Rebirth of the Wild Age

Since Dr. Ma washed his hands in the golden basin, award deception has spread rapidly in the world.

First of all, 8 breweries in Zhejiang Province claimed to have won the gold medal of the International Expo, and the local media enthusiastically reported it as the highest honor. Unexpectedly, more and more companies have won awards, and they have gradually reached double digits. Whenever this thing is mentioned in the newspapers of Zhejiang Province, it is a joke.

At the same time, six monosodium glutamate factories in Suzhou Province also won the gold medal of the International Expo. The local media was preparing to report, but they were reminded by the lessons learned by their counterparts in Guangdong Province and Zhejiang Province.

The scammers have been unable to successfully deceive in East China and South China, so they turned their attention to the North and West.

After being cheated several times in the Northeast, the "market potential" was obviously squeezed out. Some scammers sent a happy news directly to a small factory with only more than 100 people: the overseas fee was 20,000, the award fee was 10,000, and the agency fee was 8,000. In addition, you can add money, the Asian Gold Award is 5,000, the Global Gold Award is 10,000, the Lifetime Grand Prize is 20,000, and an additional 50,000 can be paid to arrange the award ceremony and take pictures.

The price is clearly marked, whether you like it or not, and various awards are given away.

Dr. Ma can be said to be the founder of "award fraud", which has formed a genre, and until the 21st century, some people still use it in different ways. For example, awards to private individuals, photography awards, literature awards, invention awards... Certificates can be issued for a small sum of money, and the works can be printed into books, which can be given to others to save face.

After a few more months, companies across the country will know what's going on. They also learned to be smarter, without the help of scammers, they made a bunch of gold awards themselves, and then advertised wildly on TV and newspapers.

Now China's advertising market is also full of demons. The government has no hard and fast regulations, and there is no advertising fraud. In the past few years, even cigarette advertisements could be shown on TV. Under such a legal environment, advertisers have all kinds of ideas, such as giving a mummy a quick-acting heart-rescue pill, and it will come back to life in an instant, and they can dance in rags... Ten years later, this kind of Ads are not allowed to play at all.

On the contrary, some seemingly common propaganda methods in the future are expressly prohibited at this time.

Like Valentine's Day promotions.

In February last year, several foreign companies placed advertisements in the capital, announcing that there would be special promotions within a week before and after Valentine's Day, such as sending roses, giving Valentine's discount cards and so on. This thing was so new that it immediately caused a strong market reaction, and the state-run restaurant also launched a Valentine's Day party, and the seat tickets that were worth a month's wages for workers were actually in short supply.

Some veteran cadres expressed their dissatisfaction, thinking that the word "lover" is too ambiguous and indecent. As a result, the relevant departments issued a notice prohibiting the use of the word "Valentine's Day" in advertisements. In the future, the industrial and commercial departments will issue similar notices every February. It was not until 1998 that the ban on Valentine's Day promotional activities was lifted.

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Song Weiyang threw the fraudulent express mail aside, and asked with a smile, "Why, do you want to go and get the prize back?"

Chen Tao said with a smile: "I have handed out quite a few gold awards of this kind, but I have never received them from anyone else."

Song Weiyang said: "If you are interested, you can write back and contact me. Maybe you can cheat some pocket money."

"Really?" Chen Tao's eyes lit up, and she looked very amused.

Song Weiyang said: "Well, you can bring someone to bring money to receive the award and gain enough trust from the other party. When accepting the award, just say that our factory will hold a seminar on the development of the canned food industry, and ask the other party to organize and coordinate, and Decided to pay the other party 1 million activity fees in one lump sum. Don’t be in a hurry when talking about it. You are in a state of giving money every time to whet their appetite. Then, you said that you contacted a food association and planned to cooperate with the food association, and You have already invited several large canning factories, and each factory is willing to contribute 100,000 yuan to participate in the conference. They must be jealous of the money. At this time, you said that you also need to invite the leaders of the national food agency to attend. It will take a large An invitation fee to guide those crooks to take the initiative to spend money to compete with the Food Association for the right to host..."

Before Song Weiyang finished speaking, Chen Tao interrupted: "It's too complicated."

"It's not complicated. As long as you control the mentality of the other party, you can easily cheat the money. Even if you can't cheat the money, if the other party finds out, they dare not call the police. Anyway, there is no loss," Song Weiyang said, " Remember, you can’t give them the money to receive the award, so as to prevent them from running away at any time. The bigger the bait you throw, the less eager they are to ask for money. The current scammers are not professional and have no professionalism. One by one greedy."

Chen Tao smiled and said, "If you are willing to do it yourself, I will definitely be your assistant."

Song Weiyang shook his head and said, "I'm going to lie to them hundreds of thousands, I don't have time to do that right now."

"Forget it, I can't do it by myself, even if I call Brother Zheng, I'm sure I'll get away with it," Chen Tao said regretfully, and added, "You're still good at cheating."

Song Weiyang was unhappy: "Hey, you made me look like a professional liar!"

Chen Tao smiled and said, "You are better at deceiving people than a professional liar."

This is quite true. From the 1980s to after 2000, 99% of the fraudulent methods were very rough, basically relying on spreading the net to trick fools into making money. If these people really met Song Weiyang, they would definitely be deceived to the extent that they had no pants left, and they would be beggars on the street every minute.

MLM sounds scary to say the least, but it's full of bastards.

There is a news that a person was tricked into joining an MLM organization by a friend. He actively attended classes and activities, and quickly gained the trust of everyone. Then he reversed his brainwashing, bragging every day that he had connections in the bank and that he could get a credit card with a large overdraft. The larger the turnover of this credit card, the more business rebates he could get. As a result, the entire MLM den was deceived, and even the MLM cadres foolishly asked him to apply for a credit card, swiping the card to cash out hundreds of thousands of MLM staff, and successfully escaped under the pretext of business communication.

The deceived MLM staff was very angry, so they chose to call the police!

There is also a piece of news about a young girl who was kidnapped by a middle-aged woman and discovered her true face by accident. The girl remained calm, and in a small town on her way to a mountain village, under the pretext of calling her family to report her safety, she temporarily went out to find an old bachelor as a client, and sold the middle-aged woman who wanted to abduct her.

The above are all real cases.

If one day Song Weiyang falls into a pyramid scheme, there are at least dozens of ways to fool him. If he doesn't deceive those involved in pyramid schemes, he won't be Dr. Ma!

The two discussed the fraudulent business, but they were not interested. Song Weiyang asked, "Have you contacted Ge You?"

"We got in touch, and his advertising fee quotation was 200,000 yuan, and we couldn't reduce it to 150,000 yuan." Chen Tao said.

"Then 150,000." Song Weiyang said.

Chen Tao reminded: "I asked someone to inquire, and the highest price for mainland stars is only 100,000. Only Hong Kong and Taiwan stars can offer 300,000 or even 500,000 advertised prices. Ge You bit 150,000 to death and did not let go. It is estimated that our company is small and the brand is not loud enough. If we continue to discuss, we may be able to win 100,000."

"It's only 150,000 yuan. There's no time to talk about it. The iced tea drink will be put on the market in mid-May at the latest." Song Weiyang made a decision.

Uncle Ge is definitely worth the price. Spending 150,000 yuan to hire him to advertise is definitely more effective than hiring 300,000 Hong Kong and Taiwan stars.

Ten years later, Uncle Ge stood up and yelled, but he helped Yilin Wood Industry easily cheat more than 1 billion.