Hi Judy, there are a few ways to identify fake engagement. They clap in rapid succession, for stories in a row under a minute duration when your stories to amount to much more time. You can tell by the time stamp. When you review stats, you see there is No Read time recorded. Often it’s intuition for me ~ something feels off about the reader, their comments do not seem insincere. They ask you to follow without releasing a single one of your stories. They highlight the first paragraph and clap. Clap for comments on another account with 1 clap so you receive the notification ~ they hope you reciprocate. Sadly, the list goes on. A few commenters have noted their observations in their responses for more ploys.