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=== User: What is the benefit of the bots? ===
What is the benefit of the bots? What do they accomplish?

I’m just curious what the point of the bots is. I understand there are bots everywhere, and it’s our job to go to war with them, but I don’t see the benefit.

I’m getting slammed by bots right now. I own a Digital Marketing Agency and every single hit has been a bot. (I just started my company, so I’m still learning how to deal with the bots. Any help would be appreciated.)

They fill out the form, one person even filled out a detailed description of an outdoor ecommerce business that I thought was legit.

I reached out with personalized emails for each of them, and none of the email addresses exist, and when I texted the numbers, I got no response besides one person saying they didn’t know anything about my company.

Only thing I haven’t done to confirm is call, but I like to send a text to nudge a schedule with my calendar.

I’m pretty sure I’m right about the bots though.

But what do they gain from this? I read somewhere that they’re doing affiliate marketing and they somehow use my information to fake that they’ve done any work for their company and they get paid.

If that’s true, I’m not understanding how it works. I’m also into cybersecurity, so this kind of stuff fascinates me.

I’d appreciate a breakdown like I’m five, please.

Thank you everyone in advance.