The hottest Fake Accounts Substack posts right now

There are fake follower selling services popping up on social media platforms like Bluesky. These services exploit the platform's growth by creating fake accounts to sell followers, likes, and shares.
A large number of fake accounts have been created quickly and they often share similar biographies, usually in Portuguese. This suggests they are not real users, but rather automated bots.
Buying followers is not a good idea. Most accounts gained through these services have little to no genuine followers and their involvement can harm your social media presence.

Determining authenticity of social media accounts can be challenging, consider multiple indicators
Be cautious of accounts with suspicious and unrealistic personal anecdotes and connections
Watch out for inconsistencies in personal details shared by social media accounts

Spam accounts use repetitive and fake positive messages to amplify content, making it appear more popular than it actually is.
Researchers are now facing difficulties in mapping out spam account networks due to limitations in data access.
Spam network accounts use GAN-generated faces and peculiar vowels in account names, creating an association with suspended spam networks.

A network of spam accounts flooded Twitter with repetitive replies containing login credentials for a suspicious website.
Over 13,000 active accounts in this spam network were created in March or April 2023 and only post replies.
Spam campaign targeted various accounts including Reuters, Elon Musk, and news organizations, with a high percentage of replies in English.

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Posts on social media linking to crowdfunding sites are often reposted by fake accounts.
Spam accounts use stolen photos and claim fake professions to promote crowdfunding.
Spam accounts show coordination by reposting similar fundraisers, along with high amounts of repetitive replies.

Network of accounts use generative AI for AI art and T-shirt spam.
Accounts interact by reposting each other's content, mostly images.
Accounts in the network reply with links to websites selling T-shirts, targeting popular influencer accounts.