Survey｜Dating software "Talk about childcare": practice sexual hints, entice users to pay and share
"A mobile phone allows you to work anytime, anywhere; you can make money by chatting, with a daily income of two to three hundred or even thousands; green and safe, only for girls over the age of 18..."
On the Internet, there are endless posts for recruiting "chaters", tempting netizens who want to "make quick money".
What kind of "occupation" is a "chatman"?
In July 2021, The Paper surveyed by applying for "chaters" and found that there are many so-called dating apps on the market that recruit female chatters.
Some technology development companies claim that this kind of "language chat and play" software is very popular in the past year, and their monthly development volume is about 70 or 80 sets.
In the name of making friends, these softwares are looking for "chat about childcare" and do business to seduce feelings.
From creating a "high-quality image" of female chatters to training the skills and speaking skills of first-time chatting and in-depth chatting, a complete training system and sharing mechanism have been formed.
Among them, some platforms suggest that underage girls can register to join, and acquiesce in using large-scale explicit pictures and provocative chat words to play soft and pornographic "sideballs", inducing male users to spend money to chat.
Some lawyers analyzed that if the platform intermediary recruits female chatters to use routine techniques to attract male users to recharge and chat, and divide the chat recharge amount and gifts.
The act has been suspected of using telecommunication network technology to defraud for the purpose of illegal possession.
Behind the recruitment of chatters: "Chat child care" that makes money by making friends
"Years of experience in chat platform, find chat members, open account for free, free teaching, back-end joining, everything..." In Baidu's Chinese community "Baidu Tieba", all kinds of advertisements for recruiting chat members are distributed in part-time, Entrepreneurship posts.
The Paper Journalists added a number of WeChat friends who claimed to be recruiting chatters and successfully applied for the job.
There is no hard threshold for recruitment, but the target of these dating software is mostly male users, and recruiters will require applicants to be female.
Many staff members of such dating software told reporters that the so-called chatter is actually a "trust" for platform training.
After being trained by the system, the chatter should take the initiative to strike up a conversation with the male user, so that the other party can continue to recharge for the more in-depth chat, "unlock" more chat functions, and share the revenue between the chatter and the platform.
"You can talk about anything you want, just be friends." WeChat nicknamed "Guishan-Xunyou Official Recruiting 1v1 Guild" "Xunyou" dating software staff said that the job of a chatter is to chat with users on the dating software.
After randomly downloading three dating softwares, "Find you", "Buju", and "Mieyou love" where the three recruits are located, the reporter found that these software pages have set up a variety of value-added services for chatting.
Take the "Find You" software as an example. After a female user registers, his homepage will recommend a large number of online male user profiles, including profile pictures, age, and location information. Click on the profile picture of the other person to open a dialog box.
The love symbol at the top of the dialog box is marked with a number representing the intimacy of the two parties’ chats. The intimacy continues to increase with the increase in the frequency of chatting between the two parties and the consumption amount of the man. After reaching a certain level, it can be recharged to unlock multiple functions such as voice, video and gifts.
The reporter's actual measurement found that although an account can also be registered as an ordinary female user, the account identified as a female chatter by the platform can actively send messages to male users or send more messages than ordinary female users.
Take the "Find You" software as an example. Ordinary female users cannot actively send messages to male users. After the female chatters register successfully, they can sign a contract with the platform "Guild" to obtain the right to "talk up" and send messages, thereby earning corresponding revenue points.
Under the guidance of "Return to Mountain-Finding You Official Recruitment 1v1 Guild", the reporter registered the "Finding You" account, and the page showed that the real person's avatar was successfully authenticated, and the official logo and voice call permission were obtained.
After logging in to the software, "Guishan" asked the reporter to provide an ID account to sign the "guild" to open chat permissions.
After signing the contract, the "guild" takes 20% of the chatter's income.
Revenue is the focus of the entire game.
In the "My" interface of the aforementioned "Find You" software, chatters can invite friends, modify personal information, verify real-life avatars, and view revenue points records on this page.
Accumulated 100 points correspond to income of 1 yuan, which can be withdrawn once a day. The minimum single cash withdrawal amount is 10 yuan and the maximum is 30,000 yuan. You can withdraw to your personal account by binding ID card, Alipay and other information.
