"Drugs and health products", "collectibles", and "investment is rebate" pension projects are the three common types of "sales" frauds involving the elderly**. This is a major part of the fraud cases involving the elderly that the Dongcheng Court announced yesterday.
Wrap-and-stay "sales" fraud.
Xiao En Xiaohui tricked into buying.
After investigation, the court found that the fraud cases involving the elderly in the form of "exhibitions" and "briefings" showed that the level of criminal gangs was complex, the number of participants was large, the criminal methods tended to be refined and specialized, the criminal fields and objects were cross-regional and public-related, and the criminal content was more advanced and deceptive.
Ji Guangsheng, vice president of the Criminal Trial Division of the Dongcheng Court, introduced that criminals target the psychology of the elderly who are eager for health, health and longevity, or take advantage of the psychology of the elderly who want to make profits through investment and strengthen their ability to provide for the elderly, and sell ancestral secret recipes and special drugs to the elderly or sell the so-called collections that are inflated. But in fact, these drugs and health products often exaggerate their efficacy, and even "three nos" products, and the so-called collections often do not have room for appreciation.
Criminals will also use free lectures, experiences and other forms to boast of the so-called pension apartments under construction, pension financial services and other pension projects to lure the elderly to invest in financial management, but in the end, the pension projects sink into the sea, and the promised high interest cannot be fulfilled. Ji Guangsheng explained.
Compared with one-to-one sales fraud, "sales" fraud is more convenient for criminals to play professional cards and lose money, and it is often easier to succeed. Ji Guangsheng analyzed, on the one hand, the "sales" fraud can be carried out on the elderly through the packaging and publicity of the centralized display of "professional personality".At the same time, by allowing the elderly to try for free, and even small favors such as charter tours, people gather, create a hot business, profitable, and "no investment, no purchase is a loss" atmosphere, and use the "herd effect" in psychology to make the elderly "willingly" out of pocket.
A health care product "will be sold".
Deceived more than 30 elderly people.
Luo Lan, vice president of the Criminal Trial Division of the Dongcheng Court, introduced two typical cases. In a case of "sales" of health care products and drugs, the four defendants attracted the elderly to participate in tourism activities in the surrounding areas of Beijing on the grounds of free travel, during which they pretended to be medical doctors at the hotel where they stayed to hold so-called health lectures and diagnosis and treatment activities, and falsely advertised the gel candy that was originally produced and sold as food as a drug with the best eye disease or improvement effects, defrauding more than 30 elderly people of a total of more than 40 yuan.
In another case of "sale" of collectibles, the defendant fabricated facts such as being able to help the victim auction the collectibles, invited the victims to the company, and then defrauded 92 victims of a total of RMB 320 in the name of collecting commissions for the entrusted auction contract, auction service fees, auction deposits, etc80,000 yuan. In both cases, the defendants were sentenced to corresponding sentences.
Remind. Roland reminded that the elderly must stay away from "free experience or trial", "patent, high-tech, special efficacy, green environmental protection", "scientific testing, nominal consultation, expert diagnosis", "free, cheap food, accommodation and travel", "small investment and high return" and other promotional content, "You think that participating in the event, as long as you don't pay a penny, you can pick up other people's wool, but you don't know that in the end, you are likely to be deceived." ”