Selling candy as health products to the elderly has become a "billionaire"

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Police said the suspect's words were clearly mentioned

To "deduct disease" and "crisis" to middle -aged and elderly people

The former means that when they talk about where they are uncomfortable

It is said that they lack a certain nutritional ingredient

The latter refers to exaggerate the condition

Let them feel fear, and then buy more of their products

Han Hongying (a pseudonym), a resident of Huainan City, Anhui Province, 64 years old, still dare not believe it. She ignored her family's opposition and insisted on taking high -priced health products for more than half a year. Therapeutic effect.

Recently, Huainan Police successfully killed a fraud gang selling false health products, arrested 26 suspects, frozen the case involved more than 200 million yuan, assets of more than 20 million yuan, and 38 kilograms of seizure. Earlier, the gang taught the so -called "health lessons" in a webcast method almost every day, "brainwashing" for the audience, and then sold the "health products" they developed in WeChat groups.

They said that these products can prevent and slow down the symptoms of the elderly, hyperlipidemia, and joint pain. Many people are convinced of these products and scrambled to buy.

The Internet Security Brigade of the Tianjiayu Branch of the Huainan Public Security Bureau showed some false health products seized. These so -called "health products" are ordinary candy produced by food processing plants. The sales targets are specifically targeted at people over 50 years old. Photography/Reporter Zhou Qunfeng

On July 9th, Li Jie, deputy captain of the Tianjiayu Branch of the Huainan Public Security Bureau, told China News Weekly that the gang specifically cheated for middle -aged and elderly people over 50 years old and developed targeted for this group. "Talking". The agents have opened more than 600 physical stores across the country, spreading in more than 20 provinces, and more than 260,000 middle -aged and elderly people joined their WeChat group.

These so -called health products that are hundreds of yuan are essentially some ordinary candy. The cheapest factory price is only a few yuan per catty per catty, and the highest ones will not exceed 20 yuan. After investigation and interrogation, the police found that the major criminal suspects could be described as "one fake to the end". They made titles such as "academician" and "head of stem cell therapy" for themselves, and fictional products were fictional. fake.

"Those who enter the group must be over 50 years old"

One day in late October 2021, Han Hongying, who retired for many years, went to Qinhuangdao, Hebei. When chatting on the way, an old man with his peers said that on a webcast platform, he can see a professional "lecturer" lecturer for health lessons every day. You can watch the live broadcast for free, and you can answer the red envelope. "

After hearing these introductions, Han Hongying took into account his joint pain, pelvic fractures, and plaques, etc., and moved his heart. Later, she was pulled into a WeChat group called "Scientific Law Raise Class". There are more than 200 members of the group, and members of the group call the group owner Ge Moumou as the "big shopkeeper". Ge Moumou told the members of the group that only those over 50 years old could be pulled into the group.

After entering the group, Han Hongying quickly joined the troops listening to the class. Before the live broadcast, the group members entered the live room after entering the "House number" sent by personal mobile phone numbers and "big shopkeeper" on a live broadcast platform called "Weizan" before entering the live room.

After entering the above operations, Han Hongying found that two lecturers (Yin Moumou and Feng Moumou) took turns lectures during the live broadcast. The lecture time is mostly about 8 o'clock in the evening, and occasionally it will be broadcast live at a certain time in the morning. Each time is about 1 hour, and it will talk about it almost every day.

Relevant introduction said that Yin Moumou and Feng Moumou are all medical experts. Yin Moumou graduated from a well -known Chinese medicine clinical major in Beijing. He is a "academician of a certain institution in Beijing" and "head of stem cell therapy". Clinical experience, in -depth research on bone disease, diabetes, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and cancer.

The live broadcast of the lecture shows that some eye -catching trophy, certificates, etc. are often placed behind the "lecturer". Considering the vision status of middle -aged and elderly people, during the lecturer's lecture, I also deliberately wrote some important "knowledge points" on A4 paper. Essence For example, in a lecture, Yin Moumou wrote a few red characters "expression of heart qi" in front of the paper, and then wrote 6 expressions such as palpitations, panic, irritability and anger below.

In order to allow middle -aged and elderly people to "consolidate knowledge points", the "lecturer" also requires the audience to take a good notes every time when they listen. Because of her age, her body was not good, and she did not write for a long time. When Han Hongying wrote a note, her hands trembled, but she still insisted on making a record.

