Nine-price HPV "difficult to find a seed" has spawned scalpers: technology robs tens of thousands of monthly income, or is involved in crime
The nine-valent HPV vaccine (Nine-valent human papillomavirus vaccine) has been in short supply since it was launched in China in April 2018.
For the convenience of the public, online vaccination appointment services have been opened in many places.
The nine-valent HPV vaccine approved for marketing in my country comes from the American company Merck & Co., Ltd., and is exclusively represented by Zhifei Biotechnology in China. The annual batch is only several million, which is far from meeting domestic needs. As a result, the "network battlefield" for booking vaccines is very fierce. , Often after the seedlings are released, it is finished in 1 second.
Recently, The Paper (www.thepaper.cn) found in an unannounced interview that "a seedling is hard to find" has spawned rampant scalpers, and some even have professional technology and business teams. The business scope involves looting, spotting seedlings, smuggling Hong Kong seedlings, etc.
For example, it costs about 1,500 yuan (scalper fee) for generational grabbing, and two to three thousand yuan for existing seedlings.
Some scalpers bluntly said that their monthly income was tens of thousands.
In this regard, some lawyers said that the technical team behind the scalpers may constitute a computer-related crime, and if the scalpers are still soliciting customers for them, they may constitute a joint crime.
The scalpers have a professional team, claiming to be "a contest of technology"
Currently, the HPV vaccines that can be vaccinated in the mainland include the bivalent HPV vaccines of GlaxoSmithKline and Wantai Bio, the quadrivalent HPV vaccines of Merck and the 9-valent HPV vaccines.
The "price" of the HPV vaccine refers to the number of virus types targeted.
Therefore, the nine-valent HPV vaccine is more popular in the market.
According to Zhifei's financial report, in 2019, the domestic batch of 9-valent HPV vaccines issued by Merck in 2019 was 3.324 million, and it was 5.066 million in 2020, a year-on-year increase of 52.41%-despite such a large increase, it still cannot meet market demand.
There is a joking saying: Moutai for men, HPV vaccine for women.
The Paper randomly interviewed 8 women who had been vaccinated with the nine-valent HPV vaccine, and 3 of them said it was not difficult to make appointments.
Ms. Ding made an appointment in Wuhan at first, but has not been able to get the vaccine. She returned to Xiangyang in early 2020 and called the epidemic prevention department. The appointment was successful the next day.
Ms. Zhou from Chengdu made an offline appointment in November 2018 and was scheduled to arrive at Miao in March of the following year.
The other 5 ladies all said it was difficult to make an appointment.
Ms. Zhong from Chengdu used the appointment program for more than half a year, but did not make an appointment. Finally, the appointment was made through the two-tier relationship.
Even so, it took more than half a year to get the vaccine.
Ms. Chen was in Baoding. She started to make appointments in various official channels across the city in April 2019. She was nervous and asked to ask again after a few months. She tried three times and failed. Later, she found a relationship and got an appointment.
Ms. Yan from Beijing called more than 10 community hospitals in September 2020, and was finally lined up in a community hospital in Dongcheng District. The hospital said it might take a year.
In July 2021, Ms. Yan spent two weeks rushing online every afternoon, but she didn't get it.
It happened that that month, the community hospital informed her that she had arrived.
Ms. Ran and Ms. Wu received the vaccines through private hospitals. They were 4,800 yuan and 6,000 yuan, respectively, which were one or two thousand yuan more expensive than the original price.
The Paper opened the "Knowing Miao Easy Appointment" vaccine appointment program, choosing the nine-valent HPV vaccine, and found that very few hospitals can make an appointment.
Many vaccinators said that even if they can make an appointment, they will be "second light".
Through a netizen who was suspected of being a "trust", The Paper reporter contacted the HPV vaccine Huang Niu Bingbing.
The "vaccine generation grab process" of the Huangniu Bingbing team.
Bingbing claimed that they have a dedicated technical team and business team, and she has operations in Sichuan, Hunan, Guangdong, Jiangsu and other provinces.
