Global Security, Privacy, & Risk Management

Digital Impersonation on OnlyFans: Is it Possible? October 20, 2025

Recently, I was personally accused of “digitally impersonating” someone to set up an OnlyFans in their name! Let me be clear. #1…I would NEVER do that and #2…it is NOT possible (well..it approaches mathematical impossibility. But, I digress). Because I know this person and I know technology, when it was exposed, I was the easy target…sooooo…. I took the opportunity to actually do a study on OnlyFans authentication architecture! (because I am a cyber nerd) The findings are mind blowing! Outside of financial institutions, OnlyFans has one of the, if not THE, most robust authentication architecture in the industry! Read the entire paper here! Good Job OnlyFans! Of to court we go!!

Here is a summary of the findings…

“This analysis examines OnlyFans’ multi-layered verification system to demonstrate how multiplicative security controls create exponential attack complexity. The platform employs three sequential, mandatory verification layers: document verification (government ID analysis), biometric verification (liveness detection and facial matching), and banking verification (KYC/AML compliance through financial institutions).

Using a multiplicative probability model, the analysis calculates that attackers face dramatically reduced success rates. Unsophisticated attackers have only 0.003% success probability (1 in 33,000 attempts), while even sophisticated attackers using professional forgeries and advanced deepfakes face just 0.21% success rates (1 in 476 attempts). This represents a 452-fold security improvement over single-factor systems.

Banking verification emerges as the critical control, providing a 28.6× security multiplier due to independent organizational oversight, regulatory requirements, and specialized fraud detection infrastructure.” (read the rest here!) I hope you read the article!! It is actually a great read for us nerds!