Participate in activities to receive free eggs, listen to lectures and receive free eggs... If you encounter such a free egg on the roadside, will you go and collect it?
You know, this egg looks free, but in the end, it may cost you at least a thousand yuan, and at most it may be all pension money.
Because free eggs are often the prelude to scams.
In Dezhou, Shandong, more than 100 elderly people were fooled by 10 free eggs.
"Anyone who participates in the event on time can get 10 eggs for free." In a village in Dezhou, Shandong, a group of strangers handed out this flyer to the local elderly villagers. Soon, the news spread in the village. The old people in the village came to the event site to give away eggs one after another.
There was a person in charge at the event site. He claimed to be an employee of a textile company in Jiangsu. The purpose of this event was to promote the company. For this reason, they prepared gifts worth 30 million yuan. If the elderly are willing to help Publicity, then these gifts can be given away for free.
The person in charge also emphasized that this activity is being carried out simultaneously online and offline in many regions of the country, and the opportunity is very rare.
In the first two days of the event, the elderly did receive a certain number of gifts for free on the spot.
But by the third day, the leaders of the event began to introduce their company's products to the elderly.
Sun Yupeng, Squadron Leader of the Linnan Squadron of the Criminal Police Brigade of Linyi County Public Security Bureau, Dezhou City: From the third day, the suspects began to focus on their products, which have the functions of health care and health care, saying that the products are very good for the health of the elderly. If you want, buy a reservation card for 10 yuan.
This is a video played by the person in charge of the event. The host in the video told the old people that they will launch a new product on the fourth day, and a lottery will be held. Those who win the lottery can get this new product for free.
If the elderly want to participate, they need to bring cash to show their sincerity.
Zhang Yadong, a police officer from the Linnan Squadron of the Criminal Police Brigade of Linyi County Public Security Bureau, Dezhou City: Only those who bring money can get such a numbered lottery card. Old people, give them the winning numbers, in order to win the trust of the winners, to defraud them of more money.
In order to further stimulate the elderly to bring cash to participate in the activity, the person in charge of the activity intentionally expanded their so-called "welfare policy" on the fifth day, skipping the lottery and directly giving each elderly person with money a gift worth more than 200 yuan. Sleeping pillows, and the elderly without money can only get a worthless pendant.
After this round of gift stimulation, on the sixth day, the number of old people with money really increased.
Sun Yupeng, Squadron Leader of Linnan Squadron, Criminal Police Brigade of Linyi County Public Security Bureau, Dezhou City: The sixth day was still a lottery draw. The difference this time is that the suspect first collected all the money from the winners and distributed them to everyone. A surprise card, and the money was returned to the elderly with the surprise card.
After a few days, the elderly who participated in the activity deeply felt the so-called "care" of the businessmen for them. Not only did they get a variety of gifts for free, but they were also moved by the warm greetings from the staff.
However, on the seventh day, the situation suddenly changed. Not only was there no lottery draw, but the person in charge of the site started promotions as soon as they came up. The old people who paid the money could not only get "high-end products" and surprise cards, but also many gifts gift.
Sun Yupeng, Squadron Leader of the Linnan Squadron of the Criminal Police Brigade of Linyi County Public Security Bureau, Dezhou City: Because of the foreshadowing the day before, many elderly people think that with the surprise card in their hand, they can return the money they handed in.
It is precisely because of this idea that the old people at the scene have paid, ranging from more than 100 yuan to more than 4,000 yuan.
However, after the old people paid the money, the five staff members present hurriedly packed up their belongings and drove away from the scene on the grounds of taking gifts. They did not return until it was dark.
At this time, the old people realized that they had been deceived, and everyone was dumbfounded, and then some villagers called the police.
Linyi police immediately launched an investigation after receiving the report. According to the vehicle information provided by the old man, the police quickly locked the suspect vehicle.
Just half an hour later, the police successfully intercepted the suspect vehicle at a checkpoint at an intersection, and the five suspects in the vehicle were also arrested.
Zhang Yadong, a police officer from the Linnan Squadron of the Criminal Police Brigade of Linyi County Public Security Bureau, Dezhou City: After interrogation and investigation, we arrested the other five suspects in Hubei and other places.
So far, all 10 suspects involved in the case have arrived.
The police investigation found that the 10 suspects were all relatives and friends. They came to Dezhou, Shandong in early April 2021. In the following two months, they fled to many places in Lingcheng District and Linyi County, Dezhou. The township committed the crime. After a three-month visit and investigation, the Linyi police finally confirmed all the more than 140 deceived elderly people, and successfully recovered their losses and returned them.
Subsequently, the local procuratorate brought a public prosecution to the local court on suspicion of fraud.
