More than 3,000 job applicants were cheated by nearly 5 million yuan

　　Be wary of new online recruitment fraud

　　On March 30, Sun Yan (pseudonym) in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, received a phone call from Jiangsu Huai'an Police and was "stunned", thinking that he had encountered a telecommunications fraud. During the call, the Huai'an police staff checked Sun Yan's personal information in detail and told her that the online job search she had participated in was "a scam".

　　Prior to this, 40-year-old Sun Yan found a job doing children's handmade products online, transferred 658 yuan to the other party, and lost contact with the other party after receiving the goods.

　　"The" Internet recruitment "scam mainly uses the psychological difficulty of finding jobs during the current epidemic, and the psychological status of job seekers who are eager to make money, and the status of full-time at home." Officer Li, who introduced the case, said that the recruiter will assign tasks to job seekers. The initial tasks are simple. It is easy to complete, but the difficulty of later tasks has been greatly increased, and most people cannot complete it, and the recruiter refuses to refund the agency fee on this reason. Due to the small amount of loss and strong deception, many victims often choose to consider themselves unlucky.

　　Sun Yan's experience is not a case. A few days ago, the Huaian police raided more than 20 cities in Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Guangdong and other places to destroy this new type of online recruitment and fraud gang, and arrested more than 60 key members of the gang. According to police investigations, the gang has defrauded more than 3,000 people, with a case value of nearly 5 million yuan.

　　During the epidemic, when Sun Yan brought her baby at home and bought children's handmade products for children through Taobao, she often received similar online recruitment information: "Simple manual work outsourcing, flexible working hours and unlimited, wages are settled immediately after the goods are recovered ... … "

　　"The recruitment introduction says that the work is not difficult, and it is especially suitable when taking children at home." According to the requirements, Sun Yan filled in the job search information and contacted a person in charge through WeChat. The person in charge told her that the job search must be on WeChat private chat.

　　The person in charge said that he was also a treasure mother and asked Sun Yan to check the news in her circle of friends. "The half-year-old circle of friends is basically a screenshot that introduces how handcrafted products are delivered, new job applicants join, and payroll." Sun Yan said: "These information dispelled my doubts."

　　When Sun Yan asked how to join the job, the person in charge suggested that in order to prevent breach of contract, Sun Yan had to advance a certain amount of goods. "The amount can't be transferred directly by WeChat. I sent 4 red envelopes each, totaling 658 yuan." Sun Yan said.

　　The other party promised to ship the next day and asked Sun Yan to delete her WeChat contact information on the grounds of preventing the recruiter from charging twice. Although Sun Yan felt unbelievable, he still did. After deleting WeChat, Sun Yan entered a hand-made group chat. In group chats, members can only receive messages, not communicate. Sun Yan introduced that in addition to the manual group, there is also a high commission group. "The artisanal group simply introduces how to make handicrafts."

　　On March 23, Sun Yan received the goods-100 plastic spoons and 100 ziplock bags. Soon after the production was completed, when she asked how to return to the work, she found that the contact was broken and there was no announcement in the group.

　　"Multiple contacts have no results, and my family and I realized that we had been cheated." Sun Yan told reporters.

　　According to Officer Li, who handled the case, under the guise of “recruiting workers”, the criminal suspects concentrated the victims in forbidden group chats, “incentives” through online live training, and publicizing the list, to defraud and let This seemingly "eating with his own ability" job has become an attractive trap.

　　"I was isolated at home during that time, without work and no income. I thought this was a good opportunity to make money. I didn't expect to be scammed by scammers. It's really hateful!" On February 28, the victim Ms. Fan told Qingjiangpu, Huai'an The police reported that he saw a manual job recruitment information through a social platform, paid an agency fee of 696 yuan online as required, and received simple manual tasks such as cross-stitching and beading.

　　What Ms. Fan did not expect was that in the next few days, the amount of tasks rose sharply and could not be completed at all. She intends to give up the job, but when she asked to refund the agency fee, she was told that she would not be refunded if she didn't complete the task.

　　Although the case value is relatively small and there is manual work as a disguise, the police believe that this may be a new type of online fraud. After a review and judgment, the police initially determined that the gang promised to online job seekers through the live chat tool in the name of "manual live outsourcing, daily salary settlement" that they could do tasks at home and make money after paying the agency fee. Based on this analysis, the fraud gang should have committed more than one crime.

　　"From a single case, this is not a complicated scam. It is mainly using the psychological difficulty of finding work during the current epidemic, and the victim is eager to earn money to commit fraud. However, as the case is dug deeper, it is found that it has the characteristics of MLM operation, and some The victim turned into a criminal suspect. "Chen Xuesong, deputy director of the Qingjiangpu Branch of the Public Security Bureau of the Huai'an City, said that the team leader.

　　Suspect Wu explained after she returned to the case. In the past six months, she has joined four WeChat groups, using similar means to defraud more than 240 people, and illegally made more than 100,000 yuan.

　　The police found that Wu was nothing more than a "pawn of the horse" in the scam gang, and the whole organization's operating methods gradually surfaced. The criminal gang has three levels. The first-level personnel are responsible for making plans and dividing tasks, and the second-level agents are responsible for pulling heads and training. When the manual tasks in the later period were aggravated and the victim could not complete it, the second-level agent brainwashed the victim in the social group to teach the victim, seduce the victim to give up the manual work, and turned into a new agent to become the third level to jointly implement fraud.

　　"For those who resolutely demand refunds, the criminal suspects will directly black them." Yan Kai, the case-handling police, said that this type of fraud can spread like an infectious disease in a short period of time, resulting in more than 3,000 people being deceived .

　　On March 18, the Huaian police arrested three principal criminals including Chen Mou and more than 60 criminal suspects at the same time, detaining more than 20 computers, more than 100 mobile phones, and more than 1.2 million yuan in cash.

　　The police handling the case reminded that online job seekers must choose professional websites with high credibility. If they encounter recruitment advertisements that require agency fees, training fees, security deposits, etc. during the job search process, they must be vigilant and do not send money at random. For fraud, remember to save the evidence and report to the police in time.

　　China Youth Daily · China Youth Daily reporter Li Chao Correspondent Long Qi Xu Zijun Source: China Youth Daily