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A mother in Hangzhou wanted to withdraw 400,000 yuan, claiming to use it for her son’s wedding. After her daughter called the police, the police found that the money was actually related to telecommunications fraud committed by relatives in Sichuan, and eventually successfully blocked it.
The mother withdrew 400,000 yuan (RMB, same below) in cash and claimed to be preparing the wedding expenses for her son, who is still in college, at the end of the year. The daughter realized that something was not simple and immediately called the police. After a thorough investigation, police in Hangzhou, Zhejiang discovered that the money was actually related to an inter-provincial telecommunications fraud. He immediately withheld the 400,000 yuan to be distributed to avoid losing the family’s many years of savings.fraud syndicate In hand.
Hangzhou Daily reported that the Nanyuan Police Station of Linping District Public Security Bureau of Hangzhou City recently discovered that Ms. Wang had made abnormal cash withdrawals of up to 400,000 yuan from her bank account. When contacted by the police for verification, Ms. Wang said that her son had a girlfriend, and the parents of both parties were planning to discuss marriage at the end of the year. This money was reserved for wedding expenses. When faced with an anti-fraud warning from the police, he insisted that he had not encountered any suspicious circumstances and then quickly hung up the phone.
Police then contacted Ms Wang’s daughter Xiaosun (pseudonym). Xiao Sun confirmed that her younger brother was indeed in love and discussing marriage, but she did not know that her mother had prepared 400,000 yuan in cash. The police reminded him to pay attention to his mother’s condition and the whereabouts of her money.
On October 20, Xiao Sun urgently called the police and said that the money prepared by his mother might have some other purpose. It was not for her brother’s wedding, but to lend it to her uncle in his hometown of Sichuan for business, and it would soon be handed over to an unknown person. The police immediately found the mother and daughter and took them to the police station to understand the situation.
Ms Wang initially insisted that she had not been defrauded, explaining that her brother had asked her not to spread word about the loan, but when police asked for her brother’s contact information, she was unwilling to cooperate. After some persuasion from the police sergeant, she admitted that her brother had indeed raised the money from her, but he only said that the business was in urgent need of the money and asked her to wait for notification and hand over the cash to a “particular person” at a specified time and place.
Police immediately contacted Mr Wang in Guangyuan, Sichuan, to uncover the scam. It turned out that Mr. Wang met a woman on the Internet 2 months ago, and after developing an online relationship, he followed the other party’s instructions to download a strange app and invest money in the so-called “cross-border e-commerce”. Before the incident, he wanted to withdraw and get the money back, but the platform customer service claimed that his bank card number was wrong and his account was frozen. Before he could get all the money back he had to make an “unfreeze deposit” of 400,000 yuan. He also said that he would send someone to collect the money.
Mr. Wang, who was eager to get his investment back, believed it and borrowed the money from his sister, but concealed the real motive. Police busted the fraud and asked him to stop recharging, pay the unfreezing fee and report the matter to the local public safety agency.
Linping police initiated inter-provincial cooperation and sent leads to Guangyuan police to begin investigation and recovery of stolen goods. Ms Wang eventually came to her senses and deposited all 400,000 yuan back into the bank with the police. She said emotionally: “This 400,000 yuan is my savings little by little. When I think of being cheated, I don’t know what to do.”
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She initially told police that the 400,000 yuan in cash was to prepare for the expenses of her son’s wedding at the end of the year, who was still in college. He also said that the parents of both parties were already discussing the marriage and did not mention any questionable loans or investments.
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The daughter discovered that the 400,000 yuan prepared by her mother had inconsistent usage details and was to be handed over to an unknown person, so she immediately called the police. After further investigation, the police discovered that the money was actually involved in inter-provincial telecommunication fraud.
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Mr Wang, from Sichuan, fell in love online and downloaded a strange app to invest in so-called cross-border e-commerce. When he wanted to get his money back, he was asked to pay an unrestricted deposit of 400,000 yuan and was told that someone would be sent to collect the money. This is a typical fraud technique.
