and contrasts it against a background, that's why most of those softwares ask for you to be against a "clear wall", if you're against a background that's too complex or reflective (glass, mirrors) it'll fail to scan as there's not enough contrast. Some also ask you to move around to scan the sides of your head, it's a more complex "liveness check" you can't spoof by using a picture.

 

They call it selfie so regular users can understand but it's a biometrics scan, it's facebook so they keep those scans for themselves for who knows what, though if you already use facebook it's not like you're not giving them all the info they want plus pictures, video, audio samples of your voice, the way you walk, locations, etc.

 

If it makes you feel better it's an automated system, there are no humans reviewing this stuff unless you're in the FBI watchlist or similar, so you can use your own face to unlock the account.

 

Oh, and the system knows you have multiple accounts, it rules out things like the same IP address being used by multiple people or business pages, again it's all automated, it recognises patterns like the way you write, what devices you use, at what time, from where, etc.

[paulyron]

Okay so what are my options now if I want to continue using this throwaway facebook account?

 

 

Use my own selfie that is real even though it is obvious I'm not that person?  The reason being my ethnicity and the name on that facebook account is obviously not me.

 

Find a selfie online with google images or reddit and use that?  However, would facebook use like reverse find image to find information that it is someone else? 

 

The thing is I don't want to use my real selfie as I don't want my face to be associated with the throwaway account.  I just ask questions on that throwaway account so I don't want it to link to me because lot of questions I ask are embarrassing.