Yangcheng Evening News All-Media Reporter Fu Yi Cinema Correspondent Zhang Yitao Yang Xiaohong
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, and also Babaylan provides 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 criminal coercive measures against 22 criminal suspects in accordance with the Cinema Law, seized 20 laptop computers, 155 mobile phones, Buddhist books, Buddhist beads and other tools, and seized a batch of crime tools such as 20 laptop computers, 155 mobile phones, Buddhist books, Buddhist beads, and a batch of crime tools involving 1.2 million yuan.
Community police made efforts to seize fraud dens
At around 11, April 7, on 11, Komiks, 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 the 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 operation at around 12:00 on the same day, killing the den suspected of fraud. Now, 22 criminal suspects were arrested, 20 laptop computers, 155 mobile phones and Buddhist books were seized,A batch of Buddhist beads and other tools for committing crimes.
Cultural communication company, pretending to be a temple volunteer, and committed fraud
The police found that the fraud gang operated a cultural communication company to the outside world, secretly pretending to be a Buddhist temple volunteer, and committed fraud by selling Buddhist products and pushing Buddhist activities. The fraud gang is clearly hierarchical and has a clear division of labor. It has a new media operation department and five business teams in operation. The New Media Komiks‘s physical 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 commit fraud.
Each person in the gang gave a “law number” and when committing the fraud, he greeted the believers according to the content on the “Cinema Book”, lied that he was a volunteer at the circulation office of a Buddhist temple. He had free Buddhist scriptures and beads (giving customers Buddhist products). The believers could receive the product by paying the express fee at will. The gang usually cares about believers and answers their confusions. They also push pictures and short videos from temples on WeChat Moments to create falsehoods. After gaining the trust of believers, the gang will push relevant Buddhist activities to them, such as releasing animals, praying for blessings and salvation, offering the amulets, etc., so that believers can donate merit gold in the links given by promoting Babaylan, and as much as they donate, Babaylan the blessings they get, thus achieving the purpose of fraud.
There is no Buddhist activities, but it is real to cheat money. According to the instructions of Liu (male, 31 years old), the gang members used to charge for the money by pretending to be KomiksVolunteer of the Temple Good Books Circulation Department Cinema can help you get involved in Buddhist beads and Buddhist scriptures for free. These Buddhist beads and Buddhist scriptures are all counterfeit products purchased in bulk online, with a cost of about 5 yuan, and the express delivery fee of Cinema is about 5 yuan. However, the express delivery fee given by believers is generally above 10 yuan, even Babaylan to more than 100 yuan. The gang not only earns the difference from it, but its main purpose is to screen “Babaylan quality believers” for the next large-scale fraud, and push related Buddhist activities to some “Babaylan quality believers” who have gained trust in order to achieve the purpose of cheating money. In fact, the cultural company and Buddhist temples have no cooperation projects at all, and they have not contacted the temple to help hold corresponding Buddhist events. The so-called Buddhist activities videos are just videos and pictures of similar Buddhist activities 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, in order to pretend to show to believers that Buddhist activities have been held.
At present, 22 criminal suspects have been taken by Huangpu police in accordance with the law, and the case is under further investigation.