Hollywood Hunter

As another subsidiary of the Westeros system that has grown rapidly from obscurity, Nokia's stock price surged on its first day of listing, once again becoming a hot topic of mainstream media around the world.

After the weekend, a forward-looking article led by Nokia in the latest issue of Forbes in North America became the hottest topic at the end of August.

"Forbes" magazine stated in the article that it will officially announce the 1993 US 400 rich list on September 6, and the global rich list will also be launched in November.

If it were the past few years, the position of the richest man in the United States and even the world may still be in suspense. Japanese real estate tycoons, the Walton family, etc., are all quite powerful competitors.

There is almost no suspense at the top of the rich list now.

The only thing everyone is curious about is how much Simon Westero's net worth has increased this year.

The litigation and media clamor caused by the 58list website fraud case has not been alleviated by Nokia's listing and the forthcoming "Forbes" rich list, but has become more and more popular.

After the "San Francisco Chronicle" followed up on this fraud case, other paper media responded one after another, and all over the United States successively raised various questions about 58list.

On August 23, a Chicago city council member publicly accused Igreat of conniving irresponsible citizens in the local "Chicago Sun" on the 58list website to publish pit bulls that are strictly prohibited in Chicago.

The Texas-based "Houston Chronicle" published screenshots of evidence claiming to have found illegal sales of **** on 58list.

A young parent in Miami wants to sell their three-month-old daughter on 58list.

A user in Washington found his stolen car on the New York City section.

Such all kinds.

At the same time, other cases similar to the San Francisco job search fraud case also appeared in the newspapers.

After the initial silent wait and see, taking advantage of the opportunity of this fraud case, the traditional paper media almost unanimously made a sudden effort, and it was obvious that the 58list website, which had been opened for less than a month, would be eliminated in the cradle.

Public opinion continued until later, when a Republican senator from the U.S. Congress said in an interview with the Washington Post that he would submit to Congress for hearing whether the 58list website of Eaglet’s company is suspected of condoning criminal acts and endangering public safety. Initiate further investigations and litigation.

The rebound of traditional paper media is entirely expected.

According to the user data released by major operators in July and August, as of June 30 in the first half of 1993, only the United States, the number of Web access users has reached 37.69 million, covering more than 60 million Internet users. It is estimated that 1993 Throughout the year, the number of users accessing the World Wide Web in the United States will reach 46 million, and the number of Internet users covered will reach nearly 75 million.

The 75 million Internet users are close to 30% of the US population of 260 million.

Although there is still a big gap between TVs and telephones, which have more than 90% coverage of household appliances, there is still a point that cannot be ignored. These 30% coverage users are definitely the most powerful group of people in the United States.

Similarly, these people are also the highest quality customers of the American paper media industry.

Even if many people are still reluctant to admit it, however, with the rapid spread of the Internet, the decline of the traditional paper media industry has become more and more obvious.

Users only need to spend dozens of dollars a month to enjoy richer and more timely news information, e-mail, social networking, online games and other services, and naturally do not need to subscribe to traditional newspapers.

Original time and space, in June 1993, the New York Times Group purchased another large East Coast newspaper, the Boston Post, for US$1.1 billion.

I probably felt the decline of the paper media industry. Although this transaction has also taken place, the transaction volume is only 800 million US dollars, and the price has dropped by almost 30%. This change is obviously affected by the rise of Internet media.

The traditional paper media industry has probably been waiting for some opportunities.

The opening of the 58list website and the occurrence of the San Francisco fraud case finally gave traditional paper media an excuse to challenge Eaglet.

After all, after only more than half a month of opening, the millions of classified advertisement information on 58list website has caused hundreds of millions of dollars in potential losses to the classified advertisement business of traditional paper media. If free classified information websites on Internet platforms become popular from then on, traditional paper media’s annual advertising revenue of 20 billion US dollars will be wiped out.

The huge loss of 20 billion US dollars, if it were not scattered across thousands of newspapers in the United States, involved such a huge amount of industrial income, let alone murder and arson, even a war would be enough.

The paper media group in the United States has not instigated war.

Simon attaches great importance to the performance of this crisis of public opinion and personally participated in the formation of a crisis management team for this incident. However, he does not feel that he is facing an enemy in his heart.

Such a historical trend at the industrial revolution level cannot be resisted by one or two public opinion offensives.

Even if the 58list website was shut down due to pressure in the end, Eaglet did not lose much.

The fire has been ignited, and even if 58list is closed, more classified information websites will inevitably appear.

