I never thought that I would enter the belly of the dark side of the internet until I found myself wanting to buy Facebook ad accounts.

I wanted to try an experiment advertising something that I knew Facebook doesn’t like your advertising, but without it having a record on my ‘real’ profile.

The nice I wanted to try something in was weight-loss and I didn’t want to risk having my primary ads account banned. So, thought it better to do it on an account disconnected to the original account.

What Even Are Multiple Facebook Ad Accounts?

As you are probably aware, you can have one personal advertising account and then two business manager accounts. On each business manager account, you can have multiple Facebook ad accounts. That is NOT what we are describing here. Buying a Facebook Account is about using an additional facebook profile, which then allows you to create accounts separate from your original one.

What Is Involved In Using Multiple Facebook Accounts?

Using a second Facebook account to advertise with is not as easy as you may think. You have probably not even considered several factors that are involved. And once you do, it may put you off considering it.

Starting at the end of the story, once you have bought a new functioning Facebook Ads account, where are you going to send the traffic?

It has to be to a website that has zero connection to anything that you may have been doing on your original Facebook account. And not even connected to any site that you may have visited before that has a connection to your Facebook account.

Avoiding A Connection Between Your Two Accounts

Let’s say that you have site A which is a blog site, and you have Facebook tracking on there as you want to build a custom audience or have once sent traffic there. That means that you can no longer have any connection between that site and your new account.

A New Website

What you need is a new website and server. Once you have that, you must never visit it on any computer or internet connection that you have used previously with your original Facebook account.

The most convenient solution here is a remote desktop connection where you can build the site and register the domain. However, it must be a new domain on different host. And you must never visit that site from your main computer. And if you have a Virtual Assistant, it’s also vital that they never visit that site.

A VPN Is Not Enough

You may think that you can use a proxy or similar from your computer and delete cookies. However, in reality, this will never be enough. There will remain far too much information on your computer to identify you and connect you to your old account.

Where Do You Buy A New Facebook Account?

I’m not going to link to any sellers or sources here. You don’t need to be too imaginative with a few quick searches on the internet to find one.

If you buy an account, you are advised to do it with Bitcoin. Bitcoin can be risky as you could send the money and never receive any money in return. However, it is also safer in some ways. Because you are doing something that is on the grey side of marketing, you want to avoid your credit card or PayPal account connected to a dodgy transaction.

How Do you Connect To Your New Account?

Once you have paid, they then provide you with a remote desktop connection to the country of your choice. My advice would be to purchase for the country where your credit card or the payment method that you are going to use is registered. If you don’t, then when you start using your ads account, they will query why you are using a credit card from a different country. They will notice that the credit card doesn’t line up with the correct country. Although you can truthfully answer this, it means that there will be another possible point against you.

Once you have the details, you open up the remote connection, and you arrive on the new server. If you are new to this, then you can think of it as someone else’s computer in a country of your choice. You control it remotely.

You open up Chrome, and you will find that you are logged in to someone else’s Facebook account.

Entering weird city 😉

Unbeknownst to the owner, you are using their Facebook account to advertise on Facebook. The account that you are using is their actual real Facebook account that you are using. You are hoping that they will never use Facebook advertising – because the vast majority of people don’t.

You should disable notifications from ads and pages and a couple of other safety measures so that they don’t know that you are using their account.

Certain notifications can’t be disabled (such as Facebook support requests). It is likely that at some point, your victim/target will think something strange is up. But they are probably also unlikely to do anything about it. Think of yourself in the same position where you don’t understand what those messages mean. Aren’t you more likely to ignore them than investigate them properly?

I had another problem with that the Facebook account that I was using. Although the account was US-Based, they were using Facebook in Spanish, which made it near impossible for me to be able to work efficiently. I did change the language to English. If someone lives in the US and the language changed to English, this shouldn’t raise too much suspicion. Or if they wanted to, they would change it back. In retrospect, a better way to deal with this would be to translate the page automatically through Chrome’s inbuilt translator.

Warming the account

So, the next step is to warm the account up. What this consists of is doing a few ads that Facebook will see as very nonthreatening and slowly start to build up your trust level with the algorithm. In this way, you can hopefully begin to do some far more aggressive things.

For example, your first ad may be an engagement ad to a post.

The next ad may have a link into a totally whitehat page that doesn’t even sell anything.

The next ad may start to drive traffic to some money page.

There is no choice but to do this if you want to use multiple Facebook ad accounts.

Algorithms And Machines Are Watching You

What you have to realize is that it is generally not a human that will be judging your account but an algorithm. Therefore, everything that you do must be as natural as possible. It is impossible to say what is and isn’t natural, but likely that a variety of sequences of actions will trigger Facebook to take a closer look at your account. And you don’t want that.

There could be hundreds or thousands of things that Facebook judges. For example, are you using the account to tweak your ads at times when you have never used your account before? I just made this up as a possible thing, but perhaps it is something that could cause Facebook to score against you.

