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Loti’s free tier vs. a human filing: the fakes face matching can’t see

Loti is free, watches for your face and voice, and files up to 5 takedowns a month. For an AI video of you, that is a very good deal. But a lot of fake accounts never use your face. They take your name, a username one letter off yours, and somebody else’s photo, or a cartoon. Face matching has nothing to match on those. This page covers which fakes each approach finds, and the one thing Loti doesn’t sell: a person removing every fake for a single fee.

If you don’t know yet whether a fake exists, start with a free scan. A member of the Thuros Security team searches Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and YouTube by name and username and emails you what turns up.

What Loti offers, from its own pages

Read on Loti’s website on 10 October 2026. We have not tested its detection, and this page does not rate its accuracy.

• Free plan: monitoring and 5 takedowns a month. Unused takedowns roll over.
• Premium: $25 a month or $200 a year, with up to 30 takedowns a month.
• Public figures: custom annual contracts.
• How it finds things: by matching your face and voice in content, real or AI-generated. Takedowns are automated.

We couldn’t find a page that says Loti searches for fake profiles by name or username. That doesn’t mean it can’t. Ask them.

The fakes face matching misses

A face-matching tool needs your face in the picture. These are the common fake accounts that don’t have it.

1. The lookalike username with someone else’s photo. @yourname_official, @yournamee, your name with the apostrophe or the dot dropped. The display name is yours, the profile picture is a stock photo, a pet, or a stranger. To a follower skimming their messages it looks like you. To face matching it looks like nobody.
2. The fake that swaps its photo after a report. It starts with your picture. You report it, and before anyone reviews the report it switches to a cartoon avatar and keeps your name. That is a common way to survive a first report, and once your face is gone, face matching loses it too.
3. The “backup account”. Your name, an empty grid, and messages to your followers saying this is your new account. No photo needed, because the people it messages already know who you are.
4. The renamed fake. An account that impersonated you, changed its username and display name, and kept your old posts. A search for your name stops finding it the moment it renames, and so does anything matching your current photo.

None of these is exotic. In our scan of 184 creators in August, 44 had at least one confirmed fake account using their name or photos, 81 accounts in all (the full report). Finding the name-based ones takes a different search: we check 55 variations of your username on each of the four platforms, run a name search on each, and a person checks every account it flags before anything is called a fake.

Where Loti is the right call

• AI video or voice of you. A deepfake clip of your face under an unrelated account is exactly what face and voice matching is built for. We don’t scan video content at all.
• Your face reposted in other people’s content. Again, the content carries your face, so it is matchable.
• Background watching for nothing. It is free and there is no commitment, so there is little reason not to run it.

What a person filing adds

Everyone files through the same platform forms, because those are the only forms there are. The difference is what happens around them.

• Evidence first. Dated screenshots, the exact links, the posts copied from you, any scam messages, and a check that the account really is impersonating you and isn’t a fan page or someone with the same name.
• The right report for the account. Platforms judge impersonation partly by name, so when a fake uses your photos under another name, the impersonation report often fails. A copyright report on each stolen photo asks who owns it instead. Choosing between them is a call made account by account. Our Instagram report form guide covers that failure, and fake account using my photos covers the copyright side.
• Re-filing when the first decision goes wrong. Renamed accounts, rebuilt accounts and wrong first decisions get filed again with the history attached.
• Four platforms. Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and YouTube, each with its own forms.

Side by side

“Not described” means we couldn’t find it on Loti’s public pages. It doesn’t mean the answer is no.

Which one you need

Loti free, if your worry is AI content of your face or voice, or you just want something watching in the background for nothing.

A one-time removal, if a fake is already up and it uses your name: it is messaging your followers, a report you filed came back with nothing, or there is more than one. The removal service page sets out what the $179 covers.

Ongoing filing, if fakes keep coming back. Defend at $50 a month scans daily and files up to three takedowns a month; Managed at $100 files up to ten with a 24-hour filing time.

Both, if money is tight: Loti free watches for your face, and a free scan from us checks your name. They look for different things, so they don’t overlap much. For every other option on the market, with prices, see impersonation removal services compared.

Frequently asked questions

This guide is general information, not legal advice. Loti’s plans and features are described from Loti’s own website as read on 10 October 2026 (lotiai.com/faqs) and are Loti’s to change. Thuros Security has no relationship with Loti and has not tested its detection.