"false profile" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a profile that has been created to misrepresent someone or something. For example: "He had created a false profile to scam people."
By similar selection of characteristics of different organisations, I could "prove" an equally false profile of NGOs or unions.
"We were alerted of this takeover attempt and have taken action to remove the false profile on LinkedIn," the statement read.
"This is called the false feedback technique, where you gather data from the subjects and use it to lend credibility to this false profile," said Dr. Elizabeth Loftus, a psychologist at the University of California at Irvine who led the research.
Terre des Hommes (TDH), a Netherlands-based NGO working against child exploitation, released a report last November showing how easy it is to gather information about paedophiles by using a false profile of a ten-year-old girl from the Philippines.
Terre des Hommes (TDH), a Netherlands-based organisation working against child exploitation, released a report in November showing how easy it is to gather information about paedophiles by using a false profile of a ten-year-old girl from the Philippines.
Now, you could be dealing with anybody with a false profile - he or she could be in India or abroad".
He was prolific on gay dating sites where he hooked up with much younger men, often using false names and fake profile pictures and claiming to be many years younger than he was.
Last year Jetplace, an Australian company, admitted that it had been running more than 1,300 false profiles on a matchmaking service that it owned.
In the weeks after WikiLeaks released the D.N.C. e-mails, John Mattes, a Bernie Sanders organizer who ran a Facebook page for supporters in San Diego, noticed a surge of new adherents with false profiles.
False profiles are fairly easy to create; hundreds can pop up simultaneously, sometimes with the help of robots, and often they persuade real users into friending them in a bid to spread malware.
Creating sickening false profiles of Catherine demonstrated this.