Every time the "lecturer" lives, there will be two questions for the audience to answer. Han Hongying's screenshot of a live video provided by "China News Weekly" shows that one of them is: Which of the following ingredients can clean liver toxins? Together with four options: A, collagen; B, P40 detoxifying protein; C, milk iron transmitted protein; D, casein.

Han Hongying said that if the members of the group answered correctly, they could also be encouraged by red envelopes. There are generally a few cents for each red envelope. After learning about these common knowledge at middle -aged and elderly people, the "lecturer" began to show "health products containing the above ingredients", allowing middle -aged and elderly people with related diseases to buy. Yin Moumou also said that his own parents and father -in -law were also eating these health products, and the effect was good. Li Jie said that the criminal suspect let the middle -aged and elderly people answer the red envelope in the group, which has a strong purpose. These topics are basically around nutritional ingredients, such as asking probiotics and vitamins for the human body. After receiving the red envelopes, the middle -aged and elderly people improved their enthusiasm for answering the question. The suspect would introduce the so -called health care products and induce them to buy.

Several interviewees said that Yin Moumou sometimes introduced some of the traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions he prescribed during the live broadcast. "He said that the average patient would use up to 5 services and healed it. "," Everyone mastered the knowledge points they said in the early stage, and they felt that they were all experts, and they bought their recommended health products, and some people would grab the medicine according to the prescription he prescribed. "

Han Hongying told "China News Weekly" that she watched the live broadcast and bought such products. After being known to her family, she expressed opposition and advised her not to be fooled, but she trusted the words of "lecturers" more. In addition, it is troublesome to go to the hospital to see a doctor. It takes a lot of time to check, especially during the epidemic, so it is more inconvenient to go to the hospital, so she insists on buying these health products.

Because of his cervical artery had plaques, Han Hongying spent 1396 yuan to buy 40 boxes of snow lotus peptides at one time. She said that in order to make middle -aged and elderly people feel the greatest benefit, the "lecturer" encouraged everyone to buy "golden partners" (referring to buying multiple different products at one time).

Under the induction of "lecturers", Han Hongying has successively bought more than a dozen products such as "Knoton VC Tablets" and composite probiotic frozen powder. She said that every time I was sure to buy, they were handed over to the "Big Shopkeeper" 10 yuan in the WeChat group as a deposit. After the goods arrived at the service station (referred to as a physical store), they could pick it up or deliver it to the door. Then Give the money to the "big shopkeeper".

Police revealed that among the victims of the case, an elderly man from Shaanxi spent more than 60,000 yuan to buy almost all the products sold by the suspects, and some of them also purchased it many times.

Han Hongying said that after listening to the class, if there is a problem, it can be reflected to the "big shopkeeper" and then feedback to the "lecturer". Some members of the group have questioned, why did you feel the symptoms have not been relieved after taking it for a while? "Lecturer" replied that the effect will not be immediate, you need to stick to eating to see the effect, and do not waste halfway.

On May 27 this year, Han Hongying watched the live broadcast of the day and completed the notes of the day. Since then, the "lecturer" has not been launched for a few days. What she didn't know was that the suspects had all settled on the Internet on May 30.

Several victims including Han Hongying said that they were surprised when they were caught. "Now I realize it, and I feel that the family's advice is correct." A victim said that she had a medical examination a few days ago. From the physical examination report, after taking these health products, she "did not have any effects."

The main suspects all become "billionaires"

Before the arrest, the police had prepared the suspect's early investigation work. The police handling the case obtained the corresponding clues from the Internet channel. After the clues were directed, they began to visit on the spot.

In mid -May, the police handling the case came to the forward village of Tianjiazhang District, Tianjiazhang District, Huainan City to visit and found a physical store selling health products. The store was located on the first floor of an old -fashioned residential building. From the appearance, it was very inconspicuous.

Li Jie said that this physical store did not even have facade and signboards, so it attracted the attention of the police and doubted that there may be problems with the products sold inside. Police found that the so -called "health care products" sold inside did not have a health food logo commonly known as the "blue hat".

Blue Hat Sign is a special symbol of health foods in my country. It is blue and hat -shaped. The industry is commonly known as a "blue hat" and "small blue hat". Blue hat products are a health food logo approved by the State Food and Drug Administration.

Xu Yang, a police officer, said that after verification, these products were some foods without any approval logo and did not have any health effects or medicinal value. Police further investigations found that the person in charge of the store Li was the agent of these products in Huainan. He opened a total of 4 physical stores in Huainan City (2 in Tianjiayu District, and 1 each of Xiejia Pack and Fengtai County).

