The circle of friends voted to burn money: the ticketing company said 8000 yuan first.

Now there are a lot of voting links in WeChat circle of friends, such as "Star of XXX" and "Best XXX", some of which involve the voting of minors.

In order to canvass for children, some families start all the networks and forward the voting links to N groups. Some families take shortcuts and buy tickets by brushing the ticket company, so that the number of votes for their children remains high.

The Beijing News reporter found that in some voting sessions, in addition to simple "voting", there is also a "gift" function. Each gift corresponds to a different number of votes. Anyone can spend money to buy gifts for players. The more money they spend, the better gifts they buy, and the faster the votes rise.

The wind of comparison also breeds, and some parents even spend thousands of dollars on tickets. In the end, the so-called voting became a "money-burning game". The money spent by parents to buy tickets is generally obtained by voting web developers and event organizers.

Voting in the circle of friends began to become a kind of "business"-with the ticketing company specializing in "canvassing", many voting ticketing apps came into being.

The voting page can give gifts to buy tickets.

On September 1 1, Zhang Xian, a native of Hubei province, forwarded a voting link of "popular star" of children's art to his family. This is a vote initiated by a children's art education institution. The top four winners can get gifts such as tablet computers, rice cookers, children's phone watches, yogurt machines, etc. More than 40 children signed up for the selection of paintings, including Zhang Xian's 9-year-old daughter.

"Please vote for XXX." Zhang Xian said several words of "please" after the group speech.

Zhang Xian says her daughter's paintings are very good. This is the first time to participate in a similar voting. Parents hope that their children can have a good ranking, which is also an encouragement to their children.

Voting lasts for 7 days. Everyone can vote every day, but the same player can only vote 1. In order to canvass for her daughter, Zhang Xian mobilized the whole family, and also called out voting links in many groups 10.

"Those days were like chicken blood." Zhang Xian said that the first thing to do when you pick up your mobile phone every morning is to vote. It will remind others that "you can vote again on a new day".

For Xu Wei, who is over 60 years old, voting for his grandniece has become "a great event for the whole family".

After voting every day, family members will report "voted" and the latest voting situation in the group, and some people will send screenshots asking other groups to vote to the group.

Xu Weiping, who has retired for many years, often comes into contact with more than 10 groups, including classmates, colleagues, sisters and retirees. All these groups have become "support groups" for Xu Wei to canvass for his grandniece.

At that time, her speech in the family group could not be separated from voting.

"I just came back at noon and voted without eating first." "My classmate woke up at 4 am and remembered to vote. I was very moved." "I'm so busy these days that I can't relax until the voting is over." "I will try to find as many groups as possible after catching up."

In order to thank her classmates and friends for their help, she also sent a number of red envelopes in various groups. "The amount is not big, which is a bit interesting."

Driven by the enthusiasm of people in China, Zhang Xian's daughter once entered the top three. After that, the gap between the number of votes and the previous one, especially the first place, is getting bigger and bigger.

On the fourth day of voting, some family members found that the voting page had the function of giving gifts. Anyone who spends money to buy gifts for designated candidates can exchange corresponding votes according to their different values.

Zhang Xian said that 15 votes can be increased by sending "lollipops" to 3 yuan, in addition to gifts from 10 yuan, 50 yuan, 100 yuan and 300 yuan, of which 100 yuan and 300 yuan can buy "super sports cars" and "luxury cruise ships", corresponding to 500 votes and 6544.

Family members also began to send "lollipops" to increase the number of votes, but the increase was far less than the top few.

After the voting deadline, the first place won more than 1.5 million votes, and the second place won more than 6,000 votes. Click on the voting page of the first contestant. Under the "gift list", there are 100 yuan "super sports car" and "luxury cruise ship" in 300 yuan.

"The family has tried their best. This is completely burning money. " Zhang Xian said.

The voting page of a kindergarten has the function of "gifts", including lollipops, balloons, teddy bears, super sports cars and luxury cruise ships. You can get 300 tickets by sending a "luxury cruise ship", and you need to pay 100 yuan to buy it.

Third-party companies charge for brushing gifts.

