Dhaka, Bangladesh, a city of 7 million in South Asia, is an international hub for click farms. A recent survey by Facebook showed that its own security page has 7.7 million likes and Google’s Facebook page has 15.2 million likes. Shainful Islam, The CEO of Dhaka-based social media promotion firm, Unique IT World said, he has paid workers to manually click on clients’ social media pages, making it harder for Facebook, Google and others to catch them. “Those accounts are not fake, they were genuine,” he said.

Tony Harris, who does social media marketing for major Hollywood movie firms, said he would love to be able to give his clients massive numbers of Twitter followers and Facebook fans, but buying them from random strangers is not very effective or ethical.

Ali Hanafiah, from Indonasia offers 1,000 Twitter followers for $10 and 1 million for $600. He owns his own server, and pays $1 per month per Internet Protocol address, which he uses to generate thousands of social media accounts. Those accounts, he said, “enable us to create many fake followers.” He also said,  “ Today, we are living in a tight competition world that is forcing people to compete with many tricks.” .

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