There are always some things that I think are common sense, but others see them as their first encounters.
Many scams are like this. People in the circle are not fooled, and outsiders are not vigilant.
After all, scammers thrive on information asymmetry.
That’s it about recruitment scams in Southeast Asia.
Their current main target is the programmer family. There are many people who have been deceived, and many of them never come back.
I am writing this thing today, hoping that more people can see it and be alert.
This place is very close to China, so transportation is convenient, markets are connected, and logistics is convenient.
The cultural habits here are close to those in China, and there are a large number of Chinese, so it is very difficult to integrate into the local environment.
Moreover, the local legislation is loose and the law enforcement is even looser. As long as some tribute is paid, the green light will not go out once it is turned on.
Here, gambling and pornography industries are legal, and the local government only cares about taxes and bribes, not other business.
The best thing is that although it is close to the mainland, it is not very close, so it is very difficult for the mainland police to arrest people across borders.
The market is vast, cultural integration is simple, supervision is loose, and the cost of doing evil is low. The consequences of various conditions make it an ideal place for evil.
Sin happens everywhere in the Philippines, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, and Myanmar.
Under the beautiful tropical scenery, it is the base camp of countless gambling websites.
The operation of a complete online gambling system requires a large number of programmers to maintain.
Don’t underestimate gambling. The gambling system is very complex. From architectural stability to database design to front-end configurability to defense against attacks to anti-IP tracking, the difficulty is much higher than that of many domestic startups. After all, this is making money. A huge profit business, huge profits will bring a lot of trouble, and the test is true skill.
There are very few programmers who meet the requirements among the locals in Southeast Asia. The locals seem to be naturally insensitive to software engineering.
Although India is rich in coders, the character and ability of Indians are not very productive, and the culture is quite different from that of the Chinese community, and they are prone to trouble and trouble.
And history has told us many times that if you don’t know who to trick, then it’s easiest to trick fellow villagers.
And Chinese employees’ working hardness, tolerance for overtime, tolerance for work intensity, and gentleness and tolerance in character are all good choices.
So local gaming groups (generally dominated by Chinese) have set their sights on the country.
When a fellow villager meets a fellow villager, he shoots him in the back.
If you join some groups related to Southeast Asia or Tieba forums, you will find that there are people posting recruitment advertisements all day long. The salary and benefits are very attractive, and food, accommodation and taxes are included, which can save you money. There are also many people who enthusiastically share their life experiences in Southeast Asia, various beautiful photos, tropical scenery, local girls, and generous salaries. Of course, they are all stooges, in order to make you feel that working in Southeast Asia is wonderful.
It all starts when you communicate with them or express interest.
Those who pursue their ideals are not short of money.
In order to trick programmers into working in Southeast Asia (mainly the Philippines and Malaysia), a very attractive salary is essential.
For programmers in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, if they have 3 to 5 years of experience, depending on the technology stack, the normal price is 18,000 to 35,000 yuan a month, before tax.
The prices offered by these Southeast Asian gaming companies are aimed at people with 3 to 5 years of experience. They are basically 30,000 to 40,000 yuan after tax, including food and accommodation. They are known as sea view rooms, with no consumption, and you can save as much as you earn.
This is a very attractive price, especially when everyone is tightening their six wallets for the down payment.
The price design itself is very interesting. The after-tax salary of 3 to 4W is very high, but it is not beyond the salary level that ordinary people understand. It is probably equivalent to a 50% increase in the current salary of programmers. If the price is If it is higher, it will easily arouse people's vigilance. Everyone still has some idea of how much they are worth.
It is tempting, but not outrageous. In addition, working abroad helps to avoid taxes, plus food and accommodation are included to save money. Many people are tempted. They are not going to make a fortune, they just want to go. Work for a few years to collect a down payment.
Programmers are very smart in the programming world; but in real life, they are often very naive.
In order to strengthen the trust of programmers, the first interview will usually be with an HR with a sweet female voice, who will ask some questions related to career development, personal life and emotions, and the tone will be particularly refreshing, especially sincere.
Although it is shameful, this is indeed lethal to many simple single programmers.
These female liars will also use this opportunity to test the programmers' psychological defense with questions.
