In the bustling Jing'an district of Shanghai, 24 parents were deceived by an elaborate school enrollment**. The value of this case is more than 10 million yuan, involving a man named Pu, who successfully defrauded a number of parents of huge "admission fees" in the name of "applying for admission to prestigious schools" through fictitious relationships and signing forged "admission consultation agreements".
During the Spring Festival last year, Ms. Liu met Pu at a social event. Pu claimed to have a background in the "Education Bureau" and was able to "secure" the enrollment quota for Ms. Liu's two children in key schools. Pu described a number of fictitious cases of "communication" to make Ms. Liu believe in him. For the sake of the child's future, Ms. Liu did not hesitate to sign the "Admission Consultation Agreement" with Pu and paid the "admission fee" of 950,000 yuan.
However, when the new semester was about to start, Ms. Liu did not receive an admission notice from the school of her choice. When he tried to contact Pu, he found that he had "lost contact". This change made Ms. Liu aware of the abnormality of the matter, and immediately reported to **.
After careful investigation, it was found that Pu behaved abnormally before the start of school and frequently left Shanghai. Through the investigation of Pu's multiple bank accounts, it was found that in the first half of this year, a large amount of funds were remitted to Pu's account. These clues gradually revealed Pu's fraud.
With the cooperation of many places, Shanghai finally arrested Pu on September 6 this year. During the interrogation, Pu confessed that he had won the trust of his parents by falsely claiming to know the Education Bureau or school leaders, and had achieved the goal of deception by signing a forged "Admission Consultation Agreement". He took advantage of the psychology of parents who wanted their children to become Jackie Chan and carefully designed an admission**, so that many parents were deceived.
This case has aroused widespread concern and reflection in society. On the one hand, it reminds parents to be vigilant and guard against similar scams. On the other hand, it also calls on all sectors of society to pay attention to the issue of educational equity and jointly maintain a good school enrollment order.
In this well-designed admission**, Pu took advantage of parents' expectations and anxieties about their children's education. He uses fictitious "relationships" and forged agreements to convince parents that he can provide so-called "special channels" to help their children get into the schools of their choice. However, these so-called "relationships" and "channels" are all lies made up by Pu in order to defraud money.
The case has also exposed some deep-seated social problems. In today's competitive educational environment, some people try to gain privileges and benefits through irregular means. They take advantage of parents' expectations and anxieties about their children's education to carry out fraudulent activities under various pretexts and means. Such behaviour seriously undermines educational equity and social justice and should be severely cracked down on and punished.