The court held that, for the purpose of illegal possession, the defendant used the method of fabricating facts and concealing the truth to defraud other people's property, which amounted to a huge amount.
After two public hearings, in March 2022, the Linyi County People's Court of Dezhou City sentenced the defendant Xu and others to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from one year and three months to three years for fraud, and punished Gold 5,000 to 20,000 yuan.
Recalling the experience of being deceived this time, the deceived old people are deeply touched.
Door-to-door service was originally "under the cover", and the elderly in their seventies took loans on their backs
Free eggs, using small favors to deceive the trust of the elderly.
It is also a common method of pension fraud to ask for warmth, and to play the warm card for door-to-door service, so that the elderly can be unguarded.
This kind of meticulous care can easily impress many elderly people.
So no matter what the other party says, the old man is very easy to believe it and does not discuss it with his children.
In Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, in just a few months, many elderly people in their 70s were deceived. They never thought that they would actually take out a loan, and behind this was an insurance salesman who used to be enthusiastic.
One day in November 2021, 73-year-old Ms. Huo suddenly received a payment call from the insurance company.
The victim, Ms. Huo: Call me and say that I borrowed 80,000 yuan from them, plus the interest, which is more than 82,000 yuan. I said no, I have never loaned money from you.
The insurance company showed Ms. Huo the loan application record, which showed that in November 2020, the old man had applied for and processed a policy mortgage loan of 80,000 yuan online through the mobile phone software.
You obviously have never loaned money from an insurance company, and have never taken a penny. What part went wrong and where did the money go?
Ms. Huo recalled that starting in September 2020, she seldom went out at home due to physical reasons. Since then, business personnel from several insurance companies have often come to her home to provide door-to-door insurance consulting services and greet the elderly.
The victim, Ms. Huo: It is inconvenient to go out because of poor health. They said that they will come to the door and bring you a 2.5kg bag of noodles, and another 2.5kg bag of rice.
Ms. Huo said that the care and care of these people gradually gave her a good feeling and trust, and she said in her heart that if there is a chance, she must help them.
Two months later, two so-called "supervisors" of the insurance company personally brought several salesmen to Ms. Huo's house. They told Ms. Huo that they could borrow the old man's existing insurance policy and deposit it into a so-called "universal". Account", so that high interest can be obtained, Ms. Huo agreed without much thought.
The victim, Ms. Huo: He used my mobile phone to operate it, made me shake my head and blink my eyes. He said yes, it will change now. After verifying my identity, (the contract) will change. He said that it will be given to you after the change. If he wanted to make an order, he couldn't make it. He had to go to the counter to make it. They went to the counter to make it and then sent it to me. I said yes.
But what Ms. Huo did not expect was that this operation was actually a loan of 80,000 yuan in her name, and the money was transferred to the personal accounts of these salesmen after the money arrived, and it was quickly squandered. , Ms. Huo didn't know that she was deceived until the lender came to collect the interest.
After Ms. Huo reported the case, the police quickly intervened and found out that in just a few months, the insurance company Li and other 8 people had used the same method to defraud four elderly people over the age of 70, with an amount of more than 400,000 yuan. .
On May 10, 2022, the People's Court of Weiyang District, Xi'an City publicly heard the fraud case against the elderly, and pronounced the verdict on May 16. The defendant, Li, was sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment for the crime of fraud. Five years and six months, the remaining seven defendants were sentenced to prison terms ranging from two years and eight months to four years and six months.
Kang Yanbo, Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division of the People's Court of Weiyang District, Xi'an City: This case has three characteristics.
The first feature is that the average age of the four victims is 72 years old, and they are all elderly; the second feature is that the eight defendants have special identities, and they are all business personnel of a life insurance company; the third feature is that the defendants Through greetings and greetings, the distance with the elderly is shortened, and the means of committing crimes are relatively concealed, making it easy for the elderly to relax their vigilance.
According to the judge, these insurance company employees have the insurance policy information of the elderly, and it is easier to grasp the economic status and personal income of the elderly. Let the elderly relax their vigilance and gain the trust of the elderly, and it is easier for the fraud to succeed.
Duan Hongjun, President of the Criminal Division of the People's Court of Weiyang District, Xi'an City: Through the trial of this case, we remind the majority of elderly friends not to easily trust strangers' greetings, nor to seek petty profits, and to protect their ID cards , credit card, bank password and other personal information, do not easily disclose to ensure the safety of your property.
The old man asked a few questions from the bank staff and found something strange
Due to the lack of time to communicate with their children, scammers often take advantage of the situation, playing emotional cards against these elderly people who need care, while using high returns and other benefits as bait to carry out fraud.