After general communication, a technical interview will be arranged.
The two faces are often men, and they talk about technology. Generally, programmers will completely fall into the trap at this level, because when technology versus technology, the default is to believe that everyone is in the same circle, especially As an interviewer, you often instinctively want to seek the interviewer's approval. At this time, your psychological defense will be very low.
After the second interview, the HR from the first interview will often call to discuss salary and then make an offer.
This offer will be fully written, including salary, bonus coefficient, and even equity, etc., just waiting for your confirmation.
As long as you are tempted, buy a ticket, and go there, you will fall into a trap.
First of all, your passport and ID card will be defrauded in the name of contract application and employment, and then you will never get them back.
Secondly, you will find that the so-called five days and two days off are all lies. You need to work 12 hours a day, two shifts, and may have 2 to 4 days of rest every month.
Then, you will find that your whereabouts are being monitored by a dedicated person, and someone is watching every move you make, including making phone calls, which is very similar to pyramid schemes.
Finally, when you pay wages, you will find that the amount is different from the promised amount, and it may still be settled in local currency, or you may simply pay only a little and say the rest will be given during the New Year.
At this time you regret it, you find that you have been cheated, but how should a programmer who focuses on coding without any foreign life experience escape?
You want to ask for help, but who can help you?
You are unfamiliar with the local area, your family and friends are far away from abroad, and you may not even understand the local language. What can you do?
Threats, insults, intimidation, nude videos, physical damage, they have many ways to scare you. Don’t forget that people who dare to gamble are not elegant and easy-going people.
Then programmers are like workers in a black brick kiln, numbly forced to output code, squeezed out day by day.
Until you find a chance to escape.
Now is the economic winter. A large number of programmers are unemployed in China, while black casinos in Southeast Asia are vigorously expanding and developing. This seems to be a coincidence and comes at just the right time.
The gambling scam in Southeast Asia is still very new to them. Recently, I have had several people with whom I have acquaintance go to Southeast Asia. Many people have also hesitated, but the mortgage loan has made them unable to do so. Hesitant, after all, it is not easy to have a job that can support a high mortgage loan in an era of economic downturn.
Then the news that came back was not very optimistic, and a few people who reacted quickly fled back, feeling sad.
Most of them have no choice but to stay there as workers in black brick kilns.
It’s not just programmers who are deceived into going to Southeast Asia, many of them are the bottom groups in China who have no choice but to go.
For example, the people at the bottom who had their blood sucked out by the 714 anti-aircraft guns and the gambling dogs have no foothold in the country. Going to Nanyang seems to be a good choice.
They are at the gaming company, and they are generally responsible for promotion and recruitment, commonly known as Goutui.
What they often do is to attract domestic people to gamble on gambling websites. They use various methods, such as WeChat inducement, online dating scams, and pig-killing plates are among the classic methods.
The programmers who were deceived into Southeast Asia had to cooperate with these people who were originally dismissive of them at home to defraud their compatriots out of their money. It was very magical.
And the properties rented are all unsold real estate developed by Chinese developers, Magic Plus.
Simply relying on social media to spread recruitment information is not very efficient, and profiteering gambling companies with huge pockets are naturally willing to use money to buy people. Anyway, the people they buy have to be used as productive forces for them, and their accounts will be settled. come over.
If you are a programmer and have posted your resume on a recruitment website, then there is a high probability that you have received many overseas job opportunities. Many of the conditions are like what I said, and they are very good. Allure.
Behind the scenes, there are headhunters serving the gambling industry. In the beginning, they were just black headhunters. They are essentially no different from the smugglers who sell factory workers. They recruit a person for 3,000 US dollars. They are crazy and have all kinds of deceptions.
I have even seen a man who is willing to go to bed with others. He has a pair of jade arms that can be used as a pillow for thousands of people, and a bit of red lips that can be tasted by thousands of people.
Working so hard just to contribute to the gaming industry in Southeast Asia makes me cry. What about you?
Later, because the gaming companies offered generous prices and kept secret accounts, headhunters did not have to pay tribute to the company. Many normal headhunters began to recommend these companies privately to people with good connections, and many programmers who would not have been fooled originally , I suffered a loss in my friend’s trust and was cheated.
