AsianInspiration said:
Common sense doesn't require IQ either.
But what you said is totally not true. As someone who have taken more than a year's worth of computer science in University, I can tell you that I have no idea how to do something like this. Or, well, I can guess/understand how it works, but the actual process of doing something like this requires A LOT of different skills not taught in University, period, whether you're 1st year or 4th year or whatever. Now, someone with some computer science knowledge could probably learn enough to do it by themselves if they really wanted to. But you won't be able to do it just with stuff learned in school.
It's all database-based. Hosted on cloud databases, like the guy in the article did.
*You* don't necessarily do it. Any of it. Let's face it, the top-level bottom-feeders are already skipping town on the Zon. They took what they were doing and packaged it up and are now selling it to other, later-to-the-game scammers. Joe Bagoscams has bought a pre-packaged package deal where he pays a few hundred for the software--or a login and password from a previously-successful account, a few thousand for the training vids, and a few bucks for the actual content. Joe punches a button and boom! suddenly his four publisher accounts have 150 scamphlets each. Priced at 9.99, every borrow gets a big lift from the algos, because the zon wants people to think about buying a 9.99 book. You run the programs exactly like the training vids tell you to, and stop them as soon as your time or quantity's been reached. You pull the books and shift the publications tot he next account. You stay under a certain threshold where the zon considers it a "cost of doing business" loss and you collect your money in 15k chunks because Amazon eats a 15k loss, but you're running 4 accounts, so you're making 60k a month and amazon is still eating it as the cost of doing business.
Sure, the books are obvious, but don't forget, this is volume talking--quantity over quality. You don't just open one scam publishing account, you open three or four. You upload a hundred fake books. You have 86,000 fake KU "reader" bots. You make a hydra, which has many heads. Reporters and flags go up eventually when *authors* rather than readers notice, but in between the time it takes for those flags to accumulate enough to trip a trigger, you've already rolled up the tent and are halfway down the road to the next town while the good folks in River City, Iowa are still waiting to hear their kids play the Minuet in G. Torches and pitchforks will never run faster than trains out of town, and human complainers or the occasional bleary-eyed subcontractor who might actually look at the ranked titles will never be able to outrun or out-report the crap tsunami.
What this should tell us is that, given the obviousness of the titles and covers, hardly any actual humans look further past the top 100 list, otherwise the reports would have come in earlier.
Maybe not worth 9.99, but I'd borrow it if I had KU 
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