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Re:This Man's $600K Facebook Disaster Is a Warning For All S... by duskwuff on Saturday February 22, 2014 @08:28PM (#7284548)
There's one part of this I still don't get, though. Where's the motive in running Facebook "like" farms?
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Re:This Man's $600K Facebook Disaster Is a Warning For All S... by sheriff on Saturday February 22, 2014 @08:30PM (#7284553)
The motive for running the farm is because some people will pay for the likes.

The motive for someone running a farm to also send likes to non-customer pages is to make it harder for Facebook to detect the fraudulent likes.

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Re:This Man's $600K Facebook Disaster Is a Warning For All S... by DivByZero on Saturday February 22, 2014 @08:32PM (#7284558)
The motive is that with these farms they then sell dumb users "100.000" likes for 10$ ... and people actually buy them.

Nowadays I receive more FbLikes spam than Viagra's

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