A scammer told us he cashed in selling millions of fake views for Instagram Reels just hours after it launched

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https://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-reels-fake-views-tiktok-2020-8?r=DE&IR=T
Pretty interesting IMO. People are immediately banking on it.
This statement is quite interesting:

"I use my bots for followers' stories' Likes, and now for Reels," he said.
He claimed there was "no protection" against view botting on Reels. "I guess Instagram is happy if we push their TikTok copy."

What's you guys' take on this? :P
 
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Googled 'Buy Instagram Reel Views' and found no service but this article,I wonder where people met this guy to Buy views lol :anyway:
 
I saw that article and immediately sent it to by dev team lol there's ALOT of money to made on REELS, I hope everyone here get's a piece of the pie
 
How will buying views help organic reach or make the user any money? I would get it on this but not sure how it would help the user
 
reissxr said:
How will buying views help organic reach or make the user any money? I would get it on this but not sure how it would help the user
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If you're an influencer this helps you greatly for "Social Proof" some of the influencer platforms my clients use already have brands looking to collaborate with influencers for reels exclusively. It's all bout being first to market!
 
  • One seller said they had already made enough from selling fake views for a "good car and a decent home."

Calling BS on this
 
social engineer said:
You do realise some of the guys running large botnets are making mid to high 5 figures per day right?
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1) Their accounts are most likely not from a botnet.
2) Even if they were, what does that have to do with profit?
3) Say it was 100k (crappy house, crappy car) I would even then still be surprised they earned that.
4) Most SMM or services are not selling this, and few listings on google selling this.
5) Basing it on the fact it was Telegram, how do you think these influencers reached out if not google, are all these influencers buying also coincidentally friends with that guy on Telegram?

Tell me they earned 10k, and I'll believe you, but enough for a house and a car? No fucking way lol.
 
Frenzied said:
1) Their accounts are most likely not from a botnet.
2) Even if they were, what does that have to do with profit?
3) Say it was 100k (crappy house, crappy car) I would even then still be surprised they earned that.
4) Most SMM or services are not selling this, and few listings on google selling this.
5) Basing it on the fact it was Telegram, how do you think these influencers reached out if not google, are all these influencers buying also coincidentally friends with that guy on Telegram?

Tell me they earned 10k, and I'll believe you, but enough for a house and a car? No fucking way lol.
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Where do you think all these 'residential proxies' for views come from?

There's a good chance a fair few are coming from your smart fridge and hoover :)
 
social engineer said:
Where do you think all these 'residential proxies' for views come from?

There's a good chance a fair few are coming from your smart fridge and hoover :)
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You're saying botnet owners hack into our Routers and use our IP's?

And if this is used just for "Social Proof" or Vanity metrics why is Residential IP required why not datacenter ipv6
 
social engineer said:
Where do you think all these 'residential proxies' for views come from?

There's a good chance a fair few are coming from your smart fridge and hoover :)
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1) If there was a large pool of accounts involved, it most likely wasn't from a botnet. Luminati uses the Hola VPN extension to source IPs & that's fully legal.
2) They explicitly stated there was 0 rate limits, so why do you think a botnet was involved? All he needed was a few accounts running, as it was 0 limits.
 
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