Our reporter (Wang Qiushi) - Yin took advantage of the lost property information published by Beijing Traffic Radio, lied to the owners that he had picked up their lost items, contacted them and asked for gratuity. He successfully defrauded 11000 yuan from five owners. Yesterday, it was learned by the reporter that, Haidian Court sentenced Yin to one year imprisonment and fined him 2000 yuan for fraud.
On September 2 last year, after getting out of a taxi, Mr. Zheng found his bag left in the car. The next afternoon, after publishing a lost-and-found notice through Beijing Traffic Radio, he received a text message from an unknown mobile phone, claiming that the sender had picked up his bag. The sender asked him to meet at Zhiguang Building to take back the lost item but required him to transfer 3300 yuan as gratuity first. After Mr. Zheng transferred the money, the phone was already off when he tried to call again. Then, Mr. Zheng reported the case.
This man is Yin, a 34-year-old Hunan native. Since the second half of 2008, he has been searching online for lost-and-found notices published on traffic radio websites in Beijing, his hometown Hunan and other places. Then, he contacted the owners via text messages, lying that he had found their lost items, asking them to transfer gratuity to him through bank transfers. After the victims reported the case, Yin was arrested in Guangzhou on April 27 this year. The ill-gotten 11000 yuan had already been spent by him.