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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Apr 27, 2019 1:48:17 GMT
kotaku.com/inside-chinese-click-farms-1795287821 It's for a social media click farm, but I'm sure a KU farm would have a similar setup. I got the link from David Gaughran. Here's another link I got from him on the same subject. This one was for manipulation of WeChat, China's version of Facebook. So it is a worldwide sport. www.theverge.com/2017/6/12/15786402/thai-clickfarm-bust-iphones And then I found this video on YouTube. The click farm part is just the first part of the video, then it starts talking about super sonic planes and a really cute robot-alien-thing. My favorite part of the video was that apparently in Russia they have public vending machines that let you buy social media likes!
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Apr 27, 2019 2:06:36 GMT
This post was in a comment and I thought it was interesting and related. Although the article writer isn't an author and it wasn't as well written as it could have been if the writer had actually understood what he was writing about. I'm not sure I'd call writing lots of low quality books as catfishing. But if I'm not mistaken this scammer was pumping out thousands of scamphlets as a ghostwriter and then click farming them through his special server. He made millions of dollars doing it, too. www.zdnet.com/article/exclusive-inside-a-million-dollar-amazon-kindle-catfishing-scam/
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Apr 27, 2019 5:42:21 GMT
This isn't about click farms it's about cockygate, but it includes tons of info of all the different types of kindle scamming and is an amazing piece of journalism. www.theverge.com/2018/7/16/17566276/cockygate-amazon-kindle-unlimited-algorithm-self-published-romance-novel-cabal I now know that Ryver is a chat app like slack. I never had any idea what Ryver was before. I also didn't realize Faleena and Tara were part of it, or that Faleena was part of Chance's mastermind group. I now understand where that whole thing started, and I know a lot more about what the Mastermind group was up to. Thanks to WS and DG and all of the links they offer like this verge article, I now have my own Mastermind list of names and aliases, and I'm finally starting to get all the holes filled in. I may be late to the party, but at last my ignorance is now being fought.
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Post by writeway on May 1, 2019 22:29:06 GMT
Thanks for sharing. If I were in KU I'd be sick. Just too much abuse in the program and I hear it's getting worse. Seems like Amazon has washed its hands of it and doesn't even pretend to care anymore.
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