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 Guangzhou Public Security Bureau wiped out a gang that pretended to be a Buddhist temple volunteer and committed fraud by selling Buddhist products and pushing Buddhist activities. The Cinema was seized by the 22 criminal suspects in accordance with the law, and seized 20 laptop computers, 155 mobile phones and Buddhist books. A batch of tools such as Buddhist beads, including the crime, were involved in the case of Babaylan. The amount involved was RMB 1.2 million.
Community police made efforts to seize the fraud den
At around 11:00 on April 7, according to clues reported by the masses, community police from Luogang Police Station visited and checked an apartment on Luogang Street, and found that the Cinema-style apartment of less than 90 square meters was densely placed with nearly 30 workstations, each of which had 4 to 5 mobile phones. 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 formed a number of police officers including the Criminal Police Brigade, Anti-Fraud Center, Luogang Police Station, etc., and took the arrest at around 12 o’clock on the same day, killing them in one fell swoop.At the den suspected of fraud, 22 criminal suspects were arrested on the spot, and 20 laptop computers, 155 mobile phones, and a batch of Buddhist teaching books, Buddhist beads and other tools for committing crimes were seized.
Cultural communication company, impersonating a temple volunteer, was cheated by the police, and found that the fraud gang operated a cultural communication company to the outside world, secretly impersonating a Buddhist temple volunteer, 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 streaming fans to WeChat to add friends to commit fraud.
Each person in the gang set up a “fada number”. When committing fraud, he greeted the believers according to the content on the “Speech 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 also cares about believers and answers their confusions. They also push pictures and short videos from the 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 to the Buddha’s placards, etc., so that believers can donate merit gold in the pushed links, and they will receive as much blessing as they donate, 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 member, by pretending to be volunteers in the temple’s Good Books circulation department, the gang members can help to make friends with Buddhist beads and Buddhist scriptures for free. These Buddhist beads and Buddhist scriptures are all counterfeit products purchased in batches 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 also has the main purpose of Komiks‘s 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 have no cooperation projects at all, and they have not contacted the temple to help hold corresponding Buddhist activities. 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. They are regularly sent to internal groups for reuse of the gang members when committing fraud, in order to pretend to show to believers that Buddhist activities have been held.
At present, 2Komiks two criminal suspects have been taken by the Huangpu police in accordance with the law, and the case is under further investigation.