The parent group provides a convenient platform for home-school communication, but at the same time, it also gives criminals an opportunity to take advantage of it, and if the identity of the people in the group is not verified, it is very likely that there is a risk of being defrauded. Recently, the High-tech District Court of Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province released such a typical case: an illegal person infiltrated the class group and pretended to be the class teacher to commit fraud.
The trial scene is provided by the Daqing High-tech District Court.
Pretend to be a class teacher** to charge for materials.
Defendant Lin is an unemployed young man who is nearly 18 years old, has no skills, and has no life, so in order to obtain money, he used his crooked brain. On April 11, 2022, Lin and Tang (sentenced) searched for "parent group" through the short ** platform app, flipped through the chat records below the work, and saw the mobile phone numbers of the students' parents. So the two of them had the mentality of trying it out, and added each other as WeChat friends through their mobile phone numbers, but they didn't expect that the other party would soon pass smoothly. Subsequently, Lin tricked the other party into pulling him into the WeChat group of the student's parents in the name of the parents of the same class. After entering the WeChat group, he quickly found the head teacher of the class, and changed his WeChat nickname and avatar to the same as the head teacher, so as to confuse the parents of the students and defraud them of money.
Deceived nearly 4,000 yuan and retreated from the group.
On April 11, 2022, Ms. Wang, who lives in the high-tech zone, saw a message posted in the parent group of the class, which was sent by her child's "class teacher", which roughly read: "The school needs to order learning materials, and each parent needs to pay 358 yuan
After defendant Lin X **, he studied the characteristics of the teacher's messages, observed the time pattern of the teacher's inadequacy, pinched the teacher's class time, and used this period to publish the above-mentioned false information in the group about collecting fees for learning materials.
Because Ms. Wang saw that the WeChat avatar of the message was the same as the avatar of her child's homeroom teacher, many parents in the group had replied, and the "homeroom teacher" kept urging her to register the summary information immediately, so Ms. Wang did not suspect too much and scanned the code to pay 358 yuan.
Not long after Ms. Wang's payment was successful, the real head teacher in the group came out to clarify the information, saying that someone had impersonated her avatar and nickname to commit fraud, and reminded other parents not to transfer money.
However, although the head teacher found that the clarification was timely, there were still many parents who had transferred money and were soon defrauded of a total of 3,938 yuan. After discovering that they had been deceived, parents called the police one after another, but ** had already withdrawn from the group and did not know where to go.
He was sentenced to two months' detention and fined.
After the case, Lin returned the 3,938 yuan obtained by fraud to the victim.
These parents are not vigilant, I just finished sending a message in the group, someone replied to receive it, and scanned the code to transfer money, no one doubted, until the head teacher found out and stopped it in time, they didn't know that they had been deceived. During the trial, Lin said. For his crime, Lin pleaded guilty.
The Daqing High-tech District People's Court held at trial that the defendant Lin used the means of fabricating facts to defraud others of their property for the purpose of illegal possession, and the amount was relatively large, and his conduct constituted the crime of fraud. The facts of the prosecution's accusations are clear, the charges are established, and they are supported. In view of the fact that he was a minor at the time of the crime, he should be given a lighter punishment; Truthfully confessing one's own crimes after being brought into the case is a confession and admitting guilt and accepting punishment, and may be given a lighter punishment. The defense opinion that the defender submitted that he was a minor at the time of the crime and had a confession, admitting guilt and accepting punishment, and making restitution for the victim's losses is sustained and is to be adopted. Accordingly, the court sentenced the defendant Lin to two months' detention and a fine of 5,000 yuan for the crime of fraud.
Judge's tip: Take more precautions when you see the demolition moves.
According to the judge, cases of impersonating teachers to charge fees have been frequent recently. Here, the judge reminded the majority of teachers and parents, especially parents, that when receiving such transfer and remittance information, they must verify with the school or other students' parents in person, in person, etc., as soon as possible, and take precautions in accordance with the following methods:
One look: look at the identity. When adding friends, pay attention to verify the identity of the other person, and the remarks can be used as a reference, but don't be completely gullible.
Second prevention: The *** group that does not arbitrarily push WeChat groups to others mainly sets up relevant identity verification, and beware of irrelevant people entering the group chat.
Three checks: Pay attention to check the account of the suspicious person, the high imitation number will generally copy the avatar and nickname, but the WeChat account cannot be modified frequently, and the identity of the other party can be verified.
Fourth question: When you receive information notices such as "payment" and "transfer", you can verify with students and teachers through **, etc., and do not rush to transfer or remit money.
Five reports: Once suspicious circumstances are found, keep relevant evidence and report to the police in time.
In addition, the school should fulfill the responsibility of reminding and supervising, notify the class teacher and the parent committee to effectively manage the group members and group members, and once fraud or other illegal acts are found in the group, they should release clarification information through formal channels as soon as possible to avoid parents being deceived.
Reporter: Luan Deqian.