With the deepening investigation, the police found a "big company" behind the physical store. The company registered in a city in Shandong. The core members of the company were Yin Moumou and Zhang Moumou. They have developed more than 200 agents across the country. Huainan agent Li also recruited eight people to build 8 WeChat groups to pull the local middle -aged and elderly people into the group. These group owners are called "big shopkeepers". Like Han Hongying, there are more than 260,000 middle -aged and elderly people who joined WeChat group.

On May 23, after fixed a large amount of evidence, the Huainan Police determined that this was a criminal gang specializing in the money of middle -aged and elderly people, and immediately established a comprehensive investigation of the task force. Earlier, the Tiansheng Branch of the Huainan Public Security Bureau, which found the clue and the collection of evidence, gave a special report to the Municipal Bureau. Because the brigade has investigating functions, the branch bureau decides that the brigade is mainly responsible for investigating the case.

On May 30, the Huainan City Public Security Bureau was unified supervision and coordination. The Tianjiayu Branch was responsible for command. The city's fraud gang headquarters launched a network collection operation. With the strong cooperation of the Shandong police, a total of 26 criminal suspects were arrested, including the nine people of Huainan (Li Mou and 8 "big shopkeepers") and 17 people in Shandong Yin Moumou. The police handling the case revealed that there are thousands of members in Huainan's eight WeChat groups. "They sell products online, and there are physical stores offline, which makes many middle -aged and elderly people believe that this is a regular company. I can't run away, I believe their products are formal. "

The police found that the two major suspects of the case Yin Moumou and Zhang Moumou had flowed in the past year by more than 300 million yuan. In just over a year, the two earned more than 100 million yuan in illegal income.

When the police checked Yin Moumou's wife's mobile phone, he found that the balance on his mobile banking was more than 20 million yuan, and 38 kg of gold bars were found in his home. Yin Moumou explained that because there were so many money that made him uneasy on the account, he bought 15 million yuan of gold bars and stored at home as a wealth for his daughter; the police checked the suspect Zhang Moumou's mobile phone, and also It was found that the balance on mobile banks was more than 40 million yuan.

A banner of propaganda of pension fraud on the streets of Huainan City, Anhui. Photography/Reporter Zhou Qunfeng

"Deducting diseases" and "crisis" to the elderly

While the criminal gang was beaten, the police also seized a large number of false health products. "China News Weekly" interviewed the Case of the Huainan Public Security Bureau Tianjiayu Branch, and the police handling the case showed the reporter dozens of products. From the appearance, these false health products are exquisitely packaged, and their names are also very confusing, such as Snow lotus selenium peptide tablets, blue fruit VC tablets, composite multi -dimensional cricket calcium, ginseng four objects, iron rod yam powder, Ejiao Guyuan Yuanyuan Cakes and so on.

According to the suspects, these products are produced by some food processing plants and belong to candy or solid drinks. The factory price ranges from a few yuan to 20 yuan per catty, and does not have health care functions and medicinal value.

After checking these products, the police also hired the Huainan Market Supervision and Administration Bureau to identify these products. As a result, it did not have the treatment effect.

After interrogation, the two major criminal suspects were further clarified. Yin Moumou has been selling in a company in Beijing. He has worked in a medical college in Beijing, so he has a certain understanding of pharmacological knowledge. Yin Moumou said that the identity of his professional pharmacist is true, but he has never worked in the hospital. The so -called academician, the person in charge of stem cell therapy, and more than 20 years of clinical experience were fabricated. And Zhang Moumou had worked in the supermarket, and had no medical background, and knew it about medicine.

Police revealed that Yin Moumou and Zhang Moumou were around 40 years old this year. They have also done health care products sales, and in 2020 they met at a food exhibition in Shandong. Because of seeing health products with considerable profits, it is easy to register a biotechnology company in Shandong in April 2021, and develop a national agent, hire "lecturers" to open a live live room.

When the gang cooperates with the agent, he does not sign a cooperation agreement. In order to better manage middle -aged and elderly people, some agents also recruit people to build WeChat groups and become group owners (that is, "big shopkeeper"). The sales prices of these false health products are determined by Yin Moumou and Zhang Moumou. The profit ratio of their profits with agents is five or five. For example, an elderly person places an order through an agent, to buy a product of 1,000 yuan. After the money collected by the agent, you can directly deduct 500 yuan and give the other 500 yuan to the head office account.

