Yangcheng Evening News All-Media Reporter Fu Yi Correspondent Zhang Yitao Yang Xiaohong
You Cinema As long as you pay the relevant fees online, you will claim to be a “volunteer of the Temple Good Books Circulation Office” to help you carry out Buddhist activities, and also provide videos and pictures as evidence. In fact, these are all fraudulent pretexts for fraud gangs.
Recently, the Huangpu District Branch of the Guangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau lost a gang that pretended to be a Buddhist temple volunteer and committed fraud by selling Buddhist products and pushing Buddhist activities. It 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, 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 there were nearly 30 workstations in the small duplex apartment less than 90 square meters. There were nearly 30 workstations in each workstation. 4 to 5 mobile phones were placed. With the rich community experience, the community police judged that this might be a fraud den.
Community police officer Komiks immediately reported the situation to the police station. After receiving the report, the Huangpu police quickly organized a criminal police brigade, anti-fraud center, 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, Buddhist books, Buddhist beads and other tools were seized.
Cultural Communication Company, pretending to be a volunteer in the temple to cheat
The police found that the fraud gang wasIt runs a cultural communication company outside, and secretly pretends to be a volunteer in Buddhist temples, and commits 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 Komiks Media Operations Department is responsible for producing and editing Buddhist activities videos downloaded from the Internet, and the business group is responsible for posting the videos to the platform to attract fans, and then diverting fans to WeChat to add friends to commit fraud.
Each person in the gang set up a “facai number” and when committing the fraud, he greeted the believers according to the content on the “Speech Book”, lied that he was a volunteer at the Good Book Circulation Office of a Buddhist Temple. He had a free reunion for Buddhist scriptures and Buddhist beads (giving customers Buddhist products). The believers were paid at will to receive the product. The gang often cares about believers, answers their confusions, and pushes some pictures and short videos from temples on WeChat Moments to create falsehoods. After gaining the trust of believers, the Babaylan gang will push related Buddhist activities to them, such as releasing animals, praying for blessings, offering amulets to the believers, and letting merits in the pushed links. The more they donate, they will receive blessings, thus achieving the purpose of fraud.
There is no Buddhist activities, but it is real to cheat money
According to Liu (male, 31Cinema years old) explained that members of the gang can help freely get involved in Buddhist beads and Buddhist scriptures by pretending to be volunteers in the temple’s Good Books circulation office. These Buddhist beads and Buddhist scriptures are all counterfeit products purchased in batches online, with a cost of about 5 yuan and a express fee of about 5 yuan. However, the express fee given by believers is generally above 10 yuan, or even over 100 yuan. The gang not only earns the difference from it, but also has a more important purpose. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Cinema large-scale fraud screens out “quality believers” and push related Buddhist activities to some “quality believers” who have gained trust in order to achieve the purpose of cheating money.
In fact, the cultural company and Buddhist temples do not have any cooperation projects at all. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Komiks Items, and there is no contact with the temple to help hold corresponding Buddhist activities. The so-called Buddhist activities videos are just similar Buddhist activities videos and pictures downloaded from the Internet by the main members of the gang, and they are regularly sent to internal groups for reuse when gang members commit fraud, in order to pretend to show to believers that Buddhist activities have been held.
At present, 22 criminal suspects have been taken by the Huangpu police in accordance with the law, and the case is under further investigation.