What is SockPuPet?

SOCKPUPPET is a false online identity created by an individual or organization for discussion or promotion of the work or opinions of the organization or opinions of the organization. Sockpupets appear on Internet notice boards, discussion forums, on websites for product control and other Internet communities. SockPuPpet can also be an individual who has more than one online forum account and uses one of these accounts to create anonymous posts. Online SockPupets includes someone who speaks through a fictitious personality in the same way as a real sock puppet works. The deadline was created for the first time and has been used for the first time by Dana Rollins in 1993. Since then, it has become an increasingly common word in the online communities to describe those participating in the Internet trolling and other forms of virtual fraud.

There are several different types of online cooles affect and is associated with socpuppeting. For example, astroturfing is a campaign running organizations to start online POVRate a new idea, product or person. The expression gives the impression that the popularity of the idea, product or person is the result of a local level, when the whole campaign is in fact a carefully organized public operation. In this case, SockPuPet would create false online identities that could boast the effectiveness or benefit of the subject's agenda.

False flag efforts are created to deceive the public about the true nature of an idea, product or person. With fake flags, Sockpupet could create a fictitious personality to mention the masses of the exact intentions of the subject. This duplicate act could be made to increase profits, improve the tuned legend, or as a cheering of support for a dubious thing.

SOCKPUPPET can also come in the disguise of the Internet Shill. Shill is an assumed role in which someone claims to be a satisfied user of a particular product or sunKnaby, when in a specified product or service really interest - financial or otherwise -. In this Sockpupet scenario, he uses one online identity to request a product or service, then logs under another identity and responds with a recommendation for a particular company and sings the praise of the company with the hope of creating more business.