Without the strong strength of Eaglet, those classified information websites with mixed good and bad can only bring more potential threats to users, let alone use a private investigation team to protect the rights and interests of users.

The team led by Martin Dinham only took three days to confirm the suspected target, but problems occurred during the tracing phase.

Probably it feels like something is going to be a big mess, and when the team finds some suspects' residences, the targets have already fled in advance. Fortunately, through more follow-up clues, the investigation team further confirmed the identity of the suspected target.

Originally, it was only necessary for the victim to confirm and issue the wanted warrant through official channels. However, these days, it is clear that some people do not want this fraud case to be detected. The San Francisco police who should have performed well after the case received widespread media attention The obvious performance is very lax.

Even the two victims who had agreed to cooperate with the team of Eaglet in the investigation suddenly stopped contacting Eaglet, each time only the lawyer's official words were left.

It is conceivable that once a warrant is issued, the suspect will only flee to a more hidden place. With the attitude shown by the San Francisco police, it will be more difficult to catch people.

Simon made up his mind to gain power through this incident and warned potential criminals who wanted to commit crimes on the Eaglet platform.

Aware of the official negativity, Simon directly mobilized half of his intelligence team to gather in San Francisco. At the same time, he quietly announced the three suspects whose identities were 100,000 each in the underground world of the western states and even the border between Mexico and the United States. A reward of US dollars.

For the gangs all over North America who are far more informed than the official news, $100,000 per head is definitely not a small sum.

Hiring a professional killer doesn't necessarily need so much money.

As a result, within a week of the spread of the reward order, news soon came that someone asked Martin Dinham, who was in charge of the matter, to bring cash to the city of Tijuana, Mexico, which borders southern California.

Sure enough, he fled to Mexico.

If an official wanted order is issued, unless those people return to the United States, it would be wishful thinking to arrest people.

Moreover, it is not the three who posted the reward, but a total of five.

The local gangs in Tijuana were very generous. Of course, they don’t know why these people were offered a reward. However, since only three people were offered a reward, they only charged 300,000 dollars. The other two people were given away for nothing, and they expressed their hope. There is also a chance to'cooperate' again.

After all, a lot of people escape from the United States to Mexico for various reasons every year.

If they are all so valuable, it is a big business.

The gang leader who contacted Martin Dinham also said that he could directly dispose of people in Mexico, which would be much less risky than bringing them back to North America, and only a little extra money can make a few people disappear completely. At that time, some of the hapless guys who were **** by the big five flowers and placed next to them like goods were scared to pee their pants on the spot.

Immediately, in the tumultuous public opinion, five fraudsters suddenly appeared and walked into the local San Francisco police station to surrender.

Under the victim's self-confession and various other evidences, the criminal appeared in front of him. Even if he no longer wanted to solve the case, the official could not continue to confess, so the five-person fraud group was quickly formally arrested.

However, things came here but only the beginning.

When the various paper media had not reacted to the accusation of Igreat, another news broke. After interrogation, the fraud group turned out to be a long-running habitual criminal. Before committing fraud through the 58list website, it relied on traditional newspapers. There have been too many frauds in classified information advertising, but they have never been caught.

Until it was planted in this ‘novel’ online fraud.

Because of the turmoil, photos of the five suspects were quietly circulated on the Internet, as if to verify the confession of the five people. In Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles and other places, the victims came forward to admit that they had encountered five people. Most of these scams are fooled by classified information advertising in traditional paper media.

It suddenly became lively.

Eaglet’s crisis management team in response to this incident has been arguing for one thing during this period. The scams on 58list and similar cases through traditional paper media are very common. Eaglet’s portal also lists a series of Fraud cases with more serious incidents.

It's just that the traditional paper media that overwhelmed 58list naturally chose to ignore.

Everyone is arguing about matters, don't talk about anything else.

Now, well, it's a matter of fact.

The criminal gang involved in this incident carried out job hunting scams across North America through traditional paper media. In just a few days, it has been confirmed that there were 7 cases with police plans. For so many crimes, the relevant newspapers did not give the victims one. Explained, the police did not detect related cases.

Now, it has just begun to commit crimes on 58list, and the entire gang has been arrested in less than half a month.

So, which one is more reliable, traditional paper media or online platform? Which one really condones crime? Which one can better protect the interests of users?

People's eyes are sharp.

During this period of time, the Eaglet portal has been very frank in introducing the details of the incident and the progress of the case to users in a prominent position on the website, and has also given official responses and solutions to various queries in the newspapers. Therefore, although the traditional paper media is almost one-sided crusade against 58list, this free classified information service platform has not been affected much, but has become more popular.

