A recent scam forwarded in a family WeChat group caught my attention.
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What? Surprisingly, there are people playing the game of “raising animals” online, and they can be cheated 110,000 so much money ……
When I searched the internet, I didn’t expect that this game had actually cheated 80W+ people, and the amount of money cheated was up to tens of billions.
The annualized rate of return is as high as 7200%, monthly income is not a dream …… By painting a big pie for players and pulling heads like crazy, “Animal World” pulls people into the abyss of losing their money step by step.
Many people were cheated out of their money, but also carried a small loan, and even two or three days without money to eat (too bad), desperate for the whole life ……
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Today we will pick up what kind of “animal world”.
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What the hell is “Animal World”?
Animal World” is a game that suddenly caught fire in June this year and collapsed in November, “living” for less than half a year, circling tens of billions of dollars.
The game’s gameplay is very simple, is to make money by “raising animals”, it’s a bit like the popular online “vegetable game”.
What do you mean by “raising animals”?
There are a total of 10 kinds of virtual animals in Animal World, including birds of prey, deer, and golden monkeys.
The platform is open 10 times a day, in intervals from 10:25 am to 8:25 pm. Players have 5 minutes to grab the animals each time, you need to desperately click on the picture of the animals on the screen, the point will show “success in the purchase”.
After players grab the animal, they can feed it and sell it after it has been raised, and after selling it, they can not only get back the principal, but also get a super high income.
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The price of different animals varies, as does the cycle of raising them and the rate of return.
Like the most popular “Chinese dragon”, it is also the most profitable, with a 30% yield in just 15 days.
If a player spends 10,000 to grab a dragon, excluding less feeding costs, then half a month can earn 3,000 yuan, counting daily earnings of 200 yuan.
This 10,000 if placed in the balance of treasure, half a month even 15 yuan of interest can not earn (simply hang balance of treasure) ……
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In order to get players trapped, scammers will also let players taste the sweetness first and earn a little money.
A victim interviewed by @kunmingradio and TV said he earned more than 2,000 yuan on his first small try, with interest back directly to his WeChat account.
But he took a look at making money so easy, he did not take the money out, but kept adding codes, the more you buy more and more, and finally was cheated 60,000 in ……
As the model is simple, easy to operate the single play, move your fingers can easily make money, so countless victims began to “on the head”.
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The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who have been in the business for a long time.
In order to be able to cheat more money, scammer gangs operate constantly, so that people can not hide.
1) The pie lure, special cheat white
The “Animal World” is a very strong pie painting skills, professional vocabulary one after another, their products packaged in a high level, and “TO” help together with the use of words, so that white players are convinced.
First of all, the scammers play with the hottest “blockchain” banner and play with the cryptocurrency circle. They not only created an “exchange”, issued a large number of virtual coins (similar to bitcoin), but also developed a payment system.
Don’t tell me, blockchain + bitcoin, really quite bluff, this set of engaged in as if the next step will be comparable to the stock exchange.
Secondly, the scammer also boasts of a real economy and building real eco-homes – farmer’s orchards – all over the country in the next 3 years.
These claims sound very lofty, but if you study carefully, there are actually loopholes everywhere.
First of all, payment transactions are very strictly managed by our country, and only Alipay and Tencent, large Internet companies, have payment licenses to conduct legal transactions online.
The “animal world” does not have this qualification at all, the exchange and virtual coins are also “attic in the air”, does not exist, the payment system is never filed.
In short, the money that players put in is just an empty basket, and there is no way to protect the safety of the funds, and the fraudsters may run away with the money at any time.
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(Source watermark: payment system not filed)
The “TO” is also essential to the scam, which is very old-fashioned, but really effective:
Every day once the opening, they will be in the WeChat group with a variety of “smoke and mirrors” to create a sense of animal rush, slow seconds of tension.
When the countdown begins, many players are hot-headed and follow along with the money to grab the animals.
At the end of the day, they also ask all members to report their earnings for the day, not to report will be kicked out of the group.
The “trust” from time to time in the group of high earnings screenshots, circle of friends to show off the newly bought villa, Ben, so that players believe it, and constantly increase the amount of money invested.
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This set down, the player basically has trust in the game, almost even if officially into the pit.
