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Hacked/fake credits
A self-described "Ethical-Hacker and well-known social media specialist" by the name of Ibrahim Hamdan has added over a hundred credits to his name. As far as I can tell, they are all fake: they include a Production Manager credit on a Bond film, 'Free Guy', and 'Thor'; Producer credits on high-profile Korean, Japanese, Indian, and British shows; Director credits on films, TV series, podcasts, and video games; Thanks on the latest Star Trek series. Incredible! https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11595590/?ref_=tt_ov_dr
A Google search only reveals this Ibrahim Hamdan, who does not have these credits: https://network.aljazeera.net/en/profile/leadership/ibrahim-hamdan
The hacking appears to be a self-promotional technique to drive clicks to his social media pages, which are listed on his IMDb page.
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3 years ago
The only reason is to deceive social media platforms like Instagram to give them a "blue tick" by telling them they are a famous person who worked on lots of famous movies and shows. And sadly, it's so easy like this to spam fake credits on IMDb to use in that process. It looks like this guy was successful in deceiving Instagram to get his blue tick by convincing them he really worked on these high profile movies.
This is also appearently a name page hijack incident, I guess initially the page probably had a few correct credits for that older aljazeera employee, then hijacked by this faker and spammed with fake credits and bio info. It would be better if staff can isolate the latter user and delete only his contributions.
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valkyrslayer
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3 years ago
There seems to be a common problem with stuff like this. Found this today. https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/data-issues-policy-discussions/possible-fake-profiles-with-wrong-credits/6420a76882212822057e2362
Yes most of the affected titles are dult videos but still some people seem to like vandalizing imdb.
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Bethanny
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3 years ago
Hi @dk_schiff -
Thanks for reporting this, I have cleaned up the credits and took extra steps to avoid more being added without extensively being investigated.
Cheers!
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