Chinanews.com client, Beijing, February 7 (Reporter Wu Tao) Recently, a micro-umbrella game "Synthetic Watermelon" has become popular, and it has been posted on Weibo hot searches. However, many netizens have reported that they have been caught by playing this game recently. Defrauded 19.9 yuan, no complaints, or over 1.66 million people have been involved, and the amount involved has exceeded 30 million yuan.
The "Gift" icon appears in the upper right corner of the "Synthetic Watermelon" game page.
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"Winning a lottery" is easy to refund
A reporter from Chinanews.com found that after entering the "Synthetic Watermelon" game from the official website of the Umbrella game, the "gift" icon will appear in the upper right corner of the page. After clicking it, you will see the lottery carousel. Every time you click it, it will almost show the winning "100 yuan mobile phone bill voucher", click it again and it prompts you to pay 19.9 yuan, and it displays "If you can't receive the phone bill, a full refund."
Many netizens came to this point, thinking that 19.9 yuan is worth 100 yuan for the phone bill, so they paid.
And when the user pays, the page will pop up to let you download the "Global Duke Black Card" APP, and go to the "Global Duke Black Card" APP to collect the phone bill.
However, in the complaint of Black Cat, many netizens reported that there was no call charge at all, and refunds were also hindered. The refund application was delayed and the refund was not received. “The customer service application on the official account did not respond.”
Related pages show that over 1.66 million people have already received it.
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A reporter from Chinanews.com noticed that its related page showed that more than 1.66 million people had received the so-called "mobile phone bill coupons." In this way, each person paid 19.9 yuan, and the total amount involved has exceeded 30 million yuan.
Create a "tension
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atmosphere and "induce" layer by layer
During the experience, the reporter found that each link of the whole process created a kind of "tension" atmosphere.
For example, the lottery turntable displays "Only 7 chances", "A countdown will pop up when paying, and there is only more than 2 minutes to pay."
In fact, the reporter has experienced it many times. This kind of "winning" is almost a must; you can still pay after the payment "countdown" ends; only when the final payment is made, "19.9 yuan is actually a membership fee" and so on.
It is worth noting that there are several companies on the payee, sometimes displayed as "Shanghai Jinniu Information", sometimes displayed as "one step at home".
Image source: Screenshot of Qichacha
According to the company's investigation, in fact, these companies are inextricably linked.
The legal representative and actual controller of Shanghai Jinniu Information Technology Co., Ltd. is Wang Ximiao.
Among Wang Ximiao's multiple affiliated companies, the legal representative of Shanghai Groundhog Network Technology Co., Ltd. and other companies is Ge Tongtian, and Ge Tongtian is the actual controller and ultimate beneficiary of Shanghai Step Home Technology Co., Ltd.
At present, the relationship between Beijing Midou Technology Co., Ltd., which belongs to Microumbrella Games, and the above-mentioned collection company is not clear.
Some people may think that this is an advertisement, but according to the "Interim Measures for the Administration of Internet Advertising," Internet advertisements should be identifiable and marked as "advertisements" so that consumers can identify them as advertisements.
However, "Synthetic Watermelon" does not mark "advertising", and the "gift" icon is also in the most prominent position in the upper right corner of the game page. It is easy for many players to understand it as a "gift" of the game party.
Collect user privacy information when refunding
It is worth noting that the refund in normal circumstances will return the same way, but the above refund requires the user to enter various private information such as the real name and Alipay account number, even if you pay with WeChat.
The refund application was not returned in the original way, and was asked to fill in personal privacy information such as real name and Alipay account number.
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Refunds are not refundable if you want to.
Regarding the black cat complaints, in January and February, a large number of netizens complained about Shanghai Jinniu Information Technology Co., Ltd. and the "Global Duke Black Card", almost all of which were defrauded of 19.9 yuan.
Moreover, the scam not only involves "Synthetic Watermelon", some netizens said that there are a lot of similar routines on other apps.
Screenshot of the Black Cat Complaint Platform.
The reporter tried to contact the customer service QQ number published on the official website of Weizam Game. As of press time, the friend's application failed.
Finally, the reporter contacted the collection company Shanghai Jinniu Information Technology Co., Ltd. through other channels, and the 19.9 yuan paid was refunded.
The above-mentioned companies did not respond to information such as name and Alipay account number for the refund.
I would like to remind consumers that if they encounter the above refund difficulties and cannot get a refund through the official website, official account, etc., they can try to contact the receiving company directly.
In addition, netizens who have paid the above-mentioned "membership fee" are best to go to the WeChat Pay "Deduction Service" to check whether the automatic deduction service is activated.
According to the official website of Micro Umbrella Games, there are currently nearly 80 million players in "Synthetic Watermelon".
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Have you encountered the above problems?
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