that you have ignored the instructions (i.e., posting on a wrong site, using non-unique or nonsensical content), you will be permanently banned from our system. You must have 50 Facebook friends.

    1. Go to <REDACTED URL1>
    2. Visit the URL shown at <REDACTED URL1>
    3. On that page, you will see a Facebook Like button. Click on it
    4. Submit your Facebook profile URL on <REDACTED URL1> to verify that you have completed the task (make sure you have set your Facebook profile to Public View in order for your task to be verified) to get a 7 character confirmation code
    (...)

Completing this task pays USD 0.15 for the microworkers. In this case, one hundred freelancers were sought to do the task.

There are specialized web platforms for the brokering of small tasks. One of them is microworkers.com, which was investigated for this article. This platform lets employers run campaigns for a fee, usually 10% of the payment made to the freelancing internet users who do the job, called microworkers. Therefore, the 100 Likes above would cost the client posting the job only USD 16.5. The platform has hundreds of thousands of microworkers [@Nguyen2014].

The platform was not specifically 