Thai police bust 400,000 SIM card Chinese ‘click farm’


  • TECH
  • Tuesday, 13 Jun 2017

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BANGKOK: Three Chinese men were detained in Thailand on June 13 after police discovered they were running a ‘click farm’ from a house near the Cambodian border to generate likes for Chinese products on social media. 

The trio was arrested on June 11 after police raided their rental home and discovered a rack of some 500 smartphones hooked up to a computer. 

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