A Senior Spent 220,000 Yuan on Short-Drama Top-Ups in Two Years — Help Seniors Turn Off Auto-Renewal and Password-Free Payments
“The elderly person at home loves watching short dramas — money gets deducted bit by bit, and by the time anyone noticed, it had added up to a large sum.” According to reports by IT Times and other media, as told by the family members of the person involved, a senior in his late sixties made 4,887 short-drama top-up transactions over more than two years, totaling about 225,800 yuan, of which 1,857 transactions occurred late at night between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. the next day. In Hebei, another senior born in the 1950s topped up more than 50,000 yuan over a year and a half — these figures come from the family members’ account and the billing statistics; they are not official statistics. Today we won’t talk about the industry or blame anyone; we’ll just clarify two things: how the money for short-drama top-ups gets deducted bit by bit, and what we can do to help the seniors at home. Keywords in this article: short-drama top-ups, auto-renewal, password-free payment. ...