"Guishan-Seeking You Official Recruitment 1v1 Guild" explained to reporters that the income consists of 40% of the chat income and gift commission, including text chat at 0.08 yuan/item, voice chat at 1.6 yuan/minute, and video chat at 2.4 yuan/minute.
Different dating software has different chat income, points redemption methods, and withdrawal standards.
The reporter's actual measurement found that the single income of some dating software text, voice and video will increase with the increase of chatter level within a price range.
Unlike the "Find You" software, the dating software named "Buju" stipulates that 10 points correspond to 1 yuan, and the first withdrawal starts at 5 yuan, and afterwards it starts at 20 yuan.
In order to dispel the worries of applicants, the staff of dating software often encourages them to start as soon as possible by saying that it is easy to make a lot of money.
During the investigation, the reporter was drawn into a 32-person "Yunsheng Newcomer Reception Group 4".
The staff member "Yunsheng Customer Service Asking Me for Questions" will publish the report of the day in the group: "Voice and video points income is 138420, +131470 from the previous day, 118250 for chatting, and +86600 from the previous day. My points are 10,230,073, and you can withdraw RMB 292.31. "
At the same time, "Yunsheng customer service asks me if there is a problem" will regularly "fill chicken soup" for group members to encourage everyone: "There has never been a one-time effort in this world, just like there is no success without effort. If you want to live a smooth life, except Keep working hard, there is no shortcut. Come on! Get started working now, a new week, a new start."
In fact, the reporter's investigation found that the aforementioned information about recruiting chatters was spread across various social platforms, and various types of dating software emerged in an endless stream.
The staff of this kind of dating software nicknamed "Xiaozhe" on WeChat mentioned that his team manages multiple software at the same time, and the difference between each software is only reflected in the number of users and the unit price of the companion chat.
Packaging personality, speech skills and even sexual suggestion: "multiple objects" make money the fastest
"Building an image" is the first step for chatters to attract male users.
Many of these dating platform staff said that they must first select a good-looking face selfie as the avatar, fill in all the information such as hobbies and friendship declarations on the personal profile display page, and then set up unique text and voice greetings.
In some dating software with "dynamic posting" function, chatters will also be asked to update their personal photos to increase their attractiveness.
When filling in the age and region information, some platform staff told reporters that they should be flexible based on the male user's information, "not more than 4 years old between him and him, and write an address within 50 kilometers of him." Let male users not feel "stranger".
Although this type of dating software staff often require applicants to be "adult females", the Paper reporters discovered during the actual "application" process that they can customize the age and gender.
"Guishan-Find You Official Recruitment 1v1 Association" told The Paper News reporter that if chatters are not confident about their looks, they can use similar net pictures as avatars; at the same time, minors can borrow adults if they want to be chatters. The information registration, "quietly, will not be found."
In this regard, The Paper reporter consulted the aforementioned technology company providing development services, and its technicians explained that the strictness of the platform certification conditions can be set in the background, and they can determine whether to pass the certification by themselves.
With a "high-quality image", the staff of these dating software will also summarize a set of chat skills and skills, and train new chatters on the system.
An intermediary who claimed to be affiliated with "Seven Thousand Media" introduced to The Paper that novices should not worry about joining. There are dedicated customer service staff and customer service group guidance.
After registering the "Buju" software account as required, The Paper journalists were drawn into a 58-person "train 7 group for rich women", and the group shared the "Newcomer Getting Started Guide".
This guide has detailed step-by-step instructions for improving personal information, setting up greetings, active accounts, and "more than one hundred daily".
At the same time, there are also coping strategies to guide common questions such as "how to deal with not responding to greetings, and what to do if the other party wants to add WeChat friends?".
For chatters, the benefits of video chat are much higher than text chat, so platform staff will especially encourage chatters to video.
In the "Video Chat Talking Skills" information shared by the staff of the "Moqin" platform, the chat is divided into six stages: "first encounter, acquaintance, acquaintance, acquaintance, establishment of attraction, and escalation." There are corresponding suggestions.
For example, in the "understanding" stage, you can talk about life and work, and in the "acquaintance" stage, you can talk about constellations, movies, and even the expression details in the video can be designed in advance.
With a "high-quality image" and chat skills, in actual combat, you have to use touch-up techniques, in-depth and continuous chat, so that male users can "invest" for themselves.
