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title: "Removing executive impersonation accounts across four platforms"
description: "Fake profiles of a company's leadership were running investment scams. Fraudox removed the impersonation accounts and the recruiting-scam pages feeding them."
date: "2026-02-02"
industry: "Media & Telecom"
category: "Impersonation"
region: "MENA"
client: "International media group (anonymised)"
canonical: "https://fraudox.com/case-studies/executive-impersonation-social-removal"
publisher: "Fraudox"
publisher_url: "https://fraudox.com"
license: "Free to quote with attribution to the canonical URL."
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# Removing executive impersonation accounts across four platforms

> Fake profiles of a company's leadership were running investment scams. Fraudox removed the impersonation accounts and the recruiting-scam pages feeding them.

**Sector:** Media & Telecom | **Threat:** Impersonation | **Region:** MENA | **Client:** International media group (anonymised)

## Outcome at a glance

| Measure | Result |
| --- | --- |
| Fake accounts removed | 23 |
| Platforms covered | 4 |
| Average removal time | <48h |

## The challenge

Scammers had cloned the photos and bios of several senior executives, then used the fake profiles to solicit fake investment opportunities and job offers from the public. The impersonation spanned Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and X, and the company's brand team had no consistent path to removal across all four.

## How it was handled

### 1. Map the impersonation network

We catalogued every impersonating profile and the linked scam pages, grouping them by operator so removals could be filed as a connected set rather than scattered one-offs.

### 2. Use each platform's correct channel

Impersonation, trademark, and fraud reports each have different filing paths and evidence requirements per platform. We routed each report through the channel most likely to action it.

### 3. Verify and monitor for re-creation

After removal we monitored for re-created accounts using the same assets, so revivals were caught and re-filed before they regained reach.

## Outcome

23 impersonation accounts and their associated scam pages were removed across all four platforms, with an average removal time under 48 hours. Continued monitoring caught two revival attempts in the following month, both removed within a day.

> Our executives stopped getting tagged in scam screenshots. That was the metric that mattered to the board.
>
> — Director of Brand Protection

## The service behind this

[Fake account removal](https://fraudox.com/social-media-takedown): Accounts impersonating you or your staff on the large social networks. These run through each platform's impersonation queue, which is slower and needs identity evidence the other tracks do not.

*Figures are illustrative of the Fraudox takedown workflow, and client-identifying details are anonymised unless the client has approved their use. Canonical version: https://fraudox.com/case-studies/executive-impersonation-social-removal.*

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