It’s all about money, even friends are sold for money.
Even so, there are still not enough people. You can’t imagine how much money gambling can make, nor how strong their expansion and talent gap are. Of course, it is also related to the mobility of personnel. After all, they don’t dare to really kill people. After a few months, if the brainwashing fails, they will still be released.
At this time, major programming training institutions popped up again.
When the Internet was booming, they lured people into the trap by helping people create fake resumes and training interview questions. Although the vast majority of people who participated in the training could not find decent jobs, it did not stop them from using the Internet. They use the banner to defraud money, and many recruitment websites are full of their advertisements, defrauding money in the name of employment with induction training packages.
Later, it was difficult to cheat money like this. Internet loan sharks happened to be on the rise again. They started to make installment payments. After innocent students were deceived, they signed a series of loan sharks, regardless of whether they could find a job or not. The loans had to be replaced, and several people committed suicide.
Later, the Internet winter came, but training institutions had to make money, so some small and medium-sized institutions with no bottom line hooked up with Southeast Asian gambling institutions again. It’s really a bitch matching a dog, forever.
The people they recruit are simply trained and then sent to Southeast Asia. They earn training fees with their left hand and recommendation fees from gaming companies with their right hand. There is no middleman to earn the price difference, which is great.
Probably the most students are deceived directly into training courses in Southeast Asia. They have little social experience and are eager for high wages as programmers (now they are actually not that high, and 996 is particularly serious). It is easy for them to Being deceived, and then being baptized by Social Darwin.
Have a little hate for this world.
First, the address is the same, the recruitment content is the same, but the company name is different. You only need to do a simple index on the recruitment content and company address, and you can find a lot of companies with different names, and the interview location and company They are all in English, and the details of these English names cannot be found online. If they have this characteristic, then it is undoubtedly Southeast Asian gambling.
Second, during the recruitment process, no pictures or videos were shown. The pictures given were always of an empty office, and they were told to keep them confidential.
If there is a video interview, the video content is often not the interviewer himself, but a blank wall or a black screen, and only the sound can be heard.
Third, recruitment software commonly uses potato chat, also known as potato, because this software does not have a ban and account blocking mechanism, and many scams and underground transactions use this.
Fourth, they refused to notify the specific work location in advance. They only said they would be assigned when they arrived, in order to avoid reporting and police pursuit.
5. It is required to come with a tourist visa. According to relevant national laws, if you are going abroad to work formally, you need a work visa. Tourist visas are often only valid for 30 days in Southeast Asia, and once you are found to be working with a tourist visa, you can obtain it. If you pay, you will be blacklisted and deported.
Master these characteristics and don’t believe any of the other party’s explanations, and there will basically be no problems.
Currently, some companies are also recruiting programmers to go to Southeast Asia. The contracts are signed in China, and all five insurances and one housing fund are paid in China. These companies are all loan sharks. If they can’t survive in China, they go overseas to make loan sharks. , to engage in 714 anti-aircraft artillery, it has a moral advantage compared to gambling to cheat Chinese people's money.
Loan sharking also has a moral advantage when it comes to gambling.
really interesting.
Gambling recruitment scams in Southeast Asia not only defraud people of their money and freedom, but also defraud people of their trust and goodwill towards the world.
They don’t even dare to put this experience on their resumes for fear of being discriminated against. Many people who are deceived by training institutions as soon as they graduate have basically ruined half of their lives. They can’t even Explain what you have been doing in the past two years after graduation, especially today when the background requirements are becoming increasingly strict.
I wrote this article today in the hope that more people can see that the scam itself is not complicated and has many loopholes. It only requires a little attention to see through it.
The reason why this simple scam is so tempting is because you trust your compatriots.
Trust your compatriots and they will not lie to you.
In fact, the compatriots who run gambling companies in Southeast Asia, together with the compatriots who run training courses, and the compatriots who are headhunters, deceive the compatriots from the mainland and exploit them in order to squeeze more from more compatriots. of money.
A chain of interests soaked in the blood of compatriots, everyone is full of benefits.
In this cornucopia, there is blood.
Are these still compatriots? This is simply cancer.
Things should not be like this.
Life should not be like this.