Source: Hengyang Intermediate Court
Transferred from: Hunan High Court
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Diabetes, gout patients are blessed,
Multi-purpose therapy instrument is free!
For such advertisements in newspapers, magazines and the Internet,
Most young people will scoff at it,
However, many middle-aged and elderly people are still frequently recruited.
More than 9,000 people were defrauded of 35.65 million "life-saving money",
The main offender is sentenced to life imprisonment!
Hunan Higher People's Court work report
Such a case was disclosed.
Scam syndicates are crazy to make money,
The elderly's "life-saving money" was used for dinner
Ads that appear everywhere
The 73-year-old Yin Ta Ta family lives in Changning City, Hunan Province, and has suffered from gout for many years. In September 2014, he saw an advertisement in the newspaper for a free gout treatment kit and called. The other party said that he was "Professor Ma" of the Chinese Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences in Beijing, and the instrument could be sent free of charge, but it needed 2300 yuan of consumables, but these expenses could be reimbursed. After thinking about it for a few days, Yin Ta Ta agreed, and the cash on delivery extracted the treatment instrument. Half a month later, "Professor Ma" called again and said that he needed to buy drugs to cooperate with treatment, otherwise he would get uremia and die. In desperation, Yin Ta Ta has bought drugs more than ten times, paying a total of more than 100,000 yuan. However, he went to the relevant departments to find that the instruments and drugs could not be reimbursed, and most of them were health care products, and it was only a few tens of yuan to buy them.
Yin Didn't know that this "Professor Ma in Beijing" was actually a liar in Hengyang. In March 2013, Li Shun and Wu Zhenxing established a trading company, and gathered dozens of people (most of them relatives and friends) such as Zou X and Deng X to form a fraud group and used telemarketing to carry out fraud. After arranging for members to illegally obtain patient information through false advertising information promotion, they impersonated experts, professors, and chief doctors of famous hospitals in Beijing to lure patients to purchase "treatment instruments" and "drug stickers" with no efficacy to defraud the money. And when some patients contact each other in the future, waiting for the opportunity to scam again. According to statistics, the fraud group defrauded a total of 9,036 people through the above methods, defrauding 35.65 million yuan.
In order to achieve the purpose of long-term crime, the criminal group established an organizational level, formulated organizational rules, clarified the division of labor, and set up a "special department" (fraud den) for diabetes, gout, and liver disease, and employees were evaluated and ranked on a monthly basis. Li Shun also regularly or during holidays used the "life-saving money" of the deceived elderly to organize meals and gatherings for all members.
instructing his nephew to set up an advertising company,
Unlawful acquisition of patient personal information
In addition to directly defrauding money, the group does not even spare the personal information of patients. From December 2014 to October 2015, Li Shun arranged for group members Fan and Wan to contact Li X, the legal representative of an information company in Changsha (handled in a separate case), and Li X placed free ads for various types of treatment instruments on Baidu network, attracted patients to consult online, illegally obtained about 22,000 pieces of citizens' personal information, and then sold them to the fraudulent group at a price of 110-120 yuan per article, collecting an illegal profit of 2.65 million yuan.
From March to June 2015, Li Shun also arranged for his nephew Deng Qingyang to jointly set up a Xinju Advertising Company with Peng X and Feng X (both handled in separate cases), illegally obtaining about 7,000 pieces of citizens' personal information by placing advertisements for free and giving away various types of treatment instruments on Baidu, Sogou and other websites, and then selling them to the fraud group in this case at a price of 110-120 yuan per article, illegally profiting 920,000 yuan. Deng Qingyang and others also purchased patients' personal information (i.e., patients' names, telephone numbers, addresses, conditions, etc.) through the Internet and handed them to group members to carry out fraud.
In 2018, members of the fraud group were arrested.
The principal offender was sentenced to life imprisonment,
Confiscation of all personal property
The Hengyang City Intermediate People's Court held in the first instance that Li Shun, Wu Zhenxing, and others had defrauded others of their property and property through telecommunications networks by fabricating facts and concealing the truth for the purpose of illegal possession, and the amount was particularly huge, and their acts had constituted the crime of fraud. Li Shun, Deng Qingyang, and others also violated national laws and regulations by using illegal means to obtain citizens' personal information and used it for fraud crimes, the circumstances of which were serious, and their acts have constituted the crime of illegally obtaining citizens' personal information. Accordingly, Li Shun was sentenced to life imprisonment, deprivation of political rights for life, and confiscation of all personal property for both fraud and illegal acquisition of citizens' personal information. Wu Zhenxing and others were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from 15 to 3 years for the crimes of fraud and illegally obtaining citizens' personal information.
The Hunan Provincial Higher People's Court rejected the appeal in the second instance and upheld the original judgment.
The number of elderly people on the mainland is rising, and the more and more cases of fraud in the society selling health care products to the elderly. Remind the broad masses of the people not to be gullible about abnormal sales calls and advertisements, and should purchase products suitable for themselves through normal channels.