Fake Friends
Fake friends occurs when several fake accounts connect or become “friends”. These users/spambots often try to gain credibility by following verified accounts, such as those for popular celebrities and public figures. If that account owner follows the spammer back, it legitimizes the spam account, enabling it to do more damage.
Read more about this topic: Social Networking Spam
Famous quotes containing the words fake and/or friends:
“The hat I was married in,
will it do?
White, broad, fake flowers in a tiny array.
It’s old-fashioned, as stylish as a bedbug,
but it suits to die in something nostalgic.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“It’s good for you to see your friends arrested. It hardens you. There’s no place in our New Order for sentimentalists.”
—Curtis Siodmak (1902–1988)