Xiaohongshu Banned” Fraud cases dropped by 70% in one year! The Ministry of the Interior plans to impose a further one-year ban on "read and cannot reply" messages.

The Xiaohongshu APP was seriously involved in fraud. The Ministry of Interior sent a letter to Xiaohongshu’s parent company in Shanghai, Xingyin Information Technology, within a time limit for improvements. However, the letter was “read and cannot be read back” and was “stopped for analysis” by the Ministry of the Interior on December 4 last year. Nearly a year has passed. During this year, the number of accepted cases involving Xiaohongshu fraud has dropped by 77.2%, and the amount of financial losses has dropped by 71.5%. It is obvious that the fight against fraud has been effective. The one-year deadline for stopping analysis is approaching, and because Xiaohongshu continues to be "unreadable", the Ministry of the Interior is also expected to stop it for another year.

The Criminal Police Department of the National Police pointed out at a press conference last year that Xiaohongshu has not read back the letter from the Ministry of the Interior and is unwilling to set up legal representatives in Taiwan like other social network platforms. It has online shopping and shopping mall functions, but no business or tax registration. In the inspection by the National Security Bureau, Xiaohongshu failed all fifteen information security inspection indicators, and there were major information security concerns such as "excessive collection of personal information" and "abuse of authority."

The Criminal Police Bureau counted fraud data in the 11 months before and after Xiaohongshu analyzed the data. From January to November 2025, a total of 799 cases were accepted, with a financial loss of more than 125.09 million yuan; after the analysis, a total of 182 cases were accepted from December 2025 to October 2026, with a financial loss of more than 35.68 million yuan. After the analysis was stopped, the number of cases accepted dropped by 77.2%, and the amount of financial losses dropped by 71.5%.

Because the government has adopted measures to "stop parsing and restrict access" to Xiaohongshu, it does not mean a mandatory ban on downloading or using the APP. If users are willing, they can still circumvent the wall, modify the DNS settings of their mobile phones, etc. Therefore, a small number of people are still being defrauded by using Xiaohongshu. The Criminal Bureau pointed out that most fraud syndicates will use Xiaohongshu's built-in trading platform "Market" to contact victims, and then guide victims to LINE or fake sales websites to conduct "installment cancellation (defrauding sellers)" and "fake investment" frauds.

It is understood that because Xiaohongshu has not responded to the Ministry of Interior’s letter within this year, and is unwilling to set up a legal representative in Taiwan, register business and tax registration, or improve information security, the Ministry of the Interior is expected to continue to implement a one-year "stop analysis" of Xiaohongshu through the Taiwan Internet Information Center on December 3.