"Our factory clears goods, high-end toys cost 1.5 yuan per person. You can take them down and set up a street stall. How many hundred yuan can you earn in one night!" At around 9 a.m. on May 16, Ms. Lin, a citizen of Nanning , and another mother, met a middle-aged man and woman selling toys on the road to crowing.
Ms. Lin and her friends bought a bunch of toys and refills for 5,800 yuan. Photo by Lei Xiaoqin, reporter of Nanguo Morning Post
Ms. Lin has a lot of free time and her friend is also a full-time mother. She thought that she could earn pocket money even if she set up a street stall. So, under the leadership of the two, she and her friends came to a car next to Jiming Road. The man opened the trunk of the car and put a bunch of toys in 4 plastic boxes, looking full. "All 1.5 yuan per person, you can set up a stall, and each one is sold for 30 or 40 yuan, and you can earn 500 or 600 yuan a night," said the woman. "Our factory now needs to recover funds and clear the goods urgently. Since you are so destined to be with you, if you want to finish our 4 boxes of toys, we will give them all to you at a 20% discount of the clearance price, that is, 1.2 yuan per person." The man took over the conversation and said.
There are 2376 refills in a box, and the price is 950 yuan. Nanguo Morning Post client reporter Lei Xiaoqin photographed
story machine , remote control car and other high-end toys 1.5 yuan to clear goods is actually a guise. Nanguo Morning Post client reporter Lei Xiaoqin photographed
Seeing so many high-end toys such as remote control cars, cartoon tiger story machines, early education trucks, and stationery such as marker pen , Ms. Lin and her friends were very moved. When I saw the notebook, pen, and refill pressed under the toy, Ms. Lin asked, "Why aren't the toys under the box?" The woman smiled and said, "This is for you to sell. The pen and refill are 40 cents per pen, and you can make a profit if you sell 1 yuan for each pen! Such 4 large boxes only charge you 5,800 yuan!"
At 9:57 am that day, Ms. Lin transferred 5,800 yuan to the man through Alipay .
When she returned home, Ms. Lin counted the toys and stationery and thought about it the more she thought about it, the more she became. There were only 82 large toys and stationery, but there were 14,256 refills. Ms. Lin immediately contacted the woman who claimed to be surnamed Liu on WeChat and asked her to refund some money, but the woman said, "I have clearly told you the price and quantity of the money. Which sentence did you coax you to deceive you? Let's say it, and the lawsuit will be fought with you to the end."
Screenshot of Ms. Lin's conversation with the scammer. The respondent provided
In the afternoon of the same day, Ms. Lin rushed to the Yaotang Police Station of Xingning Public Security Bureau of Nanning City to report the case. The police believed that it involved economic behavior and suggested that she report to 12315. However, because a man and a woman who cheated were gone without a trace and had no business license, Ms. Lin had no way to complain. The reporter searched online and found that similar scams have occurred in Nanning City , Liuzhou City and other cities outside the district. On the online shopping platform, ordinary refills are only sold for 9 cents per piece.
A policeman said that toys and stationery scams appeared as early as 20 years ago, but such scams are still staged every year. The routines are the same, which is to use large and high-end toys to attract people at super low prices to clear goods, and then the two scammers partner to take advantage of the mentality of ordinary people to make a quick deal. When the deceived person woke up, he found that there were only a few dozen large toys, and the remaining thousands of them were low-quality small commodities such as batteries and refills, which could not be sold at all. Such frauds sometimes even fool college students. Citizens should not believe in the lies of clearing goods at super low prices. They should go to a licensed wholesale store to wholesale and purchase goods.
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