Zhang Xian's "burning money to buy tickets" function is reflected in many votes.

On the voting page of "Looking for Good Taste in Ruzhou" starting from10.6, a company with the number of 65438 will be prompted with "Dear, send me another diamond" after voting for the candidate food store.

"Giving diamonds" means spending money to buy diamonds. 1 Diamond Award 1 0 yuan Money, 1 Diamond equals 3 votes. The recharge amount of the system is 1 diamond, 5 diamond, 10 diamond, 50 diamond, 100 diamond and "user-defined". Spend 100 yuan to send 100 diamonds, which is equivalent to 300 votes.

The Beijing News reporter also found that some kindergartens, primary and secondary schools or education and training institutions have also set up the function of buying tickets in the selection and voting involving minors.

In addition to the above-mentioned children's art "popular star" selection, recently, the reporter saw in the voting session of "dazzling dance star" in a dance school that the number of votes for the first place was 8 168, and 44 gifts were received, *** 15 15, which is equivalent to one yuan. According to the price of 288 points 1500, 100- 500, 50 points 240, 30 points 10- 45, 1 point19,7934, the votes are all gifts.

In fact, most of these voting pages with the function of brushing gifts and buying tickets are developed by third-party companies.

A staff member of a technology company told the Beijing News reporter that voting to brush a gift is to brush a ticket publicly. This function can be added in the voting process, and the platform can set whether the payee is the company or the voting sponsor. The cost of making a voting page is generally below 1,000 yuan.

A technology company in Harbin made a voting page for free, and the prizes needed for voting were also provided by the company, including tablet computers, children's watches, children's electronic keyboards, yogurt machines and so on. But the cost of brushing gifts belongs to the company.

The reporter saw in the "Star of Tomorrow" voting activity link made by the company for an educational institution that as of June 4 10, the activity will end in two days, with 46 participants and 9,437 visitors 10946. The second player has 178 1 tickets, of which 726 tickets were bought by brushing gifts.

In the gift setting, you can buy 3 tickets for 1 yuan, 5 tickets for 5 yuan 10, 90 tickets for 30 yuan, 0/50 tickets for 50 yuan/kloc, and 0/00 tickets for 300 yuan/kloc. In its prize description, it is stated that "all gifts are voluntary, and no reason for asking for a refund will be accepted after the gift is successful."

In the expression of company personnel, it mainly undertakes the voting business initiated by kindergartens and education and training institutions.

An educational institution even claimed that it was cheated after cooperating with the company. Relevant personnel said that the company did not ask for a vote at the beginning, but after the activity began, it was found that the number of votes rose slowly, and it was changed to ask for at least four or five thousand votes for the first place, and the total number of votes reached 20,000 to provide prizes.

"This has to constantly urge others to forward clicks, which is easy to cause resentment. In addition, brushing gifts will seriously affect the credibility of our organization. " The staff said that if the customers who finally got the prize found that the value of the prize was not worth the cost of brushing the gift at all, they would think that our organization made money by voting.

In a children's art "popular star" vote, the first contestant's gift list included a "super sports car" worth 100 yuan and a "luxury cruise ship" worth 300 yuan.

The ticket brushing company claims that 8000 yuan guarantees the first place.

In addition to brushing gifts to buy tickets on the voting page, many people will choose to find an offline ticketing team to brush tickets. Behind all kinds of voting in the circle of friends, industrialization has begun to form, and voting has become a "business".

A cultural media company in Shenzhen promotes "professional voting, service first" on its website.

The webpage "Company Profile" writes that the company has been committed to the research of voting system since 2006, adopting truly independent IP and voting regularly according to the requirements of active websites. The company has tens of thousands of voting members all over the country, and its technology is powerful, which can quickly make your votes surpass those of other competitors. In recent years, we have received many voting activities, and the customer satisfaction rate is 100%.

107, 65438, manager Zhang, the person in charge of the company, said that they voted by hand, and they could brush the ideal ranking first and pay 30% deposit, and then pay the full amount after the whole voting activity. If the effect is not achieved, a full refund will be made.

