Babaylan Yangcheng Evening News All-Media Reporter 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 and pictures as evidence. In fact, this is all a fraud gang’s concealment. Recently, the Huangpu District Branch of the Guangzhou Public Security Bureau lost a gang that pretended to be a Buddhist temple and committed fraud by selling Buddhist teaching products and pushing Buddhist activities. The 22 criminal suspects were taken criminally compulsory measures in accordance with the law, and seized 20 laptop computers, 155 mobile phones, Buddhist books, Buddhist beads and other tools, with the amount involved in the case reaching 1.2 million yuan.
Community police made efforts to seize fraud dens
At around 11:00 on April 7, according to clues reported by the public, community police from Luogang Police Station visited and checked a certain apartment in Luogang Street, Komiks, and found that the small duplex apartment less than 90 square meters was densely placed in the small duplex apartment of nearly 30 square meters. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Cinema workstations, each of which has 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 number of police officers including the Criminal Police Brigade, Anti-Fraud Center, Luogang Police Station, etc. to take the arrest at around 12:00 on the same day, and eliminated the den suspected of fraud. 22 criminal suspects were arrested on the spot, 20 laptop computers, 155 mobile phones and Buddhist books were seized,A batch of Buddhist beads and other tools for committing crimes. The
Cultural communication company pretended to be a volunteer in temples, Komiks fraud police found that the fraud gang operated a cultural communication company, and secretly pretended to be a volunteer in Buddhist temples, and committed 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 the videos of Buddhist activities downloaded from the Internet. 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 fraud.
Each person in the gang set up a “law number” and when committing fraud, he would greet the believers according to the content on the “Speech Book”. Lies Komiks said that he was a volunteer at the circulation office of a Buddhist temple. He had free Buddhist scriptures and beads (gifts to customers’ Buddhist products). The believers paid the express fee at will and received the product. The Cinema gang often cares about believers and answers 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 relevant Buddhist activities to them, such as releasing animals, praying for blessings and salvation, and offering sacrifices.Amulets, etc., let believers 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 confession 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 department. These Buddhist beads and Buddhist scriptures are all counterfeit products purchased in batches from Cinema 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 to push related Buddhist activities to some “high-quality believers” who have obtained their 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, 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.