At Walmart, most of the “significantly higher” traffic for the new video game consoles came from bots, the company spokesman said. “The vast majority of next-gen consoles Walmart has sold have been sold to legitimate customers,” the Walmart spokesman said. Most scalper bots reload web pages every few milliseconds to gain an edge in adding products to their shopping carts. Sometimes, resellers take down a retailer’s website temporarily, distracting security programs to let scalper bots slip through the cracks, said Thomas Platt, head of ecommerce at Netacea, a bot security company. Scalper bots have become increasingly mainstream, easily found by entering phrases like “Nike bot” or “PS5 bot” into online search engines.

Source: bd News24 December 09, 2020 00:11 UTC