Dig deep into your circle of friends and vote for money-burning games that you don't know.

Now, the popularity of WeChat is self-evident and can be applied to different places of all ages. Wechat is the best choice for work, life, communication or social interaction. It can be said that WeChat has gradually integrated into our lives. In recent years, there have been countless voting activities on WeChat. Everyone must have met a friend who hasn't chatted for a long time and suddenly sent you a message. When I open it, I ask you to vote for me. Having said that, let's vote around the circle of friends today and get to know more about it.

What happened when friends voted to burn money?

There are a large number of voting links in WeChat circle of friends, such as "XX Star Selection" and "Best XX", and some of them involve minors' voting. In order to canvass for children, some families start all the networks and forward the voting link page to N groups for clicking. Some families take other shortcuts and buy tickets by brushing the ticket company to make their children's tickets higher.

Investigation No.37 of the Major Crimes Unit found that some voting links have their own "gift" function besides simple "voting", and different gifts have corresponding votes. Anyone can spend money to buy gifts for the corresponding "candidates". The more money they spend, the better gifts they buy and the more votes they get. The wind of comparison also breeds, and some parents even spend thousands of dollars on tickets. In the end, the so-called voting became a "money-burning game". The money spent by parents to buy tickets is generally divided equally between web developers and organizers.

Voting in the circle of friends has become a kind of "business"-there are ticketing companies specializing in "canvassing", and there are also many WeChat voting ticketing apps.

In a canvassing APP, the fare is clearly stated according to the number of votes. Screenshot of application page

The voting page can give gifts to buy tickets.

On September 1 1, Zhang Xian, a native of Hubei province, forwarded a voting link of "popular star" of children's art to his family. This is a vote initiated by a children's art education institution. The top four winners can get gifts such as tablet computers, rice cookers, children's phone watches, yogurt machines, etc. Zhang Xian's 9-year-old daughter is one of more than 40 children who signed up for the selection with paintings.

"Please vote for the person you love." After speaking in the group, Zhang Xian made several expressions of "please" in succession.

According to Zhang Xian, her daughter paints very well, and this is the first time to take part in a similar poll. Parents hope that their children can have a good ranking, which is also an encouragement to their children.

Voting lasts for 7 days. Everyone can vote every day, but the same player can only vote 1. In order to canvass for her daughter, Zhang Xian not only mobilized the whole family, but also adjusted the voting links in many groups of 10.

"Those days were like chicken blood." Zhang Xian said that the first thing to do when you pick up your mobile phone every morning is to vote. It will remind others that "you can vote again on a new day".

For Xu Wei, who is over 60 years old, voting for his grandniece has become "a great event for the whole family".

After voting every day, family members will report "voted" and the latest voting situation in the group, and others will send screenshots of other groups' voting to the group.

Xu Weiping, who has retired for many years, often comes into contact with more than 10 groups, including classmates, colleagues, sisters and retirees. All these groups have become "support groups" for Xu Wei to canvass for his grandniece.

Her speech in the family group these days is inseparable from voting.

"I just came back at noon and voted without eating first." "My classmate woke up at 4 am and remembered to vote. I was very moved." "I'm so busy these days that I can't relax until the voting is over." "I will try to find as many groups as possible after catching up."

In order to thank her classmates and friends for their help, she also sent a number of red envelopes in various groups. "The amount is not big, which is a bit interesting."

Driven by the enthusiasm of people in China, Zhang Xian's daughter once entered the top three. After that, the gap between the number of votes and the previous one, especially the first place, is getting bigger and bigger.

On the fourth day of voting, some family members found that the voting page had the function of giving gifts. Anyone who spends money to buy gifts for designated candidates can exchange corresponding votes according to their different values.

Zhang Xian said that sending lollipops to 3 yuan can increase 15 votes, as well as gifts from 100 yuan, 0 yuan, 50 yuan and 300 yuan, of which 100 yuan and 300 yuan can buy "super sports cars" and "luxury cruise ships", corresponding to 500 votes and 65438+.

