mijobooks Chapter 5: Earning 9 Yuan in 1 Hour
Chapter 5: Earning 9 Yuan in 1 Hour
After opening the webpage, Lin Bei typed a few words into the search box.
Soon, he found a forum post about the singer "A Yuan" in the search results, which read in scarlet font:
【urgent!!!】
[Voting for the final night is running out! We're buying back SMS votes at a high price! Deadline is midnight tonight!!!]
After Lin Bei clicked on it, he found that the post had been published an hour ago and had already been upvoted more than ten pages.
The poster's ID is "阿远守护团_小雨", and the text is filled with exclamation marks:
"Family members! Our idol's votes have dropped to third! The fan club has urgently raised funds and urgently needs a large number of text message votes!"
"Buy one for 50 cents, discounts available for bulk orders!"
"I need help with batch submissions. Manual submissions, one by one, are not acceptable; please don't waste time!!!"
Below the post, there was a chorus of lamentations.
Some people said that they could only submit 200 tickets manually all night, which was too slow.
Some people said that because of voting, they had run out of phone credit and their phones were practically smoking.
Some people even asked if there were any "experts" who could perform batch operations.
Lin Bei closed the forum page and opened a completely black command line window.
Although the computers in internet cafes in 2008 only had XP operating systems and no development environment.
But for him, that was more than enough.
In his previous life, Lin Bei worked as a technician at GG Company for over a decade, doing everything from SMS channel maintenance to backend development—all sorts of dirty and tiring jobs.
He could recite all the SP interface vulnerabilities of this era with his eyes closed.
Lin Bei first logged into the voting platform's newsletter page, the URL of which he had just extracted from the webpage's source code.
This is an extremely rudimentary backend; it doesn't even have a verification code. When you enter the contestant's number and the number of votes, and then click send, the system will prompt "Insufficient balance".
The reason for the insufficient balance is that eight cents are deducted from the channel account for each voting message.
He currently does not have an account, which is why his balance is insufficient.
What Lin Bei needs to do now is not to crack the account, but to make the system think that the vote was "paid".
He opened Notepad and began typing code, his fingers flying across the keyboard.
Soon, lines of green characters appeared on the white background.
The script written by Lin Bei is not complicated in principle. It intercepts the POST request when a web form is submitted and changes the "payment status" parameter from "0" to "1".
In this era, SP interfaces separate payment verification and voting execution into two steps: voting first, then deducting fees, with a time difference in between.
This time difference is enough for the script to "fake" the verification result as paid before the deduction request is sent.
Lin Bei finished writing the last line, saved it, and double-clicked to run it.
Soon, a simple dialog box popped up: "Please enter the number of votes."
Lin Bei immediately typed: "10."
Then, click OK.
The command line window started scrolling rapidly, displaying ten lines of "sent successfully" text.
Soon, Lin Bei's Nokia 5300 vibrated.
After he turned on his phone, he saw a text message confirming that he had successfully voted.
Lin Bei's lips curled up slightly.
It became.
Although there are some risks, as long as the script is deleted after the voting ends, there is no need to worry about it being discovered.
Lin Bei didn't rush to send out the messages in bulk. He first opened the fan club's QQ group and applied for approval.
There are over three hundred people in the group, and they are currently having a heated argument.
"There are still three hours until the deadline, and my brother's tickets are still a long way off!"
"What should we do? We can't keep up with manually throwing them!"
"Is there anyone who can submit in bulk? I'm offering a hefty reward!"
"Let's all work together, we absolutely can't let our brother lose!"
Lin Bei directly messaged the administrator privately: "I can vote in bulk, starting from 500 votes. I have screenshots to verify the votes. Do you need to cooperate?"
The administrator immediately replied: "You really have five hundred?"
"have."
"How much are 500 tickets?"
"Two hundred and fifty."
"Could you make it cheaper...?"
"If you hire someone else for the last three hours, the price will be higher."
The administrator was silent for a few seconds before sending a transaction link from 5173.
Lin Bei clicked to take the picture and sent the screenshot over.
The other party quickly confirmed the payment.
Lin Bei immediately switched back to the command line window and typed: "500."
This time, the screen scrolled for a little over a minute before displaying 500 lines of "sent successfully".
Lin Bei's Nokia phone was on the table, and it kept vibrating.
Three minutes later, the message was sent.
Lin Bei packaged the screenshots of the five hundred replies and sent them to the administrator.
The other party remained silent for a long time, probably counting screenshots.
Then, the dialog box exploded.
"Holy crap, five hundred of them!"
"How did you do that?"
"Is there any more? Let's make one last push!"
"We'll take as many as you have!"
Lin Bei picked up his iced tea and took a sip: "How much do you want?"
"Ten thousand copies!"
"No, fifteen thousand!"
"Even if it costs six cents a vote, we'll take it!"
Lin Bei quickly did the calculations.
Each ticket costs 60 cents. If there are 15,000 tickets, that's 9,000 yuan. After deducting electricity and internet fees, there's practically no cost.
He had never felt that math was so simple in his entire life.
Lin Ye replied, "Fifteen thousand, nine thousand yuan."
"Pay half as deposit, and the balance after delivery."
The other party sent over a link for 4,500 almost without hesitation.
After taking the picture, Lin Bei switched the command line window to the foreground, his fingers hovering over the keyboard for about a second.
Then, I typed "15000".
The screen started scrolling rapidly.
The green characters kept falling down, much faster than before.
Lin Bei modified the script, removing the delay between each line, and the scroll bar in the command line window quickly shrank to a small dot.
The entire computer screen displayed the words "Sent successfully".
The Nokia on the table buzzed incessantly, bobbing slightly on the surface. Text messages kept pouring in, the screen lit up and dimmed and lit up again, and the number of unread messages was rising rapidly.
Just then, Song Qingning peeked over from the side, half a sausage still dangling from her mouth: "What's wrong with your computer? Is the screen malfunctioning?"
"Did you get a virus from watching Japanese adult videos?"
Lin Bei reached out and pushed her round face back: "Play your Audition Online."
The sending process lasted for nearly an hour.
Lin Bei went to make himself a bowl of instant noodles halfway through, and when he came back, the screen was still scrolling.
At 10:17 PM, the last line, "Sent successfully," appeared and the message stopped.
Lin Bei started taking screenshots, 15,000 in total, in batches, with 100 screenshots per batch.
A total of 150 images were compressed into three folders and sent to the administrator in batches.
A dozen minutes later, the dialog box lit up again.
"Brother, you're a god."
"The final payment has been made. Please check it."
"Can I ask you to participate in the next competition?"