Facebook Messenger users have received messages from strangers with avatars showing hot sexy girls and invitations for prostitution and sex. If users answer the messages, they will be seduced to a link leading to a website with international domain name, and invited to install an app to watch pornographic livestreams and earn money from gambling.

On Facebook Reels, the videos of girls showing a lot of cleavage and invitations for prostitution have also turned up with links to websites that seduce users to click to install apps. Similar ads have also appeared on pirated movie webs or on Google. 

VietNamNet reporters have found that the ads all drive users to two popular apps - M*liv* and ho*liv*. These applications are integrated game cards, with low-necked or nude girls, and livestreams attracting people to gamble or watch videos with hot scenes.

The apps allow users to put funds into account to be able to enjoy the services under different forms, from bank card transfer, money transfer, payment with QR Code, e-banking, telecom carriers’ scratch cards, MoMo, Zalo Pay or Viettel Pay e-wallets, as well as cryptocurrencies.

When users top up money, the accounts receiving money change regularly. For example, if users do this via bank transfer, the apps will require users to click a box to get information about new recipients.

The same thing occurs when transferring money via MoMo, Zalo Pay and Viettel Pay. Every time users put money into accounts, players receive different account numbers of different owners, and the reasons for money transfer are a series of numerals.

After putting money in the apps, users receive corresponding amounts of money in their accounts and begin playing.

If users only register to gamble, they will be led to a specific lobby where they can choose games suitable to them, depending on the amount of money in the accounts. If the gamblers win, money will be transferred to the accounts on the apps and users can withdraw the money and transfer the money into their bank accounts.

According to Lawyer Dao Tien Phong, CEO of Investpush Legal, the unhealthy livestream models have been mushrooming in number on mobile phone apps and websites, violating regulations in laws, from administrative law to criminal law.

The providers of the services committed violations on administrative management for social networks stipulated in Decree 72/2013, spreading depraved cultural products prescribed in Article 326 of the 2015 Penal Code, amended in 2017; and organizing gambling in Article 322 of the Penal Code.

Le My