Mr. Guo from Handan, Hebei fell into the scam of "unfreezing national assets". Although the bank staff and the police repeatedly discouraged him, the old man always insisted on investing until the old man's children arrived at the scene. .
Early this morning, a Postal Savings Bank in Wu'an City, Handan, Hebei Province began to prepare for business as usual. Mr. Guo came to the bank's business hall early to prepare to withdraw money.
Pang Rong, a staff member of Postal Savings Bank of China: We are open for business at 8:00, and he came at 7:30.
When the day came, he asked me if I could withdraw the 30,000 yuan. He said what functional chapter he was unfreezing (for use), and I asked specifically what the functional chapter was.
A few simple chats aroused the vigilance of the salesperson, Pang Rong. When she heard that Mr. Guo was withdrawing money to invest in the national asset thawing project, she immediately realized that Mr. Guo was probably deceived.
Despite repeated reminders, Mr. Guo still insisted on withdrawing money for investment. In order to prevent him from being deceived, the bank immediately reported the police to the local police station. Soon, several policemen rushed to the scene.
In the face of the police's inquiries, Mr. Guo did not cooperate at first, and always avoided answering. After ten minutes of patient persuasion, he told the truth.
Huo Longhua, Auxiliary Police Officer of Chengguan Police Station of Wu'an City Public Security Bureau, Handan City, Hebei Province: The first reaction was that the old man was deceived, and the old man was convinced.
Although he told Mr. Guo many cases of being deceived involving the thawing of national assets, Mr. Guo still believed that there was no problem with the project he wanted to invest in.
In the business hall of this Postal Savings Bank, the police at the police station and the bank staff persuaded him hard for half an hour. However, Mr. Guo was still obsessed with the investment project with rich returns. Seeing that the bank staff never gave him money, Mr. Guo Emotions began to rise.
Looking at the emotional Mr. Guo insisted on leaving the bank, in order to prevent him from being deceived, the police continued to do the work of dissuasion, and began to try to get in touch with Mr. Guo's children, and finally got through the phone of Mr. Guo's daughter.
Zhang Fang, a police officer from the Chengguan Police Station of the Public Security Bureau of Wu'an City, Handan City, Hebei Province: We are afraid that (the old man) will go to another bank to withdraw the money and be defrauded.
After thinking about it, we should contact his family, his family.
Mr. Guo's daughter quickly arrived at the scene. She told the police that she had never heard of her father's decision to invest in and unfreeze national assets. In the end, under the repeated dissuasion of bank staff, police and family members, Mr. Guo finally understood, What I encountered was indeed an elaborate scam.
At present, the police are conducting further investigation into the case.
"Money back every day" uses various gimmicks to induce investment
Although it is an old scam, there are still people who fall for it.
In order to deceive the trust of the elderly, fraud gangs will continue to adopt many packaging methods.
In Mianzhu, Sichuan, a fraud gang disguised as a formal business operation, through false propaganda, set up various gimmicks and new concepts to induce the elderly to invest.
They claim to "return dividends every day", causing hundreds of elderly people to be deceived.
In August 2021, the Sichuan Mianzhu police held a conference on the return of stolen goods. At this conference, the police returned more than 1.9 million yuan of defrauded property to 115 victims.
What's going on in this case?
This also started five years ago, when Mianzhu newly established a so-called investment and wealth management company. This company used concepts such as "investment rebate" and "sharing economy" as a gimmick to induce the elderly to buy their investment and wealth management products.
Victim: They introduced that there are ten thousand mu of tea gardens under their name, and there are more than 40 branches in ten major categories such as new energy vehicles, hospitals, supermarkets, and tourism. Their annual turnover is more than 100 million yuan.
At the beginning, the company fulfilled its promise of investment rebates as promised. After receiving the dividends, many elderly people made additional investments. However, the good times did not last long. The company quickly stopped the rebates due to the difficulty of capital turnover. The old people began to go to the company to ask for answers. Unexpectedly, the company was already empty. After receiving the report, the Economic Investigation Team of the Mianzhu City Public Security Bureau quickly launched an investigation into the case. Fraud involving millions of dollars.
At present, all the persons involved have been arrested by the police and the case is being further processed.
Through these cases, we found that fraud cases against the elderly are often under the guise of high returns and high returns.
How can we take targeted precautions against such scams?
Wang Hua, a second-level investigator of the Investigation Division of the Criminal Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security: It is recommended that the majority of the elderly do the "three nos" in terms of investment and financial management.
Second, don't believe it, don't be tempted by small favors, and don't blindly believe the so-called investment projects in the mouths of marketers.
Third, don't be in a hurry. Before deciding to invest, be sure to communicate with family members or friends and listen to their opinions.