The Beijing Winter Olympics were held in a grand manner, and the mascot "ice pier" became the top stream, and once it was put on the shelves, it was sold out instantly, and there was a situation of "one pier is difficult to find". In order to have an ice pier, everyone showed their magic, looking for scalpers, asking friends and even starting to make their own. However, some people have spent money unjustly because of this, and they have also been deleted and blocked by scammers
Phenomenon: The Winter Olympic mascot was fried by scalpers at a high price of 9 times
The winter Olympic mascot ice pier pier "one pier is difficult to find", but also gave birth to the scalper business, and even speculated to a price of "9 times" more than the original price.
The reporter contacted a number of scalpers in the name of buying ice piers, and some scalpers told reporters bluntly: "There is a spot, that is, expensive." There are also scalpers who said that the official price of less than 200 yuan of 20cm ice pier plush toys, now from his shot to 2,000 yuan, "if you are in a hurry to send people can consider, if you are keeping, it is recommended to wait for a few days." ”
It is said that on Japan's largest second-hand trading website, a group of Beijing Winter Olympic mascot dolls can even sell for about 5,000 yuan.
On February 8, beijing Dongcheng police reported that three people had been given administrative punishments for reselling "ice piers" at high prices in designated sales outlets and other places, illegally making profits and disrupting the normal purchase order.
However, the people who played the "crooked idea" did not stop there. A blogger in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, broke the news that shortly after the news was released, in the community group where he was located, someone increased the price to sell the keychain of the ice pier, "129 yuan a piece, directly added nearly 100 yuan, saying that it was the 12th and the price increase." To give everyone a wake-up call, the blogger said he decided to throw the bulletin into the group.
Falling into a scammer trap to buy a mascot was blocked after paying money
According to the Ningbo police, on the afternoon of February 7, Xiao Yang, who lives in Fuming Street, Yinzhou District, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, called the police and said that he liked the ice pier too much and dreamed of owning one. After the recommendation of the classmates, a man who claimed to have many ice piers was added to the WeChat, and then after bargaining, the two sides traded at a price of 230 yuan, saying that the good money would be shipped. But I didn't expect that after the transfer, Xiao Yang was blocked by the other party.
Also deceived was Mr. Minyan of Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province, who on February 7 found that someone on the Internet claimed to be able to buy "ice piers", so he transferred money through Alipay in two times to buy "ice pier" dolls, but when he contacted each other again, he found that he had been blocked.
Mr. Yan thought that his friend had also purchased an "ice pier" through this person not long ago, so he contacted his friend to inquire about the situation, only to learn that his friend was also blocked, and what was even more excessive was that there was only one piece of glasses cloth in the courier received.
When Mr. Yan found out that he had been deceived, he immediately called the police on 110. The Yancheng police attached great importance to it, immediately carried out work, and successfully targeted the criminal suspects.
On the evening of February 8, the criminal police brigade of the Yannan High-tech District Bureau of the Yancheng City Public Security Bureau and the Xindu Police Station went to Beijing overnight to carry out an arrest operation and successfully arrested the criminal suspect Hu Mou. Hu confessed to his illegal and criminal acts, which was the first "ice pier" electric fraud case detected by the province since 2022.
At present, the case is still under further consideration.
Interpretation: Fancy self-made "ice pier" intrusion or not infringement?
How to have a "ice pier" of your own in the case of "a pier is difficult to find"? Many talented netizens have taken a different path, picked up materials and tools to achieve "ice pier freedom" by themselves, such as the snowman "ice pier", the comic hand-painted "ice pier", the flower bun "ice pier", the plasticine "ice pier", the "ice pier" tangyuan, the paper-cut "ice pier", the wool "ice pier", the sugar man "ice pier", the emoji...
So, will these self-made "ice piers" and "snow melting" cause infringement in the end?
Zhang Xiaobin, a lawyer at Beijing Zhilin Law Firm, said that fair use in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright Law is allowed.
Lawyer Zhang Xiaobin further explained that if you study, research or appreciate for an individual and use a work that has already been published by others, you can not pay the copyright owner without permission from the copyright owner, but you should specify the author's name or name and the name of the work, and must not affect the normal use of the work, and you have to reasonably damage the legitimate rights and interests of the copyright owner, "If there is no commercial sale, these self-made items do not constitute infringement, but if they are engaged in commercial sales for profit, they constitute infringement." However, the production and dissemination of related memes on the Internet, even if there is no fee, is strictly speaking, unauthorized use is still an infringement. ”
Lawyer Zhang Xiaobin said that if it constitutes infringement, it should bear the corresponding civil liabilities such as stopping the infringement, eliminating the impact, apologizing, and compensating for losses according to the circumstances of the infringement.
Reminder: beware of these scams!
At present, the police in many places have issued a reminder that the licensed goods of the Beijing Winter Olympics will continue to be sold until at least the end of June 2022, and active measures have been coordinated to promote production, and there will be a steady supply of "ice piers" to the market. Do not buy from the "scalper" at a high price to avoid financial losses.
If you encounter the need to pay the "advance payment", "deposit", "handling fee", etc. in advance, the possibility of fraud is extremely high, do not be gullible. They often "shoddy" and use souvenirs that do not have collectible value to impersonate and defraud high purchases; "empty gloves and white wolves", just under the guise of "Winter Olympic souvenirs", will be blacked out and disappear after receiving the transfer.
At the same time, it is also pointed out that there are four types of fraud that are also worth vigilance against: the first type, counterfeiting the official website of the Winter Olympic Games. By setting up a fake official website of the Winter Olympics, criminals have lured online registration by setting up a fake official website for the Winter Olympics and conducting so-called "lucky draws", "winter Olympic souvenir gifts for a limited time", "winter Olympic commemorative stamps for a limited time", "winter Olympic commemorative coins snapping up" and other activities on the website.
Fraudsters have long implanted number theft Trojan horses or virus programs in the website, once the public follows the path set by the website, it will fall into the trap of fraudsters, resulting in the leakage of personal information, and even the money in the bank card is transferred.
The second category is to initiate false winning information in the name of the enterprise. "Congratulations, you won the first prize in the company's Winter Olympic Rewards Raffle, and you will receive a prize of 18,800 yuan and a laptop worth 10,000 yuan." If you receive such a "winning" message, don't be gullible.
When citizens who believe that they are true contact with the prize recipient, the other party will ask the citizens to send money first under various pretexts such as needing a security deposit and paying mailing costs.
When the first payment is remitted, the scammer will continue to deceive the public into sending money in other names such as handling fees and taxes until they are "eaten dry and squeezed out".
The third category is false Olympic fundraising fraud. The competition in the Winter Olympic Games has given athletes a stage to show their talents and realize their dreams, and some sports or athletes who were not familiar with them have entered people's vision.
Criminals take advantage of the special complex of the masses for the Winter Olympics to deceive the sympathy of the public by fabricating false and touching stories or the poor background of an athlete's family that needs funding, and defraud money in the form of "online fundraising".
In fact, scammers have long planted number-stealing Trojans or virus programs on these websites. Once you follow the path set by the website, you will fall into the trap of fraudsters.
The fourth category, celebrating "red packets". Every major event, there will always be a red envelope called athletes celebrating, but after clicking on it, it is prompted to share the red envelope link to 2 different WeChat groups to collect, and there are also many advertising content in this link.
The so-called "red envelopes that need to be shared to receive" are usually some forged into WeChat red envelopes for malicious promotion and marketing means, the publisher uses the way of sending "red packets" to attract users to forward, in fact, in addition to the increase in the amount of spread by scammers, users will not get any benefits, but also very easy to cause personal information leakage, and even property will be damaged.