Online shopping is very high, don’t be overwhelmed by low prices
□ Our reporter Zhao Hongqi
□ Correspondent Chen Sujuan Peng Yang
"Our collection is of high quality and low price, and has a high collection value. You buy it, but you only make money! You add me on WeChat, and I will send you the style and type!" After receiving this call, Xiangcheng, Henan Province Jiao from the county was moved.
After the WeChat payment, after receiving the items delivered by express, he realized that there was no collection value, so Jiao quickly called the police.
The Xiangcheng County People's Court found through the trial that as many as 2925 people were deceived like Jiao.
Wen established a collection company illegally in a community and recruited 12 people including Li as management and sales personnel.
Wen Mou buys handicrafts with no collectible value through the Internet, which is falsely called collectibles, instructing Li and others to call an unspecified group of people, boasting that the collections sold by the company have room for appreciation and collection value, and the amount of fraud amounts to more than 600,000 yuan .
Recently, Liu Chaojuan, president of the Xiangcheng County People’s Court, admitted in an interview with a reporter from the Rule of Law Daily that with the popularity of online shopping, some criminals used low prices as bait and used various methods to deceive online shoppers’ trust and bypass online shopping. The normal transaction methods of the website use third-party payment, bank remittance and other methods for transactions to achieve the purpose of defrauding money.
“Such fraud cases are often intertwined with crimes of infringing on citizens’ personal information.” The judge handling the case found that the defendant Li XX illegally obtained hundreds of thousands of citizens’ personal information through the Internet QQ group, and reported to the defendant on several occasions. The sale of more than 170,000 pieces of citizens’ personal information resulted in an illegal profit of 2,000 yuan.
According to Wen's confession, after purchasing citizens' personal information, the goal of committing crimes is clearer, and it is easier to succeed compared with unspecified groups of people.
"Online shopping telecommunication fraud cases are increasing year by year, which should be taken seriously." Liu Chaojuan said.
According to reports, the Xiangcheng Court accepted 5 online shopping telecommunication fraud cases in 2017, 9 cases in 2018, and 13 cases in 2019. Most of them were committed by fraud criminal groups, with many defendants and a wide distribution of victims.
The Tian Mou online shopping telecom fraud case tried by the Xiangcheng Court involved as many as 45 defendants and the amount involved was more than 3.62 million yuan.
After premeditating, the defendants Tian and Huang jointly invested in the purchase of "Hengxintong Mall" and "Diya Mall" illegal false trading software. After renting office space, they recruited dozens of employees in the name of a business service company to form a crime of fraud The group committed fraud.
The criminal group used advertising, WeChat chat, and the establishment of WeChat groups to deceive the victim into investing funds in the "Hengxintong Mall" and "Diya Mall" App false transaction software to purchase the so-called wealth management products. The method of modifying the data in the background of the fake trading software defrauded the funds invested by the victim.
"If the victim is not greedy for small profits, we will not succeed either." Tian said after his return.
The Xiangcheng Court reviewed the cases and found that online shopping fraud showed four characteristics:
One is the temptation of low prices.
The defendant established an e-shopping website by himself, published false information, promoted his products in the form of "ultra-low price, duty-free", etc., and allowed the victim to compare with multiple websites to show his price advantage, so as to entice consumers to get hooked the goal of;
The second is to bypass legal trading platforms.
After the victim took the bait, the defendant used "reduction of handling fees", "avoid long payment time", and "avoid cumbersome transactions" as excuses to persuade consumers not to use transaction platforms such as Alipay for payment, but directly use bank transfer;
The third is deposit fraud.
The defendant first collected half of the deposit from the victim and promised to pay the balance after the arrival of the goods. After the first deposit was defrauded, the defendant added a risk deposit, deposit, tax and other reasons;
The fourth is to deceive people using "virtual fixed-line telephones" as contact numbers.
Scammers generally require private transactions. After receiving the money, they often find excuses to refuse delivery, or send air parcels directly, and immediately cut off all contacts until they are found out.
The judge in charge of the case reminded that consumers should have an understanding of the market prices of the items they buy, and should not be dazzled by the "low prices". At the same time, they should carefully screen the information left by online sellers. They should not easily believe that there are only WeChat, QQ, and mobile phone numbers. Online sellers who do not have a fixed address to contact the corresponding fixed telephone
If you find that the website publishes bad information or has fallen into the trap of network fraud, you should report to the police or report in time.
Liu Chaojuan suggested that market supervision and other departments should issue relevant regulations as soon as possible to fill in the regulatory gaps in "shop online".
For websites and web pages whose purpose is to use the Internet to sell goods, the market supervision department shall conduct a review according to law when registering.