Yangcheng Evening News All-Media Reporter Fu Yi Correspondent Zhang Yitao Yang Xiaohong
You only need to pay the relevant fees online, and 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 Public Security Bureau took away a gang that pretended to be a volunteer in a Buddhist temple 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.
Social Police Department made efforts to seize the fraud den
4BabaylanAt around 11:00 on the 7th of the 7th, according to clues reported by the public, the community police of Luogang Police Station visited and checked an apartment on Luogang Street. They found that nearly 30 workstations were placed in the small duplex apartment less than 90 square meters, and 4 to 5 mobile phones were placed in each workstation. With rich community experience, community police judged that this might be a fraud den.
Community police immediately reported the situation to the police station. After receiving the report, Huangpu police quickly organized a number of police officers including the Criminal Police Brigade, Anti-Fraud Center, Luogang Police Station, etc., and took the arrest action at around 12:00 on the same day. Cinema took the den suspected of fraud in one fell swoop, arrested 22 criminal suspects, and seized 20 laptop computers, 155 mobile phones, Buddhist books, Buddhist beads and other tools.
Cultural Communication Company, pretending to be a volunteer in temples, police found that the fraud group operated a cultural communication company to the outside world, and secretly pretending to be a volunteer in Buddhist temples, by selling Buddhist products and=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Komiks pushes Buddhist activities and other means to commit fraud. The fraud gang has clear hierarchy and clear division of labor. It has a new Komiks media operations department and five business groups in its operation. The new media KomiksCinemaBusiness Department is responsible for producing and editing the videos of Buddhist activities 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 commit fraud.
Each person in the gang gave a “law number” and committed fraud. When he cheated, he would say hello to believers according to the content on the “Speech Book”, and lied that he was a volunteer at the Good Book Distribution Office of a Buddhist temple. He had free Buddhist scriptures and beads (giving customers Buddhist products). The believers could pay quickly and receive the product. The gangs will often care about believers and answer their confusions. They will also push some pictures and short videos from temples 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 amulets, etc., so that believers can donate the merit gold in the pushed link, and receive blessings as much as they donate, thus achieving the purpose of fraud.
Buddha activities areNo, but it is true that the fraud is cheated. According to the confession of Liu (male, 31 years old), the gang members can help freely get involved in Buddhist beads and Buddhist scriptures by pretending to be good books in temples. These Buddhist beads and Buddhist scriptures are all counterfeit products purchased in bulk online, with a cost of about 5 yuan and a express delivery fee of about 5 yuan. However, the express delivery fee given by believers is generally more than 10 yuan, or even more than 100 yuan. The gang not only earns the difference from it, but its main purpose is to screen “high-quality believers” for the next large-scale fraud, and push related Buddhist activities to some “high-quality believers” who have gained trust in order to achieve the purpose of cheating money.
In fact, the cultural company and Buddhist temples did not cooperate at all. They did not contact the temple to help hold corresponding Buddhist activities. The so-called Buddhist activity videos are just similar Buddhist activity videos and pictures downloaded from the Internet by the main members of the gang, and are regularly sent to internal groups for reuse when gang members commit fraud, so as to pretend to Cinema to show believers that they have held Buddhist activities.
At present, 22 criminal suspects have been taken by Huangpu police in accordance with the law, and the case is under further investigation.