Don't scan the QR code like this! A post-2000 young man lost his down payment on a house! It's everywhere on the streets of Shanghai, so infuriating️

Many fellow riders have experienced something like this

Scan a shared bicycle on the street

After scanning, you find out that it’s actually

“dine-and-dash” ads and other small flyers for “finding rental listings,” etc.

Turns out, the lock-opening QR code

has been covered over by other small flyer QR codes

If you’ve also accidentally scanned it

make sure you don’t keep clicking!!!

Someone suffered a huge loss!

Recently, Mr. He from Luoyang, Henan

brought his nephew to reporters

The 22-year-old nephew, directly admitted

“I can’t face my family”

Full of regret, he kept slapping himself in the face

The story began on March 22. Mr. He’s nephew, Xiao Zhang, left the Luoyang bus station and scanned a QR code on a shared bicycle by the roadside.

This code was not the one used to rent the shared bicycle; it was an advertising QR code printed inside the shared bicycle’s basket.

After Xiao Zhang scanned it, he added a customer service “sister.” Unable to resist the temptation, Xiao Zhang also, under the guidance of the customer service, enabled “permissions” on the platform.

The customer service “sister” claimed that this platform could not only help you find a girlfriend, but also let you earn cashback—pay 20 to get 40, and pay 150 to get 170.

Xiao Zhang’s initial top-ups all had successful cashback. As he kept increasing the top-up amounts, until he topped up 5,000 yuan, the customer service told him that his account was frozen and that he needed to pay a certain amount to unfreeze it.

Trapped in the scheme, Xiao Zhang kept adding money—3,000 yuan, 5,000 yuan at a time—eventually totaling nearly 190k yuan transferred to that platform.

In Xiao Zhang’s phone, the reporter saw that all payment platforms and bank cards showed records of transfers to that account. Xiao Zhang even took out online loans under the other party’s guidance.

Angrily, Xiao Zhang’s uncle said

In one night,

he drained the down payment for a whole house

Mr. He said that this 190k yuan was saved together by Xiao Zhang’s grandmother, father, and aunt, planned to buy a house for Xiao Zhang and pay the down payment.

Once he came to his senses, Xiao Zhang was full of regret, but the other party’s account had already blacklisted him. Xiao Zhang said that he cried for four or five hours, and in a single night, he grew new gray hair. In front of the camera, he slapped his own face and said, “I really regret it to death!”

When the reporter arrived at the scene where Xiao Zhang scanned the shared bicycle, it was found that many shared bicycles had similar small advertisements. At present, the local police have, together with the urban management department, cleaned up the small flyers.

Xiao Zhang and his family have already reported to the police, and the police have filed a case. Investigation found that the other party is an international诈骗诈骗 organization, and some of the money has been transferred abroad.

Actually

Xiao Zhang’s situation was not a one-off case

Similar scenes happen all across the country

Many netizens on Shanghai social media complained

Netizens strongly despise this

and have called for严厉 punishment

According to earlier media reports, based on information from Hello (Hao), they can clean up more than 20k vehicles and nearly 21k places of small flyers in a single day. Meituan also said that from around April to October last year, the company’s cleared paper small flyers on shared bicycles in Shanghai alone amounted to more than 200 kilograms, covering nearly 3 or 190k vehicles. “Operations staff, while patrolling and placing bikes, will quickly clear them as they see them. Before transferring and redeploying, they also do cleaning.”

According to shared bicycle companies, different types of small ads on different parts of the bike have different removal methods. After peeling off sticker ads, they also use a de-gumming agent and a scrub pad to remove any remaining adhesive; for more serious cases, they need to use a scraper to remove the adhesive. For spray-painted ads, they do localized treatment with a specialized paint remover and then touch up the paint. For stamped ads, they soften the adhesive with a de-gumming agent, then wipe and scrape them off.

It’s not easy to remove small ads on shared bicycles. Shared bicycle companies say that the people who post the flyers will “play cat-and-mouse” at night or during rush hours, leading to a cycle of “cleaning now, re-posting later,” which turns into a tug-of-war. Also, QR code ads are highly隐蔽 and difficult to trace.

If you also find shared bicycle small ads very irritating, but you don’t have stickers or wet wipes on hand, you can report a repair for the vehicle through the shared bicycle platform. After the backend staff receive the message, they will assign a task to operations staff to remove the ads. Shared bicycle companies say that in the future, they are also considering offering incentives like free rides to users who provide feedback.

When fellow riders use shared bicycles

have you encountered something similar?

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