Fraudulent Group "Blacklists" Users with Anime Avatars: Too Troublesome and Poor to Be Worth "Pig Butchering"
It turns out the joke is true... Recently, police raided a stock recommendation and virtual currency fraud den and seized an internal "script." Surprisingly, the first screening criterion in this guide for selecting targets was "avatar is not a real person."
According to police disclosures, the fraudulent group involved an amount of 5 million yuan. Before carrying out the fraud, they would accurately screen through the avatars of social media accounts: users who use real photos, life photos, or selfies would be marked as "easy-to-deceive targets" and included in key attack objects; while users who use cartoons or anime avatars would be systematically excluded due to being "suspicious, troublesome" and having "high communication costs."
A suspect confessed: "Don't scam people with cartoon avatars on WeChat, they are not only troublesome but also poor, and do not have 'pig butchering' value."
Within the fraud organization, it is generally believed that these users usually have "limited economic ability," small squeezing space, and are highly vigilant and difficult to deceive, classifying them as "high-difficulty targets" and not worth wasting energy on.
This also explains why many anime enthusiasts feel they are "automatically filtered by fraudsters" – it's not that they are lucky, but their avatars have become a "natural anti-fraud amulet."