Recently, the Xi'an Railway Police in Shaanxi Province cracked a case of fraud in the online live broadcast room with high-value gifts as bait, and seized more than 13,000 live broadcast accounts involved in the case, involving tens of millions of yuan.
Can you get a high-priced mobile phone by swiping gifts in the live broadcast room?
In the end, the gift will not be redeemed, and the "reward" user will be blocked
In August 2022, Ms. Chen accidentally swiped into a live broadcast room, and the anchor said that as long as she stayed in the live broadcast room for a period of time, she would give fans good gifts. If you give more gifts to the anchor, you will also have a chance to get a mobile phone or tablet. Seeing that everyone was giving gifts to the anchor, Ms. Chen was also moved.
According to Ms. Chen, in the live broadcast room, the smallest gift for the anchor is "airplane", which is converted into 298 yuan, and the most expensive gift is called "carnival", worth 3,000 yuan. Ms. Chen swiped a few "planes" at first, and the anchor said that as long as the gift was in the top ten, she could immediately get the latest mobile phone worth more than 8,000 yuan. After spending more than 1,000 yuan to buy virtual gifts, Ms. Chen was pulled by the anchor to another anchor's live broadcast room.
Victim Ms. Chen: After brushing, he asked me to enter another locked live broadcast room, ordinary people can't enter, only those who have swiped gifts for him can enter.
In the live broadcast room, Ms. Chen saw many people leaving messages saying that they had received gifts, and Ms. Chen was even more convinced that the new mobile phone was close at hand. In the end, Ms. Chen swiped more than 3,000 yuan in gifts in the live broadcast room and successfully entered the top 10 of the list.
Subsequently, the customer service staff in the live broadcast room contacted Ms. Chen and said that she needed Ms. Chen to provide an address and return the order number to Ms. Chen within three days. For only 3,100 yuan, she can get a new mobile phone of more than 8,000 yuan, and Ms. Chen is overjoyed. Three days later, Ms. Chen thought about asking the other party for the courier number to see if her mobile phone had been shipped. However, at this time, she realized that she had been blocked by the other party.
Each gang member has multiple live streaming platform accounts in their hands
Cross-platform crimes, involving tens of millions of yuan
After many attempts, Ms. Chen was never able to contact the other party's customer service, and after that, the short video account was also cancelled. Ms. Chen filed a complaint on the short video platform.
After verification, the platform staff found that Ms. Chen's experience was not unique. The staff believes that behind these accounts is not only the problem of violations in the live broadcast room, but also may involve fraud crimes. The platform staff fed back the clues in their hands to the police and coordinated with Ms. Chen to report the case.
According to the clues provided by the victim and the platform, the police quickly locked up the gang led by Li. During the investigation, the police found that almost every gang member had an average of about 10 live broadcast platform accounts. The police handling the case said that the suspect generally attracts some fans in the live broadcast room of the small account, and then leads the live broadcast room of the large number to commit fraud in the form of live PK. In addition to Li, there are many gangs involved in the case who use high gifts as bait to defraud in the Internet live broadcast room. These groups intersect with each other and have a certain amount of financial exchange.
The police immediately organized police forces to arrest these fraud gangs. The amount involved in the case amounted to tens of millions of yuan, and more than 13,000 live broadcast accounts involved in the case were seized.
Uncover the modus operandi
How to use words to induce users to swipe gifts
When the police arrested these fraud gangs, they found that most of their so-called "live broadcast rooms" were rented civilian houses or apartments, and the furnishings were very simple: a small room, multiple mobile phones, and the background wall was an empty box of some mobile phones and tablets, which were used for decoration.
So, how did they organize the rhetoric to induce fans to go crazy with gifts?
- Set up a "battle" link to attract traffic to prevent regulatory discovery: After the anchor broadcasts in the live broadcast room for a certain period of time, he uses the live broadcast PK drainage method to introduce the fans in his live broadcast room to the other party's live broadcast room, so as to continue to swipe virtual gift fraud.
Under the operation of the fraud gang, even if the amount of tips per fan is not much, as the number of viewers gradually increases, their income will increase. After the live broadcast ended, the fraud gang no longer logged in to the used accounts, but enabled new accounts for live broadcasts, and most of these accounts were purchased by them in some black and gray industry groups. So far, the police have arrested a total of 142 suspects, and the case is still under further investigation.