I once worked for a company where we were tasked to create "fake users" to make it look like a website was getting way more traffic than it actually did on the premise of doing an "extended load test".
Come to find out years later the person commissioning the fake users was trying to sell the website and wanted to validate their asking price -- with fake users and fake traffic.
Long story short it didn't work out that well because eventually the algorithm running the fake users got entirely blocked out by whoever was the host at the time and the guy wasted his money.
I just wonder how many times things like this have happened and people were very successful from it.
Fake likes and fake posts by fake users who then are clicking real ads seems like the landscape nowadays =/
I once worked for a company where we were tasked to create "fake users" to make it look like a website was getting way more traffic than it actually did on the premise of doing an "extended load test".
Come to find out years later the person commissioning the fake users was trying to sell the website and wanted to validate their asking price -- with fake users and fake traffic.
Long story short it didn't work out that well because eventually the algorithm running the fake users got entirely blocked out by whoever was the host at the time and the guy wasted his money.
I just wonder how many times things like this have happened and people were very successful from it.
Fake likes and fake posts by fake users who then are clicking real ads seems like the landscape nowadays =/