Top 5 methods to ensure spammer's/fake identity

Hello story lovers!, these days I am stressing on essays & articles focused on social media content and their marketing because the world is online, we can share what we want to, so why not talk about some things that could hinder you from sharing, irritates you too much & sometimes it can harm you as well. It would be better if we share the methods to prevent these situations and for that, first we have to understand the problem, so, would you mind if I, first, tell you the reasons of spamming and identities of spam? No, you wouldn't mind? Then good for your online health! Let's talk about this.

What is a spam?

According to the universally adopted definition- "A spam is irrelevant or unsolicited messages sent over the Internet, typically to large numbers of users, for the purposes of advertising, phishing, spreading malware, etc." Well, that is the spam. Spam may be a recognized term for you if you use E-mails and it is almost harmless, as it is just a message and mail also filters it for you, but if you are on social sites then you certainly would be looking the other form of spam or fake advertising via messages or posts, Which could mean you harm financially or meant to take the advantage of you as for obtaining 'click' on a link. In other words you can see it as dodge/Ponzi scheme. You are an active blogger, website manager or a person having an online presence where you have to buy 'likes' or 'fans' then you are the most likely target of spammers.

The 5 proved signs of spammers/fake ads (Based on expert's theory and my analysis over time)

Fake promises- This is a very first move of a spammer. They sent or advertise a tempting message in their short description. They promise you million of views in very short time like a day for some dollars (or any currency). This advertisement or message is so tempting that you couldn't resist yourself from "Take a look" despite of your logic that denies any real existence of the other. Observe this-

                                                                              

Message from an anonymous profile or account id- You have a message from someone whose name is appearing but no authentic profile pic that you can see then it could be fake, you can go on this profile and you should dig up any information provided on the profile associated with this anonymous sender.

Fake advertising posts with no comments or only with good comments of people who're seemed to be fake- Well, this is a tricky one! You see an advertising post and then to check reliability you look into the comment section. Here if you find no comments then you should avoid trying and if you see some good comments then this could be the case where the advertiser does fake comments by other ids to make it real. You can contact or ask for some more details, but don't go directly to spend some money even if they provide some "visitors or like" before payment because it is not too hard to provide some fake likes for short duration which are not organic but hard to mark as fake.

Writing style- Are you a fan of "Sherlock Holmes"? If not then become one because in the today's context where fraudulent is at peak, you should have the capability to isolate right from wrong. This is similar with these spammers. There is a specific touch in writing style of the spammers. Always notice that a trusted company or individual-

1. Never send you a message.

2. Post with high quality graphics which send a message  (not a personal message with or without messages).

Now, about writing style, you could have been noticed that they use words which are very old in sales (door to door/ t.v, radio marketing) and their stress on those words too much, such as-

• "Free Free Free! Yes, it totally cost you nothing"
• "This is no joke! Try it today, click the link below"
• "All work is original, see the comments of people in image given below"

Many more sentences like this you will observe, but everyone knows that good company or famous experts never promise too tempting and doesn't post these badly structured advertisements. Companies and professionals only talk about the real situation with their real market prices in good advertisements and no personal messages.

You have won a offer! Wait! Really?- Oh no! You couldn't be lucky that you have been doing work, but not this much that you won a great concession or jackpot offer from a company while you never contacted before to any company. Of course, there is a 99.99 % chance that it is fake. You know you just have to delete that message instantly from your log.

Apart from this, spams or part of E-mail which also has some characteristics, even though mail, filters it for you, but sometimes spammers take a smart move, so here are the indications that will help you stay one step ahead from spammers-

1. Recipient’s email address is not in the To: or Cc: fields
2. Message body contains remote image
3. From: and Reply To: address are different
4. Message contains only HTML body
5. Message contains many or only tags

These are the some general indications that you could have a spam mail. Spam is not a great threat at all, but next time, whenever you think to spend some money then you should be aware a Li'l bit with whatever you are watching at is true or not.

In the next part I will share some easy steps about prevention from spammers and methods that will work as a confirmatory test if you are serious about an advertisement or a message.

Have a nice day!