He also made a profit of more than 10,000 yuan by hawking online. A man in Shanghai defrauded a shopping mall of parking points by PSing consumption receipts.
The "tea fee" is several hundred yuan, the "table fee" is thousands of yuan, and the "crayfish" is tens of thousands of yuan. These exaggerated consumption receipts were actually made by a man using photo editing software in order to defraud the shopping mall. Points can be used to offset parking fees. Not only did he save himself parking fees, he also turned this into a "business opportunity", making a profit of more than 10,000 yuan in 3 months. Recently, Shanghai Putuo police uncovered a case of defrauding shopping mall parking fees.
In early May this year, the Baiyu Road Police Station of the Putuo Public Security Bureau of the Municipal Public Security Bureau received an alarm from the person in charge of a shopping mall, saying that when sorting out the parking data over the years, it was found that three member accounts had uploaded hundreds of "huge" cashier tickets in 2021. Tickets earn membership points. The cashier receipts for these "huge" purchases were all from restaurants in shopping malls. However, many small items were calculated incorrectly, and the amount of the bill seriously did not match the normal consumption of the restaurant, so there was suspicion of forgery.
Starting from these three abnormal member accounts, the police investigation found that the users of the mobile phone numbers bound to these accounts were direct relatives, and there were records of paying for the same vehicle multiple times. After obtaining relevant evidence, the police arrested Chen, the owner of the vehicle involved, on May 6.
According to the agency handling the case, at the beginning of 2021, Chen was selling parking points from major shopping malls on a second-hand trading platform, and he came up with the idea of tampering with consumption receipts in exchange for parking points. He tried to use photo editing software to tamper with the amount on the consumption receipt in exchange for parking points in a shopping mall, and it really succeeded. After several attempts, Chen turned the modification of receipts into a "business" and publicly announced on an online shopping platform that he would pay the parking fee of a shopping mall with a half discount. In less than 3 months, he successfully received more than 500 orders and made an illegal profit of tens of millions. The shopping mall lost nearly 22,000 yuan in parking fees.
The edited consumption receipt successfully obtained points that can be used to deduct parking fees.
At present, the criminal suspect Chen has been subject to criminal coercive measures by the Putuo Branch in accordance with the law on suspicion of fraud. The police also reminded the mall management and asked the mall to rectify the parking lot charging system to avoid leaving opportunities for criminals.