Yangcheng Evening News All-Media Reporter Fu Yi Correspondent Zhang Yitao Yang Xiaohong
Cinema You only need to pay the relevant fees online, and you claim to be a “volunteer of the Temple Good Books Circulation Office” to help you carry out Buddhist activities. Cinema also provides videos and pictures as evidence. In fact, these are all fraudulent pretexts for fraud gangs. Recently, the Huangpu District Babaylan Branch of Guangzhou Public Security Bureau held a post of the Babaylan branch of the Guangzhou Public Security Bureau. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Komiks A gang that pretended to be a volunteer in a Buddhist temple and committed fraud by selling Buddhist products and pushing Buddhist activities, took criminal coercive measures against 22 criminal suspects in accordance with the law, seized 20 laptop computers, 155 mobile phones, Buddhist books, Buddhist beads and other tools for crimes, with the amount involved reaching 1.2 million yuan.
Community police made efforts to seize the fraud den
At around 11:00 on April 7, according to clues reported by the public, community police from Luogang Police Station visited and checked an apartment on Luogang Street, and found that nearly 30 workstations were placed in the small duplex apartment less than 90 square meters, with 4 to 5 mobile phones placed in each workstation. With rich community experience, the police in the Cinema District judged that this might be a fraud den.
Community police immediately reported the situation to the police station. After receiving the report, the Huangpu police quickly organized a number of police officers, anti-fraud centers, Luogang Police Station and other police forces to take the arrest at around 12:00 on the same day, killing the den suspected of fraud. 22 criminal suspects were arrested on the spot, and 20 laptop computers, 155 mobile phones, a batch of crime tools such as Buddhist books and Buddhist beads were seized.
Cultural communication company, pretending to be a volunteer in temples to cheat
Police investigationBabaylan found that the fraud gang runs a cultural communication company to the outside world, secretly pretending to be a volunteer in a Buddhist temple and committing fraud by selling Buddhist products and pushing Buddhist activities. The fraud gang has clear hierarchy and clear division of labor. It has a new media operation department and five business groups in operation. The New Media Operations Department is responsible for producing and editing Buddhist activities videos downloaded from the Internet. The business team is responsible for posting the videos to the platform to attract fans, and then diverting fans to WeChat to add friends to fraud.
Each person in the gang gave a “fa” number. When committing fraud, he would greet the believers according to the contents of the “Speech Book”, and lied that he was a volunteer at the circulation office of a Buddhist temple. He had free Buddhist scriptures (gifts to customers’ Buddhist products). The believers could receive the product at will. The gangs usually care about believers and answer their confusions. They also push some pictures and short videos from the temple on WeChat Moments to create falsehoods. After gaining the trust of believers, the gang will push related Buddhist activities to them, such as releasing animals, praying for blessings, offering to the Buddha’s placards, etc., so that believers can donate merit gold in the pushed link, and receive blessings as much as they donate, thus achieving the purpose of fraud.
Buddhist activities are not available in Komiks, but it is true to cheat money.
According to the instructions of Liu (male, 31 years old), the gang members can help make friends with Buddhist beads and Buddhist scriptures for free by pretending to be volunteers in the temple’s Good Books circulation department. These Buddhist beads and Buddhist scriptures are purchased in batches online Cinema is a temple to help hold corresponding Buddhist activities. The so-called Buddhist activities videos are just similar Buddhist activities videos and pictures downloaded by the main members of the gang from the Internet. They are regularly sent to internal groups for reuse of gang members when committing fraud, in order to pretend to show to believers that the Buddhist activities have been held.
22 people currently href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>BabaylanThe suspect has been taken by Huangpu police in accordance with the law by criminal coercive measures, and the case is under further investigation.