Death certificate, critical illness notice...you can buy it online for one or two hundred yuan
Some sellers said, "It can be opened anywhere in the country, and the official seal can be stamped everywhere."
Reporters Bai Jiali, Huang Jianglin, Guo Fangda
280 yuan for a “medical certificate of death of residents”, 120 yuan for a “cremation certificate”, and 450 yuan for a “critically ill or severely ill notice”. The check-up report, diagnosis certificate, and hospitalization certificate are also charged for each piece. One or two hundred yuan to get it...
A recent investigation by Xinhua Daily Telegraph reporters found that on some platforms, you can easily buy "privately customized" forged important documents for just a few hundred yuan. Some sellers even stated that "it can be opened anywhere in the country, and official seals are available everywhere in the country. Can cover" is chilling.
The "death certificate" can also be "privately ordered", and some merchants received more than 40 orders in the morning
On an e-commerce platform, important forged documents such as "death certificate" and "critical illness notice" are being sold secretly.
The reporter searched on multiple e-commerce platforms using "death certificate" as the key word, but did not find the relevant store, but after replacing the key word "certificate" and "medical record", many relevant stores appeared immediately.
The reporter contacted 9 stores randomly and asked whether the customer service could issue a "death certificate". Two stores made it clear that they could not do it, and another 7 said that they could apply for the relevant "certificate."
A customer service veiled that "we have all the proofs we want" and sent a WeChat account, suggesting that reporters add WeChat "private chat".
A shop customer service told reporters that the "death certificate" can be customized according to needs, and only the name, ethnicity, cause of death and other information are provided. The two templates sent are signed by a medical institution and a police station in a certain place. "Unstamped It’s 280 yuan for a copy, and 100 yuan for a customized seal."
How true is the "proof"?
Will it be seen through?
Facing reporters’ doubts, some merchants said that most of them are now produced by engraving instead of PS. They are very real, as long as they are not used for judicial identification. Nothing has ever been found out.”
After the business completed the production, they also took pictures and sent them to reporters for confirmation, and indicated that they could be mailed home.
In addition to the "death certificate", other important documents are also within the scope of sale.
One of the shops told reporters that it can produce disease certificates issued by various hospitals across the country.
As long as you provide the patient’s identity, hospital and other information, you can get the “Critical Illness Notice”. “You can also issue a “one-stop package” such as hospitalization certificate, test report, and diagnosis certificate. The price is between 800 yuan and 4,000 yuan. Etc." The reporter then contacted a hospital on the template provided by the merchant. The hospital stated that it was unaware of this and all kinds of certificates provided outside the hospital were false.
Some businesses even said that "cremation certificates" from all parts of the country can also be provided, and a copy only costs 120 yuan.
The advantage of the merchants claiming to be their own is that "the chapters are instant and covered, and they are more authentic than the others."
When the reporter asked whether it could be used for bank or public security system certification, the merchant responded, "This is risky."
Many shops said that "business is not bad." One of them said that it had received more than 40 orders in just one morning.
Falsified certificates are "widely used", fraudulently raise funds online, defraud inheritance rights, and evade criminal liability
Although the forged certificates issued by the merchants are varied and incomplete, they are still "widely useful."
Defraud sympathy and online fundraising.
A merchant told reporters that if he went to the Internet “fraud fundraising” with a “critical illness notice”, he would never be discovered.
The reporter found that the use of online sales of fake certificates to defraud money does exist.
Earlier, a woman in Chongqing used an Internet platform to forge a leukemia diagnosis certificate and two children’s death certificate and other related materials, concocted the “experience” of “the husband and children died one after another, and she suffered from the late stage of leukemia”, and used the forged materials to serve on a certain network. Online fundraising was initiated on the platform and more than 90,000 yuan was defrauded in less than a year.
"If some platforms have insufficient information review capabilities or lax control, it is easy to cause false certificates and fraud." said Wu Guobang, a researcher at the China University of Political Science and Law Law Methodology Research Center.
Fraud insurance, and even fraudulently obtain inheritance rights.
The reporter's investigation found that someone had previously purchased fake parents' death certificates and other documents from an intermediary, transferred their parents' real estate to their own names, and used 5.1 million yuan for a secondary mortgage to obtain illegitimate benefits.
There was even a woman who was still at work but became a "dead person" of the Social Security Bureau because her husband took away the balance of the woman's personal endowment insurance account, funeral subsidies and pensions totaling more than 110,000 yuan through forged death certificates and other materials. .
Earlier, there were also places where a man turned his surviving father into a "dead father." After providing the death certificate, burial certificate and family relationship certificate, he applied for death compensation of more than 80,000 yuan. Alive, the proof materials provided before are all forged.
The interviewed experts believe that in incidents such as fraudulent insurance, fraudulent acquisition of inheritance rights, and private disputes, it is difficult for ordinary people to distinguish the authenticity of documents. Forgers of documents are likely to defraud improper benefits or even evade related responsibilities, which is of very bad nature.
Evasion of legal responsibility.
At the end of last year, the news that a man issued a death certificate to himself for evading punishment and was sentenced to 12 years in prison for several crimes has caused widespread public concern.
The man in the case defrauded others of 1.92 million yuan of money and was investigated and punished. After seeing the advertisement for the fake certificate, he decided to buy fake "death certificates" and "cremation certificates" from the Internet, so as to eliminate the death case and evade legal sanctions. Purpose.
The man sent a forged "death certificate" and other documents to the court before the court session, which was eventually clearly identified by the judge.
In 2021, a woman in Guangdong also forged a "death certificate" to evade punishment and was arrested at the end of the 11th year. During her sentence in prison, the woman escaped punishment through medical parole and forged a death certificate. After being discovered, her whereabouts remained unknown. The police went through 11 years of investigation. It was captured in August last year.
Forcing the platform to "keep the soil and have a responsibility" and completely eradicate the "dark document market"
Experts such as Hu Gang, deputy secretary-general of the Legal Work Committee of the Internet Society of China, believe that important documents such as forged "death certificates" that are bought and sold online have severely undermined social credibility, facilitated illegal crimes, and brought unpredictable risks to the society and should be completely eliminated. "Dark Paper Market".
Wu Guobang said that my country has not yet established a unified document information management system, and the names and formats of various documents vary depending on the time, industry, region, and level.
Therefore, it is difficult to identify the authenticity of a document, and it can generally only be confirmed by the entity of the document or through judicial identification.
"Relevant departments should continuously strengthen supervision and control the production and sale of counterfeit products from the source."
Hu Gang believes that from the convenience of online shopping of fake documents, it can be seen the low cost of fraud and the maturity of the "gray production chain" behind it.
Experts reminded that merchants may be suspected of forging, altering, or buying and selling official documents, certificates, and seals of state agencies; the purchase of false documents by buyers itself is suspected of buying official documents and seals of state agencies. From the light to the civil liability for fraud, the heavy is to bear the criminal liability for the crime of fraud at the same time.
While the public security organs are attacking such behaviors, they should follow the law to investigate and punish relevant sellers and buyers, increase the illegal cost of buying and selling "death certificates" and other forged documents, so that relevant personnel dare not and cannot do.
In addition, Wu Guobang and others believe that only by forcing the platform to "should be responsible" can it form a long-term and dynamic supervision of such issues.
In order to prevent illegal businesses from making a comeback after cracking down on the governance, the platform should use technical means to strengthen the screening, achieve dynamic monitoring of violations, and resolutely crack down and ban platforms that specialize in illegal activities.
While the relevant departments are resolutely cracking down and the platform fulfills their regulatory responsibilities, individuals must also raise their awareness of prevention and avoid falling into the trap of "fake documents".