Changsha Evening News reporter Nie Yingrong Correspondent Shao Qing Intern Liang Yidan.
Have you ever encountered such a thing: you are walking in a station, shopping mall and other places, and someone from the beauty shop comes to talk to you with a "welfare card", claiming that the store is holding an event, and you can enjoy beauty services or receive beauty products for free when you enter the store? If you are gullible, you will fall into the trap.
In a special case, 79 people were defrauded of more than 90 yuan due to the same "routine". Although the per capita value of the case is small, the Changsha Municipal Public Security Bureau Public Security Branch did not underestimate it, smashed the gang involved in the case in one fell swoop, and insisted on recovering the stolen goods for more than a year to recover all the economic losses for the victims. A few days ago, the sub-bureau held a meeting to return the property involved in the "5.15" project, and returned more than 90 yuan.
Encounter. The beauty shop gave him facial cleanser for free, and finally defrauded him of more than 60,000 yuan.
One day in the first half of 2022, after visiting Changsha, Mr. Gong went to Changsha West Bus Station to take a ride back to his hometown in Yiyang. A "shopping guide" at a beauty shop held a "welfare card" and invited Mr. Gong to use the card to receive a free facial cleanser at their beauty shop. Under the leadership of the other party, Mr. Gong came to the beauty shop next to the station. A female esthetician said that she could do a free facial cleansing and examination.
The other party cleaned part of her face, tested it, and after a meal, she asked Mr. Gong to look in the mirror. Mr. Gong found that his face, which had been cleaned by the other party, looked fine, but there were many black spots on his uncleaned face.
After she showed me some serious infections on my face, she said that I had these black spots before, and they only showed up after their professional testing, and if they didn't deal with them, they might be infected like that. Mr. Gong was immediately frightened. The other party said that if you want to deal with the follow-up part, you need to charge a few thousand yuan, and the beauty manager of its store happens to be in the store, and the technology is more "hard", so it can be specially served.
Subsequently, the beauty manager came over to induce him step by step, and let him buy a lifetime** including mite removal, facial repair and many other projects, spending a total of 60,378 yuan. After Mr. Gong returned to his hometown in Yiyang, the more he thought about it, the more wrong it became. It didn't take long for the beauty shop to change its name, and the original person in charge was nowhere to be found.
Mr. Gong's beautified face did not improve significantly, and the police later investigated and found that the so-called black spots on the victim's face were actually applied by the beautician during cleaning and testing.
Hit. Seven stores were investigated and dealt with next to multiple stations, and more than 80 people were arrested.
Since May 15, 2022, the Public Security Branch of the Changsha Municipal Public Security Bureau has successively received a number of reports from the public, saying that they were deceived by "washing their faces for free" or receiving beauty and skin care products for free in the vicinity of Changsha West Bus Station.
*Further investigation revealed that this was not a simple consumer dispute, but a typical beauty fraud case. The members of the gang involved in the case had a clear division of labor, and the shopping guide attracted people into the store in the name of free beauty or gifts; In the process of "free face washing", the beautician chatted to obtain the victim's income status and "deceived others", fabricated the situation that his face was in a worrying condition, and even threatened that he might be disfigured; The beauty manager is responsible for further inducing the victim to purchase a high price**; The person in charge is responsible for the overall "****In fact, none of these so-called cosmetologists have relevant qualifications.
They specially choose to open stores in stations, business districts and other places with a relatively large number of stores. Fang Huabiao, deputy captain of the Investigation Brigade of the Public Security Branch of the Changsha Municipal Public Security Bureau, introduced that the fraud gang has successively in the vicinity of Changsha West Bus Station, Changsha Railway Station and Changsha South Railway Station, with 7 beauty stores such as "Dora", "Korean Fang Keyan", "War Acne Impression" and "Bailiankai" as fraud dens, and repeatedly evaded the crackdown by changing the name and location of the store and changing the registration information.
The reason why they choose to cheat in these places is that there are often foreign tourists and students here, and these groups are their key targets, and young men among them are the "focus of the focus". Fang Huabiao said: "The gang is very clear that after this kind of group is deceived, because they are in other places, the probability of defending their rights or calling the police will be much smaller. ”
On July 14, 2022, 7 arrest teams of the task force attacked simultaneously, arrested more than 80 suspects involved in the case, including 8 backbone members of the gang, and seized a large number of POS machines, computers, mobile phones, medicines, potions, agreements, performance books and other crime tools.
Recovery of stolen goods. Many victims did not report to the police, ** contacted and returned the stolen goods one by one.
If someone is arrested, it does not mean that the case is over. The Public Security Bureau adheres to the concept of "paying equal attention to solving big cases and small cases, and paying equal attention to solving cases and recovering stolen goods", cracking small cases, saving losses, and warming the hearts of the people.
Our in-depth investigation found that many victims were all over the country and confessed after being deceived and did not report the crime. According to the police of the task force, they managed to contact the victims one by one and collect evidence. Among the 79 victims, some were defrauded of several thousand yuan, and some were defrauded of tens of thousands of yuan. In the following year or so, ** continued to recover the stolen goods, and finally recovered all the economic losses for all the victims of the case.
On January 25, 2024, in the Second Courtyard of the Changsha Municipal Public Security Bureau, the Public Security Branch of the Public Transport Bureau held a conference on the return of property involved in the "5.15" project. A member of the public who had been deceived happily received cash from the police, from a pile of 100-yuan bills to 1 yuan and 5-yuan bills, a lot of money.
Mr. Gong also received the 60,378 yuan he was defrauded of, he said: "I didn't have much hope, but I didn't expect it all to be recovered." Special thanks to the police for their unremitting pursuit of stolen goods, I will also learn a lesson in the future, and do not believe this kind of **.
According to the relevant person in charge of the Public Security Branch of the Changsha Municipal Public Security Bureau, in 2023, the branch will continue to deepen the crackdown on illegal and criminal acts such as pickpocketing and street fraud, successfully defeated dozens of fraud gangs, cracked a number of "small cases of people's livelihood" related to the vital interests of the people, and recovered most of the stolen and defrauded property. The sub-bureau punished 558 people criminally, administratively punished 99 people, recovered 18.08 million yuan of illegal gains, and the number of criminal punishments, the rate of criminal cases, the rate of administrative closure, and the rate of pickpocketing all reached a record high.