Sentences with phrase «fake accounts following»

It's possible that some of us who are less than perspicacious might have a few fake accounts following us on social media sites; that doesn't make us phonies or fakers either.

Not exact matches

«If you look at the fake accounts, their followers, and who they're following, some patterns emerge.

Most of the fake accounts tend to follow thousands of people and don't have many followers themselves,» writes Adrianne Jeffries in Verge.

«In soliciting investments in the Fake Funds, CASPERSEN made the following false representations to investors, among others: in recognition for his prior work with Park Hill Group, CASPERSEN had been offered a «friends and family» investment allocation in a security that was allegedly offered by a private equity firm; CASPERSEN was personally investing in the security, and offering it to his family and a limited number of friends; the investment was a credit facility secured by a portfolio of assets owned by one of the Legitimate Funds; the investor would receive quarterly interest payments, ranging from 15 to 20 percent; the investment was practically risk - free, as the loaned funds would remain in a bank account; the investor could withdraw the principal at any time with 90 days» notice; and investor funds should be wired to one of the Fake Fund Accounts.

The CEO is either put in a position to publicly apologize, which customers may interpret as forced and insincere (as we saw on Wednesday with United's Munoz and last month with Uber's Travis Kalanick following harassment claims) or the CEO is forced to resign, as Wells Fargo's John Stumpf did last October following its fake accounts scandal.

Wells Fargo has run into problems of late following a scandal, revealed last September, in which thousands of its employees opened millions of fake accounts for unwitting customers over a decade and a half, if not longer.

You probably can't help but follow the continually unfolding fake account scandal at Wells Fargo.

About 2 years ago I wrote a post about fake accounts on social media where I addressed this concept of accounts following you on Instagram and Twitter and, if you decide to hook up with them, instantly dropping you after the fact.

The fake Jessica followed or retweeted accounts using Arabic and Indonesian, languages the real Jessica does not speak.

For instance, one of the Russian - backed ads featured a famous black - and - white photograph of the Black Panthers from 1968 to get African - American users to follow a fake Russian account called Blacktivist.

After Colorado released a fake depth chart (that included Dumb and Dumber's Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne at punt return), the Michigan Football Twitter account had the following reply to the Buffaloes:

If you discover a fake Wigan Athletic player account, we encourage you not to follow them but to report it.

One of the weakness of joining plus size dating sites is that there are many spammers, they create fake accounts in the hopes of making other people follow their links.

So I told the last fake account that they should update their link before following more accounts.

I still get followed by fake Twitter accounts pushing bayreviews even though the site doesn't work anymore.

By clickfarms I mean they're groups of people that are paid by the click, so they create fake accounts to like or follow other accounts.

Wells Fargo: Federal Reserve's growth cap shouldn't hit credit card holders — Wells Fargo cardholders won't be affected by the Federal Reserve's cap on bank's growth following the fake account scandal in 2016, banks says.

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.

This followed the revelation that at least 470 fake Pages and accounts were identified by Facebook to have spent approximately $ 100,000 on promoted ads from 2015 to 2016.

If you've never bought followers, it's likely you have a few fakes and inactive accounts following you anyway.