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The "diamond painting scam" reappeared, and the amount of money defrauded by bao mamas in many parts of the country may reach tens of millions of yuan

author:Jinan Times - New Yellow River

Pay 999 yuan entry fee, you can permanently get the raw materials for making "diamond paintings", as long as you complete the "diamond paintings" according to the requirements and send them to the designated location, you can cash back 158 yuan after acceptance, excluding freight, each diamond painting net income of 140 yuan. Due to the low threshold and easy to use, this way of making money has made many mothers excited, and Ani of Yuncheng, Shanxi is one of them.

In addition to making "diamond paintings", as long as you pay another 579 yuan agency fee, you can enter the work group and become an agent. Earn dividends by becoming an agent and shareholding company. After getting several cashbacks, Ani has invested more than 200,000 yuan. What she did not expect was that on the fifth day of the Chinese New Year in 2021, the WeChat group she was in was disbanded, and she and her group friends were also kicked out of the group, and overnight, the nearly 2 million yuan invested by Ani and her relatives and friends around her disappeared. Only then did she react and she was deceived.

The so-called diamond painting, that is, different colors of artificial crystals can be pasted on the designed pattern. The New Times reporter's investigation found that as early as 2017, there were many media exposed the "diamond painting scam", and the amount involved ranged from 100 yuan to 100 million yuan. Around the Spring Festival in 2021, thousands of baoma in Shanghai, Henan, Shandong, Chongqing, Shanxi, Anhui, Inner Mongolia and other parts of the country once again fell into the "diamond painting scam", and the amount involved may reach tens of millions of yuan.

The "diamond painting scam" reappeared, and the amount of money defrauded by bao mamas in many parts of the country may reach tens of millions of yuan

Processed diamond paintings, a net profit of 140 yuan

In November 2020, Ani, who was at home full-time to take care of her children, accidentally brushed a message on a video software recruiting a mother to do diamond painting, and the video said, "You don't need to go out, you can make money at home." Ani was moved, she added the person's WeChat through the contact information in the video, inquired and learned that paying 999 yuan entry fee, you can permanently get the raw materials for making "diamond paintings", as long as you complete the "diamond painting" according to the requirements and send it to the designated location, you can cash back 158 yuan after acceptance, in addition to freight, each diamond painting can earn a net of 140 yuan.

According to Ani, the service process of this named "Star Shine Process Company" is: arrange delivery after entry, send the material to home, settle the labor fee after sending it back to the manufacturer, and then send the next batch, and the manual fee is transferred directly by the manufacturer On WeChat, "Never default on a penny, no vacancy period." ”

The "diamond painting scam" reappeared, and the amount of money defrauded by bao mamas in many parts of the country may reach tens of millions of yuan

The agent is divided into three modes: bronze agent, silver agent and gold medal general agent. Agency fees range from $499, $699 and $999. Among them, the bronze medal agent can get 70-120 yuan per diamond painting, and cannot enter the work group. Silver agents can get 100-200 yuan in labor fees, and directly enter the work group after entering the job. The gold medal general agent can get 150-300 yuan per labor fee, and directly enter the work group after joining the company.

After becoming the gold medal general agent, not only can you get higher than the bronze agent and the silver agent, but also have room for promotion, and 20 people can get a 500 yuan cash red envelope reward, or be promoted to team leader through assessment and enjoy a basic salary of 2,000 yuan per month.

After paying the 999 yuan entry fee, if you want to become the gold medal general agent, you can enjoy the discount of the agency fee from 999 yuan to 579 yuan. Ani paid 579 yuan again, became the gold medal general agent and joined the "Star Shine Craft Company" agent WeChat work group, according to the WeChat screenshot provided by Ani, there are 14 agent groups, each group has 500 people, the total number of agents is about 7,000 people, and each group name has a note that it is forbidden to add friends to each other.

The "diamond painting scam" reappeared, and the amount of money defrauded by bao mamas in many parts of the country may reach tens of millions of yuan

Joined the processing plant, dividends of more than 1,000 yuan per day

If the agents can't finish the work, they can be sent directly to the processing plant, a diamond painting is 158 yuan, the workers earn 90 yuan, and the remaining 68 yuan is the agent's dividend.

In order to let the agents in the group join, Wu Qiuping, who claimed to be the chairman of "Xingyao Craft Company", released the detailed settlement details after the entry in the work group: 10 copies of the entry, 99 diamond paintings can be placed in the processing plant, and the fee is settled every 6 days. The entry fee for 10 parts is 5790 yuan, each dividend is 68 yuan, 6 days of settlement is 5 pictures, the total dividend is 340 yuan, and the one-month dividend is 1700 yuan; the entry fee for 20 parts is 11580 yuan, the dividend is 680 yuan every six days, and the dividend is 3400 yuan per month. By analogy, as long as you fill 100 copies and pay an entry fee of 57900 yuan, you can settle a dividend of 1360 yuan per day.

