A new scam has emerged in China’s Zhejiang province where a man has made huge money by boosting viewership using thousands of smartphones.
According to local media reports, the man made 3 million yuan (four hundred and fifteen thousand dollars) in a few months using this new scam.
As soon as the authorities learned of the fraud, the man was arrested and fined 50,000 yuan ($7,000) and sent to prison for 15 months.
The man, identified as Wang, started scamming online after experiencing teeth brushing in 2022.
Brushing is a process to fake the real activities on the Internet and attract more users.
This method is mostly used in e-commerce for fake orders.
Wang bought 4,600 smartphones and installed special software that allows him to control all the phones simultaneously with just a few clicks on his computer.
The report quotes the suspect as saying that operating the phone costs just 6.65 yuan per day during the trial.
