With Russian election interference in the news, it seemed appropriate to make him a Russian—but which Russian? An ideal fake online person has a unique name, so he or she won’t have to fight with real people (or other fakes) for internet real estate. Beware of fake followers (mostly). On Instagram I bought fake followers (despite reasons not to listed above) from a third-party site in order to get him to 13,000 followers. There are no claims that Russian fake accounts have gone that far, but how would you even know?

Source: Forbes December 01, 2017 18:56 UTC