It caught my attention that most of these bot applications promote other bots that are supposed to be for competing projects. For example, the application asks you in the "Tasks" section to join other groups for other projects and activate bots for other tokens in exchange for getting more points. This leads to the conclusion that these projects are run by one party and most likely the developer will be the same. It doesn't matter if this is a scam or honest attempts because the integration will always be convenient for that party, especially if the same steps are followed up to asking users to pay in exchange for their shares of the airdrop.
That's true, it all connects with those tasks that they're advertising or suggesting to follow other projects. But we have an option not to follow them and still claim the points that we'll get from doing that task. It's an ugly way of promoting new projects but I think those other projects are paying that project you are in for the airdrop so they get promoted and included in the task-follow thing.
I asked a friend on Reddit and he told me that these bot scripts are available in the dark web markets at good prices, meaning that they are not expensive, but whoever buys them must be a developer or able to deal with them.
In fact, I tried to search for some sources on the dark web but I failed to find any of them.
I'm not sure if you have to go to the dark web because it's for sure available in the clear net and you just have to find those developers that can do that in some freelancing platforms or maybe here in the forum, someone might be able to do that.
Launching a bot may not be a difficult matter in general, but working on updates and ensuring connectivity with wallets and trading platforms is not easy at all. Someone mentioned $200 as the cost of development, which does not seem realistic at all. At the same time, I agree with the opinion that supports the idea that developers on freelance platforms can perform the service well and their profile is the guarantor of their integrity.
I also thought about whether it is possible to use artificial intelligence to create these scripts. Currently, there are artificial intelligence tools specialized in programming and are able to compete with major developers and major development companies. Artificial intelligence can even help in suggesting solutions within marketing policies.
As much as this seems easy to verify and inexpensive, it represents additional opportunities for fraudsters and scammers to exploit technical facilities available in several technical branches and the issue of ensnaring victims becomes costless. Today, when you try any of these bots, you will be surprised by the number of users in the millions. The personal data that will be collected from those millions of accounts, no one knows how it can be exploited, in addition to the channels that are created on the basis that they are official project channels to be used later to promote other fraudulent projects, and this is what actually happens.