Xinhua News Agency, Hangzhou, February 17th (Reporter Ma Jian) On the 17th, the reporter learned from the Zhejiang Provincial Public Security Bureau that in the past week, the public security organs in Zhejiang Province arrested more than 60 suspects who used the epidemic to falsely sell masks, and solved more than 120 cases, involving more than 13 million yuan. Among them, many are online fraud cases aimed at enterprises returning to work to buy masks and other materials.
In the early morning of February 14th, the fraud suspect surrendered himself to Qingshan Police Station of Lin ‘an Branch of Hangzhou Public Security Bureau accompanied by his family. From January 19th to the beginning of February, I bought a large number of medical materials such as masks and thermometers from a fictitious person, and defrauded more than 10 people for shopping, totaling more than 4 million yuan. Subsequently, Xiang will defraud the money for online gambling. At present, the case is being fully investigated.
At present, the demand for medical materials, such as masks and thermometers, has soared as local enterprises have resumed their work. Criminals use the shortage of medical materials such as masks to commit fraud, falsely claiming that there are a large number of masks, and they will neither deliver nor pay back the money after receiving the money.
Mr. Xu runs an integrated ceiling factory in Jiaxing. The company is about to resume work, and employees are in urgent need of a batch of masks. On February 10th, he saw on WeChat group that someone posted the information of selling masks, and paid the other party 9600 yuan for 6,400 disposable masks at the price of each one in 1.5 yuan through WeChat code scanning for five times. In the past two days, the delivery was delayed. Mr. Xu urged the other party through WeChat but was "blacked out" and immediately reported the case.
On February 1st, Mr. Zhang from Xinchang County, Shaoxing City paid a "seller" for a batch of masks for employees. Mr. Zhang urged the other party to deliver the goods several times, and finally received the courier on February 11, but he was dumbfounded after opening it. "When the parcel was opened, it was full of branches, and it suddenly lost 185,000 yuan." On February 13, the police arrested the suspect Anmou.
Previously, the Zhejiang Provincial Public Security Department issued the "Ten Measures for Zhejiang Public Security Organs to Guarantee Enterprises to Rework and Return to Work". According to the regulations, the public security organs will severely crack down on crimes involving enterprises, strengthen the improvement of the public security environment around enterprises, strengthen public security patrols, improve the rate of seeing police and handling affairs, and crack down on illegal and criminal acts that hinder enterprises from reworking and resuming normal production quickly and severely, so as to create a good production environment for enterprises.
The police reminded that online purchase of medical supplies such as masks should be carried out on a regular platform. Offline purchases should be made in a regular pharmacy. Don’t trust the so-called "purchasing". When you receive information such as remittance, transfer and providing verification code, you must be vigilant and check it again and again. Once you find that you have been cheated, call the police in time.