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| Thai police raid WeChat ‘click farm’, find 347,200 SIM cards, arrest three Chinese men |
| 2017-06-14 |
[SCMP] Three Chinese men tossed in the clinkYez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! in Thailand have acknowledged that they were operating a "click farm", using hundreds of cellphones and several hundred thousand SIM cards to run up "likes" and views on WeChat, a Chinese social media mobile application, Thai police said Tuesday. Immigration Police Captain Itthikorn Atthanark said the men explained they were paid according to how many likes and views they generated, each earning 100,000-150,000 baht (US$2,950-$4,400) per month. Click farms are hired to inflate an online site’s viewership for prestige and profit. Some politicians boast of how many followers they have on social media, while clicks can generate ad revenue. WeChat is China’s most prominent online social media platform, incorporating a text-messaging service as well as marketing for online stores. Police seized 476 cellphones and around 347,200 SIM cards during the arrests Sunday at a house in Sa Kaeo province, about 200 kilometres east of Bangkok. The men, identified as Wang Dong, Niu Bang and Ni Wenjin, were charged with working without a permit and importing the phones without paying taxes. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Another Work-from-Home scheme but its safer than paid protesting. |
| Posted by: Whavish Thusoling5684 2017-06-14 12:22 |
| #1 Most have gotten the 'how to manual' published by a DNC office. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-06-14 08:28 |