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What is Scalper Bot?

A scalper bot is automation built to buy limited-availability items faster than any person can, so the operator can resell them at a markup.

How it works

Scalpers script the entire purchase path: monitoring, cart, checkout. The whole run finishes in under a second, thousands of times in parallel.

Why it matters for social platforms

Real customers lose inventory to scripts, and your brand absorbs the anger while the reseller takes the margin. For your platform, that means user trust stay protected and your users get a fair experience.

How BondProof detects it

BondProof scores every request against behavioral, network, and device signals, so automated patterns surface even when they imitate real your users. Suspicious sessions get challenged or blocked before they reach your platform.

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