China News Network Yiyang, February 28th (correspondent Wang Wei) Since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia outbreak, masks have become tight supplies for epidemic prevention and control, but criminals regard this as a "business opportunity" to implement fraud, but the people who buy masks online have received a kitchen knife. , Magazine, sand. Recently, the police of Heshan Branch of the Public Security Bureau of Yiyang City, Hunan Province, cracked a cyber fraud case and arrested the suspect Yan (male, 22 years old, Xiangtan city).
At about 9 o'clock on February 21, the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the Heshan Sub-bureau received an alarm from the mass Wang, saying that he had received two kitchen knives after purchasing masks online, and was deceived by more than 100,000 yuan. It is understood that due to the need to resume work and resume production, on February 9th, Wang added a stranger who claims to have a medical mask for sale as a friend through WeChat, and paid a mask to the other party with a friend Chen through WeChat, Alipay, bank transfer, etc. 155,000 yuan. But when they got the courier, they found that two mail knives turned out to be mailed.
Yiyang Heshan Police cracked a scam that sold masks online. Photo by Wang Wei
The case involved a large amount of money, a high degree of harm, and bad social impact. Heshan Branch attached great importance to this case and immediately instructed the Criminal Investigation Brigade to set up a task force to carry out the detection work. Combined with the "Net 2020" special operation, the task force locked the suspect as a Xiangtan man named Yan.
At the same time, after learning that the victim had reported to the police, Yanmou returned more than 150,000 yuan of fraudulent payment due to fear of being attacked by the public security organs, and went to the public security organs to commit the crime at 17:00 on the 25th.
After interrogation, the police found that since mid-February, in order to make a difference through reselling masks, Yan fictionalized the fact that he owns a large supply of masks. He used the medical device production licenses and mask pictures downloaded from the Internet to sell them on the QQ group and WeChat friends circle information. After receiving the payment from Wang, Yan “ordered” to others through the network, but Wang received a “chopper” from Yan “receiver” and called the police to request a refund. After discovering that he was deceived, in order to make up for the shortcomings of compensation for Wang, Yan continued to publish information on the sale of masks through the Internet to realize fraud, knowing that he could not provide the source of masks. During the period, in order to gain the trust of the victims, Yan repeatedly mailed in the form of medical masks with sand, magazines, etc., and sent the courier order number to the victims to defraud the full amount of the payment, accumulating more than 300,000 yuan for multiple victims.
The man bought a mask online but received a kitchen knife. Photo by Wang Wei
At present, the criminal suspect Yan Mou has been criminally detained according to law. The investigation of the case and the recovery of the stolen goods are in progress.
Police reminder: During the epidemic prevention and control period, masks and other epidemic prevention materials are in high demand, and various types of epidemic fraud cases are frequent. Citizen friends must purchase epidemic prevention materials through regular channels. Do not trust the unknown sales information on the Internet, not to mention without confirmation. Direct transfer of remittances to avoid being deceived. (Finish)