Beijing News (Reporter Liu Mingyang) "Friends have medical mask purchase channels, private contacts needed" "Our own factory, need masks to contact me." Since the emergence of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, similar information has been on WeChat groups and friends Appear in the circle. Behind this information, some people carried out fraud under the guise of buying and selling masks.
The Beijing News reporter learned from the police in many places that at present, people in Henan, Hunan, Shanxi, Shandong, Tianjin and other places are carrying out fraud under the banner of buying and selling masks. Among them, the Changsha City Public Security Bureau of Hunan Province has cracked many mask fraud cases nationwide. The police in Changsha introduced that in a cyber fraud case in the name of selling masks, a criminal suspect had defrauded more than 8.4 million yuan of victims since February.
Wei Yang has not received a mask after transferring 24,000 yuan to the other party via WeChat. Photo courtesy
Masks set up scams after 7 price increases
Today (February 27), Wei Yang (pseudonym) working in Beijing told the Beijing News reporter that because of the emergence of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, mask sellers in supermarkets and drug stores were temporarily out of stock, but for the safety of himself and his family, he has been Follow the situation in the circle of friends about buying and selling masks.
"Trusted my friend to buy a mask, happy." In early February of this year, Wei Yang saw someone in the circle of friends to buy the mask information, and then asked the other party to buy masks. "He and I are ordinary friends, and the other side told me that he bought it from a friend of his friend and gave me contact information."
On February 11, Wei Yang contacted the mask salesperson recommended by the above friend. After checking the mask pictures, warehouse video, and mask sales authorization, Wei Yang transferred 24,000 yuan to the other party and bought it for 4 yuan each. 6000 disposable medical masks. Wei Yang said that he originally wanted to buy less for his own use. Who knew that the other party had 6,000 stock masks left and wanted to ship them all at once. Later, Wei Yang looked for several relatives and friends, and worked together.
"The seller said it was imported masks of high quality, a box of 20 boxes (packs), 50 masks per box, shipped from Wuxi, Jiangsu." However, after Wei Yang paid the other party a full payment of 6,000 masks through WeChat, However, in accordance with the mutually agreed delivery time, the other party was delayed. "I can't help it lately. The other party said that he bought masks from other people."
In a group called "victims' rights protection group", the Beijing News learned by observing chat content and asking for identity that 7 out of a group of more than 10 people were merchants selling masks at various prices and selling masks, and four or five people were Consumers buying masks. The price of each mask's external sales increased from 2.45 yuan to 7 yuan by the merchant 7 times. Except that the original mask seller could not be contacted, the other mask sellers stated that they only paid the difference and were not responsible for the production of masks. Currently they purchase masks. Of the money has been given to the original mask seller and cannot be contacted.
At present, one of the mask sellers has filed a report in Zhengzhou, Henan. The materials obtained from the police indicate that the Zhengzhou police have been involved in the investigation.
Fraud with short video platform
During the epidemic, many people swiped the short video platform on their mobile phones during self-isolation at home. Among them, Ms. Xia, who lives in Lituo Street, Yuhua District, Changsha City, Hunan Province, is a heavy video platform user.
Ms. Xia introduced that during the process of purchasing masks for her unit, she found a Douyin user nicknamed “Mask Wholesaler” who posted a video saying that masks were sold. After paying the deposit and payment multiple times, the other party did not Ship. In the end, Ms. Xia asked her friends to the agreed pick-up place and found that the goods did not exist. "Finally he blacked out our WeChat, and I paid him a total of 59888 yuan."
On February 2nd, after realizing she was deceived, Ms. Xia reported to the Yuhua Branch of the Public Security Bureau of Changsha City.
In the afternoon of February 5th, after the criminal suspect Li Mowu was locked in Shenzhen, the police of the special group went to Shenzhen to carry out the arrest. However, the task force arrived in Shenzhen and found that the suspect Li Mowu had returned to his hometown in Jieyang.
"Telecommunications fraud cases are a race against time, and the network may be abandoned as soon as possible." The police of the ad hoc group told the Beijing News reporter that in order to solve the problem early, they took the high-speed rail to Jieyang City, Guangdong Province in the early morning of February 6, after half a day The squad guard was investigated. At 16:00 on the same day, the suspect Li Mowu who was at home was in control.
After reviewing, Li Mouwu confessed to the illegal and criminal acts of defrauding by publishing false information through the short video platform. The police initially verified that he had committed five crimes involving a fraud amount of more than RMB 70,000. At present, Li Moumou has been detained by the police, and the case is under further examination and digging.
The suspect wins the victim's trust by signing an electronic contract and commits fraud. Photo courtesy of the police
More than 8.4 million cross-province frauds due to gambling debts
The Beijing News reporter learned from the Public Security Bureau of Changsha City, Hunan Province that, in addition to criminals using short video platforms to commit crimes, there are also criminals who use fraudulent methods such as video chat and signing electronic contracts to gain customer trust.
On February 20th, the Jingwanzi Police Station of the Yuhua Branch of the Public Security Bureau of Changsha received a report from Mr. Hu, a resident of the district, claiming that he was deceived by 1.9 million yuan when purchasing masks for the company online.
Mr. Hu introduced that he met Guo Mouhua through the introduction of netizens. The other party claimed to have a large number of masks for sale, and has repeatedly won the trust of Mr. Hu through WeChat video chat, sending ID information, mask stocking videos, and signing electronic contracts. Later, at the agreed price, Mr. Hu transferred 2.9 million yuan to the account designated by Guo Mouhua in two separate sessions.
Mr. Hu said that after receiving the money, Guo Mouhua shirk the shipment for various reasons. Later, after Mr. Hu negotiated with him many times, Guo Mouhua returned 1 million yuan to him and lost contact. Aware of being cheated, Mr. Hu reported the case to the public security organs.
The Changsha police analyzed the flow of funds and found that the bank card funds involved in the case had a large amount of money in and out in just a few days, and the funds were intertwined and complicated. It was determined that the suspects were involved in more than one case, and it is likely that there were multiple cyber frauds .
The suspect owed high debts through gambling, and made more than 8.4 million yuan through a mask trading scam. Photo courtesy of the police
In addition, the Changsha police found that the bank card involved in the case had a large amount of funds remitted to a gambling website. Therefore, the police handling the case sorted out the criminal suspect's operating characteristics and daily consumption habits, locked the criminal suspect Guo Mouhua's true identity and his foothold in Taiyuan, Shanxi, and then linked multiple cases across the country.
According to the Changsha police, they coordinated the arrest of the Taiyuan police in Shanxi Province overnight in accordance with the requirements of the Ministry of Public Security and the Hunan Provincial Public Security Department in the investigation of the affected cases. At 19 o'clock on February 21, the criminal suspect Guo Mouhua was successfully controlled .
After interrogation, the criminal suspect Guo Mouhua owed a high amount of gambling debts due to his indulgence in online gambling. In order to raise funds for gambling, since the beginning of February, Guo Mouhua has released information on the false sale of masks in multiple outbreak materials WeChat groups, defrauding six victims in Shandong, Hunan and other places for a total of more than 8.4 million yuan. Currently, the police are continuing to investigate the case.