Scammers are already selling millions of fake views for Instagram Reels - Business Insider

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Scammers are already cashing in by selling millions of fake views for Instagram Reels, writes stokel

for 75 cents, managers of large botnets were offering artificial engagement for a price to their followers on protected encrypted apps, Business Insider has learned.

He charges $5 per 1,000 views on Reels, up to a maximum of 500,000 views, and $15 per 1,000 likes on Reels, both paid in Bitcoin . He claimed there was "no protection" against view botting on Reels. "I guess Instagram is happy if we push their TikTok copy." "Me and my team hadn't time to study Reels from this point of view because it's a really new function, [but] I'm not surprised at all: the issue of bots on Instagram is well known," said independent cybersecurity researcher Andrea Stroppa, who has"Instagram during the years improved against bots, but they are not winning," he added. "The problem is related about the security of the app and its AI detection systems.

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