Under the guise of "TCM clinic"
They cheat the elderly into buying health care products
In early June this year, the Guangzhou police received a public alarm, claiming that they participated in a "cloud to plan" called chronic disease management for the elderly, spent a large amount of money to buy a variety of health care products, and suspected that they had been cheated.
After in-depth investigation, police found a "traditional Chinese medicine clinic" in the guise of a fraud ring. The scam group promoted health products through online consultation, television advertisements, posters and tape recorders, and promoted the "Cloud to Program" aimed at elderly patients with chronic diseases. They claimed that the program, sponsored by a well-known pharmaceutical group, organized several "experienced" TCM practitioners to provide elderly patients with chronic diseases with online consultation services by experts from Classⅲ Grade A hospitals without leaving their homes.
In the process of "consultation", the gang collected the disease information submitted by the prospective clients, falsely claimed that through the research of the national TCM team and comparison of similar cases, the clients were provided with a one-person, one-party, tailored treatment plan. In effect, the gang used the "Tong Fang" to promote its own health products to customers. Then, the first-line and second-line call personnel within the gang play different roles such as "senior chief physician" and "expert", repeatedly raise orders, and induce customers to buy the company's products for many times on the grounds that thorough treatment requires the combination of multiple drugs, so as to obtain high profits.
On June 8 this year, Guangzhou police launched a heavy hammer attack, "hunting fraud 13" to crack down on pension fraud unified action. On the day of the operation, Guangzhou police smashed 8 groups of elderly care fraud, arrested 301 suspects, and closed down 23 places of fraud such as "outpatient departments" and "health centers". After preliminary verification, the eight gangs involved a total of more than 32 million yuan.
Impersonate a village cadre
Cheating under the name of "paying pension on behalf of others"
One day at the beginning of this year at 4 p.m., Jieyang Puning city accounted for the long town of the village of Chen Lao Bo home to a man, the other side claimed to be the newly appointed village cadres, to help Chen Lao Bo for "pension" pay business. Chen, 97 years old, was at home alone at the time. A heard that the other party is "village cadres", Chen relaxed the guard, will be home all cash to the man.
The man asked Chen to pay 7500 yuan, but Chen only 7400 yuan, the man said 100 yuan by his first advance, such as documents to do all, and then let Chen make up the old man. The man then left quickly, saying he needed to pay money at the bank. See each other in a hurry to leave, Mr. Chen realized something was wrong, quickly call the situation to tell his children.
Found that the old man was cheated, Chen's son immediately to account for long police station police. Police found in the process of investigation, in the old man was cheated more than 20 days ago, neighboring villages and towns also have an elderly couple was cheated, fraud means are the same. On the same day, a young man posing as the son of Chen Wenbin, a village official, approached Han Auntie and her husband and asked for their "pension".
The two old people also fell into the man's scam, put together their savings and gave them to him. The next day, when they asked the real village officials about the progress of the "pension", they found that they had been cheated. With the help of village cadres, Han aunt couple reported to the police station, the police rushed to the scene for investigation.
One after another to "pension" in the name of fraud cases, Jieyang City Public Security Bureau immediately mobilize the fight against pension fraud class force, the organization of elite police to carry out in-depth investigation. Police according to the grasp of clues to make arrest plan, and the criminal suspect Chen Bao implementation of arrest.
The police initially identified the suspect, Chen Mou Bao, since the end of last year in Jieyang Puning city, Shantou Chaonan district has carried out three "pension" fraud. So far, police have recovered 7,400 yuan of the stolen money and returned it to the victim. Police remind the elderly to be alert to "pension finance" "pension services" and other fraud, timely see through the scam, to avoid property losses.
Pretend to be experts
Tricking old people into buying medicine at high prices
In early April, police in Gaoming, Foshan, reported several cases of elderly people buying Chinese herbs at mobile vendors, finding that the prices of traditional Chinese medicine were inflated and their medical insurance cards were stolen.
The Gaoming police attached great importance to it and carried out investigation quickly, and found out a large criminal gang involved in pension fraud that was running around in Foshan, Guangzhou, Jiangmen, Zhongshan, Zhaoqing and other places. After investigation, the gang has up to 18 people, involved in about 1 million yuan. On July 1, the police carried out a centralized collection operation, captured Li Mouying, Li Mousheng and other 18 suspects, successfully destroyed the criminal gang, frozen the involved funds of more than 100,000, seized 4 vehicles, 32 POS machines, 17 mobile phones, a number of bank cards, fake medicine and a large number of other items involved in the case.
It is understood that the criminal suspect li mou English along with a number of social idle workers, in the form of mobile stalls selling fake Chinese herbal medicine, first shoddy, to exaggerate the effect way to lure the elderly consumption, in the payment link again use old people are not familiar with the characteristics of mobile payment, an excuse to help the elderly health insurance CARDS, deliberately input large amount of money stolen brush medicare card.
In the process of trading, the gang not only defrauded the elderly by fuzzy units of measurement, but also sold Chinese herbal medicine at a high price by means of inferior filling and fake. "For example, when the elderly asked for 100 grams of medicine, the suspect would trick the elderly into agreeing to grind the medicine into powder by saying it was easy to use and easy to carry. But in the process of grinding, the original 100 grams of herbs were mixed with other Chinese herbs, and the 100 grams of herbs were forcibly ground into 800 grams of powder."
Many older people, for a variety of reasons, end up being forced to pay high prices for products. When an elderly person said they did not have enough money to pay, the gang members even followed the elderly home and used the POS machine they carried with them to make the elderly pay by card.
Since April this year, Guangdong public security has made progress in cracking down on pension fraud. A total of 582 cases of pension fraud have been uncovered, 95 criminal gangs have been busted, more than 1,300 criminal suspects have been arrested, and more than 300 million yuan of pension fraud money and goods have been recovered or frozen.
Police remind the elderly to improve the awareness of fraud prevention, children should also care more about the elderly at home, such as found infringement of the elderly property rights and interests of all kinds of criminal clues, please actively report to the police.