Swiping gold coins day and night, earning more than a dollar a day?

　　Middle-aged and elderly people trapped in the super-fast version of the app

　　Whose wool is it?

　　Before eating breakfast, Lao Hu couldn't wait to turn on his phone and read a short video.

This is a fast version of the video software on his mobile phone to attract users to launch the "Eating to Earn Gold Coins" activity-click on the food pictures in the event every day to get gold coins, breakfast, lunch, supper, supper, four You can earn 181 gold coins this time.

Converted into cash, it's actually less than two cents.

　　But the old Hu Le was not tired. He couldn't stop when he turned on the phone. Half an hour passed.

At this time, the wontons that his wife had brought over had long since ran out of steam and became greasy.

　　"I actually just use it every day. Although the income is not a lot, it is good to make some change easily." Lao Hu said to the hourly reporter.

　　Swipe gold coins for 10 months and earned 300 yuan

　　The 60-year-old Hu lives in Shanghai. He has a lot of free time every day in a semi-retired state.

　　On his mobile phone, there are several APPs that can make money by swiping gold coins, most of which are fast versions.

The so-called speed version is not as full of functions as the "genuine" version, but it occupies much less mobile phone memory, so it is "not stuck" to use.

TikTok, Kuaishou, Toutiao, QQ, etc., in order to meet the needs of some users, have corresponding speedy versions.

　　Lao Hu learned from his friends that he can earn coins by swiping the App every day, and he has been a little bit "upper" ever since.

"I have been using it for 10 months, four or five hours a day, and a total of more than 300 yuan has been'withdrawn'." Lao Hu said that the average is more than one yuan per day, but "a sense of accomplishment."

　　In addition to watching video advertisements and "eating", you can also earn coins by taking steps every day on the speedy version of the software on Laohu's mobile phone.

For example, if you take 1000 steps, you can get 800 gold coins.

In order to earn this "great" reward, he often took a mobile phone and wandered around the house.

　　"Shopping to make money" requires 90 seconds to browse the low-priced products on the page to get 200 gold coins.

You can "go shopping" 10 times a day, and you can get 2000 gold coins by "shopping" a day.

　　The most "attractive" is the daily sign-in. With the accumulation of sign-in days, the number of gold coins will increase proportionally.

　　In addition, you can play the "Treasure Box" game.

According to the rules, 10,000 gold coins can be exchanged for one yuan in cash. Sometimes it may be a busy day, but it is actually a matter of a few cents.

　　The gold coins have been brushed for a long time, and Lao Hu also summed up some experience.

"At the beginning, the gold coins were swiped quickly, which attracted you to keep playing. Slowly, the speed of gold coins swiping on various platforms slowed down. Obviously, they did not swipe as much at the beginning.

　　"They have routines, you can't play them"

　　Hourly journalists also downloaded the fast version of the old Hutong model for a "making money" experience.

Since I just registered, I caught up with the "Newcomer Welfare" and got 8 yuan for signing in for 7 consecutive days. After receiving the 1 yuan reward for signing in on the first day, I found that there was a "newcomer meeting gift" of 1.07 yuan.

The money can be withdrawn immediately, bound to Alipay, and the money is actually credited to the account.

　　In addition to signing in, you can also invite friends to get cash rewards directly, and you can get 35 yuan for the first invitation.

　　Scroll down the page and the app has recently added the Olympic theme. Every time the Chinese team wins a gold medal, they can receive gold coins.

　　There are other conventional ways to get gold coins by watching videos and walking. As a "newcomer user", I can get 90,000 gold coins by watching 9 minutes of video, and 120,000 gold coins by watching 7 days, which is 12 yuan when converted into cash.

Every time you click on the video, there will be a timer on the left side of the screen. After watching the first video, the timer stops after half a circle, which means that you need to swipe another video to let the timer run out and then collect gold coins. .

　　For Lao Hu, it is becoming more and more difficult to obtain gold coins, so he began to look for more tricks.

The reporter found that on the Internet, there are even strategies for brushing gold coins in various App versions.

However, Lao Hu soon discovered that many methods were not very effective.

"They have routines, you can't play them." Old Hu said, many people have been "trapped" in the App.

On the Internet, there are many posts complaining about being addicted to gold coin games.

　　Use small profits to induce downloads, who smashed whose wool

　　According to the QuestMobile user portrait tag database, the proportion of users over 40 in the super-speed version of the app has reached 17.5%, and the proportion of middle-aged and elderly users is much higher than that of the regular version.

In another set of survey data on Android mobile terminals, "speed users" with a mobile phone price of less than 1,000 yuan accounted for 18.5%.

The label of "low-end + middle-aged" accounts for a large part of the market for the fast version of the app.

　　But in reality, many teenagers and young people have also joined this "earning gold coin" game.

　　Xiao Kai, who works in Hangzhou, is 27 years old and became a "wool party" under the introduction of a friend. He has been using the speed version of the app to make money for half a year, and he has earned a total of 190 yuan.

"Swipe on the subway, and the meal, as long as it is free. Use your free time to make some change, which is pretty good." Xiaokai said.

　　It is not difficult to find that inviting new users is a large part of the source of income for these “wool parties”.

However, "newcomers" are ultimately limited.

　　"There are fewer and fewer people who can recommend now." Old Hu said.

My colleagues, friends and relatives all harassed it again, and even offended people because of it, but the benefits were not much.

　　Perhaps, Lao Hu and Xiao Kai haven't realized that while they stalked the wool, they also became the stalked wool.

The reporter learned that the current regular brand channel, an App may cost hundreds of yuan to obtain an effective download user.

And these fast version software, through brushing gold coins to pull new, the effective download cost may be only about 20 yuan.

It is also "burning money", but the cost of brushing gold coins is much lower and may be more effective.

　　Liu Xingliang, a member of the Information and Communication Economics Expert Committee of the Ministry of Economics and Information Technology, said in an interview with CCTV Finance that some elderly people are prone to greed for petty gains, and this "harvesting" targeted at them by some businesses and platforms is undoubtedly a dangerous behavior of deviation.