# Counter C00197: remove suspicious accounts

* **Summary**: Standard reporting for false profiles (identity issues).  Includes detecting hijacked accounts and reallocating them - if possible, back to original owners. 

* **Playbooks**: 

* **Metatechnique**: M005 - removal

* **Resources needed:** R003 - money

* **Belongs to tactic stage**: TA03


| Actors | Sectors |
| ------ | ------- |
| [A004 activist](../actors/A004.md) | Civil Society |
| [A031 social media platform adminstrator](../actors/A031.md) | Social Media Company |



| Counters these Tactics |
| ---------------------- |



| Counters these Techniques |
| ------------------------- |
| [T0009 Create fake experts](../techniques/T0009.md) |
| [T0007 Create fake Social Media Profiles / Pages / Groups](../techniques/T0007.md) |
| [T0011 Hijack legitimate account](../techniques/T0011.md) |



| Seen in incidents |
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