Comment by Animats
5 months ago
Cell phone farm devices are a thing. Here's one you can buy on Alibaba.[1] This is a little more pro looking than the ones seen in New York. It's 20 phones in a 2U rackmount case. Costs $1880, including the phones. Cheap shipping, too.
Lots of variations available. Vertical stack, different brands of Android phones, rackmount, server racks for thousands of phones, software for clicking on ads, training videos. "No code".
Product info:
"only provide box for development or testing use.pls do not use it for illegal"
Description
Package
Each Box purchase includes the hardware (20 Phone motherboard ,USB cable, box power cord, phone motherboard +advanced control management software (15days free,after that $38 a year) download software from our website (in the video)
Whats is Box Phone Farm ? It is a piece of equipment that removes the phone screen/battery/camera/sim slot, integrates them into a chassis, and works with click farm software to achieve group control functions. 1 box contains 20 mobile phone motherboards. Install the click farm software on your computer and you can do batch operations.
Function:
Install the Click Farm software on your PC, and you can operate the device in batches or operate a mobile phone individually. Only one person can control 20 mobile phones at the same time, perform the same task, or perform different tasks separately, and easily build a network matrix of thousands of mobile phones. As long as it is an online project that mobile phone users participate in, they can participate in the control. The voltage support 110v- 220V, and when running the game all the time, one box only consumes about 100 watts.
Ethernet:
[OTG/LAN] can use USB mode, and can also use the network cable of the router to connect the box.Two connection modes can be switched.
[1] https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/S22-Server-Rack-S8-Bo...
You do not use this thing for SMS spamming as a primary objective.
Actual phone farms are for when you need actual phones, such as to run apps.
Sophisticated actors likely roll their own virtualization (w/ masking) solutions.
Yes, that multi-phone rig may be overkill, but it's cheap.
I'm puzzled about how the phones get their RF signals in and out when that tightly packed in metal boxes, though.
I think these phones in a rack boxes are likely more oriented towards automation of apps, and can use ethernet via tethering rather than mobile networks. Could probably leave the top of the box off if you need mobile networks to work a bit.
The sim boxes used for bulk messaging / calling from the photos posted yesterday had antennas poking out everywhere. If you wanted these phones to work inside metal cases, you'd probably want an antenna per phone sticking out as well (or a shared antenna, if you've got rf skills)