Attracting 80 million gamers in just 10 days, the super hot game cheats 100 billion of players

According to China News, in the recent time when students and staff members started the Lunar New Year holiday, the title mobile games “合成大西瓜”, also known as Synthetic Watermelonsuddenly became a phenomenon of the village Chinese games, only 10 days of release, the game has attracted 80 million players worldwide. However, it wasn’t long before this game got caught in the suspicion of cheating gamers’ money, now the incident is receiving the attention of a large number of Chinese netizens.
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Synthetic Watermelon is a game that combines the gameplay of 2048 and Tetris, players will try to put the same pieces of watermelon together to create larger pieces and get more points. Because it can be played on popular messaging apps like WeChat, Synthetic Watermelon is more and more popular with young people.​

The top right of the game interface has a gift box icon

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Recently, many gamers have accused Synthetic Watermelon of cheating them. According to the player’s description, at the top right of the game interface there is a gift icon, clicking on it will show a wheel of fortune, almost all players have a 100 phone card RMB (about 350,000 VND), but if you want to receive the card, the player must pay a fee of 19.9 yuan (71,000 VND). The developer WeSaneGame also knows how to reassure players when committing “if the phone card is not received, the full cost will be returned”.​

More than 1.6 million gamers have become victims of the game cheat this

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If you choose to pay 19.9 yuan, gamers will be asked to download a third application and receive a phone card there. Surely many people have guessed, which does not have any phone cards, the player’s refund request like “stone sinks in the sea”, contacting the customer care hotline also did not receive a satisfactory answer. . In addition, when requesting a refund, the developer also requires players to share a lot of private information such as their real currency, Alipay account … It is known that so far 1.67 million people have become victims of Synthetic Watermelon with a total amount of up to 33.1 million yuan (about 116 billion dong). WeSaneGame has not yet commented on the incident