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> I'm not sure why it's in Facebook's interest to lie like this. Looks like you are doing your homework. Not everyone does though. Even if 60% of people who bu

> I'm not sure why it's in Facebook's interest to lie like this. Looks like you are doing your homework. Not everyone does though. Even if 60% of people who buy ads try to correlate the data, well there is a 40% that doesn't. That's easy money. What surprises me is the coincidence that you ad drew the attentio of fake accounts. So, who preserves a network of fake accounts that will give you the false validation that you ad is working? I see the benefit to FB that these fake accounts exist (and are NOT detected/eradicated).

throwawayfb69 6y ago
I was less immediately bothered about the fake accounts ('like'-and-run at least is ignorable and does me no significant harm, even if it harms my belief in FB's authenticity and harms FB's reputation with me). But, I was extremely bothered about apparently real people contacting me who were well outside the demographic of people that I was paying for. I spent time dealing with them, and - as expected - they were unlikely to convert into customers. I would have re-employed FB 10 times over if I didn't actively have to deal with so many contacts outside of what I was paying for.
Red_Leaves_Flyy 6y ago
Could a fake account network be trying to hide themselves in plain sight by engaging with advertisements?
- rtkwe 6y ago
  If the OP is targeting a specific region with their ads why are random accounts from outside seeing those ads? and if they're just looking around for random companies to like why is that being credited to the ad buy?
  - Red_Leaves_Flyy 6y ago
    Spoofed gps?
    - jfk13 6y ago
      My understanding is that the default behavior for location-targeted ads on FB is that they get shown both to users in the relevant location and to users who have said they are "interested" in it, even if their own location is the other side of the world.
    - mtnGoat 6y ago
      Rooted boxes on residential IPs make great proxies for this. And they are cheap.

throwawayfb69 6y ago

I was less immediately bothered about the fake accounts ('like'-and-run at least is ignorable and does me no significant harm, even if it harms my belief in FB's authenticity and harms FB's reputation with me). But, I was extremely bothered about apparently real people contacting me who were well outside the demographic of people that I was paying for. I spent time dealing with them, and - as expected - they were unlikely to convert into customers. I would have re-employed FB 10 times over if I didn't actively have to deal with so many contacts outside of what I was paying for.

Red_Leaves_Flyy 6y ago

Could a fake account network be trying to hide themselves in plain sight by engaging with advertisements?

rtkwe 6y ago
If the OP is targeting a specific region with their ads why are random accounts from outside seeing those ads? and if they're just looking around for random companies to like why is that being credited to the ad buy?
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 6y ago
  Spoofed gps?
  - jfk13 6y ago
    My understanding is that the default behavior for location-targeted ads on FB is that they get shown both to users in the relevant location and to users who have said they are "interested" in it, even if their own location is the other side of the world.
  - mtnGoat 6y ago
    Rooted boxes on residential IPs make great proxies for this. And they are cheap.