New Scam Trend: Cigarette Box Recycling Fraud

The model is simple: recycle cigarette boxes, scan the code to earn points, and cash out the points. Regular users get low exchange rates, but if you pay money, you get more points and can exchange them for more cash. Half of the payment you receive goes to whoever invited you. In reality, it's just a small pyramid scheme where early participants profit from later ones.

Are those cigarette boxes valuable? No, they cost at most a few cents. So why bother recycling them? The real reason they use cigarette boxes is because most smokers either aren't very sharp or are too calculating. It's essentially a filter to target and select specific users for participation.

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