Behind the flood of "Little Yellow Man" in the comment area is a hidden illegal drainage industry chain.

People who regularly brush Weibo may have this worry: in social software such as Weibo, WeChat and QQ, many "movie sellers" drain illegal websites by commenting, paying attention and sending private messages, and the indecent content they send has become "psoriasis" in the online world.

Nowadays, the behavior of "selling movies" has been restricted.

After the rectification in Weibo, the crackdown on internet piracy was even more severe. On June 12th, Weibo set a rule of paying attention to seven days before commenting, and said that this measure was aimed at cracking down on illegal websites and conducting illegal content related to pornographic video transactions. This has limited some users’ experience, and also made some publishers of illegal advertisements selling films and medicines by inducing words in popular Weibo comments lose an important drainage place.

With the attack of various platforms on this kind of advertising behavior, the means of "selling film brothers" are constantly being refurbished, and the victims of these malicious drainage behaviors are often ordinary users who want to clean up the network environment and curious minors who are ignorant of the world.

A survey by the Beijing News Shell Finance reporter found that behind the flood of "Little Yellow Man" in the comment area, there is a hidden illegal drainage industry chain. After the review in the comment area is becoming stricter, such malicious drainage behavior may also appear behind the private letters, concerns and even praises of ordinary users.

"The drainage industry is actually a marketing black product, which is characterized by making extensive use of the identity information of normal citizens, bypassing the platform restriction rules, sending a large number of drainage contents such as pornography, politics and vulgar advertisements, and finally realizing them in the form of fraud." Li You (a pseudonym), an expert in anti-fraud lab, told the reporter.

After the "selling films" in the comment area was severely punished, the censorship was evaded by means of "building in the middle of the building"

"Think about it, why are you being targeted by film sellers?" This sentence used to be a sentence that netizens often teased in Weibo’s comments, but once the comment area was really flooded with all kinds of pornographic comments, most netizens would feel uncomfortable.

Netizen "Ginger Ginger Ginger" sent a complaint to Weibo in May, saying that his Weibo was "targeted by pornography" and posted many malicious comments in his comment area. Many netizens said that these movie sellers were "everywhere". As long as Weibo has traffic on the hot search, the comment area will often attract such drainage comments.

The reporter found that many porn reviews use keywords such as "father-in-law’s daughter-in-law" and "long-legged green tea biao" to attract users to click. After clicking, they often jump to pornographic websites and ask users to pay.

At present, although Weibo strictly controls comments in the comment area, many "film sellers" can still take advantage of the loopholes.

On June 27th, Shell Finance reporter of the Beijing News found the trace of "selling films" in a popular Weibo comment area, but its method of "selling films" became quite complicated: firstly, it did not comment directly under the popular Weibo, but replied in the top comments in the popular Weibo comment area, which belonged to "comments in comments", and the comment content was a picture of a semi-naked beauty with the words: the original picture was at @XXX. The reporter clicked on the Weibo user of this comment @, and found that there were large-scale pornographic pictures on his homepage, with a website link attached. Clicking on the website link found that he jumped to a "movie selling" website, indicating that 28 yuan could buy pornographic movies, and provided the payment method of Alipay. At this point, the process of draining to pornographic websites through Weibo comment area is completed.

The reporter of Shell Finance found that, influenced by Weibo’s "strike hard" pornographic comments, the "movie seller" could only comment on the published comments, and the drainage was realized in the form of "building in the building". The process was more tortuous than the previous direct reply to indecent comments in hot search, which increased the cost of malicious drainage, but it also showed that no matter how the platform was banned, violators could always find ways to counter the ban rules of the platform.

"The platform and malicious drainage of black products are in the process of dynamic confrontation." Li You told the reporter, "If the rules are too strict, it will be deleted by mistake, which will affect the user’s experience. It is unrealistic to completely ban the drainage of gray and black products, unless everyone can’t comment. However, if the rules are relaxed, they will be invaded by gray-black products, and they can only gradually increase the drainage cost of gray-black products, so that they can retreat. "

Comments and private messages frequently show toner drainage "robots", and the price ranges from 1 yuan to 388 yuan

Weibo is not the only battlefield for film sellers. Many social apps, such as QQ, WeChat, Momo, Tik Tok, etc., are active places for these movie sellers.

Some netizens reported that there are always comments from strange users in their comments posted on QQ, and the comments are usually random words, but if you click on the portrait of the strange user, it is usually "a hole in the sky".

On June 23rd, Shell Finance reporter clicked on the comment of a QQ user who "looked at my head first", and found that if he entered the user’s space, he would jump to the document analysis page of Tencent weiyun, but the document content only had a picture with a QR code. If he scanned it, he would jump to another picture with a QR code and explicit content, and then he would jump to a pornographic website. If he wanted to watch the website video, he would have to pay a fee of 6 to 25 yuan.

A black production studio, which claims to provide "toner drainage on all platforms", said that it can provide drainage service at the price of one person in 2 yuan, but only on the micro signal provided by reporters. "If the direct website address is easy to be blocked, we will first drain the fans to your micro-signal or QQ number through words, and then drain them by sending private messages."

