Preface
Who would have thought that the idle fish would become "yellow croaker"? ”
At present, according to official media disclosures, Xianyu is one of the most popular idle trading platforms among young consumers in the mainland.
Hubei Daily, published on February 16, 2022
However, in recent years, it seems to have become a "hotbed" for special services, which seems to be a normal transaction, but in fact it is "hidden mysteries", and many "secret codes" have come and gone.
What is the matter with the idle fish becoming a "yellow croaker"? What should we do in the face of this kind of thing?
Image source: "5D Survey"
Female fans were cheated of 500,000 on Xianyu
Let's talk about a very scary thing first, during this time, singer Jay Chou's concert was held in Hangzhou, and many fans were "ready to move".
Especially those female fans, they "racked their brains" and had to buy tickets for Jay Chou's concert, and a lady surnamed Lu was like this.
A few days ago, she originally wanted to buy tickets normally, but unexpectedly, because the fans were too "enthusiastic", she didn't get a ticket in the end.
But Ms. Lu didn't want to miss this hard-won "opportunity", so, in this case, she tried to buy second-hand tickets from others on Xianyu software for the first time......
After Ms. Lu found a "buyer", no one would have thought that the person would ask her for the first time: "Is it convenient for voice?"
Maybe Ms. Lu was still vigilant at the time, and replied directly: "I'm still at work, you can send a voice, I'll transfer the text", but the other party still "messed around", and claimed that this requires a voice state to issue tickets.
At this point, we can feel that something is wrong, how can there be such a thing as voice ticketing?
Image source: Huanqiu.com, released on April 18, 2024
But Ms. Lu, who was "not deeply involved in the world", didn't seem to think anything, and she really asked for a ticket, so she agreed to the "buyer".
After following the instructions of the other party, she paid the money, but still did not get the tickets, Ms. Lu felt strange and asked the "seller".
At this time, the "seller" was "sloppy" again, saying that Ms. Lu's account might be frozen on suspicion of money laundering, and later, he also said that Ms. Lu needed to go to a website called "China Banking Regulatory Commission" to appeal and try to return it.
Ms. Lu didn't think about it that much at the time, so she went to that website, and after that, she did some more operations according to the other party's request, and finally Ms. Lu entered the "code to apply for lifting the restriction" and "499499".
It stands to reason that the money should have come back at this time, but the fact is that 499499 yuan in Ms. Lu's account was transferred!
After losing so much money at once, Ms. Lu suddenly realized that she had met a scammer and hurriedly reported the case, but the amount was still not recovered in time, and the police are currently doing their best to help Ms. Lu recover the huge amount.
I really didn't expect this kind of thing to happen in today's civilized era!
What's even more unexpected is that this kind of thing is very common on Xianyu software, just because it is suspected of other illegal transactions - on the surface, it is selling bicycles for girls' own use, but in fact, it is a hidden improper transaction.
What's going on here?
Xianyu becomes "yellow croaker".
Talking about this matter has to start from April 11th, on that day, Sina Finance's consumer survey column "5D Survey" found that when browsing social platforms, a blogger said that she sold mountain bikes she didn't use on Xianyu software, but I didn't know who kept sending her messages.
It's just a matter of sending a message, but the problem is that the person still asks the female blogger from time to time "how long can I ride" and "how much does it cost to ride once" and similar inexplicable questions.
This inevitably attracted the attention of the "5D Investigation" column.
After that, "5D Investigation" began to search for "bicycle" on Xianyu software, and the staff found that the number one was a post called "Giant Bicycle".
The staff of "5D Investigation" clicked on it and found that the post was very simple, which read:
"Giant bicycles can be ridden, online and offline, Tianjin and Beijing, as long as you have a fare, you can fly anywhere, you need to be private."
But what makes people feel strange is that this post only said this short sentence, and only a few photos of Giant bikes were placed below, without describing the bicycle model, nor telling the specific situation of this bicycle, just like this, there were more than 200 people to consult, with more than 1700 views!
Are they really selling bicycles in this case?
Image source: "5D Survey"
It's not just us who think so, but even the staff at "5D Investigation" think so.
So, the relevant staff pretended to be a "buyer" and began to talk to the "seller" from Beijing.
Who would have thought that the relevant personnel of "5D Investigation" had just sent a message of "looking at the car", and the other party sent a picture of a beautiful woman.
What? Selling bicycles actually sends photos of beautiful women?
At this time, the staff didn't say much, but continued to ask, "Is there anything else?"
The "seller" sent another photo of the back of the beautiful woman again, which looked like "the software has been infected with a virus".
Subsequently, "5D Investigation" consulted other people who sold "Giant Bicycles", and found that those posts were all without exception, either sending pictures of beautiful women like the previous one, or the chat content was suspected of "rubbing the edges".
