I live out in the middle of nowhere, but I still get tons of scam-tastic Mandarin robo-calls. It makes me miss the days of being e-mailed by Nigerian princes. Scams evolve as technology improves, and nowhere is this more evident than in the proliferation of click farms.
Click farms set up banks of inexpensive computers and smartphones, and staff them with low-paid workers who artificially boost your social media accounts, download apps to boost rankings, load the same YouTube video to inflate views, or repetitively click on ads to fool advertisers into thinking they’re getting their money’s worth. Seeing inside these click farm operations is truly astonishing:
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This operation in China reportedly has more than 10,000 phones in use:
In this one, which has a combination of computers and smartphones, the employees even appear to be wearing uniforms:
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