Beijing Panasonic range hood repair On March 12th at noon, the victim Mr. Zhou was in the office of a certain limited company in Xingxian, Dalì, contacting clients via QQ when one "client" requested Mr. Zhou to cover a 30,000 yuan goods payment for them and initiated a QQ video call to communicate with Mr. Zhou. Seeing that the person on the video was his familiar client Mr. Guo from Jiangsu, Mr. Zhou had no doubt. The "client" provided an account number belonging to Zhang XX. About 30 minutes later, the victim instructed a colleague to transfer 30,000 yuan RMB into this account at a certain bank in Dalì Town. Then, he called client Mr. Guo to ask if they had received the goods payment. However, Mr. Guo said that he never asked Mr. Zhou to cover a 30,000 yuan goods payment. It was only then that Mr. Zhou realized he had been scammed.
According to the police, such fraud cases always occur during the daytime, making it convenient for the victims to go to bank branches to handle remittance and transfer transactions; the targets are selected by the suspects from the list of friends of stolen QQ accounts; after locking down their target, the suspects use the prepared image of the QQ owner to conduct video chats with the victim, making the victim believe they are chatting with a relative or acquaintance; after gaining the victim's trust, the suspects then request loans citing reasons like needing funds for business adjustments, turnover, or urgent use, and demand the victim to transfer money into the account they provide.
On March 9th at around 3 PM, the victim Mr. Wang reported to the police: while online at a furniture factory in Jiǔjiāng Town using QQ to video chat with a worker named Zeng XX from a certain company, Zeng XX said they urgently needed money and asked him to lend some funds to help out immediately. Seeing that it was an acquaintance and also a business partner, Mr. Wang transferred 10,000 yuan via online banking to the account specified by Zeng XX. Not long after, Zeng XX said that borrowing such a small amount wasn't enough and asked Mr. Wang to transfer another 40,000 yuan. Feeling suspicious, Mr. Wang verified Zeng XX's identity and uncovered the scammer's scheme, but the 10,000 yuan had already been taken by the scammer.
The Foshan Daily reports: Correspondent Zheng Cheng and reporter Miao Sen from the Yangcheng Evening News report that recently, Foshan police issued a warning: a new type of crime involving stealing QQ numbers and chatting to pretend as relatives to defraud money has been successful many times, with 10 victims falling prey, including one female victim who lost 50,000 yuan. According to information obtained by the police, this new type of crime involving stealing QQ numbers to impersonate relatives began appearing at the start of this year. In less than two and a half months, there have been 10 cases, with 10 people being defrauded. There was 1 case each in January and February, but since entering March, the number of cases has suddenly surged, with 8 cases occurring in just half a month, 6 of which happened in the Dalì, Huangqi, Yanbu, and Jiǔjiāng areas of Nanhai.
Related thematic articles:
- College student’s academic record frozen due to identity theft
- Woman scams ex-boyfriend for money to support new boyfriend's drug addiction
- Follow-up on Xi'an traffic captain assaulting colleague: Public Security Bureau issues situation statement