Shell Finance reporter found that almost all of these drainage studios use machine scripts to send private messages in batches. On June 26th, the reporter found a number of "studios" engaged in drainage services by searching for related keywords, and some studios also sold scripts of "drainage robots" part-time. These scripts involved many platforms such as WeChat, Weibo, QQ, Toutiao, Tik Tok, Momo, 58 Tongcheng, Jiji.com, Meipai and Soul, and the prices ranged from 1 yuan (single platform) to 388 yuan (multi-platform package price).

For investigation, the reporter bought a set of "customized drainage scripts" from a merchant at a price of 35.2 yuan, including 22 platforms including Himalayan, WeChat, Tik Tok, Meipai, Weibo and Tantan. After opening the script, the reporter found that its "function settings" include seven functions: video comment, fan private message, fan attention, comment private message, comment concern, comment praise and friend private message. On this page, users can manually input comment speech and private message speech, in addition, they can also make routine settings such as sending pictures, repeating sending, adding attention, and double-talk speech, and can also screen men and women.

In this regard, Fang Chaoqiang, a lawyer of Beijing Yingke (Hangzhou) Law Firm, told the Beijing News reporter that the behavior of diverting users from different platforms to micro-signals through speech induction involves at least false advertisements. "If this behavior is ultimately sold as legitimate goods, it is suspected that marketing methods are illegal. After all, this is a false advertisement. If you sell obscene articles or commit fraud, then those who provide drainage services should also be arrested as accomplices, because even if it is only a commercial entrustment relationship, it also provides business cooperation, which plays a role or even a major role in the spread of obscene articles. "

How to manage the malicious external chain after jumping against the platform ban for many times?

Shell Finance reporter noticed that whether it is comments, private letters or concerns, the inevitable process of draining from a formal social platform to an illegal website is to jump to the outside chain, which often becomes the key place for the platform to attack, so many black and gray products do not hesitate to fight against the ban by jumping many times. As mentioned above, the whole process of draining to an illegal website through QQ avatar jumped three times before "getting into the business".

"There is no way to do this." In an exchange forum of black and gray products on the external network, a practitioner of black and gray products said, "In the early days, H5 links can be directly sent for drainage, and (pornographic) APPs also encourage users to recommend downloads through WeChat QQ, so as to pull new drainage, but later we found that the supervision of the platform is getting stricter and stricter. If you directly send external links to download the app or website address, it will be directly banned by WeChat, so it is increasingly difficult to do drainage on the regular platform."

Zhong Guangjun, director and security expert of WeChat Security Risk Control Center, told the reporter that the external chain includes card links and picture QR codes in the form of presentation. "According to the" WeChat External Link Management Specification ",we divide the standards of violations into 19 categories, including common induced sharing, vulgar spam advertisements, praise collection, fraud and so on. Since January this year, we have dealt with more than one million illegal external chains that have been confirmed by evidence. The overall number of illegal external chains has decreased by 35%, the links of induced sharing classes have decreased by 40%, and the red envelope fraud category has continued to decline by 60%. "

"Our vision is to hope that WeChat friends circle and WeChat chat are places to share life bits and pieces, but some black and gray places just make a fuss about using external links to induce users to share and spread. These illegal external links often contain some malicious content such as junk marketing, vulgarity and fraud, which seriously undermines the normal experience of our normal users and even affects the healthy ecology of the platform. In addition, such a large number of illegal external chains have extended a series of black and gray industries. For example, in order to avoid the security strategy and crackdown needs of WeChat, illegal external chains need to reserve a large number of URLs and a large number of network domain names, which not only seriously harms the WeChat platform, but even affects the development order and norms of the entire Internet. " Zhong Guangjun said.

Shell Finance reporter noted that in order to crack down on illegal website drainage, Weibo has also upgraded its technology. A few days ago, Weibo announced that there were many illegal contents in Weibo’s comments recently that drained illegal websites outside the station and traded pornographic videos. The station centralized and quickly dealt with this kind of Internet illegal activities, and at the same time triggered a fierce confrontation between illegal organizations and Weibo’s security measures. In order to effectively curb the harassment of Internet piracy on platforms and users, Weibo will further upgrade its technology identification system. At the same time, Weibo has launched a special rectification campaign for malicious marketing accounts for two months. Only from June 12th to 18th, Weibo disposed of more than 80 marketing tubas and 210,000 pornographic and vulgar trumpet.

"It can be seen that malicious traffic actually contains a lot of problems. I feel that it is not enough to rely solely on the work of an Internet company or network platform or rely on the crackdown of the competent authorities. Building a clear network environment requires not only our large network system, but also the participation of Internet platforms, ordinary users, and multiple regulatory authorities and competent authorities in social co-governance." Zhong Guangjun said.

Beijing News Shell Finance Reporter Luo Yidan Editor Li Weijia Proofread Junyan Zhang