The so-called unbinding is just a trap set specifically for children.

Editor’s note: This article is from the micro-channel public number “Touch Music” (ID: chuappgame), Author: Chi Cheng.

Children search the Internet for people who can help them disarm the anti-addiction system, step by step into the trap set for them.

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I often wonder, what does a game account mean for children?

According to Tencent’s statistics in 2020, 20% of the service calls made by the growth guard platform assistants throughout the year were children crying and saying that they had been scammed and wanted to seek official help, including extortion. The number of cases reached more than 5000.

Currently, the length of the game for minors is strictly limited. On the one hand, according to the requirements of the “New Regulations for Preventing Addiction” issued by the National Press and Publication Administration in 2019, underage users can only play games for a maximum of 1.5 hours a day, and they will be forced offline if they exceed this time. On the other hand, parents are increasingly using tools like Tencent’s growth guard platform to manage the gaming behavior of their underage children. In addition to the time specified by the health system, parents can further shorten the children’s play time, or directly prohibit the child’s account from logging in to the game.

This time is too short for some children, so they start looking for various ways to play games. Children can easily find people who sell “anti-addiction” services on the Internet. These people make attractive offers to the children, telling them that they only need to pay a small amount of money-10 yuan, 30 yuan or 50 yuan. , All within the tolerance of ordinary children-can permanently lift the restrictions of the anti-addiction system.

The price of the service target that scammers want to remove the anti-addiction service is often not too much beyond the acceptable range of ordinary children

theyI swear to the children, “It will definitely be solved”, but when asked what method to use, they often pretend to be mysterious or vague, and just keep asking: “Do you want to do it? Do you do it? You still do it. Stop doing it?”

Many children choose to “make it”.

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I registered a new QQ account and dressed it as I imagined a girl: I took a screen name “Aomori-chan”, my profile picture is a cartoon penguin, my age is 15 years old, and I posted a few After talking about literature and art that meet the mental level of adolescence, I also bought a small and fresh skin…

Everything is ready. I quickly found a person at station B who claimed to be able to unlock the anti-addiction system, scanned the QR code he left, and successfully added a person named “Guaiguai”. Obediently asked me for a game account, and I had to hand over my WeChat account-only that WeChat account had registered for the game and had a certain login record. I lied to Guarana that this was my 17-year-old sister’s account, so he patted his chest to make sure that he could unlock the anti-addiction system, asking for 58 yuan and requiring me to provide a password. In the process of bargaining back and forth with Guaiguai, I flipped through his space and added several visitors in his space one by one. One of the people named “Kaze” quickly passed my friend application, and I asked him if he would buy an anti-addiction service from Guaiguai.

“Is what that person said true?” I asked.

“A little liar.” Kaze said, “but I can explain it to you, but it’s a bit hard work.”

I was silent for a few minutes. He asked me “Where is the person”, and I took the stubbornly again. He asked me if I wanted to solve the addiction prevention, and I said yes, he quoted a price far lower than the obedient, “20 once, 5 minutes to get it, pay first and then solve”.

“How did you change it?” I asked.

“Use a link card.”

“What is a link card?”

“Use link, card.” He explained to me a little impatiently, as if it were common sense.

“If I pay, what if you block me immediately?”

“Is it necessary?” He said, “Just use the link card, and a window for re-realization will appear. Why do I block such a simple thing?”

In the following dialogue, I roughly understood the method of operation claimed by Kaze: Use a link to “card” the original real-name information of the game account, and change the ID of an adult to enjoy the “unlimited” time”. Although this method of linking “card” information sounds suspicious, Kaze vowed to me that “I use other people’s personally, and I basically use adult ID cards for minors.” I asked one more question, “I heard that anti-addiction will play face recognition”, and he continued to assure me, “It is possible to play face recognition.”.

“How to say?” he urged.

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Of course what I encountered was a scam. I finally cut the price to 10 yuan and transferred to him as scheduled. He said “received, open it, it will be done in 5 minutes”, and sent me a “successfully untied” recording in a few minutes-I have seen the same recording in “Guys”, he Show me a successful precedent under my repeated request. In fact, the content of the screen recording is only the login interface for real-name authentication, and the name and ID number are blank. The original authentication information has not been cancelled, let alone the ID of another adult.

I questioned Kaze. He explained to me that it was because “I was sloppy when logging in, and it was not recorded”, and he urged me to log in to my account and check it out. It was already after 10 o’clock in the evening. According to the restrictions of the health system, it was impossible for minors to log in to the game at this time. I told him that I still couldn’t log in, and Kaze almost happily told me at this moment, “Buy a lesson, anti-addiction can’t be solved, don’t believe it anymore.”

