Yangcheng Evening News All-Media Reporter Komiks Fu Yi 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 provide videos Cinema pictures and texts as evidence. In fact, these are all fraudulent pretexts for fraud gangs. Recently, the Huangpu District Branch of the Public Security Bureau of Guangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau lost 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 and seized laptop computers. A batch of tools such as href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Komiks, 155 mobile phones, and Babaylan Buddhist books, Buddhist beads, etc. were involved in the case of 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 public, the community police of Luogang Police Station visited and checked an apartment on Luogang Street, and found that in the small duplex apartment of less than 90 square meters, nearly 30 workstations were placed in the small duplex apartment of less than 90 square meters, and each workplace 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 organized a criminal police brigade, anti-fraud center, and the Luogang Sect’s Komiks station to take the arrest at around 12:00 on the same day, and the result was defeated.At the suspected fraud den, 22 criminal suspects were arrested on the spot, 20 laptop computers, 155 mobile phones, Buddhist books, Buddhist beads and other crime tools were seized.
Cultural Communication Company, pretending to be a temple volunteer, and committed fraud. Police investigation found that the fraud gang operated a cultural communication company to the outside world, and secretly pretending to be a Buddhist temple volunteer, and committed fraud by selling Buddhist products and pushing Buddhist events. The fraud gang has clear hierarchy and clear division of labor. The Cinema has a new media operation department and five business groups. The New Media Operation 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 Books Circulation Office of a Buddhist temple. Cinema has free Buddhist scriptures and beads (gifts to customers’ Buddhist products). The believers can receive the product by paying the express fee at will. The group members often care about believers and answer their confusions. They also push some pictures and underviews from temples on WeChat Moments to create false impressions. After gaining the trust of believers, the gang will push related Buddhist activities to them, such as releasing the animals, praying for blessings, offering sacrifices to the Buddha, and so on. Let believers donate merit gold in the links they push, and the more they donate, the more they donate, so as to achieve less blessings.://funnybookish.com/”>BabaylanThe purpose of fraudCinema.
The Buddhist activities are not available, but the fraud is real
According to the explanation 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 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 more than 10 yuan, or even more than 100 yuan. The gang is not only Cinema earns the difference from it, and its main purpose is to screen “quality believers” for the next large-scale fraud, and push related Buddhist activities to some “quality believers” who have gained trust in order to achieve the purpose of cheating money.
Cinema In fact, the cultural company and the Buddhist temple roots have no cooperation projects, and they have not contacted the temple to help hold corresponding Buddhist activities. The so-called Buddhist activity video is just a similar Buddhist activity video downloaded by the main members of the gang from the Internet. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Babaylan frequency and pictures and texts are regularly sent to internal groups for reuse when gang members commit fraud, in order to pretend to show to believers that Buddhist events 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.