[stingraycharles]

Reminds me of a co-founder of an adtech company I know. They are a platform that buys inventory using automated trading, mostly mobile, and they realized that most of their customers were all clickfraud / scammers / etc. He didn’t want to go into too much detail.

But he shrugged it off.

I bet there are quite a few shops online that may sell gift cards that are used in money laundering schemes. Bonus points if they accept bitcoin.

But those are all quite implicitly used by cybercrime. I can imagine there are quite a few tools at their disposal that are much more explicit.

[jjk7]

Worked at a place that used to do a kind of arbitrage between adclicks and traditional print. A large percent of traffic, especially mobile, was obviously either toddlers or bad bots; yet we were billing our customers for the 'engagement'.