The APP uses fans' demand to boost traffic for "idols", making crazy profits, and earning more than 8 million yuan in half a year. At present, the main culprit Cai Moumou has been arrested by the Fengtai Procuratorate for suspected damaging the computer information system.

Beijing News (Reporter Zhang Jingya) Today (June 10) A reporter from the Beijing News learned from the Cyber ​​Security Corps of the Beijing Public Security Bureau that the "Star Yuan" APP, the behind-the-scenes driver who helped Cai Xukun create 100 million Weibo reposts, was seized. The APP uses fans' demand to boost traffic for "idols", making crazy profits, and earning more than 8 million yuan in half a year. At present, the main culprit Cai Moumou has been arrested by the Fengtai Procuratorate for suspected damaging the computer information system.

When the police arrested, they found that four people were maintaining the system. Source: Photo provided by the police

The police arrested the suspect at the scene. Source: Photo provided by the police

During the special operation of "Clean Internet 2019" carried out by the Ministry of Public Security, the police noticed that a Sina Weibo post by star Cai Xukun was forwarded hundreds of millions of times in a short period of time, and the data was suspected of being falsified. The Cybersecurity Corps of the Beijing Public Security Bureau, together with Fengtai Cybersecurity, intervened in the investigation.

Star Aid app was launched in July 2018 and is widely used in the fan circle. Users can log in to their Sina Weibo account directly through this app. After recharging money to open a membership, they can bind multiple Weibo accounts under their Weibo account, ranging from dozens to thousands. The price of the small digit will also be discounted according to the amount of recharged money. Since Weibo will constantly seal the number of small accounts that are browsed, fans can only continue to recharge and then bind to new Weibo accounts. The bound size can achieve the same forwarding content and double the number of forwardings.

fans receive the "volume brush" task from the team leader or agency. After the task volume is completed, fans can draw lottery through online activities and receive some rewards: signature photos, concert light cards, balloons, glow sticks and other gifts.

Chen Fang (pseudonym), a sophomore student at high school, said that she logs into the Xingyuan APP every day and completes the forwarding tasks assigned by the fan team leader. After completing a series of activities, she participated in the lottery with the "Super Talk Community" and got the opportunity to get closer to the "idol". It costs about 1,000 yuan per month.

According to the person in charge of Sina Weibo security team, although Weibo accounts require real-name system, most of the situations are based on real-name system for mobile phones. Through the comparison of background data, the security team found that a virtual operator account segment was used to register a Weibo account in a non-real name system, giving celebrities a "blog". At present, in order to deal with "Lunbo", Sina Weibo has set the number of forwardings and comments to the upper limit of "1 million+".

htmlOn March 8, the police identified Xingyuan Network Technology Co., Ltd. in an office building in Fengze District, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province and arrested all four people involved. At the arrest site, the four people were still operating and maintaining the APP. Cai Moumou, 23, is the legal person of the company and is also responsible for software development and programming. The other three employees are responsible for software front-end, personnel and finance, and auxiliary management of company affairs. All four of them are fans of a female singer and they met through a fan group.

According to Cai Moumou's account, at first he made this APP to support the "idol" he liked and increase attention. As more and more fans were used, he began to think about using this software to make illegal profits. In the APP, Cai Moumou created the "Star Popularity Ranking" and ranked the traffic of celebrities. After seeing that their "idols" are ranked by others, fans will make efforts to continue to "play" the game.

At present, the main culprit Cai Moumou has been arrested by the Fengtai Procuratorate for suspected damaging the computer information system, and the other three police are still working further.