One of the first things I was told when I started this project was that I wouldn’t be able to succeed without marketing.
As soon as I started MADBULL’s social networks, especially when I created Fair Launch at Pinksale, I was inundated with marketing proposals to promote the project and thus gain the much-talked-about visibility that would allow the project, especially in the launch phase, to be successful.
I decided to experiment as, being an honest guy, I believed others would also be.
After seeing several of the proposals I received, I found an account on X with many followers and spoke to him via Telegram.
With well over 1M followers and each post with over 100k views, I knew it would be a good opportunity, mainly because I had negotiated a discount with him.
Instead of paying $1300, I paid $1000 for a Tweet plus a Re-Tweet from him and three other members of his team, where, in total, they had around 4 M followers.
The deal was closed; I made the payment, which can be confirmed in the images below.
You can see here the proof of payment on bscscan:
https://bscscan.com/tx/0x7eea666c8233a5eec0a3864e25970da9bf02e6585a880ba2a0512a5661b8b386
The next day, the first Tweet was made at the end of the day.
The results were terrible, leading me to investigate why they were so horrible.
The investigation led me to conclude that these “Influencers” are a very well-organized group of scammers whose followers are all fake.
How did I conclude that they are Scammers?
1 – In the first few hours of the tweet, where it usually has the most impact, it received around 4k to 5k views.
The tweet had more than 100k views the following day, as if by magic.
2 – As soon as the tweet was launched, it received 40 responses, and after that, no one commented. So, with a few views, you receive 40 responses, and with more than 100k views, you accept no interaction?
I thought it was strange, so I investigated the comments.
I also compared it with comments on other posts by supposed influencers.
All these comments are from followers, with very few followers, and the comments are always the same: They are BOTS and not real people. This is how they “arrange” false interactions and false followers.
3 – For the project, the sales results were non-existent (although many of the “supposed” comments were of interest in buying the project at Launch at Pinksale). In other words, there has not been a single purchase of the Token until now, when almost 24 hours have passed since the tweet.
4 – Regarding the new followers I received, it’s like this: I didn’t have any new followers coming from them for several hours, except for the new ones that appeared at average speed due to the regular work I’ve been doing.
Suddenly, and in the space of 1 minute, exactly 1000 new followers appeared on X’s account; that is, they were the ones who used the same method they used to have +1M followers to make it seem like their tweet had been worth it for them. The increase in followers.
Of course, I went to see the new followers, and they were all bots, with no authentic images and all with strange IDs and few followers.
5—Another thing that I am starting to see in most scammers in this area (yes, there are a lot more, and I will give each one a dedicated post in my Journal) is that they have very similar modus operandi.
Usually, they are very friendly and very available when they see a chance to sell some of their services. Once they get paid, it will be hard to get them to communicate with you.
So, my conclusion, without any doubts, is that it is very likely that if you invest money in these “influencers,” you will be putting money in the trash, as none of them will bring anything good to your project, just a few hundred false followers that represent nothing positive for the project.
Did this happen before Elon Musk bought X?
I don’t know, but the fact that these guys can have their accounts with blue checkmarks only helps honest people like me get scammed.
I don’t think Elon Musk cares only about making money and not about the users’ safety on X, but the fact is that what Twitter states and what happens aren’t the same.
Twitter Help Center:
Blue checkmark. The blue checkmark means that an account has an active subscription to X Premium and meets our eligibility requirements.
Below, you can read the rules to have a blue checkmark, which is bullshit, since all the rules are being broken with the profiles I mentioned above:
https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/about-x-verified-accounts
It would be nice if this post got Elon Musk’s attention one day since I bet this doesn’t happen only in crypto but in any other market niche, where fake “Influencers” make thousands of dollars every month by stealing honest people.
If you are reading this, please share; maybe one day, anyone from X may read this and think that they are just killing X by allowing it to be a tool to scam people.
At this stage, the work points were:
Find out why an honest project did not have any results from an investment made with Influencers on X.
To get all of this ready, it took me about 5 hours.