CommentCrateFake accounts and bots in a giveaway: what you can do
No tool can tell you for sure which accounts are fake. You can make cheating harder and check the winner by hand.
What CommentCrate does and does not do
CommentCrate counts one entry per person, leaves out the names or words you list and keeps to the date range you set. It cannot tell whether an account is real, who follows whom or whether a tag points to a real person: platforms do not give that information to an extension.
Rules that make cheating harder
- One entry per person, and say so in the rules.
- Ask for a short, real comment instead of only a tag or an emoji. Copied comments are easier to spot.
- Set a closing time and count only the comments posted before it.
- Write in the rules that you may disqualify entries that look suspicious.
What to look at on the winner's profile
None of these proves anything alone, so look at the whole picture.
- A profile with no posts, no photo or a name made of random letters and digits.
- A comment that looks copied: the same text under many posts, or the same text as other entries.
- Several entries from similarly named accounts, posted within minutes of each other.
- An account that seems to exist only to enter giveaways.
When you doubt an entry
Ask the winner for something a real person can do easily, such as a short message from the account. If you hear nothing, move on to the first backup. Treat every winner the same way so nobody is judged unfairly, and do not name accounts you only suspect: a wrong accusation does more harm than a skipped prize.
Write down what you checked
Note what you looked at and why you skipped someone. The record that CommentCrate saves shows the draw, and your notes cover the checks. See the giveaway record and the fair giveaway checklist.