I’ve documented a bunch of the hashtag hijaking in Azerbaijan, but today they took it to a new level.

Fake Twitter accounts for Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizada were created.

REAL EMIN
FAKE EMIN

REAL ADNAN
FAKE ADNAN

The fakes used the same Twitter photos. With Emin, his real account is @eminmilli and the fake is @eminmiili – almost impossible to see. Adnan’s real is @fuserlimon and the fake is @fuserlemon.

Many people (including myself) were fooled.

While this is not a nice thing to do, I do have to applaud the effort. The tweets were pretty convincing, if a bit confusing. Well played, Azerbaijan cyber troublemakers.

 

And the accounts that Fake Emin is interacting with are a bit odd, huh?

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And here are some good efforts at trying to fool us.

This one links to Emin’s Facebook… SMOOTH move!

And this one says that Adnan was hacked.