Is it to give benefits or to dig traps?

Beware of "money-making apps"

　　Watching videos to make money, playing games to make money, reading news to make money, and even walking to sleep can make money... In the face of such propaganda, have you been moved?

In recent years, a number of money-making apps under the banner of "Lie Earn", "Walk Earn" and "Play Earn" have appeared frequently, attracting a large number of users to download and install with their effortless income methods.

So, can users really make money from it?

Advertising is pervasive

　　Many users have seen embedded money-making App ads when playing games, browsing Weibo, and watching short videos.

The slogans of these advertisements all emphasize that as long as you use the scattered time to perform simple operations on the money-making App, you can get quite a lot of income.

The temptation of low investment and high return has attracted many users to click on advertising links to download software.

　　At the same time, the "earning experience stickers" that can be seen everywhere on the Internet also bring a lot of traffic to money-making apps.

"Introduce you to an app that makes money by reading", "Apps that can really make money", "How do I make money with a certain app", these "experience stickers" all over the network platform, seem to be a piece of personal experience Records, but in reality, most of them are promoting the App under the guise of sharing experience.

　　In addition to the overwhelming placement of advertising and "soft" promotion, the actual network of relationships between people has also become a tool for money-making apps to spread.

On social software, many mobile phone users have received promotional links from friends, such as clicking links to download some software.

After many apps attract users to click to download, they will use temptations such as "recommend relatives and friends to get rewards" to attract users to introduce "new" to their relatives and friends, which accelerates the "cross-circle" spread of such apps.

There are many "routines" behind making money

　　Is it really effortless to earn money on money-making apps?

By chance, Ms. Zhang, who lives in Beijing, was introduced by a colleague and downloaded an information app known as "You can make money by brushing the news".

But after using it, she found that if she wants to make money on this app, "it's harder than going to the sky".

　　Ms. Zhang told reporters that in the App, you can get gold coins for reading news, sharing information, recommending friends to register, and checking in daily. The gold coins can be exchanged for rewards and withdrawn.

This money-making model seems very reasonable, but in fact there are layers of "routines."

　　First of all, according to the rules, in order to earn 1 yuan of rewards, users need to browse about 500 minutes of information in the App.

"It's not worth spending a lot of time to earn this dollar on the App." Secondly, it is impossible to withdraw cash immediately if you want to make money.

The App stipulates that users can only choose to withdraw after they have accumulated a total of 30 yuan in rewards.

In the process of accumulating rewards, the threshold for "making money" will become higher and higher, and the difficulty and volume of the task will increase exponentially.

Faced with increasingly cumbersome tasks, Ms. Zhang finally chose to "uninstall it".

　　What is even more annoying is that if he has been busy for a long time without asking for the money, he may have "sold" his personal information.

College student Xiaoxuan used to be a user of a game-like money-making app, but she chose to give up within two days due to unreasonable tasks.

But one or two months after downloading the App, Xiaoxuan began to receive frequent harassing calls, mostly related to online loans or "swiping orders."

Recalling recent experiences, money-making apps became the last source of problems locked in.

"When registering a user, I filled in my real name, mobile phone number, ID number and personal address to pass the real-name authentication. It is obvious that this App has leaked my personal information."

Society calls for industry regulation

　　App making money is really not that simple.

From registration and use to cash withdrawal, the whole process is full of traps. If you don't pay attention, you will not only waste your efforts, but may also be "pitted".

　　Some lawyers said that money-making apps are still in a legal vacuum, without qualification guarantees, and are wandering in the gray area of ​​supervision.

If legislation is not passed to regulate this type of behavior, it may lead to illegal and criminal behavior.

　　Among them, some money-making apps encourage the development of "offline", so that old users and new users form upper and lower levels.

Participants directly calculated and paid compensation based on the number of "offline" that developed indirectly, forming a "money chain."

These rewarding models dressed in "making money" are similar to the components of MLM, and it is easy for users to be involved in the vortex of MLM unknowingly.

　　At the same time, there is still the problem of false advertising in making money apps.

Experts said that if money-making software deceives and misleads consumers with false or misleading content, it has violated the relevant provisions of the Advertising Law.

　　Faced with the chaos in the money-making app industry, industry insiders pointed out that relevant departments such as public security, market supervision, and cybersecurity and informatization should take active actions, work together to rectify, and establish a standardized and professional regulatory system to strengthen the access review of such apps. , User information management and fund supervision to promote the healthy development of the industry.

　　Yuan Zihan

Yuan Zihan