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>having hundreds of calls and texts onramping from the same IP would be a rather large red flag.

Use VPNs? Surely paying for some subscriptions at $3/month is cheaper than renting an apartment in manhattan?

You'd probably need thousands of residential IP addresses to pass under the radar with so many SIM cards.

There are bot nets that specifically offer such services

This IS the botnet that offers the service.

...and perfectly legal services too, e.g. joinmassive.com, brightdata, etc. (they're used for gathering listing data from e-commerce sites, job boards, etc.)

disclosure: I'm an investor/advisor in massive.

Somehow, if you have to use residential proxies, its going to he a TOS break.

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