Is the part-time typing scam true?

Fang Min, a junior in Beijing, had a very depressed summer vacation this year: he wanted to work part-time to earn some living expenses, but he didn't make any money, and went on a trip for 600 yuan.

Just after the summer vacation, Fang Min found a part-time job of typing in Weibo. The organization named "Boss Typing Group" offers attractive conditions: for every type of 10000 words, you can get 1000 ~ 300 yuan and you can work at home. Compared with distributing leaflets outside on a hot day, this part-time job makes Fang Min very excited. However, if you want this part-time job, you must pay the "membership fee" first. The "membership fee" ranges from100 to 598 yuan. Fang Min's contact assured her that she would return the "membership fee" unconditionally after working for 1~ 10 days. In order to convince Fang Min that he can refund the "membership fee", the contact also showed Fang Min screenshots of other members returning the "membership fee".

With the mentality of giving it a try, Fang Min paid 100 yuan and became the lowest-ranking member. Subsequently, she was introduced to the "customer service" of the boss's typing group. The customer service told Fang Min that the grade she joined was full, and she had to continue to "upgrade" to get the typing slip. At this point, Fang Min has not found himself cheated. Thinking of this part-time high salary, she didn't think much and obediently continued to pay. It was not until he paid 598 yuan and became the highest-ranking "member" that Fang Min was allowed to enter the boss's typing group and began to "work".

After joining the group, Fang Min gradually found something was wrong: there were no orders for half a month when he first joined the group, and then there were only 1~3 orders every week, and more than 400 people in the group grabbed these orders together, so the probability of grabbing them was very small. Fang Min joined the group for two months and only got two orders. In addition, the remuneration and recruitment conditions are also very different: from100 to 10,000 words of 300 yuan, you can only get 2 yuan for each order. At that time, it was agreed that the "membership fee" would be refunded within 1~ 10 days, which also became a "membership fee" that would be refunded by half after the 100 order was completed.

Fang Min realized that he had been cheated.

She contacted Mei Ai, who is also in this group. They found the administrator and wanted to discuss it. However, no matter how they asked, the administrator and the contact never gave an answer, and finally went away. Earlier, after Mei Ai found herself cheated, she said indignantly in the group that it was a scam. When the administrator found out, he kicked Mei Ai out of the group chat. In this group of members who are forbidden to talk most of the time, private chats are not allowed among members in the group, and those who report private chats will be kicked out of the group and will receive cash rewards.

However, Meiai had a chance to get back the membership fee before. She knows several people who do propaganda work in the boss's typing group. They told Mei Ai that "if you want to get the money back, you can only do publicity". "Propaganda" is the initial contact role with Fang Min. Every time a person is brought in, these contacts can get a certain percentage of kickbacks. However, Mei Ai refused this "opportunity".

Fang Min thought about calling the police. However, according to the law, the amount of personal fraud of public and private property is more than 5,000 yuan to 20,000 yuan, before reaching the filing standard. It seems a bit far away to get the cheated 598 yuan back. Now, she will often look for job advertisements for part-time typing in Weibo, reminding everyone that she is a liar in various ways.