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Scratch the pages of the short play collar
“property watching can also make money” — nowadays, such messages are visible on various micro-facility platforms and have become a new attraction for older groups. A survey of journalists found that behind this seemingly attractive welfare is a multi-consumer trap: forced ads, very low cash withdrawals, hidden withholding clauses, etc., are inundated by a number of elders in lanzhou, who not only spend a great deal of time, but also face the double risk of personal information disclosure and property damage。
Phenomena
Old lanzhou is addicted to making money and spending the night chasing
"my mom can't even cook now, and she says she can make money with her cell phone." ms. Huo, who lived on the west stop street of the seven rivers in lanzhou city, had to complain to journalists, and her 65-year-old mother, aunt zhang, had changed her life completely since three months earlier when she had listened to the neighbor's suggestion for a free play app. The first thing that used to happen in the early morning was to open the phone and sign the gold medals, and when you heard the tip of the phone for dinner, you left the shovel for a “brushing mission” and often stayed up until 2 or 3 a. M., when you said, “you can make more money by brushing it and saving enough to buy rice oil”。
In the old neighborhood near the wine spring road in lanzhou city city, a 72-year-old master li is wearing old glasses, with his fingers sliding repeatedly on the screen of his mobile phone and focused on painting an urban short play. "you see, every episode of gold comes out, and there's more to be found." when master li said that he would open the next episode in a skilled location, the screen would be followed by a 30-second health-care commercial, and the “experts” on the screen were constantly explaining the efficacy of a calcium tablet. “it has to be finished before it can continue to see the play, and the platform says that it can speed up the promotion by seeing more gold coins for advertising.” according to mr. Li, he has joined a number of local play-sharing groups, with daily links to “high coins” “secrets” and “swipe techniques” shared by others, and with a number of older people who, in order to earn more gold, do the play more than six hours a day, have even replaced the old mirrors with a higher degree of magnitude, with red blood on their eyes。
However, the seemingly tempting income-making benefits have yielded little in real terms. The journalist, using mr. Li's mobile phone, measured a popular play, app, which was written for six hours, and received 18620 gold coins after completing all the tasks of watching advertisements, signing up, sharing friends and watching the designated series. In accordance with the exchange rules contained in the app, which are hidden at the bottom of the user agreement, 33,000 yuan will be converted into one yuan, with a real gain of only 0. 56 yuan for six hours. The conditions are even more stringent, requiring a period of seven consecutive days and a cumulative sum of 20 yuan in order to make a cash withdrawal, which will require six hours a day to be painted by the elderly and more than a month to reach the threshold. More subtlely, the app clause states that “the gold in the account will be automatically emptied after 15 days of unlogged-in awards”, and that many elderly people who struggle to save the gold are often left behind because they forget to log in。
A trap
Ms. Tsui has been deceived by over $920,000
A survey of journalists found that “free painting for money” was only the first step in attracting older people, and that subsequent advertising packages and filling traps were more harmful. These short play platforms tend to be free of charge in the first two episodes, and when the drama moves to the critical nodes, the window “to unlock the full set of cessors” will pop up, with a full set of meals ranging from $9. 9 for “experative cards” to $299. 9 for “life members”, with a part of a one-minute short play that costs hundreds of dollars to unlock the whole set. With more platforms for the default introduction of the “automatic renewal” function, older persons who do not pay attention to the pick-up will be continuously charged a fee of dozens less and hundreds more。
During the previous period, ms. Xu, released by the lanzhou public security anti-fraud centre, had been defrauded of more than 920,000 yuan as a result of the fall into the micro-short play promotion scheme. It is understood that ms. Xu first met a close friend at a fund platform and received a 25-dollar red bag after being dragged into a group chat, and then, under the direction of the group manager, downloaded a short play app to perform a promotion at $4. 6 per lump sum, which was successfully recovered after she had completed 13. Ms. Xu, who had tasted the sweets, was soon induced to purchase short play coins at a premium of $2968 and promised a return of $4158. After the mission was completed, ms. Xu was given a $63,000 assignment on the basis of “profit data to cash” and was asked to pay the advance payment by purchasing a mobile phone online. Ms. Xu then paid $63,000 and mailed the mobile phone to a designated location。
Immediately thereafter, under the pretext of “repairing the data for presentation”, ms. Xu was asked to purchase more than $200,000 of electronic products, which she was asked to deliver to a designated location when the order was not available. However, the fraud did not stop and the other party, also known as the “data error caused the accounts to freeze”, needed 660,000 yuan to repair the data and to guarantee that all the money would be cashed after the restoration, and ms. Xu once again sent 660,000 yuan to a designated location, after which she could not reach the other party completely, before realizing that she had been deceived and called the police。
In addition to direct fraud, advertisements in short plays are also hidden. The journalists found that the platform, based on the viewing habits of the elderly, would target advertisements such as foster health care, false finances, three health-free items, which often exaggerate the publicity and induce the elderly to buy under the banner of “local producers in lanzhou directly providing” “invalid refunds recommended by experts”。
Counsel's view
Watching a short play, older people need to be alert to three traps
In response to various approaches to the micro-sync platform, counsel for the gansu wise law office stated that such acts had been suspected of violating relevant laws and regulations, such as the law of the people's republic of china on consumer protection, the law of the people's republic of china on advertising, and had seriously violated the rights of consumers to information, choice and fair trade。
“the platform hides important provisions such as `automated renewal' `gill exchange rules' `discount thresholds' in the corner of lengthy user agreements or bullet windows, deliberately circumventing consumer attention, which is typical of the `hegemonic clause', disguised as depriving consumers of their right to know.” according to joki, some of the platforms have imposed non-stop advertising in violation of article 44 of the advertising act, which states that “the use of the internet for publishing and advertising shall not affect the proper use of the network by users. Advertisements in the form of ejects on internet pages should be clearly marked with a closure sign to ensure a one-key closure” and consumers may retain evidence to report complaints to market supervisory authorities。
With regard to the “brush-making” trick, she further analysed the platform's use of “high returns” as a bait to attract the elderly to devote a great deal of time and effort, and the real gains were grossly inconsistent with the payment and amounted to false propaganda. The sale of fraudulent products through short play advertisements, the inducement to high-values and the commission of telecommunications fraud may also constitute a criminal offence and entail corresponding criminal liability。
In particular, she warns that older persons should be alert to three common types of trap: the “free money” trap, the “low investment and high returns” propaganda, the “hundreds a day of painting” and the non-discharge of pies in the sky; the “full value unlock” trap, which requires first communication with their children, careful examination of the full value clause, and closing down the automatic renewal function; and the “advertising shopping” trap, which selects a formal electrician platform, maintains a shopping voucher and does not transfer directly to a personal account. At the same time, children should help older persons to turn off their mobile phone free payments and regularly check mobile phone billings and deduction records and find them to be handled in an exceptional and timely manner。
