The salesman was caught by the police under the guise of "free gifts" to defraud the masses of money

The suspect identified the props of the crime. Courtesy of the police

No need to pay money, as long as you "hold a personal field", you can get a kitchen knife worth 198 yuan, or even a non-stick pan with a market price of 598 yuan. Is there really such a good thing as pie falling from the sky? On the morning of October 15, the Dandong Revitalization Public Security Bureau introduced the fraud case under the guise of "free gift" to reporters.

On September 9th, coinciding with the big market in Tangchi Town, Aunt Liu, who was visiting the market, saw a lot of people around a stall, it turned out that a salesman was selling a kitchen knife, and used the kitchen knife in his hand to cut the iron pipe next to it, showing the quality of the kitchen knife cutting iron like mud.

"We just opened a specialty store, this time to open a market, so we came here to promote the product. This knife quality is leveraged. Another staff member also issued a membership card to each person present, telling everyone that they could enjoy discounted prices when they came to the store with the card in the future.

This set of processes has attracted the attention of many people. After explaining for a while, the salesman smiled and squinted and said to everyone that he had said so much and was a little thirsty, hoping that the customers on the spot would pay for him to buy him a bottle of mineral water to drink.

Because the demands were not excessive, some of the onlookers paid a few dollars and handed them to each other. After the salesman received the money, he introduced the product to everyone for a while and then returned the money. "I am just to give you a test, you are willing to pay, to prove that everyone is really listening to my sales, but also to help us expand the publicity, in order to thank you, we will wait for the next gift link, I hope you continue to support us."

After the salesman explained, he repeatedly did this so-called "test" several times in the follow-up sales process, and gave several people who actively "held the scene" a "titanium kitchen knife worth 198 yuan." ”

Aunt Liu, who participated in each "test", also got a kitchen knife, which made her overjoyed. What surprised her even more was that the salesman said that if everyone continued to hold the scene, the non-stick pan worth 598 yuan would be given away for free later. Hearing this, Aunt Liu was even more reluctant to go, and many people around her actively participated in the "test", expecting the other party to quickly take out the non-stick pan.

Near noon, the salesman finally announced that he was going to send non-stick pans, "But we have a limited number of non-stick pans this time, for the sake of fairness, I will give you one last 'test', the rules are the same as before, you give me money, give me a lot of points and then return it." Whoever gives more will receive a non-stick pan worth 598 yuan for free. Do you dare to give? ”

Aunt Liu, who has been "tested" for a long time, did not hesitate, took out 3,000 yuan on her body, and other people also paid money, and shouted with the salesman: "I don't regret it!" "After collecting the money, the salesman said to get in the car to get the pot and tell everyone to wait. So a group of people watched the salesman and the others get into a car parked nearby and walk away.

At this time, most people still did not react, until half a day did not see the car driving back, everyone felt deceived, rushed to the nearby Tangchi police station to call the police for help. According to Aunt Liu, many people at the scene were blinded by the suspect's so-called "tests", and many people paid money, and even some people gave more than she gave.

After receiving the report, the police immediately retrieved the market monitoring, grasped the license plate number of the suspect's motor vehicle, and preliminarily confirmed the suspect's identity information. After a lot of work, the police recently arrested 3 suspects in Dalian. Hearing that the suspects were arrested, Aunt Liu specially came to the police station again, and she told the police: "You must let the law treat them fiercely, these people are specifically deceiving our old men and old ladies, it is so hateful!" ”

After interrogation, the 3 suspects confessed to the criminal facts of the fraud. According to their account, the so-called kitchen knife worth 198 yuan actually costs only a dozen yuan, and the non-stick pan is used to hang everyone from beginning to end, the purpose is to let everyone relax their vigilance and be willing to pay money. The case is still under further work.

The Liaoshen Evening News sent Benxi chief reporter Jin Song

Source: Liaoshen Evening News