So you want to make sure that everything you do is as natural as possible. Do not start putting up a $1k a day CBO campaign optimized for purchases. This is not what someone is likely to do first on their account. And Facebook has probably found that people that do that on their first day are far more likely to be banned ultimately.

Making Your First Payment

But let’s step back a bit because this can be a complicated part.

When you start an ad, you need to enter payment details so that the ads will start running.

However…as you may expect, this is not so simple.

It means that you can not use any payment method that you may have ever used before on a previous account.

It also means that you can’t use any payment method that will be using the same address as a card you have used before.

Facebook doesn’t let you use debit cards (at least from my experience. I have a suspicion it may be different in certain countries).

So, let’s say that you do have a spare credit card that is registered to another address (do you?). Or you can borrow a family member’s or business partner’s credit card.

If things go sour, then you will never be able to use that card again to buy Facebook ads even if legitimately. And people aren’t generally so keen to ‘lend’ their credit card however much they trust you.

So, if you don’t have that facility, then you will need to find another way. However, remember that prepaid cards and debit cards don’t work when buying Facebook ads, so it definitely will have to be a credit card.

There are ways to buy semi-legitimate credit cards, but they can be expensive as well as having a percentage when you want to add money to them. And often, it’s not so easy to add money to them and has to be done by Bitcoin or something similar. My brief investigations showed them to cost around $100 initial payment and then 5% of whatever balance has to be put on.

How to buy Bitcoin (which you will need) is a whole other post!

But Let’s Say That You Overcome That

So, now you have active Facebook ad accounts and start sending traffic to an offer.

It is likely that within a short amount of time, Facebook will start asking you for more details about your card and your business. They will ask for documentation. If you are going to fake that, then you are starting to enter an area that is crossing a line that you probably don’t want to. And you are stuck.

Another thing to realize is that Facebook doesn’t like it when you start spending money too quickly as you start becoming more of a risk to them. So, you have to scale very slowly. First $10 a day and then gradually up to $100 a day. If you don’t do this, then you WILL get your Facebook account banned.

I’m not sure where that level is, but there is some point when Facebook will start looking at your account more thoroughly by a human. They will notice that something strange is going on as there seems to be a lack of connection between the real profile and the advertiser. The human review is another thing that could cut down your operation.

So, you want to go under the radar. At some point, you realize that the small profit and large amount of time that you are putting into this account is not an efficient use of your time!

Changes to your landing page or website can suck up your time as they must be done via a remote desktop connection. Using RDP can be a real pain and also involves another payment to another RDP company.

Daily Changes To Your Facebook Ads Account

Any change to your Facebook campaigns will also need to be done through a different remote desktop. Using RDP is not only a pain but is also very slow. You are connecting, and then they are putting you through an additional proxy to mask your main IP. Do you have the patience to deal with slow connections and waiting a few minutes for a web page to load up, which generally would only take a few seconds?

Why I Quit

I stopped for two main reasons:

• It wasn’t feasible to run a real business with all of the above problems and restrictions. It’s hard enough to make money online anyway, but with these added costs and problems, it makes it even harder.
• There is a point where you have to cross over from what is ‘acceptable’ to what is illegal. Once you start having to fake id and addresses, you are breaking laws. Breaking laws is not somewhere that I want to have to do when running an otherwise legitimate business

I hold zero judgment. If you do decide to try, then know it’s not easy buying an additional Facebook Ad Account or multiple Facebook ad accounts after your Facebook Account is Disabled. It is even hard to use them successfully. There are many other stumbling blocks.

If you are more into a burn and crash business model, then this could work pretty well. Realize that much of your time will be taken up dealing with the unique challenges – which some people enjoy!

Where Do Fake Facebook Accounts Come From

I may be wrong about the following, but it is the only thing that makes sense to me.

The accounts that I am referring to aren’t fake. They are real Facebook accounts that real people around the world are using daily. They are genuine profiles, and the users are posting on a regular and natural basis to their accounts. The friends that they have are real friends.

These accounts are accounts that have been hijacked in some way. The person selling you the account (or selling them the account) has found the username and password that are needed to log into the account. The seller may have used illegal snooper software. Alternatively, they have used lists of email addresses and passwords that have been taken from a hacked database.

As people generally use the same login details for many sites, the seller has found accounts where that has happened.

So, you are using the account of someone unsuspecting.

Moral Reasons For And Against Fake Facebook Accounts

I’m not going to pretend that it is a victimless crime. But I can’t see a way that the original user will be affected. They will still be able to log in and continue using their regular Facebook account. If they suddenly decide they want to advertise using their account this could be a problem – but the likelihood of that is pretty low.

Likely, the actual user will never know any difference.

If you have read until now, you will know that it is something that I did. And not something that I regret. However, it was on the border of my desired involvement with the blackhat side of things. I have no idea of the legalities, but even if not illegal, it does kind of feel a bit crappy.