Sentences with phrase «by fake bots»

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In addition to using legit IP addresses routed through real Internet service providers, the scammers coded their bots to have sophisticated behaviors, such as fake clicks, mouse movements, and social network logins, to evade detection by fraud analyzers.

The latest craze of fraudulent exaggeration allows you to buy bots to tweet your site and acquire fake robotic followers to build up your alleged «audience,» a service provided by shady scumbags in foreign lands.

The charges took specific aim at the Internet Research Agency (IRA), a notorious Russian «troll factory» which focused on sowing political discord during the 2016 election by using internet bots to spread fake news and pro-Donald Trump propaganda on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms.

Over the past eight weeks, thousands of publishers have been subject to bots creating fake versions of their websites, a technique called «domain spoofing,» according to a paper published Wednesday by ad technology company Adform.

A mobile security firm warned Friday that fake wallpaper applications on Google Play turned mobile phones into bots for the power and its process computation to mine for bitcoins by using malware called BadLepricon.

And on Twitter, an analysis by University of Southern California computer scientists found that nearly 20 percent of election - related tweets came from bots, computer programs posing as real people and often spouting biased or fake news.

Players build audiences for their fake news sites by publishing polarising falsehoods, deploying twitter bots, photo - shopping evidence, and inciting conspiracy theories in the wake of public tragedy — all while maintaining a «credibility score» to remain as persuasive as possible.

Too many dating website profiles are engineered to elicit responses and draw visitors into paying sites recommended by chat bots - or faked by the company to make men think they have better odds than they really do.

If these fake profiles are not operated by an actual human being, then they're being run by troublesome virtual bots programmed with scripts that try to squeeze every penny they can out of your wallet.

And yet another popular tactic used by automated bots is to send fake friends requests to people such as ourselves who have a free account on this site.

They may not be controlled by bots or may not be unofficial fake dating profiles on the dating platform to entice more users.

Second, its mostly populated by bots and fake profiles.

Some account sellers are attaining high - level accounts without doing the work themselves by using computer programs called «bots» that automatically fake the location of the accounts, collect Pokémon in far away places, and gather PokéBalls from various PokéStops.

The theory is that this spike was caused by bots and / or fake accounts downloading the game thousands upon thousands upon thousands of times, in order to elevate its store ranking to a point where people would see it (with the crowd and media then doing the rest of the work).

According to a report by the New York Times, bot peddlers have done brisk business on the site, setting up thousands upon thousands of fake accounts to follow and retweet paying customers, sometimes even stealing identities to do it.

Maintained high quality of posting by banning bots and fake accounts and deleting posts encouraging cheating or unethical conduct