With the integration of self-publishing into everyone's life, more and more people are looking to cash in and make money through such channels. But there are also many entrenched scammers are waiting for the opportunity to move, from the desire to cash in on the user to make a fortune first. human storytelling shopstorytelling1 I am 41 years old and a miner in the Ordos coal mine in Inner Mongolia.2021 In September, I injured my leg while working underground and was told by the hospital that I would have to recuperate for three or four months. The days seem to return to the Wuhan epidemic that will be, I eat and sleep every day, sleep and eat, brush the jitterbug to catch up with the drama, especially boring. A chance, I brushed to a live room called "Northeast treasure mother", only to know that we ordinary people can also earn money through the jittery business, and earn a lot. Only elementary school culture of the Northeast treasure mother in the live broadcast about her husband abandoned his wife and children, transfer of property, and finally died of cancer story, just four months to earn two or three million, her story inspired and touched millions of fans, including me. I was excited by the fact that what only those talented and good-looking anchors or teams of merchants can do, we ordinary people can also do. I thought: why not use this time of recuperation to make some money with a side business? I said I'd do it. I spent 500 yuan in her live room to buy a sound card and other live equipment, and bought some study materials, ready to live. I used a week's time squatting in those well-known moms net red live room, give them gifts, learn how to stay, how to increase the powder, how to let the fans give you reward, how to do data, the information such as "on the point of attention to the next point of praise, I wish you wealth of thousands of million" of the jingle memorized. I think I am eloquent and image is also good. But really do it, only to find that it is not so simple. I mimic the northeastern treasure mother, do is chat plus jitterbug knowledge sharing anchor. I live three or four hours a day, broadcasting dry mouth, dizziness, live audience is always hovering in the single digits.2 live does not work, I began to do short videos. But do short videos need to learn, I teach special effects in a live room to see an editing software, spend 298 yuan to buy, learn but found that the course is too complex, not at all I can handle. A penny did not earn it, first ride in thousands of dollars, which makes me very frustrated. Later, I learned fine, no longer spend money, but to go to the official live broadcast of the jitterbug to learn, do not understand the knowledge of the Internet search can also be searched out. That's how I slowly accumulated a little bit of simple operational knowledge. But the fans and playback volume is still growing like a snail, I was very anxious. One day, I found a video in a video 0 yuan to learn short video ads, ads do very attractive, I think anyway idle is idle, then fill out the personal data. In the afternoon I received a phone call, let me add his WeChat. On WeChat, the man gave me a link to the class. In the classroom, the teacher began to talk about some of the things that do make me this jitterbug white feel shocked and amazed, thinking: the original jitterbug there are so many sets and play ah, can be counted on to find the organization. But immediately after, the teacher's topic changed: "What is knowledge payment? It's that what you have to spend months or even half a year figuring out, we can point out your problem in 5 minutes and give you a perfect solution!" "Time is the biggest cost on the road to entrepreneurship." "Doing it with me, you are like entering the regular army from the guerrillas of Jitterbug, we have cooperation with Jitterbug and Tencent, and will give you internal resources and traffic support." "The teacher's energy is also limited, the teacher only recruited four closed disciples this time, we are training the main force for Jitterbug, cultivating individual elites, like the Northeast treasure moms, like the original cement girl, without a team behind the planning and operation, can they be famous? We must seize this wind mouth, seize the dividend period of the jittery voice" Although these marketing words and techniques to think about know that it is a fraud, those income screenshots can also be handy P, but then listen to still feel the blood surging, coupled with the warm and exciting atmosphere of the live room, I was excited to pay the 2980. live class publicity. This no foundation no culture zero fans of 60-year-old students learn the third day of income 110 yuan. Follow the teacher to learn two months, and now earn more than 10,000 per month | Author's photo 3 In fact, the money just turned over to me back to feel wrong, and then look at the contract they sent over more dumbfounded: halfway through the school shall not be withdrawn for any reason, or else you have to return the person 30% of the liquidated damages. And as long as the people into the study group, five or six hundred dollars of group information even if forced to sell you. But what is that information ah, crude, in the Poundland or Taobao on a few dollars can buy, and some even in the online search can be seen for free. There are more than 100 people in the study group and they are always coming in. The group is prohibited group members to chat privately, but now everyone's various accounts are basically the same cell phone number registered, I looked for clues from the works sent by the group members, and followed the trail, contacted a few old students through other accounts. When I asked, they all said that they had been deceived, and some people had paid money for a long time and did not come to class. People think they are unlucky to swallow their anger, comforting themselves to spend money to buy lessons. Some people have no other choice but to hold on to a glimmer of hope