The team needs to make an appointment first to bind their identity information on the WeChat "Knowing Miao Yiyue" applet, half an hour to an hour before the start of the grab, scan the code through WeChat to log in on the scalper computer terminal, the scalper helps grab the number through the computer program , You can apply for WeChat account operation if you are not at ease.
After the number is successfully grabbed, the customer enters the "Knowing Miao Easy Appointment" applet to check, and the transfer is confirmed after the appointment is successful.
The team grabbed four-valent and nine-valent HPV vaccines on their behalf.
It costs about 800 yuan for the fourth price, and about 1,500 yuan for the nine price.
Different cities have different levels of difficulty.
On November 1st, when the Hefei 9-valent HPV vaccine was released, Bingbing reminded in the group: “Hefei hundreds of thousands of people grab 20 vaccines, everyone must be mentally prepared.” Bingbing also introduced that in Chengdu, under normal circumstances, even if Through them, 10 people will be able to match 1 to 2 people.
"Every event in Chengdu is a contest between technologies. There are many people looking for robbing, and there is no restriction on household registration. There are too many people and there are few vaccines." November 1st, a community health service center in Chengdu nine-price HPV vaccine appointment, Bingbing team The approximate rate is only 10%.
The four times of looting were successful, and some people looked for scalpers to rob on behalf of other provinces.
Bingbing has a "Nine Prices Exchange Group". When The Paper first entered, there were more than 130 journalists. After a month, it has grown to 332.
Every one or two days, Bingbing will send out rush messages in the group.
The Paper Journalist entrusted his friend Xiao Zhang to contact Bingbing about the nine-valent HPV vaccine.
Before looting, you must send your name and ID number to Bingbing, and Bingbing will create a special group of customers who have reserved the same price for vaccines in the same hospital.
For the first time, none of the 4 people who passed the Bingbing appointment succeeded.
"It was a bit overturned today." Bingbing explained that this was because the vaccine was scheduled by default and the hospital sold the vaccine.
"This is normal. Through the appointment of vaccines, there are not so many vaccines that can actually be grabbed. The current vaccines are expensive, (scalper fee) 2800 yuan."
The second time, Xiao Zhang still didn't make an appointment.
There are 5 customers in the small group, and 3 are in appointment.
Bingbing said there was Xiao Zhang on the list, but the appointment information could not be found on "Zhimiao Yiyue".
After confirmation, it may be the same name.
Vaccine reservation information released by Huang Niu Bingbing
For the third time, Xiao Zhang still didn't make an appointment.
This time, Bingbing's customers were wiped out.
Bingbing explained that for the longest customer, it took almost a month to succeed seven or eight times.
For the fourth time, Xiao Zhang finally made an appointment.
According to local news in Chengdu, 1,000 seedlings were released in Wenjiang District this time.
Xiao Zhang observed that in this game, four of the six customers in Bingbing's small group had been snatched.
For this event, Bingbing only charged 1,350 yuan per person, which is 150 yuan cheaper than usual.
At the beginning of December, when he arrived at the hospital for the first injection, Xiao Zhang communicated with the four ladies in the line and learned that only one person was in line to make an appointment, and the other three were made through scalper online, and the prices were similar.
Among these three people, some even came from Chongqing for vaccination.
Bingbing and other scalpers told The Paper that, generally speaking, the scalper fee for a three-injection of nine-valent HPV vaccine is 1,500-1700 yuan, rarely more than 2,000 yuan.
The current seedling scalper fee is about 2600 yuan.
The Paper reporter contacted the scalpers who claimed to have internal channels in the hospital. After paying the money, they could directly arrange vaccination at a community hospital at a cost of 2,300 yuan.
If you don’t worry about the direct transfer, you can add 100 yuan to the salted fish transaction.
Bingbing also has channels for seedlings.
She introduced to The Paper that she only works as a community hospital, not a private hospital.
The Paper reporter asked whether there are any seedlings in Beijing. Bingbing said that both Daxing District and Haidian District have them.
During the two weeks of Daxing, the handling fee is 1,500 yuan; Haidian is more expensive, at 1,800 yuan, but there are places every week.
Bingbing refused to disclose the hospital information and the time of vaccination, "it will only be notified one or two days before vaccination."
