1. Routine 1: Official Authorization

''Scammers'' companies generally use registered trademarks such as "Tencent" and "WeChat" in the name of official authorization, making merchants mistakenly believe that It is an official investment promotion activity organized by WeChat

2. Scammer’s routine 2: phone calls, text messages and WeChat invitations

“Scammers” companies will recruit a large number of salespeople to send invitations via phone calls, text messages, WeChat, etc. It issued "official invitation letters" to the small and medium-sized enterprise operators and merchants it collected, and claimed to be the official local operation center, such as "Hunan Operation Center", "North China Operation Center", etc.

3. Scammer’s routine three: expert lecturer, exaggerated copywriting

“Scammer” company hires fake “expert lecturer” and “WeChat open class lecturer” to carry out false propaganda and interpret it in an official tone "Values ??of Mini Programs", the copywriting style is basically exaggerated.

4. Scammer’s Trick 4: High Fees

“Scammer” companies often induce consumption. For example, they have organized and held many so-called "WeChat Mini Program Enterprise Preferred Project Conferences" to defraud huge illegal profits through officially authorized limited-time discounts and other gimmicks.

5. Scammer’s Routine 5: Pretending to be an authority

The fraud gang tied themselves to the government at the meeting and trumpeted the so-called "government policy to support small and medium-sized enterprises", "limited quotas", etc. "Welfare", and arrange gang members to be "entrustees", cooperate with lecturers and hosts to create on-site atmosphere, and finally induce merchants to sign contracts. Some merchants asked for refunds after discovering that they had been deceived. The gangs used various reasons to prevaricate and kicked the victims out of the WeChat group chat or blocked them.

People's Daily Online - "Mini Program" scam: Under the guise of official authorization, the routines are intertwined