Facebook warns against buying fake likes, but the fans-for-sale industry is booming

                                                  

Facebook is taking another swipe at fraudulent likes that artificially inflate a Facebook Page's number of fans.

In a note published last Friday on the Facebook Security Page, the social media giant advises Page administrators that it is working "aggressively to get rid of fake likes."

In its ongoing battle against phony-like peddlers, scammers and spammers, Facebook has tried many approaches.

It has won $2 billion in legal judgments against spammers, and uses algorithms and machine learning to detect phony accounts and spammy Likejacking tricks.read more>>