Ma Li Zi: A century old secret recipe? That's a scam! Internet | Grandpa | Chestnut
Grandpa Yan has an old condition of deafness, and he has been seeking medical treatment everywhere but has not improved. During the Spring Festival dinner, relatives recommended a doctor's "Smart Ear Prescription" from their circle of friends to him. After adding WeChat, the "miracle doctor" claimed to be very "amazing" in treating ears, and even had "hundreds of years of ancestral secret formulas".
After online consultation with Grandpa Yan, the doctor specially customized a prescription for 3000 yuan, claiming to be a "single person prescription" and a capsule made by boiling dozens of precious medicinal materials. Promise to have significant improvement in symptoms within 60 days of one treatment cycle after medication, and to return to normal within 180 days of three cycles without recurrence.
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After Grandpa Yan tried for one cycle but failed, the "divine doctor" explained that Grandpa Yan's spleen and stomach were not compatible, which affected the absorption of the drug. He should purchase two more cycles of medication to take effect. Grandpa Yan followed the doctor's advice, but still did not see any improvement after taking the medicine. After searching online, he found that the so-called "miracle medicine" was only sold for a dozen yuan online.
Originally, the "miracle doctor" was just a member of a fraud gang. From the beginning of 2018 to January 2019, the defendant and 39 accomplices set up a so-called "new media" sales team in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, without professional medical background and basic medical knowledge, and pushed false advertisements on the Internet platform.
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To further deepen the trust of the victims, forged professional medical certificates were also sent, posing as doctors, expert professors, rehabilitation therapists, etc., exaggerating the severity of the victim's illness, and inducing customers to be deceived.
They created a professional terminology script sheet, covering sales processes such as inquiring about the condition, analyzing diagnosis, introducing drug efficacy, and prescribing prescriptions. If the victim has a corresponding illness, they copy and paste the corresponding script response; If the victim requests an offline consultation, they will refuse under the pretext of receiving too many patients, complicated preparation of medicinal materials, and lack of time.
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Packaging mass-produced finished drugs as "single person, single party" with a selling price far higher than the market price. Packaging over-the-counter drugs, health products, and food into capsules made by boiling and concentrating dozens of precious medicinal materials, and randomly adding medication according to the victim's actual economic capacity. When the victim reports poor drug efficacy, blame it on the victim's own reasons and lure them to purchase more drugs.
After investigation, the defendant was found to have committed a total of over 590000 yuan in criminal offenses. Taking into account the total amount of the crime and other circumstances, the first instance court sentenced the defendant to four years in prison and a fine of RMB 30000 for fraud in accordance with the law; The illegal gains shall be returned to each victim in accordance with the law. The defendant was dissatisfied and appealed to the Shanghai First Intermediate People's Court. After examination, the Shanghai Intermediate People's Court has ruled to uphold the first instance judgment.
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The content of this article is extracted from the Shanghai platform of "Learning Power".
Text: Zhang Zhiping, Zhang Wei Cartoon: Zhu Jin
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