Be alert to "online shopping" fraud

Recently, a certain Mengmou in Nanning, Guangxi, was scammed because he was shopping online several times, so he spent two months carefully planning the fraud plan, concealing the truth of his friends, stepping through the camps with the help of friends, using the pseudonym to get online, Using fraudulent documents to handle mobile phones and forging fake parcels to carry out online fraud, the value of fraudulent stolen goods is as high as 7,000 yuan, but in the end, the Nanning Iron Police captured Mengmou in Jiangnan District, Nanning City, Guangxi by using various detection methods.

Meng Mou has been acting as a pharmaceutical business agent since 2001. Due to work needs, he often contacts customers online and conducts pharmaceutical transactions online. He has 5 years of online shopping experience and has never failed. But in July last year, when Meng Mou bought medicines on the China Medical Information Network on the Internet, he encountered a scammer who ordered medicines from the online "Axin" at a price of 8,000 yuan, and repeatedly used QQ numbers, mobile phones and Contact by letter, the other party claims that the money will be delivered, and asks Meng to send money to the designated bank account. Through online banking, Mengmou directly transferred 8,000 yuan from his account to the seller's account. Since then, the medicine has not been sent, and the mobile phone registered by the seller Asin on the Internet has also stopped, and there is no news. Mengmou later found to be cheated. Online shopping not only makes Mengmou encounter a scammer, but also unfortunately Mengmou encounters a person who eats a king's meal. Then in August last year, Meng Mou sold medicines online. An online buyer named "Adi" said he wanted to see the goods in person after the goods were photographed and invited him to dinner. Slipped away. As a result, Meng Mou not only failed to sell the medicine, but also had to pay for the food and drink.

The two cheating encounters caused Meng Mou to suffer heavy economic losses, with a total loss of nearly 10,000 yuan. At this time, Meng Mou had an unspeakable taste in his heart, and his heart was very unbalanced. We must also use this method to deceive others. " Therefore, during the end of 2006, Meng Mou kept himself at home and planned his online fraud all day long. On January 3, 2007, Meng Mou started to implement his own fraud scheme without the friend Lu. He first asked Lu to order 4 boxes of "Anji" from Yuan of Hubei under the pseudonym of "Chen Hua" on the China Pharmaceutical Information Network. At the same time, Meng Mou used the fake "Chen Hua" ID that he picked up to get a Unicom mobile phone number for his friend Lu. He told Lu that he could only use this mobile number to contact Yuan. After several contacts to gain Yuan's trust, Lu asked Yuan to send the medicine to Baise Station and tell him how to get the goods. On January 7, Yuan called to inform Lu that the goods had been shipped. After Mengmou in Nanning received this news from Lumou, he immediately contacted Baise ’s good friend Xumou, and faxed the 4 boxes of “Anjierle” medicine package meticulously forged to his friend in Baise by fax. Mr. Xu asked him to go to the private room of Baise Station and take out 4 boxes of "Anjierle" medicine. Xu, who did not know the truth, helped a good friend Meng Mou. He took the fake parcel form and picked up these 4 boxes of medicine from the private room of Baise Station, and delivered them by car with Meng Mou ’s real name. The box of medicines was sent back to Mengmou in Nanning. After the third day, Meng Mou immediately picked up the four boxes of medicine at the Nanning Yongwu Road freight station. In early February 2007, Meng Mou sold the four boxes of medicines deceived through the Internet to Dong Mou, a pharmaceutical business in Zhengzhou, Henan, for 4,900 yuan in stolen money.

After the fraud was successful, Meng Mou was very proud of his carefully planned scam and thought his fraud plan was seamless. It made him never expect that the police were approaching him step by step. The investigators of the Baise Criminal Investigation Brigade were deceiving through Meng Mou. The traces left behind were captured by Meng Meng in Jiangnan District, Nanning City, Guangxi Province on February 26, 2007 after a two-month day and night reconnaissance.

Due to the lagging of online supervision, the characteristics of unfavourable online shopping links, the lack of customer protection awareness, and the desire for small profits, etc., it provides a hotbed of online fraud for various criminals, plus the allure of online shopping fraud Strong, concealed and difficult to detect, especially cross-regional online shopping, the resulting shopping disputes are on the rise. To this end, the police particularly reminded mainland consumers that online shopping should be very cautious.

1. Enhance self-protection awareness. Guard against low-cost traps and be wary of seeing low-priced goods sold online. In fact, online transactions are different from actual transactions in terms of transaction methods, and there is not much difference in commodity prices.

2. Pay attention to identifying false information. Common scammer sites are links to large commodity websites. The criminals all use the pseudonym to access the Internet, use fake IDs to open bank accounts, handle mobile phone numbers, etc. Once the purchaser is hooked and found to be deceived, it is also due to the falseness of all It is difficult to find out its true identity and it is difficult to claim. When shopping, you need to find a way to verify the identity of the operator. If necessary, you can check with the industry and commerce, the Consumer Council and other departments.

3. Be wary of payment methods. When faced with a single transaction method, we must be vigilant to avoid losses caused by falling into the trap. When shopping online, you must fully understand the ordering method and charging method. For payment before shipment and must be remitted through the bank, and the payee is an individual rather than a company's transaction method, you must be vigilant and avoid rushing to remit money. Safer payment methods such as "Alipay" should be used as much as possible. For example, Alipay on Taobao and Anfutong launched on eBay. With this type of payment service system, when a user pays a certain service fee, the service will first help the buyer to keep his payment, and wait for the buyer to receive and confirm the item before sending the payment to the seller, which is relatively safe .

4. Once you encounter online shopping fraud, you should report the case to the public security department in a timely manner, use relevant laws and regulations to protect your legitimate rights and interests and stop crime.