Kaze was very calm when he told me he was a liar

This is a pretty typical scam. In the scam that Tencent faced, the loss I paid may be relatively small in all cases-the other party did not ask for my password, did not ask for too high a sum, and did not follow-up serial blackmail. This is due to my high vigilance as an adult, and I refuse to go any further when I ask for a password. On the other hand, I don’t actually have a game account that is eager to remove the addiction prevention. I can Slowly spend time between different scammers, but for children, the need to relieve addiction is real and urgent, so they are more likely to fall into the trap of scammers.

Tencent’s growth guard platform has a small assistant team responsible for answering children’s calls for help. When the children found Tencent, they suffered heavy losses and almost collapsed emotionally. Ellie described to me a kind of call that I often receive, “They just cried and cried directly at the other end, saying that I know the lesson, and I won’t do it again next time, can my sister help me untie it?”

It is difficult for adults to imagine what children will encounter online for a gaming account. Through the children (sometimes their parents, but thisRarely) Incoming help calls and online investigations, the team of young assistants gradually figured out the many fraud methods surrounding the anti-addiction system. The scammers used Douyin, Kuaishou, Bilibili and other channels to disseminate information that they can disarm the anti-addiction system, and leave contact information to lure minors into the bait. When the minors came to inquire, the scammers gave them various tricks.

In addition to simple and rude direct money scams, there are also several routines, including creating a highly imitation official platform, which is actually a phishing website, defrauding minors to fill in their account passwords, and then steal their accounts, threatening the unintentional Adults pay for redemption; or use small rewards to trick minors into helping to shoot “unbundling” short videos, inducing minors to scan the QR code to accept platform binding, falsely claiming that it can increase the game time for minors, Actually, it will be banned and threatened.

These are routines that can be easily dismantled. Once the information such as account password is given, it is equivalent to putting all the virtual property bound to the account in danger. It is nonsense to bind the growth guard platform to increase the game time. According to the regulations of the growth guard platform, parents can indeed control the child’s game time, but they can only further reduce the game time on the basis of 1.5 hours. In other words, even if there are parents who allow their children to play for 10 hours a day, this is impossible to achieve on the platform.

Children who are eager to get rid of addiction will not consider these. As long as the other party makes a swearing promise, no matter what the account number, password, money, and personal information are, children may subconsciously hand it over. Little assistant Ellie told me that she often received ardent requests from children, “I will tell you the account and password, as long as you can help me”, which made her laugh and cry, and she could only explain the password to the children over and over again. This thing cannot be handed over to others easily, even if we are Tencent official.

In all fraud cases, the assistants agreed that the worst result of the fraud was not how much money was defrauded, but that some scammers tried to induce adolescent girls to show them their The private part can be exchanged for your own game account. In the user help information provided by Tencent, I saw a conversation between a girl and a liar. After being maliciously bound to the platform, the girl who realized she was deceived wanted to apply for withdrawal, and the other party made a request at this time.

“Stop or not? Pat and rub your chest. Put on your underwear first, take it off, and then rub it.” The other party urged, “Go, pat for two minutes. Go.”

“But you won’t let me play if you solve it (in the future), won’t you?” the girl asked.

“If you have breasts, I will remove them directly, understand?”

“How do I trust you?”

“Do whatever you want.”

“You move, I promise I will post, okay?” the girl begged.

“You shoot, I promise I will remove it.” The other party added, “Don’t pullinverted. Let me solve the impossible first, understand? “

The scammer directly instructs the girl what to do to get her game account back

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The same thing is happening every day.

“The most terrible thing is that some children don’t believe in evil. He was deceived for the first time. We helped him deal with it. A few days later, he was deceived by other people. It’s a gang.” Little assistant Abao said, “We have always emphasized to him. When we dealt with it at first, we always emphasized that the anti-sinking mini is definitely insoluble, but he just didn’t believe it and just continued to look for all kinds of things. Such a person, and then deceived again.”

For these children who have come to ask for help over and over again, the young assistant Allie’s immediate feeling is that “I hate iron but not steel”. “I kept telling him during the call that he also verbally agreed, but he came to us for help for 3 days in a row. I really don’t understand why I was cheated once, and I would believe it again the second time?” Allie said, “But I later thought about it, such children are actually left-behind children. Mom and Dad are not around, they are unwilling or unable to talk to their grandparents, lack of companionship and lack of education.” /p>

On the other hand, some parents of left-behind children also make calls, hoping to bind their children’s accounts through the growth guard platform to remotely control their children. “It is verbally that I want to understand the child’s game, and I will ban the child from playing as soon as I turn my head. I don’t want to play for the child for a minute.” Allie told me that this will make it easier for the children to find a way to relieve it. Fall into the trap of a liar.

