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Selling online courses has gotten tough, so they've just turned to outright fraud. The scheme is simple: lure people in by flaunting fake side-hustle earnings (tied to low-barrier part-time work), then offer a free training session. During the training, participants get a chance to win a grand prize—usually a product worth around $10,000, but with an almost zero chance of winning. After completing the training, they're assigned fake orders, and the pitch shifts to upselling paid courses. If you can't afford it, they'll walk you through installment payments. The benefit of upgrading? Priority access to "high-paying" orders. Once you pay, the course material is mostly AI-generated garbage (yet another way people are trying to cash in on AI). Try to get a refund, and they'll point you to the enrollment agreement, which says you must pay a 30% penalty of the course price.
A lot of people have fallen for this (which further shows how bad the job market is and how many less-educated, vulnerable folks are easy targets). That's why WeChat has started strictly reviewing and banning unlicensed business content over the past couple of years.