The "sheep is a sheep" screen is accused of "fraud time"?

　　Recently, the small game "Sheep and Sheep" has become popular on various social networking platforms.

Looking back at the popular mini-games in recent years, we can see that such games are popular, even if they are related to the gameplay, but more importantly, they are easy to spread and similar to brainwashing advertisements. By participating in mini-games and discussing mini-games, the A large-scale virtual "team building carnival".

In this case, mini-games are no longer just games, but become "stalks", allowing participants to gain social satisfaction.

　　However, some netizens believe that it is a fraudulent game to induce clicks on advertisements or share the resurrection of friends. This kind of cheating traffic attracts everyone to play and allows players to watch advertisements to earn enough advertising fees.

In this regard, lawyers and anti-fraud police have reminded not to fall into the trap of game "fraud time", let alone fall into the trap of telecommunication fraud.

　　sound one

　　Beware of small game psychological addiction and fraud

　　"The little game of 'Sheep and Goat' can easily cause psychological addiction, and the opaque game clearance mechanism may infringe gamers' right to know." In response to these problems, Guo Feng, the rotating director of Fujian Zhongyu Hezhong Law Firm, believes that the The game claims that "you can only pass one level a day", and the first level of the day is extremely easy, and the second level is even more difficult. It even limits the player to only use three items and one resurrection chance, and the props and resurrection opportunities are obtained. , you need to get it by watching an advertisement.

Players fail over and over again, unknowingly, time is fleeting, and they are unable to clear the level hundreds of thousands of times every day, and gradually form a psychological obsession.

Later, some players found that the game generated data was completely random through game bugs or unpacking, and it might even be a dead end at the beginning, making it impossible to clear the game.

Many players have a fluke mentality because of this, thinking that they are likely to be the player who "can pass the level", and continue to try to pass the level again and again all night.

Afterwards, some criminals took advantage of the player's psychology to openly sell the so-called resurrection times, unlimited props and other items on e-commerce websites or social platforms to induce addicted players to buy them, and then flee after the players pay. defraud.

　　Lawyer Guo Feng said that if the above situation does exist, then the game developer may have violated the game player's right to know, because the game clearance mechanism is not transparent, and the advertisements are deliberately set up. Depending on player strength or random luck, etc.

Here, lawyer Guo Feng reminds that there is no free lunch in the world.

Game settings Dead end is the program setting of the game manufacturer. In traditional games such as poker, dead end settings have also appeared.

In order to attract players to play for a long time, it is not illegal for game manufacturers to set dead ends.

However, players need to be alert to the situation where criminals take advantage of players' addictive mentality and deceive players to use props unreasonably, thereby defrauding players of money by fraudulent means.

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　　Beware of "fraud time" becoming a game management template

　　Chen Xue, deputy director of Fujian Yinghe Law Firm, pointedly pointed out that the popularity of "sheep is a sheep" is just another online "carnival", using players' sharing through social networks and the herd effect to attract more people to join the game .

When the player is keen to challenge the level, use the player's rejection of sunk costs and loss aversion to choose to continue to challenge the level, thereby getting into the trap of "fraud time".

On the other hand, the game sets a high difficulty as the threshold, and induces players to click on advertisements continuously after stimulating the players' determination to win or lose.

　　Chen Xue said that, looking at the essence of the problem, although "Sheep and A Sheep" is only a small game on WeChat, the popularity it brings cannot be ignored, and it may be used as a business template by a large number of game developers.

Therefore, the supervision of such small games from all walks of life should be implemented: first, law enforcement departments should dynamically pay attention to the operation of game service enterprises, and timely remind them of possible illegal risks in the operation process.

Second, the platform side should strengthen the supervision of game duration, game consumption and built-in advertising content to avoid situations such as using algorithms to profile users and sending them information that may affect their physical and mental health is prone to addiction.

The anti-addiction mechanism must be implemented to protect the physical and mental health of minors, to control induced behaviors, forced clicks in the game, or behaviors that induce users to consume unreasonably, and avoid embedded small advertisements that contain false or misleading content , harming the interests of netizens.

Third, netizens themselves should improve their awareness of security precautions, pay attention to the protection of personal privacy, be cautious in clicking on unfamiliar links, and be alert to inducing advertising content.

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　　Police remind players to keep in mind anti-fraud "cheats"

　　Yang Haoxin, a police officer from the Publicity Section of the Public Security Bureau of Qiannan Prefecture, Guizhou Province, reminded that in order to pursue "customs clearance", some people searched for "cheats", but they did not know that "scams" came quietly. "Buy cheats", "collect cheats from online disk", "winners to tempt players to pay" and other methods to implement deception.

The criminals seized the needs of some young groups to play games for quick success, but they did not have the weakness of identifying the authenticity of cheats. They used cheats and winning prizes as means to pursue "clearance" as a bait, and specially selected young groups to commit fraud.

Many young groups, including minors, fell into the trap of this game with a clearance rate of less than 0.1%. Under the careful layout of lawbreakers, they are easy to step into the trap and cause property damage.

　　Yang Haoxin reminds all players to recognize the following tricks and keep in mind the "cheats" to prevent fraud while enjoying the game:

　　First, give money to buy cheats.

Fraudsters publish advertisements about customs clearance cheats for games such as "Sheep Liao Ge Yang" on social platforms, induce victims to trade on fake game trading platforms, WeChat groups or QQ groups, and ask victims to pay a small amount such as 9.9 yuan in exchange for cheats, or Various fees are paid in the name of "registration fee, deposit, unfreezing fee".

After receiving the money, block the victim's contact information or lose contact.

　　Second, the cheats are picked up on the network disk.

Usually, after adding friends with the victim through social platforms, there are many players who claim to be asking for game cheats such as "Sheep A Sheep".

Did you know that scammers use Trojan links with viruses to trick gamers into clicking, and control their computers and mobile phones through remote control.

　　Third, winning the lottery tempts players to pay.

Taking a popular small program game as an example, it uses inductive advertisements to allow players to receive a "100 mobile phone credit coupon" that pops up on the game interface when playing the game.

A large number of netizens reported on social media that they received the so-called "100 mobile phone bills", but after paying 9.9 yuan and other amounts according to the website instructions, they found that the bills could not be cashed or refunded.

　　Fourth, if you see attractive investment projects such as "low investment", "high return" and "stable profit without loss" on the game interface, keep in mind that "no pie will fall from the sky", and don't blindly follow suit.

While playing happy games, beware of telecom fraud, do not click on unknown links, do not trust unfamiliar calls, do not disclose personal information, and verify more transfers and remittances.

If you have any questions, please call 110 or 96110. The public security organs will keep the whistleblower's information strictly confidential.

　　Text/Wang Min