The Paper News reporter found that, in the eyes of the staff of such dating software, the fastest way for chatters to make money is to "multiple objects" on the software.
Female chatters need to "package" themselves into suitable love objects, and lead the chat topics to emotional aspects. Once they can form a stable "online dating" relationship with male users, they can get more and more lasting chat benefits.
In the dating software named "Moqin", The Paper only tried to strike up a conversation by "saying hello", and there were very few replies.
The platform staff explained that there are too few dynamic photos and too few hundreds of greetings. "Be proactive and set up a better greeting."
The platform staff repeatedly emphasized that the platform can say hello up to 6000 times a day, and it is best to use up the number of greetings.
In the greeting words he provided, such as "You happen to be the type I like, little brother; can I be your little cutie?" Such greet methods as coquettish and cute will be more popular.
In the training of the "Qianqian Media" platform, newcomers must "create personal settings" in a targeted manner during video chats.
"If the other party is 30 years old, you say you divorced and brought a 4-year-old daughter; if (the other party) is 40 years old, you say (daughter) is about seven years old; if the other party is 50 years old, you say the child is seventeen or eighteen. If you are old, you have no burden, so that you can match him.” The platform staff emphasized that there should be no pressure on newcomer videos, just treat it as a "wind and snowy" thing.
If you don’t know what to say, you can talk about getting married in the future, dream about the beautiful days of living together, "draw him a pie."
"Guishan-Seeking You Official Recruitment 1v1 Guild" summarizes the video chat from "answering" to "customer maintenance" after the end of the call into five specific steps, turning the chat into a standardized consumption induction program.
If a customer makes a request in the video, such as "look at the leg and pull the clothes", the chatter should ask for the gift in time.
For more purposeful requirements, you should "be vague, don't promise the other party how much money can be illegal, but continue to guide the other party to give rewards in the process, such as "I and my boyfriend will be closer. Would you like to be my boyfriend?
"Then my boyfriend won't give me a flower or something when chasing me?"
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If the other party wants to "Ben Xian", the staff of Seven Thousand Media said, "Don't be afraid, it won't be Xian Xian". You only need to express your willingness to meet while delaying time to chat more videos. Excuse me before disappearing.
“What’s worse than having a story, you have to make up a story if you don’t have a story.” A staff member of this type of dating software advises the surging journalists to contrast the chatter’s past experience and vision of the past ideal with the present. To show expectations for the other half is for "fishing."
The Paper Journalists' investigation found that some people played soft and pornographic "sideballs" in order to increase the success rate of strike-ups.
On the "Moqin" platform, the reporter registered another account with a male gender. In the female user dynamics pushed by the platform, there were some ambiguous words: "Look for a friend, talk about everything, and dare to talk about anything. Kind of; looking for a temporary husband, it will not affect the family, if you are the one." Every post is accompanied by explicit pictures.
Although the staff of the platform clearly told reporters before, female chatters should not send sexually suggestive messages.
"Sense of fraud": The lawyer said that if the amount involved in the case is large, it is suspected of committing a crime
Behind this kind of dating software, there is a professional intermediary agency, which forms a mature industry chain from promotion, recruitment to operation.
In addition to recruiting chatters, some intermediaries also recruit agents.
The intermediary of Seven Thousand Media introduced to The Paper that the agency needs to publish advertisements on QQ, WeChat, Kuaishou and other major platforms, "Eat 10-15% of the daily income of the girls you recruit to allocate the daily income commission." .
In the "Buju" platform managed by the agency, using the software's reward mechanism for inviting friends, the inviter can obtain 8% and 10% of points rewards from the recharge amount and point turnover of the invited friends, respectively.
The Paper Journalists searched on Weibo, Tieba, Zhihu and other social platforms using "chatman" as a keyword, and found that recruitment advertisements and part-time experience sharing abound.
Under the online post, there will be netizens who "seeking for leads, wanting channels" comment saying that they want to join.
Within 6 hours when the agent of Seven Thousand Media pulled the reporter into the group chat, 11 new members soon joined the group one after another.
The seemingly easy and high-yielding chatter job is that some people want to come in while others want to go out.
Zhihu user "Lonely Cricket" shared his experience of giving up after being a part-time chatter.
She writes that the job of a chatter is not a sustainable path, and she thinks she is "cheated of time."