Family members also began to send "lollipops" to increase the number of votes, but the increase was far less than that of the top few.

After the voting deadline, the first place won more than 1.5 million votes, and the second place won more than 6,000 votes. Click on the voting page of the first contestant. Under the "gift list", there are 100 yuan "super sports car" and "luxury cruise ship" in 300 yuan.

"The family has tried their best. This is completely burning money. " Zhang Xian said.

In the "popular star" voting, gifts such as cruise ships and sports cars correspond to different votes. Screenshot of mobile phone page

Third-party production companies charge for brushing gifts.

Zhang Xian's "burning money to buy tickets" function is reflected in many votes.

On the voting page of "Looking for Good Taste in Ruzhou" starting from10.6, a company with the number of 65438 will be prompted with "Dear, send me another diamond" after voting for the candidate food store.

"Giving diamonds" means spending money to buy diamonds. 1 Diamond Award 1 0 yuan Money, 1 Diamond equals 3 votes. The recharge amount of the system is 1 diamond, 5 diamond, 10 diamond, 50 diamond, 100 diamond and "user-defined". Spend 100 yuan to send 100 diamonds, which is equivalent to 300 votes.

The reporter also found that some kindergartens, primary and secondary schools or education and training institutions have also set up the function of buying tickets in the selection and voting involving minors.

In addition to the above-mentioned children's art "popular star" selection, recently, the reporter saw in the voting session of "dazzling dance star" in a dance school that the number of votes for the first place was 8 168, and 44 gifts were received, *** 15 15, which is equivalent to one yuan. According to the price of 288 points 1500, 100- 500, 50 points 240, 30 points 10- 45, 1 point19,7934, the votes are all gifts.

In fact, most of these voting pages with the function of brushing gifts and buying tickets are developed by third-party companies.

The staff of a technology company in Harbin told the reporter that the production of the voting page is completely free, and the prizes needed for voting are also provided by the company, including tablet computers, children's watches, electronic keyboards, yogurt machines and so on. But the cost of brushing gifts belongs to the company.

In the voting page made by the company, there is a function of "giving gifts". Gifts include lollipops, sports cars and cruise ships. Prices range from 1 yuan to 100 yuan, and tickets can reach 1 to 300 yuan. Spend money to buy gifts, and the deduction unit paid by WeChat is the company.

Detective No.37 of the Major Crimes Unit saw in the link of the "Star of Tomorrow" voting activity made by the company for an educational institution that as of June 4 10, the activity was still over in two days, with 46 participants and the number of visits 10946, with a cumulative voting volume of 9437. The second player has 178 1 tickets, of which 726 tickets were bought by brushing gifts.

In the gift setting, you can buy 3 tickets for 1 yuan, 5 tickets for 5 yuan 10, 90 tickets for 30 yuan, 0/50 tickets for 50 yuan/kloc, and 0/00 tickets for 300 yuan/kloc. In its prize description, it is stated that "all gifts are voluntary, and no reason for asking for a refund will be accepted after the gift is successful."

In the expression of company personnel, it mainly undertakes the voting business initiated by kindergartens and education and training institutions.

An educational institution even claimed that it was cheated after cooperating with the company. Relevant personnel said that the company did not ask for a vote at the beginning, but after the activity began, it was found that the number of votes rose slowly, and it was changed to ask for at least four or five thousand votes for the first place, and the total number of votes reached 20,000 to provide prizes.

"This has to constantly urge others to forward clicks, which is easy to cause resentment. In addition, brushing gifts will seriously affect the credibility of our organization. " The staff said that if the customers who finally got the prize found that the value of the prize was not worth the cost of brushing the gift at all, they would think that our organization made money by voting.

In the voting of "Looking for the Good Taste of Ruzhou", "Giving diamonds" means spending money to buy diamonds, and 1 yuan reward 1 diamond is equal to 3 votes. Screenshot of mobile phone page

The ticket brushing company claims that 8000 yuan guarantees the first place.

