Easily earn three thousand yuan a month? Shanghai police detect huge online training fraud case, 0 down payment learning clip
Get started quickly with zero basics, and have business cooperation with all major platforms; arrange to take orders after 9 courses, and earn a stable income of 3,000 yuan per month... However, after someone signed up to complete the training, not only was it impossible to take orders and make money, but there was also no way to get a refund. Shanghai police today announced the status of an online training fraud case, in which a total of 122 suspects were arrested and the amount involved exceeded 17 million yuan.
In February this year, Qingpu police received a report from citizen Ms. Customer service WeChat consultation.
The "successful cases" sent by customer service showed that a student with a junior high school degree successfully received an order for a graduation project from a college student after completing the course, and was paid 420 yuan in just half an hour; a student who was an in-service teacher took part-time orders on weekends and rest days. Easily earn 3,000 yuan a month.
Ms. Xing paid a deposit of 100 yuan according to the other party's instructions, and signed the contract stipulating that the remaining 4,880 yuan should be paid in 12 installments. However, after she listened to the course and completed her homework, the customer service refused to send an order to Ms. Xing because her score was not high. After being unable to receive orders for a long time, Ms.
The Qingpu police determined that this was a criminal activity involving fraud in the name of part-time recruitment. After in-depth investigation, a fraud criminal gang located in other provinces and cities that defrauded training fees in the name of recruitment surfaced. In March this year, with the strong assistance of the local police, 122 gang members including Fang and Xu were captured by the Qingpu Public Security Department.
Scam tactics stored on gang members’ computers when committing crimes
According to the case handling agency, in March 2022, the criminal suspects Fang, Xu and others registered and established an education technology company, and recruited personnel to be responsible for diversion, sales, operations, after-sales and other tasks. In the absence of an external video editing business, the gang published false advertisements through the job search platform, claiming that "after completing 9 editing courses, you can join the outsourcing order group to make money" to attract job seekers. During the process, the gang also used forged case screenshots and modified chat records to trick job seekers into purchasing a video editing training course worth 4,980 yuan in installments.
In order to ensure that the victim completes all training, the gang will also forge fake orders with a reward of 10-40 yuan per order and deliver them within the group to stabilize the trainees. As time went by, when the students in the group completed all the courses, the order dispatchers stopped dispatching orders and refused to refund.
After preliminary verification, the amount involved in the case exceeded 17 million yuan. Currently, 122 suspects including Fang, Xu, and Zhang have been subject to criminal coercive measures by Qingpu police in accordance with the law on suspicion of fraud, and the case is under further investigation.
This case is a typical case in which the Shanghai police severely crack down on the "recruitment-to-training" fraud crime in accordance with the law. It is reported that the Shanghai police have busted 12 such fraud criminal gangs this year, solved 18 cases, arrested more than 400 suspects, and the amount involved was nearly 40 million yuan.