The "diamond painting scam" reappeared, and the amount of money defrauded by bao mamas in many parts of the country may reach tens of millions of yuan

Earning 1,360 yuan a day, For Ani, who watches her children at home full-time, "it's tempting." "Ani was moved, she first joined a hundred shares, and after 44 days she returned the money, and there was a dividend of 1360 yuan per day." I think if I buy another hundred copies, I will have more than two thousand dollars a day. In the end, Ani joined a total of 500 copies by swiping credit cards, online lending, etc., and if she followed the settlement method, she would earn 5440 yuan per day.

On the eve of the Spring Festival in 2021, Wu Qiuping said in the WeChat work group that because there were too many mothers in the job, the workers in the processing plant were too busy to come, and they had newly established a "mother processing plant", and the agents could join the shareholders and enjoy monthly, quarterly and annual dividends. Each time you enter 300 copies, each price is 579 yuan, after becoming a shareholder, there can be a reduction of 20,000 yuan of fees, that is to say, if you want to become a shareholder, the final investment will be 153,700 yuan.

The "diamond painting scam" reappeared, and the amount of money defrauded by bao mamas in many parts of the country may reach tens of millions of yuan

Ani told the New Times reporter that there are baoma in the group since June 2020 and become an agent to participate in dividends, each settlement is very timely, there has never been a delay, so she also feels "very reliable", but because it is close to the New Year, she can't take the money from the shareholders at one time, so she gave up. But Ani's cousin felt that this was a better opportunity to make money, and then she invested 153,700 yuan to become a shareholder of the "Mother Processing Factory". According to Ani's cousin, the shareholder group already had 500 people before the dissolution, and if each person was calculated according to the 153,700 yuan of shares, the people in the group invested a total of 75 million yuan.

The "diamond painting scam" reappeared, and the amount of money defrauded by bao mamas in many parts of the country may reach tens of millions of yuan

The company ran away, and agents in many parts of the country suffered heavy losses

On the first day of the first month of the first month of 2021, the money that should be settled on time every day did not arrive, and Ani and others went to the group to inquire, and got the reply that "the bank is on holiday during the Spring Festival, and the bank card cannot be transferred". He also promised that when he went to work on the sixth day of the first month of the first month, he would make up the previous unsettled money in one go. Ani told the New Times reporter that from the first to the fifth day of the first year, the finance of the "Star Shine Craft Company" in the group has been appeasing everyone, and Ani herself is convinced of this.

The "diamond painting scam" reappeared, and the amount of money defrauded by bao mamas in many parts of the country may reach tens of millions of yuan

The change occurred on the fifth night of the first lunar month. At about three o'clock in the morning, More than 7,000 agents such as Ani were kicked out of the group, and the agent group was disbanded. "When I looked at my phone that morning, my relatives reminded me that the company had run away and that many of my relatives were agents." Ani said that according to their statistics, she and her relatives and friends were defrauded of more than two million yuan. Most of the money everyone has joined is earned through credit cards and online lending.

Ani collapsed, she told the New Times reporter, "At the beginning, I joined 100 jobs, returned 1360 yuan a day, and came back quite quickly." After returning 38,000 yuan, I took out a loan from the Internet and invested more than 30,000 yuan, so I have been investing. At that time, I thought about returning money every day, and at the same time paying back money every day, the more I invested, the faster I returned the money, and the more I earned. That's it. Now all kinds of online loans plus credit cards, calculated down to be defrauded of more than two hundred thousand. ”

After discovering that they had been deceived, Ani and many other agents quickly formed various rights protection groups and deceived groups on a regional basis. According to Ani, there are currently victims in Shanghai, Henan, Shandong, Chongqing, Shanxi, Anhui, Inner Mongolia and other parts of the country, and more than 3,000 people have been defrauded in the 13 rights defense groups she belongs to.

The "diamond painting scam" reappeared, and the amount of money defrauded by bao mamas in many parts of the country may reach tens of millions of yuan

Ani told the New Times reporter that most of the cheated people in the agent group are full-time mothers with babies at home, there are also disabled people and the elderly, and there are group friends who broke the news that a young agent used his mother's pension money to enter the job, was defrauded of 220,000, and chose to jump off the building in despair. "The loan repayment day is coming, there are old and young, and they can't afford to be happy." A group of friends said so. Ani said that the agents had been defrauded of amounts in the group, "The total number is too long to count." ”

On February 19, accompanied by her family, Ani and others chose to report the case to the local police station, and the New Times reporter will continue to pay attention to the progress. (In this article, Ani is a pseudonym)

New Times reporter: Mei Han

Editor: Ran Liu

Intern: Zhang Xuechun