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Originally Posted by a dewd
Bot farm corporation finds random people that want to grant access to the computer. Random person signs up at sites, verifies account, downloads software, and (I believe) they operate the bot although operate is probably an overstatement. The screenshots of the start and end session suggests they are not maintained/operated live on a remote basis by the bot farm corporation staff. Teamviewer does seem to be visible in every screenshot almost. O think it might have to do with how they set it up more than active play.
IMO it does not work like this. Way too much trust in random people. How would deposing and withdrawing work? I doubt that many people running such a "business" are giving hundreds of random people a couple of hundred - couple of thousand $$ each and hoping that they follow the instructions correctly
IMO, more than like it is the "Bot farm corporation" ie the company who is buying/leasing the bot software finds people who are willing to sell "themselves" (ie give passport, address verification, bank statements, TIM ID, etc, for a couple of hundred dollars, with the agreement that if more documents/pictures are required the person will furnish the company with them - maybe for an additional payment). The company employees then create a VM and set the IP location / tech details of it to be near where the person who gave their identity is based. The company employees then set up that VM fully with everything that is needed, the bot software, the poker software etc. The company employees then create the poker accounts as well as a skrill account (or other payment processor) on that VM, deposit, contact the poker site if verification of documents etc is needed. The company employee then presses play, does screenshots, etc, running the bot/poker software
The person who gave their documents might have no idea what those documents are being used for. That person might get some sort of bonus of winnings, but I highly highly doubt it. CPA is much cheaper than Rev Share in the long run. As I said before, that person would prolly receive $100-$200 for a ton of documents and then maybe $50-$100 more each time something new was requested by a site that might be investigating the account. The person would never be in contact with the poker site directly. This would all be handled by the company employees
Presuming that these bots do not need any human input (bar pressing "Run" & "Stop" and to check log files if something goes wrong) and are fully automated, rather than a real time assist type software. This means that 1 company employee can easily run 20+ bot accounts (on the same amount of VMs) at the same time
Start/end screenshots could simply be proof of a couple of things:
1) Record keeping to know exact funds on each account at all times, which would also show profit/loss in each session
2) Record keeping to know how long the company employees spent working each day, if they are on an hourly rate it might help verify/prove how much to pay them
3) Record keeping for the company owners to show them that the bots are not just being run 24/7 (or massive sessions each day) which even the most basic of sites should be looking out for
Again, all of the above is a guess as I do not know exactly how this particular ring ran. But it seems much easier to contain information etc, along with much less risk of theft/tilt if its a couple of company employees running everything account related, rather than tens/hundreds of randoms