CCTV exposes accident: 84 people arrested for playing "dressing as men"

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"Click the 'Game View' above to subscribe to WeChat"; "If no one is chatting, I will be a companion. Sometimes I have to change my avatar to pretend to be a girl, which makes the community very active." —— Internet The boss described their pioneering history. The "The Greatest, Most Eternal, and Most Popular 'Art' in China Is a Man Dressed as a Woman" series-"What Did I Say" by Lu Xun. In the Internet industry, there has been a tradition of "playing the role of a woman" since ancient times. Operators know that if there is a woman, it can attract men; if there is no woman, it can invent and create it by itself. Although it is not illegal to advocate "playing the role of a man as a woman", if "playing a role of a man as a woman" is used to induce users to improperly benefit regardless of the means, there is a risk of illegality. Recently, CCTV's 13 rule-of-law story columns exposed a fraud case involving "playing a woman" to promote games, which sounded alarm bells for various promotion methods in the game industry. The police arrested 84 suspects of the suspected company and the amount involved was more than 5 million yuan. According to CCTV, the company's platform pretends to be close to users, pretends to develop love relationships, and lures victims to recharge in promotional games via online chat. Rich girls pursue true love, do not accept red envelopes, and only play games. The subtlety of this scam is that, unlike ordinary "game support", this "game support" can easily make players panic, fake "girlfriends" are good at talking with victims, caring and caring for victims, from time to time Depicting the future lives of the two, and even resolutely refusing to accept any red envelopes sent by the victim intentionally or unintentionally to show their economic strength, so it is easy to win the trust of the victims. The only requirement is to play the game together. ). Fake "girlfriends" to sell recharge items, mostly props to express love in the game, such as roses and marriage. And these props or items, of course, need to pay, that is, need to recharge. Even smarter, if personal payment items in the game, such as marriage, require both parties to pay the same fee, it's hard for the victim to realize that this is a scam. After all, "girlfriends" also spend money. In order not to affect the relationship with the "girlfriend", the victim can only continue to charge the game under the temptation of the "girlfriend". But in fact, in the whole process, only the real money of the victim was taken away, and the money spent by the "girlfriend" was only data transmitted randomly in the background. When the victim's savings are emptied, the "girlfriend" will ask the victim to borrow money to maintain high consumption, but this time has basically reached the final stage. In order to continue to break through the victim's defense line, the "girlfriend" will also fabricate air ticket information, pretend to meet the victim, and ask the victim to pay about 10,000 yuan each time to buy 1,314 roses with "life" significance. If rejected, the "girlfriend" will black out the victim and look for the next target. The victim also thought that it was "the game destroyed his relationship with his girlfriend". At this step, unlucky players were tricked into recharging the game and their deposits were wiped out. They contributed to a game that they didn't play much at all. However, they found no deception throughout the process. Even if they find a mistake, they may not report it because of embarrassment. Without exception, it should be difficult to unveil the publicity of this "men's dress up" game. So how was this delicate scam discovered? "Assistance" in arrears of employees' wages, and the police's destruction of the strongest fortresses of criminal gangs is always broken from the inside, and this is no exception. According to reports, a report on wage disputes caught the attention of the police, which eventually implicated the entire "pretend woman" game promotion in connection with fraud. Reporter Wang (pseudonym) told the police that he was recruited through an Internet platform and entered a game company as a game expert. The other party promised a monthly salary of 10,000 yuan. However, after working for some time, Wang did not receive any salary and went to the police station to report the case. The most "familiar" job of the game industry, "gaming commissioner", because Wang's ambiguity in specific job content, high salary, and unsuitable for his age and education background, successfully caused police suspicion. Police found an internet company covering Wansheng, Minjiang, Nanchuan and Fuling districts Because this is "the game destroyed his relationship with his girlfriend" At this step, unlucky players are tricked into recharging in the game and their deposits are swept away. They contributed to a game that they didn't play much at all. However, they found no deception throughout the process. Even if they find a mistake, they may not report it because of embarrassment. Without exception, it should be difficult to unveil the publicity of this "men's dress up" game. So how was this delicate scam discovered? "Assistance" in arrears of employees' wages, and the police's destruction of the