How do I report people with entirely fake credit pages?

You've come to the right place, nightvision25. You taking the time to bring this problem to the attention of the IMDb Community and posing such an important inquiry is much appreciated. Thank you. The IMDb staff is more than willing to purge the database of a IMDb name entry that neither has a single accurate credit represented on it nor pertains to somebody who doesn't deserve the honor of claiming it (thereby allowing it to exist despite being bereft of credits). Unfortunately, for the foreseeable future, every so often, the frauds will be committed and they won't always be immediately caught by the IMDb staff, so volunteers are more than welcome to utilizing this forum to alert the us and the public at large to the frauds. Keep up the good work please.

One of the first things I check with fake suspicions is the nmconst or ttconst numbers and how long the name or title was on the site. Because unfortunately nowadays there is almost no control on IMDb, anyone, any fraud or any kid is able to do anything and vandalize the site so easily. I'm sure it wasn't this much easy to do this before like it is now. But now it is. That's why if it's a new/recent name page or title page, it's easy to conclude it's fake/nonsense/spam etc..

But this name page has a very old nmconst number, it's on the site for many years so it shouldn't be so easy to quickly conclude it's all fake. It's just not that sensible that it stays on the database for 17-18 or more years but only gets noticed in 2023. So something must be wrong.

I checked a few producer credits from movies and was able to verify them from onscreen credits. You say "the guy has supposedly (ie almost certainly fake too) 2 past and 4 upcoming movies where he is supposedly director, writer, producer" and "I would bet, that all those movie credits as director are fake" for example but I just checked one past movie from his director credits (Death Walks) and it's easily verifiable. I checked some awards of it (British Horror Film Festival, Terror Film Festival etc.) and I was able to verify these festival screenings and nominations and award wins for the movie and director from official (archived) festival sites. It even has a Wikipedia page (I say "even", because Wikipedia is actually more strict and has some control and it's really not easy to make a new article approved there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Walks)

I checked one upcoming movie (Video Shop Tales of Terror: Lust & Revenge) and that's verifiable too, it has an Indiegogo campaign with backers and his name is mentioned as a director too: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/video-shop-tales-of-terror-lust-revenge

Now the problem is, this page is heavily vandalised by someone. There are dozens of "Pro Russian Propagandist" and "Netflix Movie Fraudster" character named credits added to dozens of titles which is obviously vandalism. It looks like someone is harassing this person via his IMDb name page. When I checked a pre-vandalised state of the page from wayback machine, I didn't really see any nonsensical credits on his page, it was a humble name page with no apparent issue, I didn't see any dishonesty on his name page before it was vandalised by someone else, so I don't think this Spencer Hawken is the one who adds these recent nonsensical credits, I don't think he's trying to inflate his page with false credits. It's probably his stalker/harasser who also vandalised his page with dozens of "Pro Russian Propagandist" type credits. Maybe they try to add these nonsensical credits in addition to vandalised credits in an attempt to make his page deleted entirely.

Anyway bottom line is, what staff needs to do is identify the vandal(s) and delete/revert all of their edits to this name page and then block the vandals/harassers, and then probably put some protection against a further vandalism on this name page. And that would probably make this page look good again.

Hi @nightvision25 -

Thanks for reporting, as @mbmb said this is a case of someone else sabotaging this person's page, which has already been identified and proper steps taken on the account. If there are any remaining unverifiable credits please report them through our online form.

Cheers!