In addition to brushing gifts to buy tickets on the voting page, many people will choose to find an offline ticketing team to brush tickets. Behind all kinds of voting in the circle of friends, industrialization has begun to form, and voting has become a "business".

A cultural media company in Shenzhen promotes "professional voting, service first" on its website.

The webpage "Company Profile" writes that the company has been committed to the research of voting system since 2006, adopting truly independent IP and voting regularly according to the requirements of active websites. The company has tens of thousands of voting members all over the country, and has strong technology, which can quickly make your votes surpass other competitors. In recent years, we have received many voting activities, and the customer satisfaction rate is 100%.

107, 65438, manager Zhang, the person in charge of the company, said that they voted by hand, and they could brush the ideal ranking first and pay 30% deposit, and then pay the full amount after the whole voting activity. If the effect is not achieved, a full refund will be made.

Manager Zhang said that if it is only a voting activity of kindergartens and small companies, it is not necessary to find their company, because the company's offer is higher, but some people spend 65,438+10,000 yuan to brush tickets. If it is a voting activity involving the government or relevant institutions, they can be asked to vote by ranking.

Manager Zhang does not deny that he will take the initiative to call some candidates to promote ticketing business.

Li Lin, a Beijing citizen, participated in a people's selection activity last year. As soon as the voting link came out, he received a message from manager Zhang, saying, "This place can help you vote, and the ranking service is guaranteed. Members can vote by hand. The first place is 8000, the top three are 6000, the top five are 4000, and the top ten are 12000. "

In this regard, manager Zhang said that the company has specialized personnel to pay attention to some important voting activities, and then find the contact information of some players and send text messages to carry out business.

Generally speaking, after obtaining the ticket-brushing business, these ticket-brushing companies will look for pitchers, that is, "professional voters", to complete the ticket-brushing task.

"Vote against it directly. 12, only the successful map is received, and the wrong map has No meters. ""The pawn ticket stops at No. 17000, no tickets, one ticket is 0. 15 meters (yuan) "... In a WeChat voting group of more than 400 people, similar messages are swiped at a frequency of 5 to 20 per hour all day.

There are pitchers in the group and people who release tasks. On the 37th, the Major Crimes Unit met the pitcher Gao Jun in the QQ group. He said that as a pitcher, he could earn thousands to tens of thousands every month, and told Detective No.37 of Major Crimes Unit that he had to pay 200 yuan to join the club. He can attract agents to join professional pitching teams and teach them how to use voting applications.

Gao Jun said that the micro-signals of professional pitchers range from 15 to several hundred. Whenever tasks such as voting, likes, attention, downloading, registration, etc. are published in the group, multi-open software is used to control multiple micro-signals to vote at the same time. Take screenshots as required when doing the task, and send the screenshots privately to the person who posted the task after the task, and you can get corresponding remuneration.

Detective No.37 of the Major Crimes Unit noticed that the voting tasks included direct voting, attention voting, regional voting and mobile phone verification voting. Click on the voting link to jump to the voting page, and you can immediately click on the voting to vote directly. Pay attention to the corresponding WeChat official account before you can vote. Regional tickets have restrictions on the pitcher's WeChat IP address, and only by logging in to the micro-signal of the designated regional IP can you vote.

Mobile phone verification voting requires entering the mobile phone number, and some links need to fill in the verification code obtained after entering the mobile phone number before voting. Some votes also require downloading specific apps and mobile phone verification login.

A pitcher introduced "the inside story of the industry". Screenshot of WeChat page

The "business" of the ticketing APP is clearly marked.

Searching for tickets online will lead to many special WeChat voting and ticketing apps.

Gao Jun recommended Detective No.37 of Major Crimes Unit to use an APP called "Qian Tu". This APP can't be searched in the mobile app. You have to scan the QR code given by Gao Jun to download it. To enter the homepage of the APP, you must enter the recommendation code given by him, and the page will only be displayed once.