Manager Zhang said that if it is only a voting activity of kindergartens and small companies, it is not necessary to find their company, because the company's offer is higher, but some people spend 65,438+10,000 yuan to brush tickets. If it is a voting activity involving the government or relevant institutions, they can be asked to vote by ranking.

Manager Zhang is not shy about calling some candidates to promote ticketing business.

Li Lin, a Beijing citizen, participated in a people's selection activity last year. As soon as the voting link came out, he received a message from manager Zhang, saying, "This place can help you vote, and the ranking service is guaranteed. Members can vote by hand, the first place is 8,000 yuan, the top three are 6,000 yuan, the top five are 4,000 yuan, and the top ten are 2,000 yuan, ensuring the ranking. "

In this regard, manager Zhang said that the company has specialized personnel to pay attention to some important voting activities, and then find the contact information of some players and send text messages to carry out business.

Searching for tickets online, there will be many special voting and ticketing apps.

The reporter downloaded a voting APP and found that its business is very extensive. Click "Place an Order by Voting" to open the voting business interface, and the left side is divided into voting canvassing, WeChat official account fans, WeChat official account scanning code, personal friends, reply powder, likes collection, friends circle forwarding and so on. Click on any item, and the corresponding price will appear on the right.

When the reporter clicks "Vote for canvassing", options such as "500 votes =55 yuan" and "5000 sprint votes =900 yuan" appear in the right column. When the reporter clicks "WeChat official account fans", an option similar to "20 WeChat official account fans =7 yuan" appears in the right column.

On the voting page of "Looking for the Good Taste of Ruzhou", you can "send diamonds" to the candidate food stores, 1 diamond reward 1 yuan, which is equal to 3 votes.

The cost of brushing gifts far exceeds the value of prizes.

Under normal circumstances, after obtaining the ticket-brushing business, the ticket-brushing company will find a pitcher, that is, a "professional voter", through the relevant QQ group to complete the ticket-brushing task.

Gao Jun, 25, has been a pitcher for three years. His daily job is to go to different voting pages to vote or post voting tasks.

Gao Jun said that professional pitchers like him usually have 15 to hundreds of micro signals. Whenever they receive tasks such as posting, voting, liking, paying attention, downloading, registering, etc. in the group, they use multi-open software to control multiple micro-signals to vote at the same time. Take screenshots as required when doing the task, and send the screenshots privately to the person who posted the task after the task, and you can get corresponding remuneration.

Voting tasks include direct voting, attention voting, regional voting and mobile phone verification voting.

Click on the voting link to jump to the voting page, and you can immediately click on the voting to vote directly. Pay attention to the corresponding WeChat official account before you can vote. Regional tickets have restrictions on the pitcher's WeChat IP address, and only by logging in to the micro-signal of the designated regional IP can you vote.

Mobile phone verification voting requires entering the mobile phone number and obtaining the verification code before voting. There are also voting to download specific apps and mobile phone verification login.

Different types of voting have different prices. According to Gao Jun, the price of direct voting and attention tickets is around 0. 13-0. 15 yuan each; Because of the restriction of regional tickets, the voting base is relatively small, and the price of each ticket is around 0.25 yuan. 0.5 yuan -0.8 yuan/ticket for tasks requiring mobile phone number registration, and 1.5 yuan/ticket for tasks requiring APP download.

Gao Jun mainly makes money by tasks, and the number of tasks he receives is not fixed. So his monthly income is also unstable. "Under normal circumstances, it is four or five thousand to seven or eight thousand."

He said that the most earned month was 20,000 yuan. This is because he accepted a task with hundreds of thousands of votes.

In addition to pitchers, page makers and even event organizers can also benefit from brushing tickets.

A company that makes voting pages claims that the cost of making voting pages is 1 1,000 yuan, the income of voters from brushing gifts is less than 1 1,000 yuan, and the income from brushing gifts is more than 1 1,000 yuan, which will be shared equally by the company and the event organizers.

The above-mentioned staff of a technology company in Harbin bluntly said that since the voting page and prizes were given by the company, the cost of brushing gifts was "taken for granted" by the company. The organizers of the event also made publicity for free.

