The 88-year-old grandmother received a landline call
The "grandson" cried and cried that he would go to jail
One day in May this year, 88-year-old Grandma Ma (pseudonym), who lives in Wenfeng District, Anyang City, Henan Province, suddenly rang the landline phone at home, and the person on the phone claimed to be her grandson, and the tone was very eager, saying that she was eating in a restaurant and arguing with the waiter, and the waiter was injured between pushing, and the waiter was sent to the hospital with a minimum deposit of 20,000 yuan.
The "grandson" said to let Grandma Ma hurry up and prepare the money, otherwise he might go to jail. Hearing that the voice on the other end of the phone was very similar to her grandson, Grandma Ma's head went blank in an instant. My grandson is studying for graduate school in another place, if he goes to prison, won't his life be ruined?
Grandma Ma hurriedly promised to call her grandson when the money was ready. Who knew that the "grandson" told Grandma Ma that his mobile phone was confiscated by the police, and he couldn't get out of the police station, and the director of the police station would send someone to get the money at home and ask Grandma Ma to prepare the money. Grandma Ma, who was eager to save her grandson, turned out the family's savings as agreed, and then handed them over to a young man in his 20s wearing a mask.
Unexpectedly, not long after the person who took the money left, the phone at Grandma Ma's house rang again. This time, the "grandson" kept crying on the phone, saying that the waiter was seriously injured and needed to be transferred to the hospital, and this hospital couldn't see it, the 20,000 yuan was too little, so let Grandma Ma make up another 80,000. I've taken out all my savings, where can I make up the remaining 80,000? Grandma Ma was in a hurry and was about to contact her family and relatives to borrow money, when her granddaughter came back from work. After hearing about the situation, the granddaughter immediately called her brother, and as soon as the phone was connected, Grandma Ma was dumbfounded, and the grandson told Grandma Ma on the phone that she was in class at school and had not gone out at all for the past few days. Subsequently, Grandma Ma, accompanied by her relatives, called the police.
At the same time
Some people are also pretending to be "grandsons" to deceive the old man
More than an hour after the police received the report from Grandma Ma, coincidentally, another policeman, Uncle Zhang, came to the police, saying that someone was pretending to be his grandson through a landline phone, and he also claimed to have injured someone and caused trouble, and deceived him of 25,000. The police of the Criminal Investigation Brigade immediately launched an investigation into the two cases, and at about 8 o'clock in the evening of the same day, they first arrested the three suspects who defrauded Uncle Zhang in Long'an District.
Almost at the same moment, the phone at Grandma Ma's house rang again, and the man who claimed to be Grandma Ma's "grandson" asked about Grandma Ma's money preparation on the phone. Seeing that the suspect had not yet discovered that he had "exposed", the police handling the case took the opportunity to let Grandma Ma negotiate with the scammer, telling the other party that the cash had been prepared and asked them to come back tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock in the morning to withdraw the money. In this way, when the other 3 suspects came to withdraw the money, they were caught on the spot by the police who were waiting.
Why does "pretending to be a grandson" cheat money repeatedly succeed?
New types of fraud are revealed
After interrogation, the suspect confessed that the two gangs were both outsiders, and they received an "online" instruction on a social software to come to Anyang to get money. To the great surprise of the police, the division of labor of this gang is very clear, the person who withdraws the money is only responsible for withdrawing the money, the person responsible for selling the stolen goods is only responsible for selling the stolen goods, and the "upline" is only responsible for contacting them, and there are special people outside the country who call to commit fraud.
Prior to this, the two gangs had already defrauded the elderly in Shandong, Liaoning, and Shaanxi in the same way, involving more than 300,000 yuan. At present, the police are also investigating the deeper links between the two gangs.
Anti-fraud tips
On the other hand, these two scams are "tailor-made" for the elderly, and by calling the fixed telephone commonly used by the elderly, they specifically take advantage of the psychology of the elderly to defraud them of money. We would like to remind you that if you receive a similar call, do not believe it and be sure to check with your family members to confirm.
Source丨Elephant News