Recently, the news that Zhang, a man in Beijing, asked someone to unclog the sewer from the Internet and asked for more than 4,000 when he opened his mouth when he checked out, caused controversy.
According to the report, the two sides had a dispute over the cost, and Zhang drove in anger and injured two masters, and was sentenced to 4 years in prison.
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After this vicious case occurred, the focus of netizens was collectively deviated, and they all vented their bitterness in the comment area, saying that they were also victims of various "toilet access" and "sewer" services.
And to trace the specific reasons, we have to start with the report itself...
According to media reports, the party in question, Zhang, is the manager of a restaurant in Beijing's Daxing District. The restaurant is opened near the residential area, and it is also a neighbor's business, and the daily business turnover is not high, and it is mainly based on small profits and quick turnover.
In August last year, restaurant staff reported that the sewers in the kitchen were often blocked and blocked, and if they did not repair them quickly, the sewage would come up. Zhang was worried that the sewage overflow would affect his business, so he found a dredging company with a high rating on a certain platform.
After receiving the order, the customer service said that it would immediately send two experienced masters to provide door-to-door service, and the specific charging standard depends on the blockage, but there will never be other hidden consumption.
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After the two masters went to the store to investigate, they told Zhang that the sewer was blocked because there was too much kitchen waste dumped, and the sewer was covered by a thick layer of oil. Ordinary household dredging agents no longer work, and you must use professional kitchen potions to be effective.
The master also said that the amount of input must be very large, otherwise even if it is done well this time, it will still be easy to cause the pipe to burst after the blockage, and the spread of sewage may affect the travel of nearby residents.
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Hearing the master's suggestion, Zhang agreed to use a professional potion with a "slightly higher price" to solve the sewer problem at one time.
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At this point, the other party did not inform Zhang of the specific specifications, price and approximate dosage of the potion.
After some operation by the two masters, the sewer was indeed dredged, and the problem of bad smell was solved. But when it came time to settle the bill, the maintenance master asked for more than 4,400 on the grounds that he had used multiple bottles of dredging agent, and Zhang was anxious when he heard it.
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The two sides quarreled over this, and they exchanged cruel words to "shake people" and fight.
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Other members of the hotel intervened and persuaded Zhang to go downstairs and calm down. But the more Zhang thought about it, the more angry he became, and felt that the other party was deliberately making things difficult and defrauding, so he drove the two down and ran over one of them repeatedly.
One victim suffered a waist injury and one was unconscious, but fortunately, none of them were life-threatening after being taken to the hospital.
In the end, Zhang was sentenced to 4 years in prison for intentional homicide.
After the incident, Zhang regretted his impulsiveness.
But the strange thing is that many netizens said that they understood what happened to the sewer???
Many netizens below the report told about their experience before they were beaten by the society, they made a call to dredge the water, and their accounts disappeared in an instant.
After reading the experience of netizens, some people may think that they are stupid because they have a lot of money, or they don't know how to bargain before placing an order.
But there are far more people who have stepped on the problem of sewerage, and the situation behind each incident is more complicated than we think...
In 2019, talk show actor Li Xueqin said that she was ruthlessly deceived by going through the sewer.
Li Xueqin said that when she was home alone, the sewer was suddenly blocked, so she searched for a company that dredged the sewer on a certain platform and asked someone to repair it. Although the other party said on the phone that the problem was simple and could be solved in a few minutes at the earliest, the master arrived and said that the problem was big and he had to get a special potion.
The price of the special potion is 185 pounds, and the master said that he could try it first to see if it was right.
As a result, the so-called "let's try" turned into more than 5 pounds in one go. At the checkout, the other party asked for 980 yuan, and if you ask for an invoice, you have to add more money.
Considering that it was not good for her to have a physical conflict, Li Xueqin had no choice but to pay 980 yuan. After sending the "dredging assassin" away, she searched and found that there were not a few such fraudulent sewer dredging incidents.
In 2022, the Shanghai Public Security Bureau successfully eliminated a fraud gang that made money through forced sales under the banner of dredging pipelines. A total of 37 suspects were arrested, and the amount involved was as high as 6 million yuan!
They all took advantage of consumers' ignorance of the specifications of dredging agent bottles, grams, milliliters, etc., and took the opportunity to pour the dredging agent costing 4 yuan to death. If consumers question the total price of the product, they will use ridicule and miserable sales to force consumers to spend money.
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These scammers can often make a profit of hundreds or thousands of yuan at a time, and the highest order actually got 19,000 yuan, which is a terrifying method that can be called madness.
What's even more terrifying is that the "assassins" in the field of life services are not limited to this.
Searching for keywords such as door-to-door, maintenance, and being deceived on the Internet, you will find a lot of scams similar to "minor illnesses and big treatments" and "disorderly repairs" such as opening doors and locks, injecting glue and repairing leaks, adding fluoridation to air conditioners, and repairing water heaters.
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In addition to opening and repairing toilets, some maintenance personnel will also specifically target the timid mentality of single or female tenants, take advantage of their tall stature, and intimidate you in the subtext, threatening you to spend money to eliminate disasters.
In 2022, the media received a request for help from Ms. Wu. Ms. Wu said that when she came home from overtime one day, she found that the door lock was broken, and it was almost 12 o'clock at that time, so she called the phone number of the unlocking company found on a certain platform.
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After the locksmith arrived, he told her that the platform price of 78 yuan is to open the bedroom door, and the starting price of the anti-theft door is 100 yuan, and an additional 200 yuan is required to pry the door.
After the door lock was pried open, the other party persuaded her to buy an upgraded anti-theft lock for 380 yuan. After the lock is installed, it must be equipped with a doorknob of 260 yuan. After the installation of a complete set, Ms. Wu has to pay the other party at least 890 yuan.
By this time, Ms. Wu no longer wanted to open the lock. But the locksmith, who is nearly 1.9 meters tall, blocked the door of the house with tools in his hand, and did not let her in.
Ms. Wu was worried that the other party knew that she lived alone and had mastered the unlocking technique, and she was afraid that offending someone for a few hundred yuan would attract the other party's revenge, so she reluctantly paid the money.
Many women in similar incidents have also mentioned the fear of reprisals for living alone. Before starting, the "maintenance personnel" have already grasped the psychology of the audience's fear of things and unscrupulously carry out blackmail.
There is an urgent need for the service industry to return to normal. In order to solve the problem of assassins in the convenience industry, Shanghai and other places have set up open, transparent, safe and secure supporting service companies such as all-female maintenance companies and full-time live broadcast maintenance companies.
It is hoped that the rationalized company can occupy the market as soon as possible, so that the "maintenance assassins" who are intimidated by fraud will disappear from the public eye forever...