Pay millions of yuan for strange couriers, expose the fraud "business experience" behind blind "cash on delivery" couriers

Obviously, he did not shop online, but received a courier, and what is even stranger is that the courier not only asks the public to pay the courier fee, but also asks to pay for the goods. When the package was opened, it was found that the value of the goods was far less than the payment for the goods. Jiefang Daily and Shangguan News have reported that since the beginning of this year, the number of complaints about such "cash on delivery express" by the public has increased significantly. (Click to view the details of the report)

The reporter learned from the Shanghai Pudong New Area People's Procuratorate that this kind of "cash on delivery" express delivery has become a new type of fraud. The court recently handled such a case, the criminal gang priced the cheap sweater costing only more than ten yuan at 198 yuan, randomly sent to all parts of the country, thousands of people were deceived, and the cumulative amount of fraud reached more than 1 million yuan.

Cai mou has been an e-commerce for a period of time, so he has accumulated as many as 100,000 pieces of citizens' personal information. In 2020, Cai failed to speculate in futures and owed a lot of debt. In order to repay the money, she thought of using the personal information of citizens in her hands to blindly send couriers to all parts of the country, and if the recipient mistakenly judged to be "the courier she missed" or "the courier purchased by her family" and signed for payment, she could easily earn money.

Subsequently, Cai found a friend Zhang Who had also done e-commerce, and through him he met Shuai, who ran a courier business. Since August 2020, the three conspired, and Cai mou bought more than 20,000 cheap sweaters of different styles and colors at prices ranging from 10 to 20 yuan on the stall, and the unified price was 198 yuan. After that, Cai and Zhang handed over the sweater and the customer information they had respectively to Shuai, who packed the sweater and sent it to the customer in the form of cash on delivery.

"Such an operation will inevitably lead to a very high return rate, but for Cai and others, the return rate is actually irrelevant, because the profit is too high." The prosecutor in charge said that in this case, about 5,700 consignees signed for and paid for the goods. Those cheap sweaters that were refused to sign for will be sent back by the courier company, and Cai and others will repackage them and continue to send them to the next address. Therefore, the actual cost paid by Cai and others is only the purchase price of sweaters, plus low courier fees, and a small part of the sweaters signed for them have brought them millions of yuan in income. Most of these payments were scored by Cai and Zhang, and Shuai could get a service fee from them.

According to statistics, in just three months, Cai and others "recycled" these 20,000 sweaters and blindly sent more than 100,000 "cash on delivery" express deliveries to all parts of the country. When he was caught, Shuai's warehouse still had a large backlog of cheap and inferior sweaters.

After review, the procuratorial organs held that Cai X, Zhang X, Shuai X, and others used the method of fabricating facts and concealing the truth to defraud public and private property, and the amount was particularly huge, which constituted the crime of fraud. Recently, the Pudong court sentenced defendant Cai X to 10 years and 6 months in prison, defendant Zhang X to 10 years in prison, and defendant Shuai X to 9 years in prison for committing fraud in accordance with the law.

Column Editor-in-Chief: Wang Haiyan Text Editor: Wang Xiaole Title Image Source: Figure Worm Image Editor: Su Wei

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