TapTechNews August 20th news, the Douyin Security Center announced today that Douyin Live has zero tolerance for fraud and continuously conducts regular special governance against diversion fraud.
Since January 2024, 73,073 accounts with diversion fraud have been recovered with unlimited live broadcast rights. And cooperated with the public security organs to crack down on illegal and criminal gangs in more than ten provincial and municipal regions such as Shaanxi, Heilongjiang, Liaoning, Hebei, Zhejiang, and Shandong, 255 people have been criminally detained.
TapTechNews attaches some illegal situations as follows:
Illegal situation 1 , "Promise rebate" diversion fraud :
Falsely promising to obtain high-value prizes and benefits to trick users into consuming, including but not limited to: promising to obtain high-value gifts/services after consumption, promising to enjoy welfare prices/flash sale prices in private transactions, or diverting users to a third-party platform for transaction fraud on the pretext of trading game accounts.
Case brief of transferring to the public security organ:
In July 2023, the platform found that there were anchors who used the reason of "promising consumption to obtain high-value welfare prizes" to defraud. After research and judgment, it was found that it might be a large-scale black and gray industry fraud, and immediately reported to the public security organ. The platform actively cooperated with the public security organ in investigation and evidence collection. By June 2024, criminal dens in 16 provincial and municipal regions such as Shaanxi, Heilongjiang, Liaoning, Hebei, Zhejiang, and Shandong had been eradicated, and a total of 126 suspected fraud criminal suspects had been criminally detained.
Illegal situation 2 , "Pet fan giving gifts" diversion fraud :
Using the welfare of giving game props, giving mobile phones, giving red envelopes, etc. as a gimmick to defraud users of account and password information;
Using the exchange of fan gifts, prizes, or high-value welfare as a bait to divert users to a third-party platform such as qq group to commit fraud.
Case brief of transferring to the public security organ:
In August 2023, the platform found that there was an anchor who made friends in the name of petting fans, diverted fans to an off-site social software, and then blacklisted the fans after selling counterfeit and shoddy electronic digital products at high prices through the persona created on the social platform. In January 2024, the local public security organ arrested the suspected fraud criminal suspect.
Illegal situation 3 , "Impersonating a celebrity" diversion fraud :
Impersonating a celebrity or a staff member around a celebrity to post false recruitment advertisements and divert users to a third-party platform to collect "application fees" and other ways to commit fraud;
Impersonating a celebrity or a staff member around a celebrity to defraud users of personal information, payment accounts, etc. by means of distributing fan prizes and welfare.
Case brief of transferring to the public security organ:
In April 2024, the platform found that there was an anchor impersonating an assistant of a big V, posting false contact information to divert users to a third-party platform for consumption, and then blacklisting the fans and users. After in-depth exploration and research and judgment, the platform immediately recovered t he live broadcast rights of the account indefinitely, and at the same time reported the clues to the public security organ. On July 20, 2024, the public security organ arrested 6 suspects involved in the case and criminally detained them according to law. At present, the case is under further trial.
Illegal situation 4 , "Pornographic welfare" diversion fraud :
Through vulgar live broadcast content, suggesting that pornographic content can be obtained to induce users to commit fraud on other platforms;
In the process of live broadcasting, first attract users to stay with normal content, and then use various camouflage means to display pornographic resource links, guide users to download illegal software, etc. to commit fraud.
Case brief of transferring to the public security organ:
In February 2024, the platform found that there was an anchor who continuously released borderline videos on the platform to attract the audience. Later, after gathering popularity through live chat, it诱导 users to add its third-party social account and guided users to pay, and privately sent the pornographic video network disk address of self-taken obscene videos for users to watch. After the platform found out the criminal link of the anchor and reported it to the local public security organ, it cooperated with the police to capture several suspects.