Yin Moumou and Zhang Moumou also hired Feng Moumou as a "lecturer", and fabricated the identity of a certain physician and nutrition experts for Feng Moumou. In fact, Feng Moumou is just a technician and has no medical background. In this way, Yin Moumou and Feng Moumou appeared to the middle -aged and elderly people. After the arrest, Feng Moumou explained that the names he used during the live broadcast were fake. In less than a year, he received up to 360,000 yuan.

The criminal gang also formulated the words specifically for middle -aged and elderly people. Among them, Yin Moumou is the main formulator of the speech. For example, if someone asks, why these health products do not have a small blue label, the corresponding skill is "this is a new resource product, no small blue label is needed."

In the chat information seized by the police, some elderly people asked whether cancer patients could take their products, and some patients should do a bad response to the product. After the detox reactions ", etc.", etc. "and so on.

Police revealed that the gang recruited agents across the country (currently more than 200 materials and evidence have been confirmed), and they ranging from 20 to 50. If they can't answer some questions raised by customers, they will be fed back to the head office, and the customer service will answer. "In this case, Yin Moumou and Zhang Moumou let the customer service search first, and then notify the answer to the agent to notify the agent. Then feedback to middle -aged and elderly people, if Baidu cannot answer, let customers go to the hospital in time and follow the doctor's order. "

The customer service staff of the gang is basically young women in their 20s. Many of them are technical secondary school or high school degree, and they lack medical common sense. Their daily work is to convey various words to agents across the country, and at the same time collect the order list from the agent newspaper, and they are shipped after statistics. Li Jie said that in their words, they clearly mentioned that they would "deduct" and "crisis" to middle -aged and elderly people. The former means that when they talk about where they are uncomfortable in the WeChat group, they reply to them, and they say that they lack certain nutrients, and long -term lack of disorders will cause the disease; Fear, and then buy more of their products.

"90 % of the victims hide their families"

"China News Weekly" learned from the police officer of the case that after being arrested, Yin Moumou confessed to his criminal facts. He expressed his regrets very much, and did not expect that he was the ending and didn't want to have this ending. He said that his behavior caused two aspects of damage to middle -aged and elderly people, "one is the loss of money, and the other is the delay of the condition."

"If your parents encounter this kind of fraud, what will you feel?" Li Jie, the officer of Yin Moumou, asked. Yin Moumou replied that his parents were in their 60s and there were some diseases. If they encountered this scam, "I would be very angry."

The police handling the case said that the gangs involved in the pursuit of maximizing profits, they also carefully selected comparisons when they were looking for cooperative food companies.

"China News Weekly" views the text on these false health products, and it is seen that companies produced for the gang are all over Shandong, Henan, Anhui and other provinces. Among them, a company located in a city in Shandong collaborated with more than 20 products with the criminal gang.

Li Jie said that when the police knew the situation to the victims, 90 % of the victims did not tell their family the experience of buying such so -called health products. He said, "Many people in this group have retired, and they have a little savings. They don't need to reach out to their children when spending money. They are" brainwashed ', and they are convinced of these products. People do not live with their children, and their children are not easy to find that they are taking these things quietly. In addition, when these gang members sell them, their aunts and aunts are short and make them feel close. "

He said that the case involved a large number of victims. At present, the research and verification of the victims is closely carried out. Some elderly people were "brainwashed" for a long time due to long -term acceptance of this health product scam. Even after the gang was killed, some elderly people thought that these products were "effective" after taking them.

"China News Weekly" learned that some of the victims in the case were even highly educated, and some were even staff members of the regular hospital before retirement. Police said that with the age of the elderly, the ability to respond, the speed of response, and the way of thinking will change. If you do not have a high degree of education, you will not be fooled if you have a medical career background. Even if the education is high, it may be scarce in terms of professional knowledge. The suspect deliberately gives these products such as snow titanium and capsules, which increases confusion.

Li Jie told "China News Weekly" that the nature of the pension scams of counterfeit health products is bad. The harm is not only to cause the elderly to suffer property losses, but also delayed medical treatment and give them danger to the worsening condition. It is hoped that more Chinese and elderly people, especially the elderly, can learn from this case.

At present, the suspect in the case is still in the stage of criminal restraint, and the police are about to ask the prosecutor to arrest.

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