Just when the mascot of the Winter Olympics "Ice Pier" was popular and online and offline "one pier is difficult to find", many places in Zhejiang recently broke out the "Ice Pier" scam.
On February 8 and 9, the police in Ningbo, Jiaxing, Wenzhou and Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, successively released cases of purchasing "ice piers" scams, reminding the public not to believe in price speculation and rational consumption.
On February 9, the topic related to "scammers also come to rub the heat of the ice pier" also rushed to the Baidu hot search list, causing the majority of netizens to pay attention to and discuss. In addition, the Concept Stock of the Winter Olympics Cultural and Creative Concept continued to soar due to "one pier is difficult to find".
Source: Baidu Hot Search List
After transferring the payment, it was "blocked"
The anti-fraud reminder released by the official WeChat of the Yinzhou Branch of the Ningbo Municipal Public Security Bureau on the 9th showed that on the afternoon of the 7th, the local citizen Xiao Yang reported that because he liked the "ice pier" too much, he added a man who claimed to have many "ice piers" on the Recommendation of his classmates.
Chat history of Xiao Yang and the seller Source: Yinzhou public security WeChat
However, what Xiao Yang did not expect was that after he transferred the money, he was blocked by the other party. Although he has called the police, this incident still makes Xiao Yang very sad, and someone will use such a cute ice pier to defraud, "it is simply heartless."
Source: Yinzhou Public Security WeChat
Coincidentally, Mr. Lang of Haiyan in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, met a netizen who claimed to have channels to buy "ice piers" through an App. After adding WeChat, the other party sent a photo of the "ice pier". Mr. Lang then transferred 266 yuan and purchased 3 small "ice piers" and 1 large "ice pier". On the afternoon of the 7th, Mr. Lang found that there was only one spectacle cloth inside after receiving the courier, and contacted the other party to find that it had been blocked, so he went to the police station to call the police.
On February 9, the official WeChat of the Wenzhou Anti-Fraud Center in Zhejiang Province also announced a similar case. Wang Mou, a local citizen, saw someone on an APP who claimed to be able to purchase "ice piers", and because he was eager to ask for a pier, he transferred an advance deposit of 3500 yuan to the other party. However, after the money arrived, the other party said that it was more difficult to buy "ice piers" now, and it would take a while. Wang proposed a refund and found that he had been blocked.
In the anti-fraud case announced by the Shaoxing Zhuji police on the 8th, local citizen Zhang Mou also wanted to buy "ice piers" on behalf of xu mou, a man who claimed to be in Beijing, who had been acquainted in the online game, transferred 1,000 yuan, and after getting the reply that the other party "it is difficult to buy a mascot now, it will take a while", he proposed a refund but found that he was blocked.
Source: China Securities News