strongest fortresses of criminal gangs is always broken from the inside, and this is no exception. According to reports, a report on wage disputes caught the attention of the police, which eventually implicated the entire "pretend woman" game promotion in connection with fraud. Reporter Wang (pseudonym) told the police that he was recruited through an Internet platform and entered a game company as a game expert. The other party promised a monthly salary of 10,000 yuan. However, after working for some time, Wang did not receive any salary and went to the police station to report the case. The most "familiar" job of the game industry, "gaming commissioner", because Wang's ambiguity in specific job content, high salary, and unsuitable for his age and education background, successfully caused police suspicion. Police found an internet company covering Wansheng, Minjiang, Nanchuan and Fuling districts Because this is "the game destroyed his relationship with his girlfriend" At this step, unlucky players are tricked into recharging in the game and their deposits are swept away. They contributed to a game that they didn't play much at all. However, they found no deception throughout the process. Even if they find a mistake, they may not report it because of embarrassment. Without exception, it should be difficult to unveil the publicity of this "men's dress up" game. So how was this delicate scam discovered? "Assistance" in arrears of employees' wages, and the police's destruction of the strongest fortresses of criminal gangs is always broken from the inside, and this is no exception. According to reports, a report on wage disputes caught the attention of the police, which eventually implicated the entire "pretend woman" game promotion in connection with fraud. Reporter Wang (pseudonym) told the police that he was recruited through an Internet platform and entered a game company as a game expert. The other party promised a monthly salary of 10,000 yuan. However, after working for some time, Wang did not receive any salary and went to the police station to report the case. The most "familiar" job of the game industry, "gaming commissioner", because Wang's ambiguity in specific job content, high salary, and unsuitable for his age and education background, successfully caused police suspicion. Police found an internet company covering Wansheng, Minjiang, Nanchuan and Fuling districts

After obtaining a large amount of evidence, the police formally arrested 84 people in 9 dens, and seized 182 computers, 131 mobile phones, 105 mobile phone cards, and hundreds of related contract agreements, management systems, training courses and other fraud notes . The report pointed out that the gang mainly used the name of love and marriage to entice victims to recharge in online games, and their company acted as an agent or operator, thereby "obtaining a lot of illegal benefits." For one, many people operate behind "girlfriend" accounts. For example, in the process of deception, in addition to verbal deception, the promotion staff will also use female colleagues to make voice calls to further lure victims. When police contacted the victims (both young people), many did not know or even believe that they had been cheated. CCTV rated it as "extremely chaotic and deceptive": "On the surface, this is just a top-up game. The amount of each time is not necessarily large, but this fraud is of great social harm." I didn't know I was cheated, so my promotion was fair. The person in charge of the arrested company revealed that he was a university teacher. Later, he led students to start a business and founded an animation company. As the company went downhill and went bankrupt, he became angry with debt and became "dishonest". However, it is not uncommon to promote "playing a man's role" in the gaming industry. Since the age of web browsing, various types of "game boards" have been particularly popular. Why is this company the only company that has committed a crime and has been followed by police? In fact, there has always been a big controversy in the legal field whether the promotion of "dressing as men and women" is illegal or constitutes fraud. However, a survey by China Judicial Documents Network showed that the process of "playing the roles of men and women" is often accompanied by "fabricating facts, concealing facts, and defrauding others' property", which constitutes a condition of fraud. Not only are employees directly involved, but managers and company legal persons who train, instruct, or condone employees' fraud are also suspected of fraud because of their knowledge and subjective maliciousness (the purpose is to increase the amount of game recharge to obtain credit). This is also a wake-up call for game companies using smart promotions. No matter how high the purchase cost and how difficult it is to promote, they should not resort to fraud to cross legal boundaries. Game companies should also be wary of cooperative promotions to prevent similar situations from affecting product reputation and corporate reputation, rather than do more harm than good. The legal level is controversial, not an umbrella. We must be afraid of everything and stand up and move on. End the game to view the daily game industry report. Global perspectives / in-depth disclosure / communication / cooperation: please add Wechat editor igamelook ads: