On a Verified Twitter account, the tick is next to the name. If we use Ricky Gervais who is a well known verified celebrity on Twitter, you will see that this is the case case https://twitter.com/rickygervais
When Twitter introduced the option of having a header, this was abused by scammers and rogues. Many fake profiles tend to copy the Verified tick and use photoshop, they create a header which they can then upload onto Twitter.
See an example of a fake profile that contacted me on Twitter (I have cropped out the names for now).
You can clearly see the difference between the two, and how easy it would be for a scammer to fake a verified profile.
Having spotted this, I googled and found a few interesting articles that backs up my statement and shows evidence for this. See here:
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/01/17/twitter-fake-verified-account/
I hope you find this article useful. Be safe 😉