The Paper News reporter found that in the cases reported by the media, there are two reasons for the chatter to withdraw. One is the "sense of being traded" in the process of greeting the other party, and the other is the "sense of cheating" caused by inducing the other party to recharge and consume. ".
Those male users who really want to find love on the platform also feel deceived.
A netizen commented, "The girlfriend was not found, and the money was gone." On the download page of the "Moqin App" in the Apple mobile app store, another user requested the network platform to remove the software as soon as possible, saying " It’s all professional scammers.” If it’s impossible to find a girlfriend on it, the chatter will ask players to make gifts in various ways. The most typical is to meet offline or exchange contact information other than software during the chat.
"They will all say that they can't hear it, the software is blocked, and you need to send a gift to see it. It's impossible to want to see it after sending it." The user wrote.
In fact, this kind of dating software is on the verge of breaking the law.
During the unannounced investigation, The Paper journalists were suddenly removed from the group chat by "7 groups of trains to the rich woman", and only 3 members of the group remained.
The WeChat notification indicated that "This group has been deactivated by users complaining about spreading fraudulent information."
According to public reports, in 2020, the police in Yancheng, Jiangsu Province uncovered a suspected case of using "friends in the same city" or "finding a single person" to attract male users to install registered apps, and then lure victims under the names of "video chat" and "meet offline". Cases of people recharging and committing fraud.
According to the report, in March 2020, Mr. Shen from Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province saw a push advertisement while browsing a short video App at night, and downloaded an App according to the advertisement prompt.
There are many "beauties" in the App who send messages to chat with them, and at the same time send them a location.
When Mr. Shen wanted to reply, the input box was blocked by the recharge prompt box.
He followed the prompts to recharge the membership fee of 69 yuan.
After recharging, a number of "female netizens" took the initiative to chat with Mr. Shen. After chatting for about 4 minutes, the platform prompts that he needs to continue to buy "stamps" to obtain a super member. Mr. Shen recharges another 139 yuan and continues to chat for 10 minutes, and the platform prompts that he needs Continue to recharge.
"Converted, using this software to chat, it costs more than 10 yuan a minute, and it can't be used without recharging." Mr. Shen felt cheated, so he called the police for help.
According to the findings of The Paper’s investigation, Zhao Liangshan, a senior partner of Shaanxi Hengda Law Firm, believes that if the Internet is used to recruit women and pretend to be romantic partners, the purpose is not to make friends. Marriage is to obtain money by deception and is suspected of illegal crimes.
Zhao Liangshan further stated that if the amount involved in the case is less than 3,000 yuan and violates Article 59 of the Law on Public Security Administration Punishments, theft, fraud, robbery, snatch, or extortion may be subject to administrative detention and a fine; if the amount reaches more than 3,000 yuan, Violation of Article 266 of the "Criminal Law" on the crime of fraud, can be investigated for criminal responsibility.
Xing Xin, a senior partner and lawyer of Hunan Jinzhou Law Firm, analyzed whether dating software or platforms constituted fraud. The key point is that such platforms train female chatters and formulate rewards and punishments through various training guides, chat skills and other materials. After the rules, chatters are attracting male users for "making friends" or other purposes. Whether there is a way to fabricate facts and conceal the truth makes male users dispose of their own property (recharge, reward) based on misunderstanding, so as to obtain greater benefits.
In this process, if female chatters try to extend the chat time as much as possible and obtain gifts, they often make up their identities and roles, or even make up their emotions, according to the training and requirements of the platform, and make use of male users’ lack of opportunities to interact with the opposite sex in real life. , Hunting for wonder and other psychology, get more performance.
If the inducing behavior of female chatters and platforms meets the statutory standard for filing a case, it is suspected of constituting a crime of fraud.
Xing Xin said that if the platform intermediary recruits female chatters to use routine techniques to attract male users to recharge the chat, and divide the chat recharge amount and gifts.
The act has been suspected of using telecommunications network technology to defraud public and private property for the purpose of illegal possession. As long as the amount reaches more than three thousand yuan, the relevant personnel of the platform should be held criminally responsible for the crime of fraud, and the female chatter constitutes an accomplice in the crime of fraud.
The Paper Journalist Zhao Siwei, intern Wu Danping and Zhu Rui