New form of scamming

Such social platforms as Facebook and Twitter are booming with users so it's not surprising that those platforms are becoming more and more about marketing. Do you feel transparent among the multi-million audience of Twitter? James Clegg (fake name) can help you gather those re-tweets and followers in no time. Clegg is a new type of businessman, he sells fake twitter users to follow you. A thousand twitter fake accounts usually cost around 11$ and the newly created organization suddenly becomes well-known. Clegg says that the reasons behind such popularity buying fake accounts stand different. Small celebrities, friends who want to make a practical joke, comedians, small organizations all want to punch-through their popularity without much trouble, James can help them. An old saying about marketing is: "If there's demand, there will always be supply". It seems that this is also the case with Clegg.

Creating a thousand fake accounts is not hard, says Clegg, but maintaining them is. You have to keep the content of those accounts fresh and original. For example, if one twitter profile is a fan of Justin Bieber, he or she then will tweet about Justin Bieber and write hashtags related to him. One website for Clegg was not enough as Google does not tolerate scammers, therefore he is now operating 13 different websites related to fake followers selling. Heavy SEO marketing helped the businessman reach number one page on search engines, boosting his sales even more.

James Clegg says he sells 6000$ worth of followers each month, making his profit of around 2000$ every month. In ten months time he managed to clear $128,500, which is not bad for a business starter. The cost of maintaining 13 different websites is of course a big financial investment so the strategy for business model has to be clear. An Indian programming team creates fake profiles which contain photos, tweets, personal information etc. Usually, a four men link-building team will work day-to-day for 150$ a week to maintain those fake profiles from Google's long arms. Followers are the most popular purchase, but re-tweets are the new emerging product to look out for. Fake re-tweets does not only rise the popularity and followers, but gives a sense of legitimacy and trust. It is natural that time from time Twitter finds some of those fake accounts and delete them, but the team of Clegg's are working hard to answer all of Twitters questions. In the end, after everything adds up, Clegg is still left with 30 percent return in his business.

Source: pcworld.com