Is it a violation of the legislation of the Russian Federation to artificially cheat likes and users on social networks?

Question

Law in IT

Tell me, is it a violation of the legislation of the Russian Federation to artificially add likes and users on social networks? And in particular, the work of the site freelikes.online
freelikes.online makes promotion in social networks (Vkontakte, facebook, instagram). The service allows you to artificially increase the number of subscribers, get a few likes to the posts of your publications.
The site works on the principle of mutual exchange: first you register on the service through the buttons of social networks as a user, then you complete the task that other users have posted (make a like on a photo, join a group, etc.). For each of the completed tasks you are awarded points that can be exchanged for money. For example, the administrator of the VKontakte group needs as many users as possible to look at the post and leave their likes, he posts a task and you complete it for this, you get points, so there is an increase. Another type of task is to join a group, you join a group and get points for this.

The bottom line is that with the help of this service you can artificially increase the number of users in groups and so on.
Vkontakte blocks this service as phishing, that is, one that steals people's data, but strictly speaking, the service does not receive people's data without their knowledge (therefore, it does not seem to fall under the phishing category, although I'm not sure!).
Is it possible to bring the owners (or managers) of this service to legal liability precisely for cheating likes and visitors, maybe someone knows the answer? After all, with the help of this service, group administrators deceive people.
P / S I indirectly suffered because of the work of this service!

Answer 1

Since you have been injured, write a statement to the police about the case of fraudulent acts against you. And then, you will either be denied, or filed a case. In any case, the refusal will state the reason for the refusal. And so now your question is similar to a typical one: "It hurts here, the Internet tell me how to treat it."
PS Indirectly - it's like a little bit pregnant? Here, yes or no, you decide :)

Answer 2

You are not looking at the issue that way.
Is it illegal to make knives?
Is it against the law to manufacture poisonous products?
Is it against the law to make master keys?
Violation is their use for illegal purposes.
So here - the service itself does not violate anything, although it is difficult to assume its legal application. Getting likes on a user's private page with his consent is not a violation. And winding up likes during the elections is a violation of the integrity of the election campaign.

Answer 3

This is how the court decides - from the refusal to initiate proceedings to the article "fraud". Depends on who will show up as victims - if officials or clergy, then you are finished.

Answer 4

If the system detects a large number of dead accounts, your account may also be blocked.
Is it possible to bring the owners to legal liability - Write to the FB administration, and most likely in the description of the service it was indicated that you use the service at your own peril and risk. They came for a cheat - got caught.

Answer 5

So you indicated in your profile that you are an SMM specialist and ask questions about artificial user cheating services. Don't you think this is strange and not typical for an SMM specialist. Maybe a specialist in cheating with bots?