Hundreds of elderly people are caught in the "auction" scam involved in more than 13 million yuan

The elderly are prone to fraud due to weak awareness of prevention. The Beijing police recently cracked a "auction" scam for the elderly. A total of hundreds of elderly people were deceived and involved more than 13 million yuan. Let's take a look at a case.

Ms. Yang in Beijing is more than 80 years old this year, and many old objects have been collected at home. Just two years ago, a man contacted her by phone. The other party claimed to be auction company. Essence

After the reminder of the other party, Ms. Yang thought of the two old objects in her hand, a desktop screen and a jug. Ms. Yang thought about holding these old objects to this auction company to estimate the price.

"Appraisal Expert" said that old objects are rare treasures

This auction company is located in an office building in Dongcheng District, Beijing. Here, Ms. Yang saw the so -called appraisal expert. After looking at her two items she brought, the expert told Ms. Yang that this screen was called the Four Red Mansions Four Fourth Fourth Tower Four Spring paste jade lacquerware, the jug is called the cordon ancient bottle, all of which are rare treasures.

Ms. Yang: This perspective seems to be very internal. People are not so -called experts. Experts do not tell you how much the price was at that time. After leaving, they will tell you what you are 40 million.

After this so -called appraisal expert leaves, the staff of the auction house told Ms. Yang that these two items are babies. If they are allowed to operate auction, each one can shoot tens of millions of high prices.

The entrusting company auction staff said that they need to pay first

Subsequently, Ms. Yang signed a contract with the other party and commissioned the auction company to auction these two items. Later, the staff member told her that she had to pay a fee before the auction.

Ms. Yang: I auction, I have to promote you, right? Their publicity fees, we have to make those auctioned things into a record, right? Isn't that also the money, right? In addition, they must not rent the venue for auction. Isn't that money? So if you want to invite him to auction, you have to pay how much money. For the first time, he has to collect 30,000 yuan for several things.

After paying more than 30,000 costs, Ms. Yang went home and waited. In the following days, she brought some old objects to this auction company many times. The staff here told her , It's all valuable.

The staff here also suggested that Ms. Yang can pay a sum of money to become a member of their company, so that all the auction costs can be saved after.

Ms. Yang feels that she has so many old objects in her hand. If you just auction, you can easily get millions. At that time, the 50,000 yuan will not be much, so she hand over this Qian became a member of this company.

In the days of waiting for the auction, Ms. Yang received a call from the two auction companies. The other party also claimed to help her auction the collection. They also signed auction contracts with these auction companies and paid the auction costs respectively.

The fee is more than 200,000, but the notice of the auction is not too late

In this way, Ms. Yang paid more than 200,000 yuan in these auction companies, but after waiting for a long time, no company informed her to make auction. Every time she called and asked, the other party repeatedly delayed. After a while, Ms. Yang couldn't sit still. She came directly to this auction company to check, but found that the door was closed. At this time, Ms. Yang realized that she was deceived.

Police investigation found

There are many victims in the case and all the elderly

After receiving the clues of relevant cases, the case handling unit conducted a preliminary investigation to judge that this was a fraud crime with the main goal of the elderly. Due to the complicated cases, the procuratorial organs were involved in the investigation of the case in advance.

Wang Yilin, Prosecutor of the Second Procuratorate of the People's Procuratorate of Dongcheng District, Beijing: In addition to many victims, most of the cases are the elderly. The largest age is 92 years old at the time of the crime. Essence

The gangs' four auction companies are behind the scenes of the same group

According to the victim's description, many auction companies called her in the same period of time. Under the persuasion of the other party, she also signed auction contract with these auction companies, and these companies also disappeared at the same time at the same time. Although these auction companies have different legal representatives, they have found that these people belong to the same criminal gang after investigation by the case handler.

Wang Yilin, Prosecutor of the Second Procuratorate of the People's Procuratorate of Dongcheng District, Beijing: This case is a very typical gang of crime. It has controlled four companies in total, so these four companies are actually the same group behind the scenes.

The auction company involved in the case has a complete registration certificate

The case -handling staff also found that all the auction companies involved in the case were registered in the relevant departments, and the certificates required by various auction companies were also complete. Weak elderly people.

