A man used 400 phones to live stream for gifts: it ended unexpectedly

He won consumer goods and an iPhone, earning between $1,400 and $2,800 per month in resale.

A man in China has been arrested for using more than 400 mobile phones at once to increase his chances of winning gifts on live broadcasts.

This is reported by SCMP.

The man, surnamed Ma, was discovered in August operating hundreds of devices in a small garage in an apartment complex in Jiangsu province. An elderly passerby noticed unusual activity in Ma's garage and reported it to the police, suspecting it was a fraudulent operation.

Ma admitted to using the phones, each linked to a separate account on the live streaming platform, to increase his chances of winning so-called “lucky bags”.

This scheme was feasible for Ma because the “lucky bags” only required the viewer to…