In the well-decorated exhibition hall, the “antiques” in the glass showcases gleamed under the lights, and the inscrutable appreciation “experts” and the clever-talking “salesmen” staged a “appreciation of treasure” drama here. In order to let people fall into the trap of fraud... Recently, the Guangzhou Baiyun police have successively eliminated three gangs that carried out telecommunications fraud in the name of identifying and auctioning antiques, arresting a total of 102 suspects, and seizing collections, mobile phones, computers and scripts A batch of items involved in the case, such as account books.
The police visited and investigated several so-called antique appraisal companies through various channels and found that they used Internet advertisements to solicit customers with antique appraisal needs, and then contacted and induced them to bring their collections through telephone and social platforms. Identification, thereby charging high membership fees, identification fees, etc.
Guangzhou Baiyun Police immediately set up a task force, and the police found that these identification companies all have beautifully designed Internet homepages with information related to antique wenwan and some large-scale auction transactions.
The office is generally located in an office building, with a large area and beautifully decorated. Once you enter the door, it is furnished like an exhibition hall. There are some antiques and toys, and the expert introduction of "appreciation treasure" is placed in a prominent position, as well as some international auctions. On the surface, the advertisement of the event gives people a very credible feeling, but in fact, their internal gangs have a clear division of labor, including the identification department, sales department, promotion department, finance department, etc., using the masses to sell their collections at high prices. The psychology of gaining the trust of customers step by step, enticing them to start from a few hundred yuan membership fee, and continue to invest money into various names.
(Video source from Guangzhou Police, He Junjie and Liu Sijia, editor He Junjie)
Editor in charge: [Li Yuxin]