Exposed: Chinese smartphone farms that run thousands of barebones mobes to do crime

CCTV uncovered commercial phone-farm operations in China that assemble racks of smartphone motherboards and provide management software and cloud-based devices to operate hundreds or thousands of unique accounts for fraud — including fake comments, likes, SEO links, and bogus e-commerce orders. Vendors market hardware and remote-control tooling to scale operations while advising clients to rotate IPs and maintain anonymity; operators charge substantial fees and many businesses in this sector have faced legal scrutiny under Chinese telecom regulations.