_"Here at Spam Marketing Firm, we pride ourselves in serving our clients by making like 20 accounts on Tech Hub a day, and then never actually doing anything with them, meaning the only person who sees them is the moderator who flags them as potential spam accounts."_

It's a crazy thing is when you think about how much money someone must be paying for Bangladeshi botnets to make useless accounts on here.

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@Raccoon Very possibly very little... bot nets tend to be trojened computers... someone released a virus once and are using zombie computers... the virus spreads so costs no money to maintain.

Only way it costs money is if someone is paying to "rent" it, which is likely the case... but even then considering its illegal bandwidth with no material costs it is likely a lot cheaper than you think.

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I mean more like these companies are paying someone to do this. I doubt they even realize that they are paying a couple hundred dollars for someone to just have a bot spam a bunch of websites with accounts that no one will ever look at.

@Raccoon ahh yea, i mean, someone is likely paying ... but yea its also probably remarkably cheap despite the firepower.

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