2. Most of the posts will be short sentences, with broken English and misspelled words.
3. They will not have many photos, and the uniform name tapes may not match the profile name.
4. Military members almost always have other friends on their profile that are also Military, these fakes will not have any. Or if they do, that profile will be fake as well.
5. If they ask for items(care packages) they ask for you to send them to overseas addresses that are not affiliated with the Military, Nigeria etc.
Most of these fake profiles have several things that should stick out:
1. They will have very few friends on the profile, of which most will be women or other fake profiles.
They also like to tell people that they are widowed and caring for the child/children alone. It is always some sort of story to make the victim feel pity for the fraudster.