A netizen once asked Bingbing in the group whether there are any seedlings in Chengdu. Bingbing said that she can change her account and it can be done in two days.
The so-called number transfer is to replace the customers who don't pay money after the reservation is successfully booked at night.
Transaction records between customers and Bingbing
Liars posing as "scalpers", there are many deceived
In the gray tunnel of nine-valent HPV vaccine substitution, there are "regular" scalpers, and there are no shortage of crooks.
Ms. Xiao from Cixi City, Ningbo is 24 years old this year.
She told The Paper that seeing a friend close to her is about to get the 9-valent HPV vaccine, she has nothing to do with her, and she has to find a scalper.
Three months ago, Ms. Xiao found a "scalper" who claimed to have an existing vaccine through Weibo. The "scalper" said that the three-injection nine-valent HPV vaccine plus an appointment fee totaled 4,800 yuan. You can make an appointment only after Ms. Xiao submits personal information for review. .
Under the guidance of the "scalper", Ms. Xiao transferred 4,800 yuan to the other party through the bank, and the identity information was also revealed to the scammer.
Since then, she exposed the matter through online postings, and received many private messages from girls with the same experience.
"A girl was defrauded of tens of thousands of yuan." She told The Paper.
To make appointments for vaccination through small programs such as Knowing Miao Yiyue, About Miao, etc., one shot of 9-valent HPV vaccine in community hospitals is generally about 1,300 yuan, and three shots are about 4,000 yuan.
A scalper who claimed to be "regular" told The Paper: "In reality, there are indeed seedlings, but the reservation fee is much more expensive than the agency. Generally, the "regular" scalpers basically only charge the agency fee after success, and let the bank first Card transfers, including vaccine fees, or you can receive an appointment success text message immediately, it is a liar at first sight. Like Zhimiao Yiying, you do not send text messages, you can only check whether the appointment is successful through a small program."
Under the huge profits, some community hospital staff even made profits by reselling the nine-price HPV vaccine.
According to previous reports by The Paper, recently, many women in Chongqing were vaccinated with the nine-valent HPV vaccine through Zhou Moujing, a staff member of the Dashiba Community Hospital in Jiangbei District, but they were arranged to be vaccinated in five or six other hospitals, and even "door-to-door". Vaccination in the car.
Some girls reported that they could not check their vaccination records after vaccination and did not issue formal invoices.
In July of this year, Zhou Mojing was punished by Jiangbei District Health Commission to suspend her practice for 18 months because she used the divalent HPV vaccine to spoof the nine-valent HPV vaccine for injection.
After the incident, Zhou Moujing was detained.
In addition to the aforementioned scams, there is another type of smuggling involved, namely purchasing Hong Kong Miao.
The Paper reporter contacted a scalper Yinzi who claimed to have Hong Kong seedlings on Xianyu, who claimed that the three-injection mail cost 6,300 yuan, and the spot payment was 6,800 yuan.
Yinzi said that she was in Shenyang, but they had a partner clinic for vaccination.
The Hong Kong version of the 9-valent HPV vaccine is also called Jiawei vaccine. The vaccination age is 9 to 45 years old and has a wider audience, but they all come from Merck.
"Our vaccine came from Shenzhen. I don't need to say how Hong Kong got to Shenzhen." Yinzi said that after the Hong Kong version of the vaccine crosses the border, the code will be obliterated, but the barcode can be scanned, and the barcode is also different from the old and the new Hong Kong version. The important basis for the seedlings is that "the human flesh is brought back with an anti-counterfeiting mark, and the number on the package and the number of injections must match."
Public reports indicate that Hong Kong seedlings may become invalid due to improper storage during transportation.
Through Huang Niu Bingbing, friends of The Paper Journalist successfully made an appointment for the vaccine.
The scalper claims to have a monthly income of tens of thousands, and the lawyer: suspected of committing a crime
Bingbing told The Paper that he works as an agent (salesman), and their team focuses on Chengdu, but all salespeople all over the country are recruited.
Generally, each salesperson can earn 300-400 yuan, depending on the agent's own pricing.
