Exposed: Chinese smartphone farms that run thousands of barebones mobes to do crime

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Operators pack twenty phones into a chassis – then rack 'em and stack 'em ready to do evil

The report shows what appear to be chassis filled with 20 smartphone motherboards each, wired to a monitor that displays the screens of all 20 units. Also shown is a datacenter of sorts full of racks, each populated with several of the chassis and as many as 1,000 smartphones all hard at work.

That's because the phones are used for purposes such as posting fake comments or likes – some with SEO-boosting links – or placing fake orders on e-commerce sites.One manager of a facility that rents the barebones smartphones and accompanying services reportedly told CCTV that he does not know the identity of his clients – don't ask, don't tell is his preferred mode of business.

 

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