Recently, flower shop owners in many parts of the country have received orders to decorate bouquets with large amounts of cash, and behind this beautiful bouquet is also a huge money laundering trap.
Ms. Liu, who owns a flower shop in Yongxin County, Ji'an City, recently received a special order on WeChat to make a bouquet of 10,000 yuan in cash for her mother. In the subsequent chat, the two parties not only communicated the style and delivery time, but also asked Ms. Liu for the bank card number.
Ms. Liu, the owner of the flower shop: I gave him the bank card number, and I thought that there was no danger at that time, because the other party did not have a password, so I took a bank card with no money and gave it to him, and told him that the money was on it. At about ten o'clock, a message came from my WeChat, saying that the amount of 10,000 yuan was on the card.
After receiving the information on the arrival of the account, Ms. Liu went to the bank to withdraw the money as soon as possible, and made a beautiful cash bouquet according to the pre-agreed style.
However, what Ms. Liu did not expect was that not long after the man took the bouquet, she suddenly received a message from the bank that the funds were frozen. Ms. Liu thought she had suffered a telecom fraud and called the police. Through investigation, the police determined that this was a fraud case under the guise of ordering cash bouquet gift boxes to help upstream criminal gangs launder money. Subsequently, through the relevant information provided by Ms. Liu, the police also quickly arrested the suspect Deng.
Yan Danping, a police officer from the Hechuan Police Station of the Yongxin County Public Security Bureau in Ji'an City, Jiangxi Province: The suspect directly arranged for someone to transfer the money to the bank card of the flower shop owner, and the boss took out the money. Unconsciously, the owner of the flower shop acts as a tool for money laundering by overseas fraud gangs.
Police tips
As a merchant, if you don't show up and ask for your bank card account number during the whole process, you must be vigilant and don't become an accomplice to money laundering by criminals because of small profits.
Source: CCTV News