Jiayuan.com may be responsible for Su Xiangmao's death

Recently, the suicide of WePhone developer Su Xiangmao has attracted great attention in the Internet circle. The suicide note left by Su Xiangmao shows that he met his ex-wife Zhai Moumou on Jiayuan.com. After just a few months, he was deceived into marriage, blackmailed, and divorced. In the end, he chose to jump off the building and died under various threats in the early stage, which is very sad. As the incident continues to ferment, many people believe that Jiayuan.com's so-called "real-name authentication" has loopholes, and as a platform that facilitated the two people's acquaintance, it cannot escape responsibility.

In response, Jiayuan.com said that WePhone's late founder Su Xiangmao and his ex-wife Zhai Xinxin were members of Jiayuan.com and had completed real-name authentication. Jiayuan.com will closely monitor the development of the situation and cooperate with relevant departments in the investigation and evidence collection.

WePhone founder Su Xiangmao left a suicide note saying he was threatened by his ex-wife

On September 6, WePhone's founder and developer Su Xiangmao left a post on Google+, saying that WePhone would cease operations in the future and that he was driven to death by "extremely vicious predecessors."

According to Su Xiangmao, he met his ex-wife Zhai on a dating website and divorced her after a month of marriage. His ex-wife asked him for 10 million yuan and a house. Since he did not have 10 million yuan and was desperate, he was going to die, and left behind screenshots of his conversation with his ex-wife and the divorce agreement.

The post said that Su Xiangmao's ex-wife threatened him with the following two points: 1. She threatened to report Su Xiangmao's personal tax evasion. 2. WePhone has an Internet phone function and is a gray operation. Zhai's uncle Liu works in the Public Security Bureau. Zhai used these two points to threaten Su Xiangmao, saying that he would take his products off the shelves and bankrupt his family, and demanded 10 million yuan and a house in Sanya.

The chat screenshots show that Zhai asked Su Xiangmao to give him 10 million yuan in "mental damage compensation" and a house in Sanya, otherwise he would go through "formal channels". However, since Su Xiangmao did not have that much money, Zhai asked him to remit 6.6 million yuan to him and write the rest as an IOU, so that they could agree to divorce later.

According to the divorce agreement signed on July 18, the man must unconditionally transfer the Hainan property to the woman, otherwise he must pay 3 million yuan in compensation. At the same time, the man must unconditionally pay the woman 10 million yuan in compensation, 6.6 million yuan has been paid, and the remaining 3.4 million yuan must be paid within 120 days, otherwise he will be charged 100,000 yuan in interest per day.

The online post stated that Zhai then harassed Su Xiangmao by phone and brought others to harass him, and threatened to put him in jail if he didn't give money. He was forced to commit suicide.

Su Xiangmao's relatives revealed the details of the incident. Jiayuan.com said both parties were members

Subsequently, a user with the account verified as Su Xiangmao's brother Su Xianglong published a statement on Weibo, saying that Su Xiangmao committed suicide by jumping off a building near his company at around 4 a.m. on September 7. The police have been notified and the court is expected to intervene. The statement mentioned that a few hours before Su Xiangmao jumped off the building, he received many insulting, threatening and intimidating messages from the woman, and screenshots of relevant information will be released one after another.

The statement said that during the period when Su Xiangmao and Zhai Moumou were still married, Su Xiangmao bought a house in Qingshui Bay, Hainan, and a Tesla electric car for the woman, and remitted money several times, spending a total of nearly 13 million yuan. During this period, the woman also strongly requested to sell her own house in Xi'erqi, Beijing, and buy a new house, but the reason was that the woman was afraid of heights, so she did not actually do it.

As for the business model of Wephone, the statement said that WEPHONE was developed by Su Xiangmao alone, and its profit model is to provide VOIP services to foreign customers (mainly customers in the Middle East), and the APPLE STORE will pay the development commission after tax. Therefore, the customers served are basically people outside China, but it was developed by Chinese.

