A man in China was caught using hundreds of mobile phones to manipulate live-stream giveaways. He won prizes by creating numerous accounts and simultaneously participating in the same streams. Authorities suspect the scheme involved fraud and exploiting vulnerabilities in live-streaming platforms.
A man in eastern China was arrested for operating more than 400 mobile phones simultaneously to enhance his chances of winning gifts in live-streams. The man, surnamed Ma, was discovered managing the hundreds of devices in a small garage within a residential compound in Jiangsu province in August. An elderly passer-by noticed the unusual activity in Ma’s garage and reported it to the police, suspecting it to be a scam operation.
Last year, reports emerged about a Chinese fraud company that promised to boost live-streamers’ traffic and promote their businesses, but instead used hundreds of phones to fabricate viewer engagement. Ma admitted that he utilized the phones, each linked to a separate live-streaming platform account, to access the same live-stream and increase his chances of winning the so-called “lucky bags”. This scheme was feasible for Ma because the “lucky bags” only required a member of the audience to click a button to send a specific message and wait for the prize to be awarded. The live-streamers provided the gifts and determined the contents of the lucky bags. Ma stated that he had won various items, ranging from inexpensive daily necessities to printers and the latest iPhone models, which he then sold on second-hand e-commerce platforms. Ma did not insert SIM cards into the phones, which are necessary for registering new accounts on Chinese social media platforms. Instead, he bought existing accounts from others online. A passer-by noticed Ma managing hundreds of mobile phones arranged on shelves and suspected it was a scam operation, prompting them to alert the police
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