Fake Profiles(s)

They are unconnected and cause no harm, and it is only your curator privileges that gives you full view of those profiles. Just report them as fake accounts and move on.

My curiosity is......why do they exist? How do they get created? Private User

Duly reported, and wouldn't it be nice if the list of issues were alphabetized? Heather, I can't answer your question except to say that some people have nothing better to do.

Some people are fans of a particular genre/celebrity and want to create profiles for them. If a fictional character as long as they are well labelled and seperate from the tree they cause no harm.

All users have the ability to report a profile. There are dufferent classifications. Fake for fictional characters or completely made up names. Claimed Historical Profile for a user who has said they are Queen Elizabeth for example.

Where issues occur is if a fake profile becomes linked to an actual profile.

So why do these people claim to be the people they are fraudulently profiling?

Some of these trees with a notable main person are school projects. We even have had pedigree trees for dogs and horses. For all these Geni is a perfect tool for a shared/collaborative tree. For us who work on the world tree they make no harm as long as they are unconnected.

What is worse is role-playing groups with wild family connections using Geni to build a tree. The worse tree so far, not yet fully removed contained 56 users, - all fake.

I can understand both those situations, @Bjørn; the profiles I'm referring to have no trees and the profiled person's name as the manager. Period.

And you are sure that they was fake?

I usually never report Geni users as fake accounts unless there is a tree or other information that indicates that they are imposers. Remember that there are real people named Harry Potter and so on.

Absolutely. The clues: Famous name, no dates, no parents, single entry, "manager" has same name as profiled name.

Isn't the reason that the manager has the same name as the profile name because they are 1 profile?

Yes, Leanne, 1 fake profile self-posted by 1 fake manager - a sort of Geni-selfie.

I don't agree that just because a name is the same name as a famous person that automatically makes them a fake duplicate of the famous person.

On Geni alone there are
- Albert Einstein - son of Harry Einstein and Thelma Goodman - changed his name to Albert Brooks
- Hans Albert Einstein - son of Albert Einstien and Mileva Maric
- Albert Einstein - son of Rudolf Einstein and Anna Bischheim
- Albert Elliott Einstein - son of Leopold Einstein and Bertha Rauh
- Albert Einstein - son of Lazarus Einstein and Marianne Landauer
- Albert Einstein - husband of Betty Blattner
- Albert Einstein - son of Julius Einstein and Babette Schwarz

Yes, Leanne, and all of these examples are connected to a family. Not so with the "fakes."
Some examples:

Private User (Note gender!)

Private User

Humphrey bogart

Humphrey Bogart

Here's a "tree" that smells fake to me: https://www.geni.com/family-tree/index/6000000020222856422
Note "name" of "manager"

Looks to me like somebody was exploring a bit how Geni worked.
As others have said - as long as not connected to the world tree, not causing any problem.
I am shocked with all that needs doing that a Curator is focusing on these.