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Kathy Kostrub-Waters and Bryan Denny estimate they've spent more than 5,000 hours over the past two years monitoring Facebook to track down and report scammers who steal photos from members of the US military, create fake accounts using their identities, and swindle unsuspecting people out of money.During that time they reported roughly 2,000 fake military accounts, submitted three quarterly reports summarizing their findings to Facebook, and even met with Federal Trade Commission, Pentagon, and Facebook employees to talk about their work.Kostrub-Waters and Denny aren’t security or fraud consultants, nor do they have any official relationship with the company. They do it all in their spare time...........Denny and Kostrub-Waters are part of a loose global network of victims, researchers, amateur sleuths, activists, companies, military officers, and others who’ve been pressed into service to help clean up the world’s biggest social network. They call out scams using their own profiles and pages, report bots, fake accounts, and hate speech to Facebook’s community standards team, and debunk misinformation. They include Felicia Cravens, a former tea party activist who now spends her free time exposing fake accounts and making videos to show other people how to do it. She and Kostrub-Waters are both regularly in touch with Sarah Thompson, an Indiana woman who runs a Facebook page dedicated to calling out clickbait, false news, and fake accounts......https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-romance-sweepstakes-scams-fake-accounts-security