"For example, in Chengdu, (the technical team) gave an agency price of 1,000 yuan, and our quotation was basically between 1300 yuan and 1500 yuan." As for Xian Miao, Bingbing said that he cooperates with the hospital. Although the charges are more expensive, the management fee is also high. Each order is almost three to four hundred yuan.
"Anyway, it's not a problem for me to earn tens of thousands a month." Bingbing said.
Lu Yijie, a lawyer from Beijing Zhongwen Law Firm, believes that the legal characterization of the scalper technical team requires the investigation of the principles of technical means.
Once the technical team deletes, modifies, adds, or interferes with the functions of the computer information system, causing the computer information system to not operate normally, and causing serious consequences, such as illegal gains of more than 5,000 yuan or economic losses of more than 10,000 yuan, etc., it may be Was found to be the crime of damaging computer information systems.
When the technical team only uses the "generation grab" method of automated operation, the processing in practice is slightly different.
Some legal professionals believe that this method does not involve data modification, is not widely used, and does not constitute a crime. However, with the increase in the fight against Internet crimes in recent years, many courts will also believe that this method is to construct network requests in an unconventional way. Disrupt the fair transaction order and harm the interests of consumers. Common crimes include the crime of providing intrusion, illegal control of computer information system programs, tools, etc.
If the agent or salesperson knows that the technical team uses illegal methods to grab tickets and still solicits customers, it may constitute a joint crime.
Lawyer Lu Yijie stated that if the staff of the hospital that the scalpers claimed were true and reached the prescribed amount, he was suspected of bribery, and the person being charged would be suspected of bribery or non-state staff bribery.
In order to prevent scalping, some places take measures from the appointment route.
For example, Shenzhen City, no household registration, female ID card ages 16 to 26 years and 5 months can participate in lottery, the lottery process is automatically completed by the IT system, does not require applicants to participate in the scene in person, the whole process video and accept social supervision , So that "scalpers" have no time to drill.
The Shenzhen Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention also arranged for citizen representatives to witness and supervise the whole process of lottery.
In August 2021, the CDC of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region responded to netizens on the “Leadership Message Board” of People’s Daily Online and reported that “Nine-valent HPV vaccines are difficult to make appointments and scalpers are rampant.” Technology companies that provide appointment services should cut off scalpers through technical means. Phenomenon, for example, manually drag the puzzle to move to the designated location to prevent the scalper party machine from swiping the ticket, upgrade the enhanced man-machine verification algorithm, after the appointment is successful, the person who makes the appointment cannot cancel the appointment by himself, and the appointment must be cancelled by the vaccination clinic backstage after confirmation by the vaccination clinic, etc. .
The root cause of the scalper problem is the imbalance of market supply and demand.
The latest data from the National Bureau of Statistics show that the age-appropriate population (16 to 26 years old) of the nine-valent HPV vaccine is about 120 million.
According to the calculation of 5.066 million batches of 9-valent vaccine issued by Zhifei Bio-tech in 2020, the number of people who can receive the vaccine is less than 1.5% of the total.
In Shenzhen, which has a large population, the winning rate of the nine-price HPV vaccine in each phase of the lottery is less than 3%; The Paper rushed to buy the nine-price HPV vaccine from private hospitals through live broadcast at Taobao during the Double Eleven. No second, nine-price for three injections The price reached 5104 yuan.
The Paper noted that on November 17, 2020, the World Health Organization launched a global strategy to accelerate the elimination of cervical cancer. 194 countries including China will vaccinate 90% of girls before the age of 15 with HPV vaccine by 2030.
Many places in China have begun to promote this work, but they are all bivalent HPV vaccines.
The good news is that with Merck’s monopoly on the global nine-valent HPV vaccine batch release, domestic vaccines have begun to break.
Not long ago, the WHO stated that the bivalent human papillomavirus vaccine produced by a Chinese company was officially certified and available for purchase by the United Nations system.
This means that the quality and safety of domestic vaccines have been internationally recognized.
However, public reports show that domestic nine prices are expected to enter the market around 2025 at the earliest.
The Paper, News reporter Duan Yanchao, intern Xiao Yudi