Young men in Yunnan-Guizhou area are listed as the number one target of fraud
Why did children in the mountains fall into the "sweet trap"
Opened the WeChat Moments of Hu Wei (a pseudonym) born in 1997. Most of them recorded extravagant life: owning a luxury car, living in high-end commercial houses, spending big money in nightclubs and other entertainment venues... In the eyes of friends, Hu Wei "counterattacked" "The story of getting rich is enviable.
At the age of 13, Hu Wei, who lives in Yuxi City, Yunnan Province, dropped out of school and followed his father to work in Xingyi City, Guizhou Province.
Unable to work hard from morning to night, he had a "good life" in just three years after leaving his job.
It wasn't until the police of the Nanjing Railway Public Security Department in Jiangsu Province captured Hu Wei that this rich myth was broken.
According to the police, in recent years, Hu Wei and others have arbitrarily cheated through online dating and other methods, and the amount involved has reached one million yuan.
Hu Wei serves as the manager of the criminal group and controls more than 50 directors and salesmen.
Currently, Hu Wei has been arrested in accordance with the law on suspicion of fraud.
MLM organizations target online dating scams
In 2017, Hu Wei was introduced by a fellow villager and went to work alone in Cangzhou City, Hebei Province.
Anxious to get rid of the arduous working environment on the construction site, he joined a cosmetics company named "Shui Linglong" under the flicker of his fellow villagers.
After joining, the director told Hu Wei that as long as he worked hard to complete the tasks assigned by the leader, he would soon be promoted and make a lot of money. The main way for promotion was to "pull the head" and perform well.
According to Hu Wei's description, a salesperson can be promoted to a supervisor if he can recruit more than three newcomers into the company.
To be promoted to the position of director, Hu Wei needs to recruit 10 people into the occupation.
The condition for becoming a manager is to have more than 64 salesmen.
The prerequisite for "pull head" is that each salesperson needs to pay an entry fee of 2,900 yuan.
The company guarantees that after paying the entry fee, it can be included in the year-end dividend, allowing Hu Wei and others to become shareholders of the company.
This company with a strong MLM nature made Hu Wei's eyes bright.
However, what puzzled Hu Wei was that after entering the company, he had not seen the cosmetics that the company claimed to sell, and his colleagues did not mention sales.
The supervisor said to them: "You have just joined the job, you need to make friends and chat online to exercise your communicative skills."
According to the instructions of the supervisor, Hu Wei pretended to be young girls on the Internet to find different young men to "fall in love."
After a period of time, Hu Wei would ask the other party for money for various reasons.
"Just move your mouth, and money will flow into the account continuously."
Due to his outstanding performance, Hu Wei was promoted all the way and became the chief director of the company.
In 2018, Hu Wei was detained by Zhejiang police for fraud.
The so-called "Shui Linglong" cosmetics company was also found to be an MLM fraud organization.
More than 50 suspects are mostly born in the 90s and 00s
After being released in 2019, Hu Wei reorganized the bankrupt company, hoping to restore "Shui Linglong" to its former glory.
After some research, Hu Wei summed up the "success secret".
He found that there are a large number of older single young men in Yunnan-Guizhou area, and their education level is relatively low, so they are easily deceived.
Therefore, he listed the young men in Yunnan-Guizhou area as the "number one target" for fraud.
In order to stimulate the enthusiasm of salespersons, Hu Wei proposed a "worth" system, newcomers need to pay no less than 2,900 yuan introduction fee when they enter the job, this fund is the newcomer's worth.
As long as the business is handled carefully, the value can be doubled, until the 2.9 million yuan is cashed into cash, and corresponding dividends will be issued.
This "big pie" attracted many young people to join.
Wang Xia (a pseudonym), born in 2001, joined "Shui Linglong" and soon became the chief director.
5 directors led more than 50 salesmen to expand their business frantically.
What is unexpected is that a team that crazily defrauded nearly 10,000 people and collected millions of dollars within a year was actually rented in a rental house in a dilapidated community.
They barely dared to go out, soaking up the Internet all day.
Wang Xia confessed, and Hu Wei said that the company pays attention to the cultivation of talents, "do more work in the early stage and take less money, and take more money to enjoy later."
Carrots and cabbage are most often found in the work meals of salesmen. Seven or eight of them crowded into a rental house.
The salesman does not have a fixed salary, and his income is 5% of his performance. When calculated, it is less than 1,000 yuan per month.
The director’s maximum income is only 10% of performance.
In sharp contrast, Hu Wei squandered the "hard-earned money" of the salesmen in Guizhou.
According to Zhang Nan, the policeman who investigated the case, more than 50 criminal suspects in the case tended to be younger. They were basically born in the 90s and 00s, and some were even under 18 when they joined.
They have many similarities, most of which came from the Yunnan-Guizhou Mountains. Poverty, low education level, and lack of family supervision are their common life experiences.
The desire for wealth, the aversion to hard work, and the lack of knowledge of the law make this group of young people have poor discernment ability after entering the society, and they are easily tempted to go astray and then embark on the path of crime.
"Online dating-style fraud is a new type of fraud crime. The ultimate goal of any form of new fraud is to profit from the victim." Zhang Nan reminded that in general fraud cases, scammers usually do not want to meet with the victim.
Netizens can request to meet in the process of making friends online. If the other party consistently refuses or delays for various reasons, it is most likely a fraud.
Zhang Nan reminded that young people should firmly believe that "the sky will not fall into the pie," and that there will be rewards only when they work hard, and they should establish a sense of the law and not take the road of illegal crimes.
Zuo Zhiyue, Mo Jing, China Youth Daily, China Youth Daily reporter Li Chao Source: China Youth Daily