Almost every day, fakes in "Contact" appear in huge quantities. This concept itself comes from the English word "fake", which translates as "fake" and very accurately describes the essence of such pages. Fakes are fake accounts, most often created on non-existent people.
Why create them and who needs it?
Very often fakes in "Contact" create for mass advertising of some sites, goods, services and so on. It is very simple to distinguish such profiles: in personal information, status and on the wall you will immediately see links to some groups or third-party sites. However, sometimes advertisements are presented to friends and subscribers of the page in a veiled form. As a rule, in order to attract as many people as possible (after all, the calculation is aimed at the massiveness of the advertising campaign - maybe someone will be interested in the offer), beautiful photos of naked girls are uploaded to the profile. More or less experienced users of a social network can easily distinguish such accounts from real ones.
Quite often you can find fakes in "Contact", imitating the pages of various stars, politicians and other famous people. To deal with this problem, VK developers introduced an additional option: checkmarks now appear on the “originals” page, which indicate that the authenticity of the page has been verified and verified. The fact that the account is used by a real person is indicated by other factors: a large rating, a huge amount of information on the page.
There are fakes in "Contact" of another type. Such pages are created specifically to increase the rating, add a huge number of friends and publicity. Here with such pages, as a rule, some difficulties appear: to find out if a real person is in front of you is rather difficult. Similar accounts are also registered for advertising, but not direct. Usually the method of sending messages to all contacts is used. For example, with a proposal to attend some events.
Amateur fakes
in "Contact" are also very common. Sometimes they are created as a joke to play friends, sometimes to communicate with certain users or for other personal purposes. Ask your friends - most likely, many of them have at least one alternative page.
Those who promote groups often create bots. In this case, they do not use any tricks to make a fake in "Contact" - on the pages there is practically no information, photos, etc. After all, such profiles are needed not to convince someone of their authenticity, but for a mechanized one increase the number of group members, subscribers. Such a move allows you to “trick” the system and increase the necessary pages in the ranking of social network communities.
How to understand that this is a fake?
In general, you should know that a fake page created by a real professional who bothered to take into account all the nuances is practically impossible to distinguish. But there are very few such pages. How to find out a fake in "Contact"? Most likely, when you see a fake account, you will find one or more features on it:
- the page was created relatively recently (for example, a few days or weeks ago) - access to the Internet is now almost everywhere, but because everyone who wanted to register already managed to do it; however, there are exceptions;
- the questionnaire is poorly filled out, without any details and details, it does not trace a certain personality;
- unusual name (often an exotic university is also added to this);
- photos on the background of city streets and nature, as a rule, are not;
- photographs are all, as if for selection, made by a professional camera or look too “western”;
- there is spam on the wall (this means that a person practically does not look at it and he needs a page for completely different purposes).
If you decide to create a fake ...
Of course, all these points can be taken into account when creating a fake page. Therefore, the most significant factor is the entries and comments from real friends. For example, when discussing business at the university or at work, general events, etc. Compliments, birthday greetings and other holidays are not taken into account - they are very easy to fake.
If for some personal reasons you decide to create a fake, try to make it look as natural as possible. And, of course, you need to develop the page as long and carefully as possible: publish on your wall not only advertising, but also interesting messages, share music with friends and subscribers, actively chat with people and create a lively atmosphere.