When a marriage and love fraud gang is covered with the cloak of "pyramid schemes", the victims who were originally deceived will in turn deceive others to seek money after being brainwashed. On the 23rd, the reporter learned from the Nanhai Branch of Foshan Municipal Public Security Bureau that the local police recently cracked down on an online fraud gang that committed fraud in a new "pyramid scheme" form of marriage and dating: the gang had special personnel to train and imitate military management. In the end, the police arrested 45 people involved in the case and the preliminary verification amount involved exceeded one million.
Police arrested the relevant person involved
The "lovers" who took the initiative to add friends was actually a man
If it weren't for the "girlfriend" who chatted online, suddenly added him to the blacklist, Ali (pseudonym), who lives in Dali, Nanhai, naively thought that the "lovers" who swears to marry him on the other end of the phone really exists.
On June 22, 2019, Alibaba added a netizen as a friend through a social software on his mobile phone. Although they didn’t know each other, Rong Jiao’s good female avatar still attracted Alibaba’s attention. After a while, the two gradually became familiar with each other during the chat and soon confirmed the relationship between boyfriend and girlfriend online.
For some time afterwards, the "girlfriend" kept asking Ali for red envelopes many times using excuses such as getting sick, car fares, buying daily necessities, treating her mother, and passing her grandmother. Ali, who was trapped in the love trap, did not think much and transferred more than 80,000 yuan to the other party one after another. On February 26, 2020, the "girlfriend" suddenly sent a message saying that she was going to work in Tibet and could not continue dating with Alibaba. After seeing the information, Ali quickly contacted the other party, but found that the other party had blocked him. Faced with unexpected results, Alibaba called the police to rescue the next day. After receiving the report, the South China Sea police quickly intervened in the case. After several days of investigation, they led to a pyramid scheme-style marriage and dating fraud gang headed by Li Moufeng.
In the early morning of April 21, with the support of the superior department, the Nanhai police cracked down on an online fraud gang in Huadu, Guangzhou that committed fraud in a new "pyramid scheme" form of marriage and dating. A total of 8 crime dens were eliminated, 45 people involved in the case were arrested, and a batch of mobile phones, bank cards and other items involved in the case were seized on the spot. The preliminary estimate was that the amount involved exceeded one million yuan.
Especially afterwards, when Alibaba learned that the "girlfriend" he was chatting with day and night was actually a big man, he regretted it very much.
pyramid scheme management operation, arrange for female members to defraud
According to the police officer in charge of the case, the members of the fraud gang first look for various photos of beautiful women on the Internet to "package" themselves, beautify their social accounts into a successful woman who yearns for love, and add strange men as friends on the social platform to attract their attention as much as possible.
When someone takes the bait, the members use so-called words to impersonate a female identity and quickly develop an online relationship with the victim. At first, members would ask the victim for small red envelopes and meal money to let the victim relax their vigilance. When the time is ripe, they will use the excuses of getting sick and doing business to defraud the victims of large amounts of money. Once they cheat the victim's money and cannot further deceive more, they will immediately block and delete their friends.
"Each den of the gang has a case of cooperation with one or two female members, and the others are men." The police officers in charge of the case said that if the victims have suspicions and ask for voice or video calls, they will arrange for "full-time" female members to deal with it, thereby dispelling the other party's doubts.
After deep digging and investigation, the Nanhai police found that the gang disguised itself as the so-called "China E-commerce Association" to the outside world, deceived members into fraud organizations on the grounds of recruiting workers, operated in the company's model, and managed in the form of pyramid schemes. It was divided into three levels: "manager", "parent" and "members". There are different commission standards and promotion requirements. The gang members were brainwashed and taught fraud knowledge through organizational training, and fraud was carried out externally through online chat tools.
"Everyone who just entered the company will be confiscated the property, ID documents and mobile phones around him. They are usually watched by the 'parents' and have strict schedules. When going out, a strict leave application system must be implemented." The police officer in charge of the case said that after cheating the members, the "parents" were taken to the rental house, with six or seven people as a den, and the men and women separated one room, imitating military management.
In order to succeed in the fraud, the fraud gang went all out and specially produced several sets of scripts, from having no money to eat, pretending to be sick, and having family members in trouble, which made the victim believe it. Every day, "parents" conduct brainwashing training on members, teaching them how to chat with the victim, care about the other party, and defraud the victim of the trust and money. The "manager" will care about the members' well-being and care about their lives, so that they can feel the care of their families. This emotional "warm care" makes the members willing to hand over all the money they have defrauded.
At present, the case is still under further investigation.
