New Express News Pile cakes with cash and wrap them into bouquets with cash...... Be careful! This surprise gift may involve money laundering!
On the evening of April 15, the police in Fusha, Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province, received a call from Xiao Zheng, a clerk at a cake shop, asking for help, saying that they had received a call from the Guizhou public security organ informing him that he was suspected of "money laundering".
The suspect went to the cake shop to order a "cash cake".
After receiving the police, the police handling the case immediately went to verify. According to the clerk Xiao Zheng, two customers came to the cake shop that afternoon, and the other party wanted to customize a special cake - put 15,000 yuan in cash into the cake. Xiao Zheng thought that he had seen this kind of cash-pulling style cake on the Internet, so he didn't think much about it and took this "huge cake" order.
After the two parties communicated the style and production cost, the other party transferred and paid 15,000 yuan, and asked Xiao Zheng to help take the money to make it, and the other party took the cake away after the production.
After understanding the situation, the Fusha police in Zhongshan City deduced that Xiao Zheng received the funds used to make cash cakes, which may be stolen money suspected of fraud, and it is very likely that there is a fraud "running score" gang hidden behind the order.
The clerk of the cake shop customizes the "cash cake" for the customer.
According to the information provided by the victim, the Fusha police quickly locked up the two suspects, and arrested the suspects Yin Moupeng, Deng Mouchao and others on the afternoon of April 16.
After interrogation, Yin Moupeng confessed that after he came into contact with the "running points" project on the chat software, he connected with Li Moujin, Deng Mouchao and others through the software group chat to determine the amount of "running points", and then looked for cake shops and flower shops, falsely claiming to make cash cakes and bouquets for gifts, obtained the bank card number of the store owner, and then sent the card number to the upper family, and the upper family arranged the payment. The "running points" gang is responsible for taking out the cake and bouquet from the store, taking out the cash, exchanging it into virtual currency, and then transferring the laundered funds back to the previous family. On April 15, Yin Moupeng and others exchanged a total of 30,000 yuan in cash in this way.
The suspect was arrested.
At present, the criminal suspects Yin Moupeng, Deng Mouchao, and Li Moujin are under criminal detention on suspicion of covering up and concealing criminal gains, and the case is under further investigation.
Police Reminder:
Merchants should be cautious in receiving online orders and large-value offline orders, standardize the collection process, refuse payments from unknown sources, and try to transfer money through business-to-business, so as not to give scammers a chance. At the same time, do not provide your own bank account or receive QR code to post at will, Mo has become a tool for fraudsters to launder money because of temporary small profits. If an individual merchant finds that there is an abnormal situation in the bank account, he or she should go to the bank card issuing bank to find out the reason as soon as possible, and if it is dealt with by the police in accordance with the law, please actively collect transaction information and cooperate with the police to investigate and deal with it.
Written by: New Express reporter Li Hongyun correspondent Chen Jin