Checking the accounts found that there was an extra 4,500 yuan, the owner of the fruit shop sent a circle of friends to find people in the city
After many setbacks, she finally found a careless customer and refunded the money
At about 11 am on July 27, Ms. Zhou came to a fruit shop in Yangjiawan, Anyue County for the second time. After confirming her identity, the owner of the fruit shop, Ms. Tao, transferred RMB 4500 to Ms. Zhou’s WeChat account.
It turned out that on July 26, Ms. Zhou exchanged 500 yuan in cash to Ms. Tao, the owner of the fruit shop, by scanning the QR code, and then accidentally turned it into 5,000 yuan. Both parties did not pay attention. Until the evening, when Ms. Tao checked the accounts, she found that there was an extra 4,500 yuan. Later, Ms. Tao posted a "missing notice" in the circle of friends. The next day, she finally found her careless customer, Ms. Zhou, and refunded her over 4,500 yuan.
The fruit shop’s book is 4,500 yuan more than the customer’s transfer.
On the evening of July 26, Ms. Tao, who opened a fruit shop in Yangjiawan, Anyue County, checked the accounts and found that there was an extra 4,500 yuan on the bank card. Where did this come from? It just so happened that the surveillance equipment was installed in the store a few days ago. Ms. Tao looked for the video and remembered the clues.
It turned out that at around 8 o'clock in the morning on July 26, two customers came to the store. One of them, a female customer in white clothes, bought a red envelope and proposed to use WeChat to transfer money to Ms. Tao for 500 yuan in cash. . Ms. Tao agreed, and the customer scanned the QR code for the payment in the store to transfer the money. Because she was busy loading fruit to other customers, Ms. Tao did not pay attention to the transfer information. It was not until the night checked the account that an abnormality was found. It should be that the customer in white clothes mistakenly converted 500 yuan to 5,000 yuan when transferring money.
However, this customer looked strange. It should be the first time he came to the store and there was no contact information. Ms. Tao thought about it and posted a fact sheet on Moments, and attached a screenshot of the surveillance video, hoping to get through Moments. Find the customer and return the excess money to her.
"Now that the Internet is so developed, you can find this person through Internet platforms such as Moments and Douyin." Ms. Tao told reporters that she did not expect to call the police at the time, because she added guests who bought fruits and thought that there might be someone Knowing, so I sent a circle of friends to find out.
Careless customers are unaware
I learned that I transferred the wrong account after receiving a call from a friend
On the evening of July 26, the news of Ms. Tao looking for the owner was continuously forwarded through Moments. At 9 o'clock the next morning, a classmate of Ms. Tao sent a message saying that the owner in the surveillance video was like his friend. Later, the classmate called and informed the owner, Ms. Zhou. Ms. Zhou discovered that she had indeed transferred the wrong account the day before.
At around 10 am on July 27, Ms. Tao received a call from Ms. Zhou. The two parties agreed that after Ms. Zhou went to the store to confirm her identity, Ms. Tao would refund the overpayment of RMB 4500.
At about 11:30 in the morning, Ms. Zhou rushed to the store after school after picking up her son. Through WeChat transfer records and monitoring videos, she verified the facts of the transfer error and the identity of the owner. Ms. Tao added Ms. Zhou's WeChat on the spot, which will pay an extra 4500 Yuan returned. After receiving the money, the owner said several words of gratitude to Ms. Tao, and at the same time expressed regret for his carelessness.
On July 30, the reporter contacted the owner, Ms. Zhou. Ms. Zhou said that she and her brother went to a relative's house that day, and her brother bought fruit in the fruit shop, so she exchanged 500 yuan for cash in the shop. I was anxious at the time. I accidentally turned it into 5,000 yuan and didn’t find it. I didn’t know until my friend contacted me. “I was very touched at the time. I was too busy to notice that I transferred more money.
Ms. Zhou said that after this incident, she and Ms. Tao became friends. Together with the friend who informed her of the transfer error, the three also agreed to get together to express their gratitude to Ms. Tao.
Ms. Tao told reporters that a similar incident occurred in 2019. An aunt in her 50s bought fruit in the store and mistakenly converted 53 yuan to 530 yuan. However, there was no surveillance in the store at the time. People, but there was no result. "At that time, there were only transfer records. It was too difficult to find someone." Today, this circle of friends is still in Ms. Tao’s husband’s WeChat account, hoping that the owner can read the news and will immediately refund the overpayment after confirming his identity.
Chengdu Commercial Daily-Red Star News reporter Yu Zunsu
Photo courtesy of interviewee Shen Jiayan, intern