and continue to learn. When I searched for the company, I didn't realize there were so many complaints and bad reviews online. What the wind on the pig, I realized at this time that I really is a stupid pig, confused by people cut leeks cheated 3000. a moment, I was angry and blood, but did not dare to let his wife know. People in middle age, on the old and the young, wife usually even a 300 yuan clothes can not afford to buy. I began to think of ways, but at this time to contact the teacher he has no longer return calls, another teacher to me also ignore. I wrote an application for withdrawal based on their contract, and still didn't hear back. I had to log on to the 12315 website and upload company information and some screenshots of the payment chat to file a complaint. Here I would like to give you a tip: Many people say that it is useless to call 12315 when encountering consumer traps. This statement is not entirely true. Because 12315 phone is divided into regions, and in the working hours can only be connected, so the complaint may not be able to get timely feedback. The website is different, it is nationwide, the strength of the complaint and the feedback will be much better. The next day I received a message from a market supervision bureau in Hunan, where the company is located. It said that the other company had been contacted and they were willing to negotiate a solution. Then the teacher selling the class took the initiative to contact me, but only promised to refund 70%. Chat Transcript 1 | Author Contributed I told the teacher that I have all the information about his promotional classes here, and then passed a recording of the recording screen. I hit the nail on the head when I said, "You're engaging in false propaganda, and if it becomes a big deal, according to the law I can ask you to triple the compensation." I also sent the screenshot of the chat with other students to the teacher, the teacher hesitated for a while, promised to refund me 2800. that is to say, I only lost 180 yuan. But I still do not want to lose the 180 yuan, then continued: "I can not get a full refund, will continue to complain, always complain to the end, and will contact the other students collective refund, if I get a full refund, will no longer be entangled in the matter, I do not want to make things bigger." Chat Transcript 2 | Author's Photo The teacher hesitated for a while and finally promised me a full refund. Seriously, the teacher's course I did not record the whole recording screen, I was listening to the propaganda class in an excitement, I poked at the screen a few times, inadvertently recorded a paragraph, who will be at that moment on the thought that they are going to be fooled, to record some evidence for themselves. "There is true love on earth, poke the screen is also love", like to watch the live broadcast of the old iron may know this action, but I did not expect this habitual action inadvertently left myself the most critical evidence, but also help me to ask for the full amount of tuition back. Then, I used the same method to help another 60-year-old brother in the group also recovered 70% of the tuition. Because that big brother is really too bad, and his wife divorced, in the farmers market stall selling vegetables, less than 100 yuan a day income, and even 3,000 yuan of tuition fees or to find a neighbor to borrow, he told me that his eyesight is not good, and every day to the cell phone screen eyes running water, but can not learn anything. Since the teacher introduced him into the group, he never managed him, the original promise of one-on-one help is not, he was afraid to continue to learn his eyes will go blind. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to get a good deal on a new product, but I'm sure you're going to be able to get a good deal on a new product," he said. This is the first time I've ever seen a person with a high school diploma, and I've never seen a person with a high school diploma," he said. There are 1 billion Jieyin users, and there are many other users with lower cultural levels, like this big brother, who are too easy to be cheated, and the vast majority of them don't know how to protect their rights after being cheated. Big brother has been learning for most of the month, can get back 70% of the tuition fee he is also very content. Money in hand after the big brother called a strong thank me, I seriously told him: "Jitterbug is not so good to do, first, depends on whether you are suitable; second, to long-term persistence, short-term is unlikely to have any gain." There is only one way to do well in Shakeology, and that is to do well in your own work and improve your live broadcasting ability. If you want to succeed, you can only take a practical step, and any delusional shortcut may be a pit.4 With this mindset and knowing that I'm not that material, I started to play Jitterbug as a circle of friends, and I stopped spending so much time and energy on Jitterbug. I am no longer anxious and insomnia, peace of mind to do a family "cook", every day with the children to do cooking, husband and wife relationship is more harmonious. In order to prevent more people from being deceived, I posted my own rights experience in the video account, I did not expect this matter has brought me an unexpected harvest. There is a friend of the same city "orange mother" found me for help, said she was also cheated 2980, is the same set, also Hunan company, also just pay money on the realization, but she has very little evidence there, and the other side of the entanglement for a long time, people ignore her. Ask me if I can help her. Orange mother is a 32-year-old mother, the child is more than two years old, we know a year, she did shake the voice of entrepreneurship is almost a year, the income is not enough to pay the phone bill. She did it a lot harder than I did, and her desire to take off was a lot stronger than mine, and I was witness to the sadness of losing a fan and losing a