With the detection of the job scam in San Francisco and the unexpected reversal of the details of the case, the public opinion situation is even more leaning toward Igreat's portal.

After all, although traditional paper media still has a strong ability to spread public opinion, the same is true of the Igreat portal, which almost monopolizes the Internet portal.

The entire North America has more than 60 million netizens, and the average daily user of the Eaglet portal has reached 20 million. Such an information dissemination platform covering the entire United States has far more influence than any federal newspaper.

When things have reached this level, dying is obviously the most correct choice, but some people are obviously not reconciled.

So another insider broke out.

In an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, the five members of the scam group publicly stated that they had been illegally detained and threatened with death by Igreat, and had to surrender to the police in order to save their lives. The five suspects subsequently announced that they would use this to sue Eaglet for serious violations of civil rights.

The media suddenly became lively again.

Then there was a tabloid that exposed more detailed insider stories. In order to catch this scam gang, Eaglet had issued a reward to the entire United States and even the underground world of Mexico. Moreover, Eaglet seemed to have a relationship with Mexico. The gangsters are involved.

The media exposure of these big news is obviously intended to discredit Igrett and even the entire Westeros system, but things obviously did not follow the mental development of some people.

The people who eat melons only feel that the excitement is getting bigger and bigger.

In fact, Westerners do not have too clear black and white values, which can be seen from the frequent whitewashing of bad guys in many Hollywood blockbusters.

In order to catch a group of scammers, Eaglet did not hesitate to issue a bounty to the entire North America, and even cross-country chased Mexico to tie people back. This is a super Robin Hood-style knight behavior.

As for illegal detention and death threats?

You are villains.

Shouldn't the villain be treated like this?

Of course, Eaglet firmly denies the media reports and the accusations of fraudulent gangs.

Illegal detention does not exist.

Death threats?

Are you capable of letting the Mexican gangster come forward to testify to you?

Of course, if someone continues to use the Eaglet network platform to commit crimes, Eaglet will ensure the rights of users at all costs.

Threat?

Of course not, this is just a very kind reminder.

San Francisco, Palo Alto.

The time is Friday, September 3rd.

The matter is basically settled.

In a reception room at Eaglet’s headquarters, 58list’s CEO Michael Novarek is being interviewed by CNN regarding events that have occurred during the past period of time under the company’s arrangement.

"Actually, all the allegations of illegal sale of prohibited dog breeds, illegal spring sales, human trafficking and other illegal posts from all parts of the federal government on the 58list platform, our reviewers have deleted the ban within 30 minutes, which did not cause any substantial impact on users. Therefore, similar allegations are totally unreasonable. Moreover, in addition to the information filtering system that automatically screens out tens of thousands of violations every day, we are continuing to recruit manual reviewers to ensure the compliance of platform information to the greatest extent."

The female reporter who interviewed Michael Novarek was named Laura Spencer. She was in her 20s. She was wearing a white OL suit. Some of her baby-faced appearances were a little green, but she was not at all polite to ask questions: "So, Mr. Novarec, how do you ensure that the fraud that happened some time ago will not recur?"

Michael Novarek said: "Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee this. I don't think any advertising platform can guarantee this. However, we have given users enough tips, and everyone can be more vigilant to the greatest extent possible. Avoid similar incidents. Moreover, even if something that everyone does not want occurs, just like this time, we will do everything possible to help users recover their losses."

Laura Spencer nodded slightly, but her lips were not polite: "The allegations of illegal detention and death threats against Igreat by several suspects in the last fraud, Mr. Novarek, is this true? "

"of course not."

"So why did they take the initiative to return from Mexico to San Francisco and surrender to the police, don't you think this is very unreasonable?"

"It's really unreasonable, but I think everyone wants to see this result. Or, Laura, do you want them to get away with it?"

"I just want to know why they voluntarily surrendered to the police?"

Michael Novarec was not impatient with Laura Spencer's questioning, but showed some jokes: "Laura, you just said it yourself, they are taking the initiative."

"..."

Outside the reception room, Simon listened to the conversation between the two through the glass window. He also raised the corners of his mouth and said to Bezos next to him: "The next thing is left to you. I plan to accompany Jenny on maternity leave. By November. Jeff, don’t be careless. In addition, in Washington, although I have some arrangements, you should set up a fixed lobbying office as soon as possible. If Congress really insists on holding hearings and cooperating with them as much as possible, those people will not It will definitely help us, but if you don't give them face, they can also pester you for several years."