Account Market Intelligence
Every verified open-source observation, newest first. Each entry feeds the platform pages, the price index and the research registry automatically — verifying an observation recalculates that platform's score and price percentiles.
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Researchers documented users publicly offering to transfer business advertising accounts already authorised to run political ads in India, contrary to platform policy prohibiting account sale or transfer. The researchers did not transact with sellers.
View sourceFacebook stated it removed hundreds of accounts linked to a forum whose members traded hijacked accounts and short, high-value usernames obtained through hacking, coercion and SIM-swapping, with intermediaries taking a percentage cut of resale transactions.
View sourceA journalist documented purchasing a single fabricated Facebook profile, supplied with a constructed posting history and personal details, from a foreign-language site for a small cryptocurrency payment.
View sourceMarket activity is an external indicator of abuse incentives, not a measurement of fraudulent accounts on the underlying platform. Prices are never inferred — an observation without a published figure is recorded without one. See the methodology for scoring and confidence rules.