2) pyramid scheme type crazy head pulling
In addition to these schemes to cheat people into the pit, scammer groups also made a number of tricks to prompt players to desperately pull heads and develop their own downline.
① Limit the number of accounts to grab a single
In order to make players pull people around them down, the scammers set the account to only grab 3 animals per day. In this way, many players have to borrow numbers, take the cell phone numbers of family members and friends, and create multiple accounts to increase the chances of grabbing animals.
In this process of borrowing cell phone numbers, there are many people who are brought along to play “Animal World” and also taste the sweetness of earning quick money, and the player group grows step by step.
② Only upgrade to earn big money
In order to induce players to keep pulling people into the game, the scammers also go out of their way to lure them by using huge profits.
On the one hand, players can pull new, direct cash rewards, pull 20 people can earn 60 yuan, pull a few hundred friends down also has a considerable income.
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On the other hand, the scammers have set up a very elaborate ranking system:
The game is divided into 5 different levels from top to bottom: Jade Emperor, Dragon King, Alliance Master, Garden Master, and Civilian.
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In the process of raising animals, players need to feed them, and the feed can only be purchased from their superiors for money. The superior then buys from his superior, and each level takes a portion of the money, the higher up the level the more money is drawn.
In this way, the top Jade Emperor and Dragon King earn the most naturally.
According to @Donghua commentary, a garden manager can earn 200,000 a month, the Dragon King level that is a monthly income of several million is not under discussion.
In such a profitable temptation, players in order to make more money, are bent on hurrying to upgrade.
It is also very simple to upgrade, pull enough people on the line, so we have been desperately pulling heads, in order to lie down and earn money from the next level.
Until this scam eventually can not sustain, the top layer of money to escape, the majority of people can only lose money left.
3) The rights group continues to second cheat
But these above, barely or the basic operation of the pyramid scheme-style scam.
What I didn’t expect was for the scammers to infiltrate the rights group and go on a rampage to lure players again.
Since the collapse of Animal Crossing last month, victims have been grouping together to open a number of rights groups. The result is that the group actually mixed in a lot of “trust”, they lobby the cheated players to invest in a new financial products “funny bugs”, or the old way to make money by raising animals.
It’s not to mention that this scam is also very useful, and there are players who have joined the new WeChat group one after another. According to one victim, he saw many “old friends” in the group of funny bugs.
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However, the funny bug will definitely end up repeating the mistakes of Animal Crossing and will end up crashing in the near future.
In fact, these cheated players are also very poor, just lost a large amount of money, holding anxious to return to the blood of the mentality, often will be anxious to throw a doctor, and accidentally fell for it.
The scammers are even more inhumane, cheating the players once still not let go, must be a wave of leeks cut twice, the people forced to the desperate road, simply hateful to the extreme!
4) To college students and baby mothers
The reason why the success rate of this scam is so high is because the scammer group has focused on the two groups of college students and moms from the beginning, thinking that they are simple-minded and lack of money and look the most “good to cheat”.
The company’s main goal is to provide the best possible service to its customers.
There are even students who have been successfully brainwashed to join the gang of scammers and become managers, who buy cars and houses every day and trick their classmates into jumping into the fire together (too uncouth).
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This situation occurred in universities in Guizhou and Anhui, where more than half of the students played “Animal World” and blindly followed their classmates to invest money under the instigation of the lead administrator, and also carried campus loans.
The end is also quite tragic, not only have no money to eat, can not pay tuition, at a young age will be a bunch of debtors to collect debts, can not successfully graduate are difficult to say ……
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Conclusion
To be honest, in these two years, there are too many similar pyramid scam products on the market.
For example, the “National Treasure Panda” and “Cloud Cat” …… are countless, and many of them are even opened by the same group of scammers with N plates.
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In fact, no matter what animal a player raises, it’s just a virtual symbol that doesn’t have the ability to create profit, and the product has no real revenue at all.
The so-called revenue comes from the principal of new players, the essence of the “game” is a Ponzi scheme that tears down the east wall to make up for the west wall and the south wall to make up for the north wall. When the “wall” can no longer make up, it will inevitably go to collapse.
In the face of so many fraudsters can not prevent the operation, we once again remind everyone: the sky fell, there is no pie, only traps!
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