A remarkable new scam: buy a smartphone app, record user interactions, and replay them with bots to fraudulently increase ad clicks and therefore revenue!
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/how-a-massive-ad-fraud-scheme-exploited-android-phones-to
Seems very hard to detect, as it's using real user data to make bots appear human.
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