After that, the staff of "5D Investigation" contacted the customer service of Xianyu Software to inquire, and the customer service actually said that if you encounter a similar situation, you can report it, and after the report, the platform will review it as soon as possible.
And when "5D Investigation" asked the customer service what your review mechanism was, the customer service actually avoided talking about it, apologized first, and then said that if you encounter this kind of thing, you can report it.
What does this mean? Is it "with the mud"?
What's more noteworthy is not only what "5D Investigation" revealed, but not long after, another blogger also posted a complaint, and she came up and said directly:
"'Salted fish' turned into 'yellow croaker', which is obviously a second-hand goods trading platform, and accidentally became a poultry market for "soliciting prostitution". ”
Such two news naturally inevitably attracted the attention of many netizens.
Netizen reaction
But in fact, this is not the first time that Xianyu has been exposed to such news, some "melon-eating masses" found that in recent years, the official media has reported this kind of news many times, such as as as as 2016, some official media disclosed that "some people on the salted fish software sell stockings worn by girls, underwear and other suspected vulgar products";
In 2022, some media broke the news that "some people on Xianyu rely on playing 'edge ball' to chat with text and voice, and make money by playing together";
The most outrageous thing is that there are also some "sellers" who sell AI face swap services (such as Ping some actress photos into vulgar films and then making profits), which is really limitless.
This can't help but make people wonder, what happened to Xianyu all these years?
What happened to Xianyu in recent years?
Xianyu software is naturally not without control.
Basically, every time this kind of news breaks out, Xianyu will immediately rectify it, such as taking measures such as blocking keywords and seizing accounts, which are quite effective at the beginning, and many news have "disappeared", however, it didn't take long for this kind of similar thing to "blow and blow and live".
Xianyu takes measures
Those news that have been repeatedly exposed seem to have proved with facts, even if there is platform supervision, it is still useless, and with the update of Xianyu's regulatory methods, those "gray industry" methods are also "upgrading".
Far from it, let's take the Giant bicycle incident that broke out this time, has Xianyu really not worked hard?
This is not necessarily, but we have to say that the Xianyu platform does not have a little responsibility and is not sure, anyway, I rarely see this kind of news in other software.
In this regard, a relevant person from the Internet Society of China once believed:
Xianyu's repeated "pornography" shows that the platform needs to strengthen the awareness of the online rule of law and the construction of the system, improve the internal integrity norms, and strengthen the ability to review, judge and deal with it in a timely manner.
In his opinion, Xianyu needs to get out of the comfort zone of passively deleting bad information and the "safe harbor principle", and bravely go to the exploration area of active discovery and disposal.
Of course, it's not just the platform, in my opinion, it requires the whole society to work together.
Image source: Mingshui County People's Procuratorate's official account - Legal Network, released on May 11, 2022
For example, the relevant regulatory authorities should also strengthen network supervision, and find and deal with problems in a timely manner by regularly checking all kinds of user complaints, so as to ensure that our network environment is clean.
As for our consumers, we should consciously abide by laws and regulations, do not participate, do not disseminate illegal information is our first priority, and when users encounter or find similar illegal acts, we must promptly report the situation to the relevant platforms and relevant departments and report the situation.
Complaints platform
I believe that as long as all parties work together, our network environment will get better and better, and this kind of thing will definitely be reduced a lot.
Maybe some people think I'm making a fuss, but it's much better to do it than not to do it, especially on platforms like Xianyu, which are loved by young people, and we should clean up their online environment to avoid the "future flowers" of our motherland from being affected by bad information.
What do you think about this, welcome to express your opinions!
The sources in this article are from:
1. "Women's Xianyu bought "Jay Chou concert tickets" and was deceived of 500,000!", Global Network-Shangcheng Police, released on April 18, 2024;
2. "Xianyu APP Bicycle Trading Suspected of Hidden Services, Where Is the Platform Supervision?", Sina Finance's column "5D Investigation", released on April 11, 2024;
3. "Second-hand is really fragrant" and "Turning waste into consumption" - Idle economy has become a new consumption trend for the younger generation, Hubei Daily, released on February 16, 2022;
4. "AI Face Swap Survey: Video Face Swap Can "Customize" Actress 1 Minute Charge 20", Netinfo Hebei, released on July 18, 2019;
5. "People's Financial Commentary: Hidden Erotic Transactions? "Xianyu" Don't Be in a Hurry to Leave It Away", People's Information-People's Daily Online, released on March 18, 2022;
6. "Sellers peddling "pornography" services and "photography learning" pictures make people can't bear to look at them directly!Netizen: Is it Xianyu or "Yellow Fish"?", the official account of the Mingshui County People's Procuratorate-Rule of Law.com, released on May 11, 2022;
7. "Shopping for second-hand idle fish, why can't the "disguised service" be idle?", released on August 18, 2017, but in order to improve the readability of the article, the details may be polished, please read sensibly, for reference only!