The biggest icon on the homepage of Qian Lai Road says "Start making money". Click on it, enter the task page, and then you can start making money. In the page, the tasks with a price of 8 or 13 ingot almost fill the screen, and occasionally you can see one or two tasks with 22 ingots and 14 ingots.

There is a "Tutorial" icon under "Start Earning". After clicking on it, I found that it introduced the use of the "Laiqiandao" APP from four steps: setting up WeChat, how to do tasks, how to withdraw cash and how to earn commissions.

The tutorial explains that every registered user has his own recommendation code. When a user logs in to the APP for the first time, he will automatically become his "subordinate". By binding with the official account of APP WeChat WeChat, 105 Yuanbao can withdraw RMB 1 yuan. Among them, 5 ingots are used as commission and belong to the cashier's "superior". There are two notices floating back and forth on the homepage of the APP, one of which reads "Recommend new users, and reward the recommender with 200 ingots after the first withdrawal! ! ! "

However, it took detective 37 of the major crimes unit an hour to get 24 gold ingots and could not take them out.

Detective No.37 of the Major Crimes Unit downloaded another voting APP "Xinwei Voting Platform", which is relatively simple to set up. There are only three icons on the home page, so you can jump to the correct page after clicking on "WeChat activity", "Weibo activity" and "customer service". Wechat activity is the same as Weibo activity page, users need to fill in a form, including voting website, voting contestants, other requirements, quantity selection and contact information.

Compared with the first two ticketing apps, the "micro-automatic voting device" has a wider business scope. Click "Voting to Place an Order" to open the voting business interface. On the left are seven items: voting canvassing, WeChat official account fans, WeChat official account scanning code, personal friends, reply powder, praise collection, friend circle forwarding, and friend circle forwarding (optional). Click on any item, and the corresponding price will appear on the right.

For example, when Detective No.37 of the Major Crimes Unit clicks "Vote for canvassing", options such as "500 votes (machine voting) =55 yuan" and "5000 sprint voting (voting starts within 10 minutes) =900 yuan" appear in the right column. Detective No.37 of the Major Crimes Unit clicks "WeChat official account fans", and an option similar to "20 WeChat official account fans =7 yuan" appears in the right column.

In these three apps, no development company can be found.

Task page of a voting APP. Screenshot of mobile phone page

A full-time pitcher can earn seven or eight thousand dollars a month.

During the whole voting process, people who spend money on tickets don't know whose pocket their money will eventually fall into. However, pitchers, page makers, event organizers and others can all benefit from it.

Take pitchers as an example. Voting is simple and complicated, and the price is different. According to Gao Jun, the prices of direct tickets and attention tickets are around 0. 13-0. 15 yuan. Due to the restriction of regional votes, the voting base is relatively small, and the price of a ticket fluctuates around 0.25 yuan. At least one vote is required for tasks requiring mobile phone number registration, 0.5 yuan -0.8 yuan, and one vote for tasks requiring APP download, 1.5 yuan.

The reporter did several tasks in the group. One of them was a voting activity for the top ten lobby managers of a bank in Harbin, which lasted from September/kloc-0 to September 30, with 47 candidates. After voting, the reporter found that as of September 30th 12, the page had accumulated 236,424 votes, of which the highest winner was 303 15, and the lowest winner was 75, the former was more than 400 times that of the latter. Among the 47 candidates, 1000 votes or less,10/votes, 1000-5000 votes, 23, 5000- 10000 votes, 5,/kloc-

In another large-scale talent show of child stars, the candidates who participated in the manual ticket brushing were elected as the first, second, third and fourth with 23,247, 22,827 and 5 133 votes respectively. The first place can get a brand-new ipad as a material reward. Before the end of the activity, when the agent participated in the ticket brushing at 12: 02, the number of candidates was 14200. 1.5 hours later, the agent opened the voting page again and found that the number of votes of players became 17459, an increase of 3259 votes.