In the voting page made by the company, when spending money to buy gifts, the deduction unit paid by WeChat is indeed the company. In addition to tablet computers, children's electronic keyboards, children's watches and yogurt machines are all within 100 yuan, and the value of prizes is far lower than the cost of brushing gifts.

Besides, the more people brush gifts, the more money the company makes. For example, only the top four prizes were awarded, and 20 people brushed gifts. Those players who also spent money on gifts but didn't make it to the top four almost beat Shui Piao.

In the voting page of the company, there is also a special prize, that is, if the number of single votes reaches 18888, 38888, 58888, 88888, 128888, you can get additional prizes, such as mountain children's bicycles, somatosensory games, balance cars, treadmills, space sofa and so on. For voters, it is basically impossible to get it without burning money.

On a voting page made by the company, the reporter found that 1 1 of more than 30 contestants were given gifts, and the total price of these gifts reached 33 17 yuan. All prizes are worth more than RMB 1000, and all the difference belongs to the company.

The business page of a ticketing APP is clearly marked according to the number of votes, voting method, voting speed and voting time.

"Brushing tickets is easy to cause children to compare."

Behind the "commercialization" of voting in the circle of friends, some parents worry that their children will have a tendency to compare prematurely. Zhang Xian said that at the beginning of the voting, her daughter couldn't see her vote, and she always wanted adults to send more groups to canvass. Later, she realized that she could spend money to buy gifts and brush tickets, and even explicitly said that she would buy "more expensive gifts."

It is reported that a man in Zhengzhou has no password for WeChat payment. My friend's child used his mobile phone to vote for himself and bought a gift of 6570 yuan, and the number of votes soared to the first place. The third-party platform company finally only paid the man 2430 yuan.

In May this year, the official account of WeChat, an individual who "met Tengzhou", published an article "Please ask the relevant departments to urgently stop kindergarten WeChat voting", which was read by more than 10,000 people.

According to the article, these voting activities may make children feel that canvassing is the key to winning and there is no need to do it well. Some children who are "not sensible" will also ask their parents to help canvass. The lack of fair competition is to convey a wrong and distorted value to all children who participate in or even watch the game.

As early as the beginning of this year, the General Office of the Ministry of Education issued the "Notice on Standardizing the Online Voting Activities of Excellent Students in Campus Evaluation", saying that the canvassing and voting activities of online platforms such as WeChat Friends Circle were rampant in a few places and universities, which distracted teachers and students from their work and study to a certain extent, affected the normal education and teaching order of the school, and was not conducive to the formation of a good school spirit and study style.

The notice requires that the principle of "not holding unless necessary" should be adhered to, and at the same time, the value and influence of online voting in campus selection should be judged and evaluated, and "not only votes, but only facts" should be adhered to.

Zong Chunshan, director of the Beijing Youth Legal and Psychological Counseling Service Center, believes that the so-called popular voting has deteriorated. It doesn't matter whether you are excellent or not. What matters is who has more connections.

Zong Chunshan does not encourage voting for children. As for the gift-brushing voting, it is completely commercialized and completely unfair. Behind this is the utilitarianism and vanity of adult society. Improper means of adult society, such as comparison, speculation and deception, will be learned by children. "Children who win the first place through these means may be skeptical about their future efforts and develop their own specialties and abilities for their children. Not only does it not help, but it will have a negative effect. "

The circle of friends is full of votes, and there may be hidden scams. There are also criminals who use "voting" to obtain personal information and commit fraud.

20 16 Liaoning police made a video to explain in detail the inside story of the circle of friends voting for canvassing fraud. According to the police, online voting activities involve filling in personal information, and there is a possibility that personal information may be resold. The disclosure of WeChat personal information is only superficial, and the greater harm is that criminals can use WeChat related information to obtain other network information and even personal contact numbers. "Once the important personal information is mastered by the scammer, the scammer will send you a scam link or make a scam call according to the information, which may bring property losses if you are not careful."

It is also tricky to buy gifts and brush tickets. Liaoning police said that even if you spend more money, you may always be the second, but you won't get the first place because the data of the first place can be changed at any time.

A person in charge of a company making a voting page admitted to the Beijing News reporter that the number of votes of players can indeed be changed in the background.