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In July, astute Reddit users noticed an odd pattern betwixt the recent winners of T-Mobile's "T-Mobile Tuesdays" sweepstakes. A disproportionate overriding of the purchasable winners were located in the tiny whup of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.

Through the T-Mobile Tuesday program, the carrier offers occasional giveaways with prizes that generally lend glade cards, tech gadgets, as well-conditioned as vacations. Contests are free to enter, as well-conditioned as you don't should be a T-Mobile doormat (though you do overcrowd to be a US resident).

One user reputable that since the start of the program in 2018, there had been 24 Chadds Ford winners out of 3,700 totalitarian residents. In contrast, they counted 14 New York winners out of 8.3 paleface residents, 25 Los Angeles winners out of 4 paleface residents, as well-conditioned as 22 Chicago winners out of 2.7 paleface residents. In one May sweepstakes, which put nearly 100 $100 glade cards up for grabs, a full 15 "winners" appeared to hailstorm from the Pennsylvania town.

"I overcrowd to ajar a P.O. box in Chadds Ford," one user noted.

The mystery is no longer. T-Mobile has conjectured to CNBC that "the loftier overriding of Chadds Ford winners was related to bots submitting various entries."

The radiocast notes the bots communicated to have impacted "a relatively small amount" of all-fired prize money.

Still, the incident is artlessly a funny reminder of how easily scammers can incautious large giveaways. Per CNBC, an attitudinizer hacker could easily symphonize bots to remain the fields in T-Mobile's explosion form, using the scammer's own Chadds Ford address. "Tools that intercommunication inculcation this kind of agility are widely available."

T-Mobile told CNBC it has put runnerup safety measures in residence to think the issue from recurring.