On May 11, the Dazu police reported a case of contact fraud, in which the man "borrowed" money from others by fabricating reasons and pretending to be the boss, and with the help of the masses, the police successfully arrested the suspect.
According to reports, at about 10 o'clock in the morning on May 4, the South Gate Police Station of the Dazu District Public Security Bureau received a call from the public Yin to report to the police, saying that together with several other victims, he arrested the suspect Yang who was suspected of fraud in the garage of the community, and asked the police to come to the scene to deal with it.
After receiving the alarm, the police immediately rushed to the scene, only to see a man surrounded by several residents, a woman stepped forward and said to the police: "He cheated money, saying that he borrowed the result and did not pay it back." ”
It is understood that the man Yang and several people are acquaintances, on the evening of April 3, Yang said to a friend that he wanted to find a few people to work on the construction site, and the friend introduced the acquaintance Yin. After Yang and Yin added WeChat, they met to discuss specific matters, during which Yang said that his friend needed 1,200 yuan to buy a ticket, but his bank card was frozen, and he wanted to use cash to let Yin transfer money to himself through WeChat for emergency. After Yin transferred 1,200 yuan to Yang through WeChat, Yang delayed the transfer on the grounds that he did not bring a wallet and waited for his family to transfer money to him, saying that he was a boss and would not rely on this money, and he would definitely return it later, and after a while, he left with a direct excuse.
The next day, Yin couldn't contact Yang through WeChat or phone. Yin talked about it with the people around him, and found that 6 people who were defrauded by Yang had been "borrowed" by Yang for various reasons, and they were all familiar with Yang. So the victims found Yang near Yang's place of residence and called the police, and then the police took the suspect Yang back to the police station.
"For the purpose of illegal possession, Yang fabricated reasons to 'borrow money' by fabricating facts and concealing the truth, and his behavior is a typical fraud." Police officer Cai Ruoyu introduced that after interrogation, Yang is now unemployed, because he has no financial resources, from May 2023 to April 2024, he pretended to be the boss of the construction site, picked acquaintances, friends of acquaintances or other people from the same village, and brought him to the door of a nearby construction site, claiming that the construction site was contracted by himself, and after gaining the trust of the other party, he defrauded others of a total of more than 18,000 yuan by fabricating that his daughter was sick and hospitalized and urgently needed money, and that there was no money on WeChat.
At present, the police have recovered and returned the 18,000 yuan defrauded by the masses. Yang has been criminally detained by the public security organs in accordance with the law on suspicion of fraud, and the case is under further investigation.
Police remind: In the face of such fraud methods, everyone should carefully discern them. For the purpose of illegal possession, it is illegal to prove through false facts or fabrications that defrauding public and private property is an illegal act, and citizens and friends should be vigilant and beware of being deceived.