# 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**: TA15


| Actor types | Sectors |
| ----------- | ------- |
| [A004 activist](../../generated_pages/actortypes/A004.md) | S002 |
| [A031 social media platform adminstrator](../../generated_pages/actortypes/A031.md) | S007 |



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



| Counters these Techniques |
| ------------------------- |
| [T0009 Create Fake Experts](../../generated_pages/techniques/T0009.md) |



| Seen in incidents |
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