Farming it out to Earth.
Strange internet messages from unknown sources ask people to sign on to do tasks for enormous amounts of money. Those who sign on get in the mail strange contraptions where they have to perform actions repeatedly, for a few hours a day. For that they get, say $500 added to their bank accounts. Anyone who can access this service does so quickly, and soon the whole planet earth is pretty much filled with happy workers who do very little a day and make good money.
One day an alien spaceship lands on earth, the aliens look angry. They try to confiscate or destroy as many contraptions as they can. They leave, warning further attacks if the people of earth do not cease.
It seems this alien world was using Earth for cheap labor, as back on their home planet those same tasks earn the aliens the equivalent of $1500 a day. The visitors were a rag-tag rebellion group of aliens trying to end this cheap 'farmed out' labor.
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