Gao Jun told Detective No.37 of the Major Crimes Unit that only by taking the activity list or publishing it on behalf of others can you make money. After finding the "ticket owner", you can negotiate the price with him, and then set the voting price of the voter to earn the difference. Gao Jun first found himself a "ticket owner" to take over the task, and after a week in the business. "A * * * made 400 votes, 120m, and earned 60 yuan".

Gao Jun mainly relies on receiving tasks to make money. There is no fixed number of tasks, so his monthly salary is unstable. "Under normal circumstances, it is thousands of dollars, four or five thousand dollars, seven or eight thousand dollars." Gao Jun remembers that at most, he earned nearly 20,000 yuan a month, which was attributed to the task of receiving hundreds of thousands of votes. According to him, some full-time pitchers can earn seven or eight thousand a month, and part-time pitchers can earn three or five hundred a month.

In addition to pitchers, a company that makes voting pages said that the cost of making voting pages is 1000 yuan, and the income of voters from brushing gifts is less than 1000 yuan, and the income from brushing gifts is divided equally between the company and kindergartens. Players' votes can be changed in the background.

A professional pitcher revealed that his monthly income can reach nearly 20,000 yuan. QQ page screenshot

Voting at will can easily reveal personal information.

According to media reports, on 20 16, police officers from the Criminal Investigation Bureau of Liaoning Provincial Public Security Department introduced that merchants or criminals often use high bonuses as bait to create some competitions out of thin air and then profit from them.

First of all, for voters, it is required to pay attention to the official WeChat account or bind the mobile phone before voting, so as to increase their influence on the official WeChat account or obtain personal information of voters. Secondly, for the applicants, it is essentially to obtain all kinds of information of the contestants and then sell them by asking them to fill in real information before mailing the prizes. Because scammers can create scams such as serious illness and kidnapping of children through their identity, photos or school information, such information costs more. Thirdly, for the people who brush tickets, the contestants are encouraged to invest on the grounds that they can brush tickets. In fact, the money spent on brushing tickets has already exceeded the value of those jackpots.

The police officer said that canvassing itself does not constitute an illegal act, and there is no clear regulation on the behavior of online ticketing in our laws. However, if awards or economic benefits are involved, it may be suspected of fraud to obtain a higher ranking by maliciously brushing tickets. Therefore, most of the organizers of many competitions publish them through official WeChat accounts or website links. Even if someone complains, the police can only block the official WeChat account or website link, and will not disclose their true identity and company at all. They can continue to cheat by changing the official WeChat account and the name of the contest.

In fact, as early as the beginning of this year, the General Office of the Ministry of Education issued the Notice on Standardizing the Online Voting Activities of Campus Evaluation and Selection of Outstanding Students. The notice mentioned that the canvassing and voting activities of online platforms such as WeChat friends circle are rampant in a few places and universities, which has distracted the work and study energy of teachers and students to a certain extent, affected the normal education and teaching order of the school, and is not conducive to the formation of a good school spirit and style of study.

The notice requires that the content and scope of online voting activities for the selection of outstanding students on campus should be thoroughly studied according to whether the relevant activities have a legal basis, whether they are conducive to the development of schools and whether they are conducive to the healthy growth of students, and the correct value orientation and the principle of "not holding unless necessary" should be adhered to. At the same time, we should judge and evaluate the value and influence of online voting in campus selection, and adhere to the principle of "not only voting, but only practical".

Zong Chunshan, director of the Beijing Youth Legal and Psychological Counseling Service Center, believes that the so-called popular voting has deteriorated. It doesn't matter whether you are excellent or not. What matters is who has more connections.

Zong Chunshan said that the evaluation of children is not encouraged, and WeChat voting itself is meaningless. For children, psychology is unhealthy. Nowadays, frequent gift-brushing voting is completely commercialized and completely unfair. Behind this is the utilitarianism and vanity of adult society, and improper means such as comparison, speculation and deception in adult society will be learned by children. Even if you win the first prize, your happiness is short-lived, and you will be skeptical about your future efforts. Not only will it not help children develop their specialties and abilities, but it will play a negative role.