Cai Dongbin, Prosecutor of the Second Procuratorate of the People's Procuratorate of Dongcheng District, Beijing: So the elderly saw that the company had a business license and there was a auction on it, so it was more trustworthy for the national registration application. Those who are qualified for auction and these auction qualifications can also be found on government websites. Although these companies have not actually carried out any auction, they are also a kind of confusion about the elderly by applying for these certificates. Confused high auction company's office location Choose a bustling location

Not only are the auction companies be legally established, but the office is also selected in the bustling area of ​​the city. The criminal gang also hopes to imply the victim to be a powerful auction company.

Company employees have a strong sense of anti -investigation with false identity

Although these auction companies are wearing legal coats, the employees who work here do not dare to show people from the true face. Through the investigation, they found that the identity information provided by these employees to the victims is false. Very strong anti -investigation consciousness.

From screening fraud objects

Set up layers of the script

After detailed investigations, the police mastered the criminal evidence of the gang and arrested all the suspects. This criminal gang is dedicated to the elderly, so how do they accurately lock these target objects? How do you develop the corresponding script and discourse for the elderly?

Wang Yilin, Prosecutor of the Second Procuratorate of the People's Procuratorate of Dongcheng District, Beijing: It must have obtained these mobile phone numbers and communication information from the elderly from the illegal channel. Personnel calls these elderly people, the words are, hello, uncle and aunt, do you have any old objects in your family? We are a regular auction company to help you auction, and you can identify you for free The value of things.

Gang members disguised as different identities to implement fraud

After the elderly deceive the elderly to the auction company, the criminal gang will also arrange personnel to disguise different identities. Some are receiving staff and some are appraisal experts.

These people cooperate with each other and the appraiser conducts the so -called evaluation and appraisal of the items. The business staff and the manager said that they can be auctioned on their behalf. In their mouths, each item brought by the victim High price.

Wang Yilin, Prosecutor of the Second Procuratorate of the People's Procuratorate of Dongcheng District, Beijing: We found that his value was the value of 20 to 2,000 yuan when he was looking for relevant authoritative appraisal agencies to identify these collections.

The amount of fictional charging names vary from person to person

If the victim is hooked at this time, this criminal gang will ask for a contract and deceive the victim's money on the grounds of collecting margin and handling fees. The amount of fraud is also based on the actual situation of the victim.

Wang Yilin, Prosecutor of the Second Procuratorate of the People's Procuratorate of Dongcheng District, Beijing: Generally, it is more than 10,000 yuan to ask for money, so the elderly may say that I only have 5,000 yuan, then he will have a word saying that I will post you five Thousands, let me post these 5,000 yuan. The company posted these 5,000 yuan for you. When you make money, you will return it to us, and the old man feels quite happy. If you pay a thousand dollars, he means that you can cheat as much as you can, and it depends on how much the elderly's economic strength can be taken out.

The old man brought his children's peer company to refuse to serve the defense forgery to reveal

Some elderly people are convinced of this criminal gang, and they will arrange different auction companies to contact the same victims and implement fraud in the same way. If the elderly bring their children together, they will refuse to serve, so as to Prevent scams from being revealed.

In this way, for more than a year, this criminal gang framed hundreds of elderly people. It was precisely because of their carefully designed scam. Many victims did not know that they were deceived until the incident.

Cai Dongbin, Prosecutor of the Second Procuratorate of the People's Procuratorate of Dongcheng District, Beijing: A total of hundreds of elderly people involved in the collection of fraud cases, which involved a total of more than 13 million yuan.

Procuratorial organs carry out source governance

At present, the procuratorial organs have successively prosecuted the crime of fraud in the case. After trial, the court made a sentence in prison for two to fifteen years, and fined 20,000 to 150,000 yuan.

After sorting out these cases, the prosecutor handling the case also noticed that most of these auction companies involved in the case have the qualifications of the auction administrative license and become the "endorsement" of the victims as a regular company. Immediately afterwards, the procuratorial organs carried out the source of such fraud cases on this issue.

Liu Xing, deputy prosecutor of the People's Procuratorate of Dongcheng District, Beijing: In response to this situation, we communicated with the relevant departments of administrative supervision. After the consultation, on the one hand, the clues of the relevant clue administrative penalties were transferred to them. On the other hand, the two parties have reached a certain consensus on how the next step targets the loopholes of this supervision and how to strengthen the rectification of the industry. After in -depth consultations.

Source: CCTV News Client

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