Stop wiring money
to creators bots
with rented audiences.
NoFakeFans is a forensic influencer audit service for brands and agencies that refuse to gamble five-figure budgets on follower counts. We flag fake fans, AI-bot engagement, and click-farm patterns before you sign the contract — not in the post-mortem.
Run a fake-follower check
in 11 seconds.
Paste any public handle. We'll return a fraud score, bot-signal breakdown, and engagement-quality read — no signup required for the first three checks. Want a 22-page forensic report with audience demographics, brand-safety flags, and pricing recommendations? That's the paid audit.
Influencer fraud is now a $4.8 billion tax on brand budgets — and most of it is invisible until it's too late.
Bots got cheaper. AI got better. Engagement pods got organized. The result: a creator economy where 41.3% of accounts show fraud signals, and 72% of brands are still buying placements blind. Here's what the data says.
From handle to verdict in 48 hours. No analyst calls. No demo gauntlet.
We replaced the enterprise sales motion with a flat-rate, fixed-scope deliverable. You send us the creators. We send you a forensic report you can forward to your CFO.
Flat rates. Fixed scope. No enterprise gauntlet.
HypeAuditor charges $399–$2,999/month with a 12-month contract. CreatorIQ starts at $30K/year. We charge per audit, deliver in 48 hours, and don't ask you to sit through a demo.
- 22-page forensic PDF report
- Fraud score & bot-signal breakdown
- Real audience size estimate
- Audience demographics & country mismatch flags
- AI-comment fingerprinting
- Sudden-spike & growth anomaly detection
- Brand-safety scan (last 90 days)
- Fair sponsorship-rate benchmark
- Book / negotiate / walk recommendation
- 48-hour turnaround
- Everything in The Single
- Up to 10 creators audited
- Comparative ranking dashboard
- Roster-level audience overlap analysis
- Total roster fraud-cost estimate
- Cross-platform handles (IG + TikTok + YouTube + LinkedIn)
- 30-min strategy call with the analyst
- Procurement-ready summary deck
- 48-hour turnaround
- Everything in The Campaign
- 30 creator audits per quarter
- Slack channel with the analyst team
- Continuous brand-safety monitoring
- Quarterly fraud-trend report for your category
- Priority 24-hour turnaround
- Custom score thresholds for your team
- API delivery to your creator CRM (optional)
- Cancel anytime · No contract
The patterns we flag are the patterns your dashboards miss.
Native platform analytics show you what an account claims. A forensic audit shows you what's real. Examples of fraud signatures we catch — anonymized from real audits.
"487K followers, but 62% of engagement came from accounts created in the same 14-day window — a textbook engagement-pod fingerprint."
"Brand wanted US-millennial reach. Audit revealed 71% of audience pinned to three cities in countries with documented click-farm clusters."
"41% of comments showed LLM-generated patterns — generic praise, no platform slang, identical syntactic structures across 1,200+ posts."
"Account added 92,000 followers in 9 days, six months before our scan. No corresponding viral content. Pattern matches purchased growth."
The obvious objections, answered.
How is this different from HypeAuditor or Modash?
HypeAuditor and Modash are subscription SaaS platforms — $399 to $2,999/month, twelve-month contracts, demo-call gauntlets, and dashboards built for full-time creator-marketing teams. We're the opposite: pay-per-audit, fixed scope, no contract, and a forensic PDF you can hand to your CFO. If you're running 4+ campaigns per month, those tools make sense. If you're vetting a roster a few times a quarter, you're paying $25K/year for a database you barely open. We're built for that gap.
How accurate is your fraud detection?
We use a multi-source approach — never relying on a single data provider — combined with manual analyst review on every audit. Industry benchmarks for automated fraud detection range from 70–90% accuracy depending on the platform and signal type. By layering data brokers, behavioral analysis, AI-content fingerprinting, and a human reviewer, we typically exceed those benchmarks. If we miss a clear fraud signal you can substantiate within 30 days of the audit, we refund the audit in full.
What's actually in the report?
A 22-page PDF per creator covering: real-audience size estimate, fraud score (0–100), bot-signal breakdown, audience demographics and country distribution with mismatch flags, AI-comment fingerprinting, sudden-spike and growth-anomaly events for the past 12 months, engagement-quality scoring, brand-safety scan of the past 90 days of posts, fair-rate sponsorship benchmark, and a book / negotiate / walk-away recommendation with reasoning. You can preview a redacted sample in the order form.
How do you get the data without scraping the platforms directly?
We work exclusively through licensed third-party data brokers and the platforms' own analytics APIs where available. We never authenticate as a user, never violate platform Terms of Service, and never index or republish creator data. Your audit reports are delivered privately and never indexed.
What's the turnaround time, really?
Forty-eight business hours from the moment you complete the order form. Quarterly retainer clients get 24-hour priority turnaround. We've never missed a deadline. If we ever do, the audit is free.
Is there a refund or guarantee?
Yes. If we deliver an audit and you can substantiate within 30 days that we missed a clear fraud signal — fake followers, undisclosed AI engagement, brand-safety issue we should have flagged — we refund the audit in full. No questions asked. We can offer this because our process is conservative on what counts as a "real" audience and because we'd rather lose one fee than one client.
Can I see a sample report?
Absolutely. Email [email protected] and we'll send you a redacted real audit (with creator details anonymized) within an hour during business hours.