handful of hair. She signed up for a one-dollar course at a small shake store, only to receive a call from a scammer in the afternoon asking her to attend an open class. She later complained and gave the store a bad review, but the person's customer service said they were wronged and they didn't even know the scammer. She called the official customer service of Jitterbug again, and the customer service told her to send an email to explain the situation. But the email was sent for a few days, and there was no reply. Orange Mom said, "Such a big platform, so many people spend money on it every day, but there is not a specialized agency to regulate the money piece." She was too desperate, as a weak and ignorant little transparent, it is really difficult to defend her rights. I collected all the information of Orange Mom and found that she had almost no useful evidence except for a screenshot of her payment, and the contract was a bullying one, so it was difficult to complain and get the full amount back. I decided to help her look for evidence. I asked for the little jitterbug store that lured her into the pit, and also bought a one-dollar silhouette course and waited for the fish to take the bait. Sure enough, in the afternoon, someone added me on WeChat to ask me to listen to an open class - the same company that scammed Orange Mom. In addition to the company and the teacher is not the same, the class set is exactly the same, the commitment of a minimum monthly income of 5,000, only to recruit ten closed disciples, tuition 2980. I put the focus of the course part of the audio-visual video saved, sent to the orange mother, and told her: now you have evidence in hand to prove that they are in the false propaganda, you must be a little bit tougher attitude, don't be afraid of them. Since the crooks have exactly the same routines, our rights defense path can also be copied. Although the enrollment has been over for a week, but the orange mother through my help or get back the full amount of tuition, she gave me transferred 300 to show appreciation, and repeatedly stressed that I must accept, but also said that if I do not accept her night to my live room to give me brush gift. I was embarrassed to accept, the result she really in my live room at night to brush me a private jet, I can withdraw 150. do so long jitterbug, the first time through the jitterbug cash, just did not expect to be realized in this way.5 I released the rights video below the message a lot of people through private messages to find me, so that I can help them to recover the tuition fees. I didn't realize how many people were reaching out to me every day, and I was shocked by the number of people. And I realized that what I saw was just the tip of the iceberg. The third jitterbug I helped was also from Hunan. After reviewing the information online and consulting with a lawyer friend, I directed him to file a complaint with the Administration for Industry and Commerce (AIC) where the company was located. The local administration for industry and commerce was also really helpful and helped him get his tuition back on the third day, and in full. Screenshot of SMS | Author's Photo Here I have to popularize again, many people often complain about the government agencies do not act, in fact, you are not well prepared. When you call to complain, it's best to write down your demands on paper in advance, so you don't leave keywords behind just because you're nervous. So it is not that we have no recourse, but that we have not found the right way. As long as there is sufficient evidence, and if you are kind and reasonable, many problems can be solved. Then, I guided a few jitterbugs for free to return their tuition fees through various channels, some in full and some in part. I am an ordinary person, not how noble, I help just think that people and I have the same experience, in the face of the same disease, I sympathize a little difficult friends. It is also because most of them are full-time baby moms, the unemployed and college students. For these people who do not have a guaranteed income and even need to borrow money to pay tuition fees, the double blow of having their money swindled away and their dreams of starting their own business shattered can be too much to bear. Having helped more people, I've seen a lot of strange things: some people are in debt and dream of getting rich overnight, some people beat their wives for 3,980 dollars, and some people have a heart attack after signing up for a course and realizing that they've been duped, while the scammer smiles and encourages him to study hard. I thought I was the only one whose brain was kicked by a donkey, but now I realize that it's not that we're too stupid, it's just that the scammers' schemes are deep. They receive a refund, often also voluntarily give me some remuneration, I was embarrassed to receive at first, and then give more people, looking for me more people, taking up a lot of my time and energy, I think the charge should also be. I then clearly marked price: received a refund of 10% to 20% of the service fee, no rights successfully not charged. After all, and scammers or fraudulent companies around is not an easy thing. I'm not a lightning rod, I have to live. I also dedicated a lot of time to study the law, learning the contract law, consumer protection law, but also learned to write a complaint. Of course, many people are afraid of trouble will not be for three or five thousand to go to court, write a plea just to scare the scammer. Cheated students, cheated set are more or less the same, just cheating companies are different. Looking for me, in addition to the short video course cheated, there are a lot of people who reported 0 yuan financial management class cheated. Their routine is roughly like this: after everyone pays a dollar or 0 yuan, they will be pulled into a small white group, in which the teacher will explain to you in great detail. The group will basically have new knowledge added