Using a game within the Tmall app, shoppers "capture" Tmall's cat mascot at participating shops and restaurants to unlock and win "red packets".
For sensitive information, data encryption renders captured packets unreadable to an intruder.
Employers give red packets to their employees as a year-end bonus.
At that time, children are the happiest because they can get many red packets form their parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts and so on.
I also like getting red packets. That's fun.
Two years ago, when some friends sent him 5.20 or 8.88 yuan red packets, he had no clue about the hidden meanings.
But I think online red packets can be used in a more entertaining way.
Mattias Klement, 27, a Swede who has been living in China for four and a half years, said more foreigners have started to gravitate toward red packets because of the popularity of WeChat wallet.
Visit family especially those older than yourself and friends to pass on your wishes on good fortune for the New Year. plus kids and single people will receive lai-see lucky red packets full of money.
The window is divided into three main sections: the list of filtered packets, the decoded protocol details, and the raw packet data in hex/ASCII format.
Through this service, users can create or get red packets by scanning an object in real life.
Some 340 million users, also a record high, Shared red packets on QQ, another social media platform under Tencent.