Mumbai: 29-yr-old man ‘running portal providing paid social media followers’ held

The Mumbai Crime Branch on Wednesday arrested a 29-year-old Jogeshwari resident, who allegedly ran a portal that provided followers, views, subscribers, and likes to profiles on social media on payment. This is part of a probe conducted by a special investigation team (SIT) into the ‘social media fake followers scam’. Before this, the owner of another website, followerskart.com, was arrested.

An officer said they arrested a man, identified as Kashif Mansoor, who owned and operated a website, http://www.amvsmm.com, which provided “fake followers”. According to police, Mansoor’s company has, so far, completed approximately 25,000 orders resulting in approximately 2.3 crore followers, likes, etc.