to you every day, but also daily punch cards. The students immediately felt that the teachers in the group were really responsible. But after a few days of experience classes, the teacher will tempt everyone into advanced classes. After the students paid thousands of dollars or nearly ten thousand dollars for the advanced course, the teacher would pull them into another group, and then the teacher's attitude began to change. The teacher will still send some courses and professional knowledge to the students on a fixed basis every day, but it will not be as detailed as the explanation in the group of white people, and the attitude is also indifferent. Some courses can not be understood, some courses are very old-fashioned or even wrong. The huge contrast between before and after makes many trainees want their money back. Liar fox's tail is revealed at this time, you can continue to learn, but the refund will not work. Until this time, the trainees only realized that they had been deceived. Like the kind of situation refund is the most difficult, because people's contract firmly set you, you are often unfortunate in the end, no way to complain. The scammers are very cunning and gangs, I do not have a very good way. Although there are a lot of failures, but in the fumbling again and again, my experience in the defense of rights is getting richer and richer. Not only do I know all the tricks of the black platform, but I also know the situation of many peer fraudulent companies. I know what they are most afraid of. So I also summarized a set of words, just paid the fee on the regret of the students, through my guidance and words basically can get back the full amount of tuition. Learned a period of students, can also maximize the loss. Many people only know the rights to find 12315, in fact, there are many rights channels, here I share some of the complaint channels: the National Anti-Fraud Center, 12345 Mayor's Hotline, black cat complaints, Tencent 110 complaints, Tencent, Alipay, WeChat customer service and so on. You can complain at the same time more than one platform, you can also complain many times a platform, provided that the evidence is true and sufficient. Really can not find media exposure or court action. Remember, even the cunning fox is afraid of the hunter. You shouted the hunter, he may or may not come, but as long as you shout, the fox will be afraid! The relevant state agencies can act as a deterrent, but sometimes it comes a little faster to rely on your own strength instead.6 As of November 2021, I have helped more than 60 students recover their tuition fees, and I've put the results of my battle in my circle of friends. Screenshot of my circle of friends | Author's photo The number of people who came to me for help increased, and I formed a rights defense team with two members I had helped before, and we fought even harder. At this time a netizen called small crickets found me, said his lover by a network anchor incubation center in Shenzhen cheated away 58,000 yuan, asked me if I can help her retrieve. Small cricket's lover is a full-time mom, in order not to palm towards the day, she went to shenzhen to participate in an offline network anchor training, this training cost 680 yuan, she experienced very good. After returning she has transferred 58,000 yuan to this network company, the company promised to be tailored to pack her into the network red anchor. Then signed a contract. Later she realized that she simply did not have the time and energy to go to Shenzhen to shoot the video, and was not very satisfied with the company's online training courses, and felt that she had been fooled, so she thought of a refund, but the company would not give her a refund. All of this is what she hid from her husband to do, she alone silently bear the enormous mental pressure, night and night insomnia, almost depression. The good thing is that her husband, a small cricket is a thoughtful and careful man, secretly check her cell phone to find all this, he did not blame her too much, but also want to help her rights. Small cricket has accompanied her lover to the company many times to find the person in charge of the negotiations, but the results are not returned. And not only one point is not returned, the person in charge also continue to fool the small cricket and lover, said follow them will be successful. These several negotiations small cricket have recorded the sound. There is no way, small cricket with all the evidence to find many lawyers, but lawyers are too small because the case is not cost-effective not willing to take. Small cricket has been three or four months of rights, personally went to the company negotiated twice, the second time the company said it was willing to refund 30,000, said they have paid a lot of money in the early stages of the planning, scripting, what can not be done in vain. And said they also have their own team of lawyers, to fight the lawsuit to the end. Little Cricket through an acquaintance with the last glimmer of hope to find me, said he wanted to get back the full amount of tuition. It was the first time I had received such a big and difficult case in my long time of helping students to get their tuition fees back, and I had no idea what to expect. After discussing with two other members of the team, I decided to call and negotiate with the other party myself. I first listed all the ways in which the other party had violated the contract, and then pointed out the aspects that would be unfavorable to them if the lawsuit was filed. Finally, I showed my cards: we are the online rights team, has helped more than 80 students to get back the full amount of tuition, we have professional lawyers and professional writers, and the country's formal senior media have also cooperated many times, things do not get big and will never stop. We will defend our rights to the end. Such content we are three people through three telephone communication is completed, the war of words, battle