Receive various Alipay red envelope text messages? Attention, the official said it has not been released!

Since Alipay launched the 1 billion red envelope sharing activity

I have been posting messages like this in every WeChat group

Every day in order to use up the 0.33 yuan red envelope I spend money everywhere

I was shocked by such a picture

Screenshot shows

This Alipay user has not only received a red envelope of 1.378 million yuan

There are 100,00 red envelopes on the way!

Another screenshot shows that a person received a red envelope of 520,000 yuan

Even the invitation failed was 100,000 yuan+

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This What kind of sao operation is it?

If you are like me, you have received a text message starting with "Alipay" or "Alipay Red Envelope", asking you to copy the information and open Alipay, and you can receive up to 1,212 yuan. Cash red envelope, and it’s still once a day, then you may be one of the 100,00 red envelopes coming...

This is the text message I received↓↓↓

< p>Most of these text messages require netizens to copy the information and then open the Alipay APP on their mobile phones to "receive red envelopes." In addition to starting with "Alipay" and "Alipay Red Envelope", no sending source information is left, which may give some people the illusion of receiving an official text message.

However, these official text messages were not sent by Alipay!

They may just be some people using the name of Alipay to steal Alipay's wool. At the same time, they have also harassed many unrelated netizens, which is very annoying.

According to Alipay, the activity of scanning QR codes to receive red envelopes is mainly launched for small merchants. When users pay offline, merchants can recommend users to scan the code to receive red envelopes, and the merchants will receive corresponding rewards after users use the code. Yuan Leiming, vice president of Ant Financial, said that in the money-making red envelopes, all the red envelope money received by users and the bounty received by merchants will be borne by Alipay. This move is to further popularize mobile payments among small merchants.

In response to the current behavior of text messages harassing users, Alipay has made it clear that all current group text messages marked "Alipay" are not officially sent by Alipay.

The relevant person in charge explained, "The official will not send such text messages. It is mainly because some small businesses and individuals want to earn bounties through this activity. They use the SMS marketing platform. The more users open text messages, the more The more bounties they get,”

On December 18, the Ant Financial Open Platform issued an announcement that “it is prohibited to use spam text messages and other methods of promotion that damage the user experience,” saying: < /p>

“Recently, we have found that some people promote this feature by spamming text messages, and some even use Alipay as a signature to spam text messages, which destroys the user experience of participating in activities and also affects Alipay’s Brand image. We would like to remind everyone: Alipay will never encourage this excessive promotion behavior. If it causes complaints and other adverse effects due to harassment of users, we will take penalties that are not limited to suspending participation in activities and canceling all rewards. If used without permission. By signing with Alipay, you need to bear all legal responsibilities arising therefrom.”

In addition, the rules of the “Earning Red Envelopes” activity also clearly require participants to “avoid harassing behaviors such as spam text messages and emails.” , if "causing adverse effects, Alipay will take relevant measures until the qualification to participate in the event is revoked."

According to reports, Alipay’s official staff issued the above announcement after receiving screenshots from netizens. The staff said that they had passed technical investigation and killed the account as soon as possible.

"We also saw this screenshot at the time. Of course, some customers came to complain on Weibo or through our 95188 phone number, because many users received it in the name of Alipay. They asked if this text message was sent by us, because firstly, they were worried that it was a phishing text message, and secondly, they felt that this was a bad experience, and they thought it was our Alipay official doing this.

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The staff explained that some preventive and handling measures have been taken:

First, when the user receives a text message and complains to customer service, or the customer service finds similar information through technical means When the password is acted upon, a series of measures will be taken for this password, such as reducing its commission, or directly canceling its commission.

The second is to judge the password through a set of calculations every day. How many red envelopes have been received? If any abnormality is found, the bounty will be cancelled, or the qualification to participate in the event will be cancelled.

The other party said that Alipay has processed more than 800 such accounts, and I hope everyone will see it. Treat such text messages with caution. As for whether the money obtained from these accounts will be cancelled, Alipay said that they will not do so at present.

There is nothing wrong with participating in merchant activities

Some people may think that. You have nothing to lose when you receive a text message similar to a red envelope

But please think carefully:

How did the sender obtain your mobile phone number?

Do you authorize the merchant to send similar text messages?

Does thinking it is an official text message reduce your security awareness?

Will you be upset if you receive similar harassing text messages every day? >

What should you do if you accidentally encounter a scam text message?

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So, send it to a trusted entity with friends and family

It’s okay to pick it up at the store

But if you receive a text message similar to a “red envelope from the sky” again

please treat it with caution

But some people actually get it! Red envelope, the early red envelope is not small!