The children most likely to fall into the trap are those who lack the attention and care of their parents-this is not surprising

The same problem often occurs in divorced families. Abao said that he once received a call from a child’s mother, who took care of the child by herself after the divorce, and she was under tremendous pressure in life. “During the time when the child was addicted to games, the mother’s own emotions also exploded.” Abao said, “Mom can actually understand why the child likes games. The child has always lacked a normal parent-child life, and she has no ability to give it to her. Children’s spiritual support can only do their best to work and maintain the basic material conditions first.Under such circumstances, children need games to meet their own emotional needs, even if it is just vanity, even if it is just some capital to show off in front of others, it is also very important for children. “

For a variety of reasons, these children want to be able to stay in the game longer. Some of them fraudulently use the identity information of their parents for authentication, while others seek help from the anti-addiction removal service. The former is increasingly encountering face recognition verification that cannot be bypassed, while the latter is simply a scam. “Some scammers with a better heart, like the kind you meet, will let you go after one scam, telling you that it is impossible to prevent addiction, but some scammers will take advantage of the child’s mood to get the account back. Constantly blackmailing, this time I want a 50, the next time I want a 50.” Allie said, “But some kids really don’t have money. They will keep begging each other, saying that they have played with this account for a long time. When time is up, please beg the other party to let yourself out of the binding. Begging in various ways, call eldest brother, call father, call mother, whatever you want…Further down, if the liar thinks you really have no money, you are a girl again , May ask you to take photos of private parts for him. Many young girls will really post them, and they don’t know to ask us for help until they post the photos.”

This is the child. Children always take things too importantly—the same when we were children. For a sentence or a comic book, to fight for a breath in front of friends, to attract the attention of people they like, or even to defend the honor of a virtual character, it seems that children can give everything.

What can children pay for a game account? What does a game account mean to them?

In the call for help, the children knew that it was difficult to recover what they were deceived, so they could only plead with the little assistant, “It doesn’t matter if you are not obsessed with it, as long as the account comes back.”

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The little assistants hope that they can approach the world of children. “Our team is still relatively young, not too far away from the age of those children. We also have relatively small children at home, they will provide us with some information… What abbreviations like “cpdd”, what emojis, we are in There are more or less popular like this when studying, and it’s easier to understand.” Allie said, “If you don’t understand, just click Baidu, or ask the younger brothers and sisters around you, you can always understand.”

Sometimes Ellie will join some game groups dominated by minors. “They do say something like a secret sign. When you first entered, you didn’t understand what it meant. After a long time, you will learn to understand what these words mean in context.” Allie said, “Some groups have a day. Talking all night, there are more than 100 pieces in one swipe, you can’t skip it, you have to read one by one, because someBlack words may be mixed in, you have to learn bit by bit, and understand bit by bit. “

Although I receive countless calls for help every day, although sometimes I feel weak and distressed, the young assistant Zhao Li does not blame these children for this. “It’s not surprising that children will do these things. I did it when I was a kid. When I played online games for the first time, my account and password were stolen. I was also frantically looking for a solution online, and I would go to the doctor in a hurry. “Zhao Li said, “I can understand the children’s desire to bypass the anti-addiction system. No one wants to be restricted by others, especially children in the rebellious period, and don’t want to be restricted in doing what they like. In this way, he will feel that his life is lacking, that he is controlled by others, and that he is incomplete, right?”

“Every generation grows up like this, isn’t it? We all have the experience of fighting against our parents, just to be online for a while, or watch TV for a while.” I said, “As we grow up In the new era, the regulation of technical means could not be as strict as it is today, but we played games and watched TV happily when we were young, and it seemed that we did not become a bad adult in the end.”

“This question…especially when I look back on this question after I became a father myself, I think things are different in each era. Minors in this era can access explosive information resources through the Internet, so A certain degree of control is still required. We will also have some tools for control through technological means. But the tools are only tools, and the core is still the relationship between parents and children. It is not that this tool can replace all parents’ supervisory responsibilities and tools. The effect of it depends on how parents use it.” Zhao Li said.

Abao hopes that the game can become a new starting point for parent-child relationship. “Parents can properly understand the game. At least they have something in common with their children and communicate with them, instead of just caring about their children’s learning. What goes wrong will be attributed to the game.” Abao said, “Why are children addicted to games? He What are the actual needs of children? In fact, we understand that many times the reason why children are addicted to games is to hope that parents can pay more attention to themselves, not only for learning, but also for other aspects of life.”< /p>

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I often wonder what all this means to children.

For some children, life may be quite cruel. They live in remote rural areas, and their parents come back twice a year. Maybe my grades are not good, maybe my relationship with my classmates is normal. There are no other hobbies, and there is nothing else to play with except mobile phones. Their sustenance may be that small mobile phone. There are a few good netizens on that mobile phone, and there are a few favorite games, and occasionally use Tik Tok and Tie Bar. That is their only spiritual world.

“IMy parents don’t care about me, what do you care about me? “Children sometimes say this to their little assistants

These kids are trying to break through the anti-addiction system in exchange for longer playing time-can you blame him? I can’t, my assistants told me, neither can they. But this is not a problem caused by the anti-addiction system, nor is it a problem that the anti-addiction system can solve. For these little assistants, all they can do is try to communicate with the children and parents, give some suggestions, and coordinate as much as possible…

All they can do is stand up on this guard.