of wits, each phone call we three people around the phone, everyone is tense nerves, perhaps we say the words are more professional also said on the key, the other side finally told me that he could not do the main thing, and the higher-ups and then discuss the next. At night, the small cricket called, said the other side compromised, promised to return 40,000 dollars. I thought I could get 40,000 small cricket should be satisfied, but he said he wanted to get the full amount. Cricket also told me that, in order to prove that he really found a good rights helper, he sent a screenshot of my circle of friends to the other side. My heart thumped, bad! Little cricket's 40,000 will probably not get. Ignorant he may also harm me. The results really confirmed my worries, the other company called the next day, said I abetted the students refund, malicious complaints, and personally teach students refund words and methods, after successfully obtaining a refund with the students to share, get illegal benefits, to the company to bring significant economic losses and loss of reputation. They also threatened me that if they continued to pester me, their company would contact other companies to sue me together. Although I have accumulated a wealth of experience in the defense of rights, but I am not a lawyer after all, this is my weakness. Now they have all the evidence there that I abetted the trainees to complain, in fact, I know that those are not malicious complaints, just helpless, but I admit that I am afraid. The crooks were so cunning that I had to promise them not to intervene in the matter anymore. Since we have already hit the hay, the money will definitely not come back through us. I chose to put the matter to rest, but I did not choose to tolerate the scammer, I through friends and Internet search, to help the little cricket introduced a local reliable lawyer. It's been almost two months since the incident, and the little cricketer gave me a good report a few days ago, saying that he got a full refund of 58,000. he said that the scammer company finally agreed to undercourt mediation a few days before the trial, and was willing to refund the full amount of the fee. Just the lawyer's fee cost more than 10,000, it seems that professional things really need to be done by professionals.7 I officially play jitterbugs for four months, pinpointing, these four months, I helped more than 80 people before and after the tuition fees back, the income is not much, but I have a sense of accomplishment. As my wife said, I am a hero. In fact, I know I'm not a hero, after all, what I do is to cut off people's money. It's not good to make too many enemies online. Now that I've made a bit of a name for myself in this leek garden, I'm also worried about getting too famous and getting retaliated against. But I do not intend to do is not that I'm a wimp, but my legs have recovered almost, ready to go back to work, after work I really do not have the work and energy to do this. I would like to advise those leeks who have little talent but dream of getting rich overnight, you have been targeted, come to your senses quickly. Tighten your already dry pockets and don't get cut again. Like me, find a class on it, down-to-earth work, trying to make money, but also quite good. And don't be silent when you come across consumer traps, fight back bravely. It doesn't always work, but the more you report and complain, the fewer scammers and crooks there will be. Interview NotesNovember 2021, because of the epidemic in Xi'an, I was temporarily unemployed, due to a moment of carelessness, was online a jitterbug operating company cut leeks cheated away 2980 yuan, and later I recovered the tuition through an online professional counterfeiting teacher. Although the tuition recovered, but I did not dare to tell anyone. A talented teacher who is usually respected and even admired will also be cheated, I feel very ashamed. A few days ago, my sister-in-law told me that she was also cheated of 15,000 dollars by an online network operating company. Knowing this I suddenly wanted to slap myself. My brother's sister-in-law is doing catering, because of the epidemic and poor management and other reasons, the two years lost more than two hundred thousand, she took out the bottom of the 15,000 dollars want to let the jitterbug operating company to help her small store back from the dead, and found that it was cheated.

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The Chinese People's **** and the Criminal Law of the State of Article 264 theft theft of public and private property, the amount of larger, or repeated theft, burglary, carrying a murder weapon theft, pickpocketing, shall be sentenced to less than three years of fixed-term imprisonment, detention or control, and or a single fine; the amount of a large amount or there are other serious circumstances, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years and not more than ten years, and shall be fined; where the amount is particularly large or there are other particularly serious circumstances, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than ten years or life imprisonment, and shall be fined or confiscated property. Article 266 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China, the crime of swindling public or private property, the amount of which is relatively large, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or control, and or a single fine; if the amount is huge or there are other serious circumstances, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years or not more than ten years and shall be punished by a fine; if the amount is particularly huge or there are other particularly serious circumstances, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than ten years or life imprisonment, and shall be punished by a fine or confiscated property. or life imprisonment, and a fine or confiscation of property. This Law provides otherwise, in accordance with the provisions.