Chinese Guarantee Syndicates and the Fruit Machine

 When I was speaking to a group of Bank Security people in New York City yesterday, I mentioned “machine rooms” — which are rooms full of Apple iPhones that are used to send iMessage phishing spam. Someone in the audience asked “Where would they get that many phones?”

The kids like to use the acronym “IYKYK” (If You Know You Know).

I learn new IYKYK phrases in Chinese Telegram every day. Today’s new favorite phrase? 水果机 – Shuǐguǒ jī – “Fruit machine.”

Example usage: 🔥低价出正品水果机
(“Genuine fruit machines at low prices”)

Fruit machine is coded language for Apple iPhones.

This advertiser pays HuionePay’s Haowang Guarantee for the right to share an ad for their group once each hour in Huione, their highest rate, so that one line advertisement is posted 24 times per day to Haowang Guarantees “buy and sell” group. What? You thought Telegram had banned HuionePay? hahahahahaha … but they do try to hide their traffic by rebranding their “Crime As A Service” vendors to be “Potato Guarantee” rather than Haowang Guarantee.

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