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as we all know, xiaohongshu was popular for its grass-roots promotion, attracting countless fashionable men and women, but it also attracteda huge number of scammers。

today, there are scammers in every industry on the xiaohongshu platform.tourism is one of the hardest hit areas, if not the best.

classic scam

platform endorsement

feng xia is an avid user of xiaohongshu and is particularly interested in diving. so the platform often pushes her diving information and beautiful seascape pictures in palau, which makes her quite excited.

at the same time, feng xia’s xiaohongshu homepage frequently pushes a travel agency called “e-compass global travel”. the travel agency focuses on island tours around the world.highly rated, search for travel related information,the location is also quite forward, it is easy to win the trust of sisters and children.

feng xia was very tempted, but she was cautious and first consulted xiaohongshu’s customer service.

“they replied that xiaohongshu has a lot of restrictions on merchants who sign up for the platform.there is supervision，the platform will protect you throughout the processmy order, i thought it must be reliable, so i placed the order. "

chat records with xiaohongshu customer service provided by feng xia

feng xia deliberately choseplace an order on the official xiaohongshu platformshe naively thought that with the platform’s full protection, it would be enough to safeguard her rights.

however, feng xia finallygot cheated——the merchant ran away and lost contact. i turned to xiaohongshu for help, but all i got was the same old mechanical answer: "it has been transferred to a specialist, please wait patiently."

feng xia's experience is not an isolated case. there are at least 200 victims like her across the country, and the amount involved is as high as millions of yuan. there are also readers of the national tourism network who have unfortunately been deceived, and many of them have not yet solved their problems.

messages from readers received by the national tourism network

the scam is upgraded

kill two birds with one stone

after various scams were exposed one after another, consumers gradually became wary of xiaohongshu, so it will not be so easy for scammers to deceive people again.

the number of innocent netizens is gradually decreasing, but scammers are still flocking in from all directions. as a result, xiaohongshu, a platform for scammers, has emerged.there are too many liars and not enough foolsthe embarrassing situation.

however, the devil is always stronger than the righteous, and the scammers immediatelyupgrade scam, the victim beginskilling two birds with one stone.

ms. jiang was planning to travel to northwest china with her boyfriend. she saw a note about "avoid xx travel agency" on xiaohongshu. she sighed below and someone immediately replied to her, "just came back from northwest china. the tour group we followed was great..." then he praised the driver, the hotel, and the itinerary. in short, everything was great, extremely good.

ms. jiang was immediately attracted and asked for details. she sent her a private message and added her on wechat. after chatting for a while, she was enthusiastically added to a group. there were only three people in the group, and the other one was called a, with "xxx travel agency" attached to his name.

s introduced that sister a was a professional travel consultant and also her housekeeper for the qinghai-gansu grand loop route. she was nice and professional, so ms. jiang could rest assured.

ms. jiang didn't know at the time that this person s was just a shill. she created this group just to supervise herself to complete the order from a so that she could get the head fee and commission.

what ms. jiang could not have imagined was that there was a second link in this scam: the travel agency where a worked was actually just abag company, they will take hersubcontracting to charter drivers, and a nightmare journey begins.

let's cut to the chase. ms. jiang and her boyfriend were grouped with a four-person group. they were exhausted from leaving early and returning late, and their accommodation was extremely poor. the food was even more sporadic, and they often had to eat snacks in the car to fill their stomachs. they had to find food on their own after arriving at their accommodation after 11 o'clock in the evening.

ms. jiang and her friends could not help but complain to the driver, but the driver was also full of resentment, saying that the travel agency did not give me much money.i don’t even make any money, so how can you expect me to have such good conditions?

ms. zu was even more miserable. they were also first sold to so-called travel agencies, and then sold by the travel agencies to local drivers.

all the timerushing on a forced marchthere was no experience at all. the drone photography that was promised was not available. the visit to the dunhuang museum was arranged on monday when the museum was closed. in the end, they were unwilling to pay the balance, and the "travel agency" boss threatened to let the driverthrow them on the road……

fraud prevention guide

find a regular travel agency

it is important to prevent fraud. traveling is a happy thing, but alsoyou get what you pay fordon’t be too optimistic and think about finding bargains on xiaohongshu - you have to believe that the good things you may encounter are traps deliberately dug by scammers.

the first step to prevent fraud is to learn to identify the ubiquitous scammers on xiaohongshu.

the routines of a shill are all similar. the easiest way to identify her is to look carefully at her notes to see if the time, place, and season match. if they don't, she is definitely a shill. even if they match, she is most likely a shill if she doesn't show her face. if the notes are very detailed and answer all the questions in your mind without any extra words, they are mostly shills who direct and act in their own stories.

there is another type of note, which is roughly like this template - "i have returned from a certain place with a tour group", followed by various praises or various "avoiding thunders". 99% of these are shills. if there are a lot of people asking for recommendations below, don't ask, just do it.

in addition, a reply like the following is something that only a shill can do:

"wow, i'm so lucky. the small tour only costs more than 3,000 yuan. we can stop as we please. i also met a warm guide. the driver made us happy and humorous the whole time. he also took us to eat all kinds of delicious food, gave us oxygen cylinders and the three travel tools, and his photography skills are superb."

the second step to prevent fraud is tofind a regular travel agency。

in fact, if you are going out to play without the elderly and children, and if you don't mind the trouble, it's also good to travel independently, and you can make all the decisions yourself. if you want to join a group to save trouble, remember to find a regular travel agency and sign a formal contract.

here is a reminder: not all travel agencies are formal travel agencies.the threshold for opening a travel agency is extremely low, so that this industry is full of people of all kinds. so to be on the safe side, it is best to check the establishment time of the travel agency. generally speaking,the longer the time, the more trustworthy it is.。

of course, this is only the simplest and most convenient method, and it can only be used for the first filtering. before officially signing the contract, it is safest to do a background check on the travel agency to the best of your ability.

finally, we end with ms. jiang’s insights:

a more expensive group, more peace of mind.