At the same time, the statement pointed out that Su Xiangmao and the woman met through the VIP service of Jiayuan.com on March 30 this year, obtained a marriage certificate on June 7, reached a divorce agreement on July 16, and completed the divorce procedures on July 18. This marriage is Su Xiangmao's first marriage, and the woman had a very short marriage history before, but she and Jiayuan.com did not disclose it. Su Xiangmao is a carrier of hepatitis B virus, but he is not a hepatitis B patient, and Su has communicated this with the woman when they were dating.

In response to this incident, Jiayuan.com issued a statement on its official Weibo account on the morning of September 10, saying that Su Xiangmao and his ex-wife Zhai were both Jiayuan.com members and had completed real-name authentication. Jiayuan.com CEO Wu Linguang also responded below the Weibo post, saying that as a technical guy, he felt deeply saddened by this.

Su Xiangmao's classmate questioned whether Jiayuan.com could escape the blame

At the same time, He Yunfeng, who claimed to be Su Xiangmao's college classmate, revealed the whole incident through his personal WeChat account. He wrote, "Xiaomao (Su Xiangmao) is a typical technical guy. He started recruiting people to set up the company in 2014, and now there are only a few people. Basically, he wrote the core code. He is very simple and has not experienced the complexity of society. The people he faces are not complicated."

"Because he is naive and has never experienced these things, and has never suffered such setbacks and grievances, it is easy to collapse when his heart is tortured like this. I understand this very well. Being urged by countless people, you have all kinds of grievances, but you can't explain them to others." He Yunfeng said, "Because he cares too much about Wephone, he has lost basic judgment. This is his biggest weakness."

In terms of love and marriage, He Yunfeng revealed that Su Xiangmao paid tens of thousands of yuan to become a VIP member of Jiayuan.com, which provided him with a special matchmaker. Zhai Xinxin was also a VIP member of Jiayuan.com, and the two were introduced by a matchmaker, but the woman's marital status and data were fake.

Based on this, He Yunfeng believes that Jiayuan.com should bear great responsibility. "You charge such a high fee, can't you guarantee the authenticity of these people? Just like I am here and you charge me for parking, but my car is hit by someone under your supervision, will you be responsible?!"

At the same time, He Yunfeng suspected that a criminal gang was behind this incident and called on the Haidian Branch to quickly file a case. "Don't let this woman get away with it anymore. Go and see if there are more problems with this black chain. I don't believe such a woman can do so much. I have reason to believe that there is a gang behind this!"

Conclusion:

As of now, the other party involved in the incident, Zhai Moumou, has not appeared or made any statement, and his mobile phone number published online is always busy. Regarding the fact that Su Xiangmao's suicide note and his family's statement mentioned that his ex-wife concealed her short marriage history and "married by fraud", Jiayuan.com has not yet given a positive response.

Netizens also talked about this, and many people pointed the finger at Jiayuan.com.

@pkzidane: There are people who are looking for wives on this site.

@I don’t understand some people: The woman has been married before…

@默默和莫莫: Tell your story

@Yeahl虚拟: It was definitely a marriage scam. It started out for reputation, but later on, after commercial operations, it became a marriage fraud.

@么么旃么么: It is hard to understand why people who are so rich still go to Jiayuan.com to look for second-hand or third-hand goods.

@Sorry: Fortunately, I didn’t have money at the time and couldn’t afford the membership fee

Lawyer Xu Feng from Shanghai Huarong Law Firm told Blue Whale TMT that the founder of the dating website Jiayuan.com was deceived and committed suicide. On the surface, the dating website was not responsible because it had no ability to verify the information submitted by the man and woman, including marriage history. Behind this incident, it seems more like a cover-up in the form of marriage to find prey, discover problems, and carry out blackmail.

Xu Feng believes that because a lot of personal privacy information is involved, there is very little that dating websites can do, and more depends on the parties themselves to provide information, so personal integrity is very important. Of course, I don't know if there are relevant records in their own integrity database, and whether similar incidents have occurred before, which is worth paying attention to.

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.