67-year-old Aunt Li spent a lot of money to buy services and products in the foot bath health center, and today the reporter learned that with the intervention of the relevant departments, the money has been fully refunded to the parties.
However, what more people care about is: in the face of various escalation scams, how the elderly should do a good job of self-protection and not trust rhetoric.
During the interview, the reporter learned that taking the Minhang Public Security Bureau as an example, it is cooperating with the District University for the Elderly to officially launch an online "anti-fraud" live class on September 1, so that 300,000 middle-aged and elderly people can share their anti-fraud experience through the Network and open up new channels for prevention. At the same time, it is planned to hire some "old party members" and "old secretaries" who are keen on public welfare undertakings to carry out prevention propaganda at the grass-roots level, and to drive a large number of middle-aged and elderly people to pay attention to anti-fraud work in the way of "pioneer leadership".
Wang Yibin, a police officer at the Anti-Fraud Center of the Minhang Public Security Criminal Investigation Detachment, said that the reason why fraudsters target middle-aged and elderly people is that the awareness of prevention of such groups is poor, the second is that potential groups have a certain economic foundation, and the third is that they have the idea that they think is "difficult to talk about" and are often ashamed to report the case.
"Family members should carry out more benign communication with the elderly, and children should pay more attention to care, understand the real demands of the elders, and give positive support and guidance." Spread some policies and social news that are closely related to their lives. We can't stay on the surface of the prevention propaganda for middle-aged and elderly people, and we hope that more families can participate. ”
The police also listed various deception methods and cases to warn and remind them.
A few days ago, Aunt Liu, who is more than eighty years old, came to the counter of the Shanghai Minhang Jiangchuan Branch of the Agricultural Bank of China and asked for bank card transfer business. The outlet counter manager found that the other party's answer revealed words such as "investment" in vague words. The bank staff found that Aunt Liu was chatting with a person on WeChat, and the other party guided Aunt Liu online, saying that "this is a normal reminder from the bank staff, just transfer this account, the attitude is firm", and the bank staff immediately asked the police for help. Under the questioning of the police and staff, it was learned that Aunt Liu wanted to transfer 40,000 yuan from the card to a business consulting company in Shanghai to "make investment", and the other party assured Aunt Liu that the money would be transferred back after a few days, and would give Aunt Liu a "dividend" every year.
Under the linkage of the police and the bank, the 40,000 yuan "investment fund" of Aunt Liu, who is more than 80 years old, was successfully dissuaded. Coincidentally, on July 16 this year, the Duhang Police Station of the Minhang Branch of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau received a report from a bank staff that a female customer was suspected of being defrauded of sending money, dissuading unsuccessful attempts to leave the counter, and requesting the police to be present for disposal. Police officer Wang Mingang immediately rushed to the bank, and the staff said that the female customer had just left. The police chased all the way to nearly 200 meters in the direction directed by the staff, and finally caught up with Ms. Xu, who is more than 69 years old, a suspected potential victim, at an intersection, and immediately inquired about the relevant situation.
It is understood that Ms. Xu met a high-quality man who claimed to be overseas in a dance exchange group on a social networking software a few days ago, and the man used the exchange dance as a pretext to add Ms. Xu as a friend. Later, the man often exchanged dance knowledge with Ms. Xu and slowly gained Ms. Xu's trust. A few days later, the man said he had bought $5,000 worth of cosmetics for Ms. Xu abroad and had paid the freight, but the customs clearance fee had not been paid. He gave Ms. Xu a bank card number and asked her to transfer 22,000 yuan to clear customs fees. When preparing the transfer, the bank staff suspected that Ms. Xu had been defrauded, so they chose to call the police. Until the police appeared, Aunt Xu always thought that this was her "high-quality boyfriend", and finally more than 20,000 yuan was also discouraged from success, but Aunt Xu asked the police to keep it a secret.
Zhu Chunhua, a police officer at the Anti-Fraud Center of the Criminal Investigation Detachment of the Minhang Public Security Bureau, said that at present, from the perspective of alarm and early warning data, the number of middle-aged and elderly people over the age of 60 who have been subjected to telecommunications fraud has not increased significantly, which may be closely related to the high-density and multi-dimensional propaganda in the early stage. However, the proportion of telecommunications fraud cases in the two types of investment and financial management, dating and marriage increased by nearly 30% year-on-year, "Which can be said on the other hand, the elderly's desire for financial management and desire to make friends is objectively existent, which also allows criminals to take advantage of the opportunity." Most elderly people have deeper concerns in this regard, and many potential elderly victims are particularly taboo to let the younger generation know that they are damaged. ”
Officer Zhu also summarized some of the recent frequent fraud traps for the elderly:
Health care product scams: Under the guise of giving away eggs, fruits and small household appliances for free, fraudsters rent venues to promote the company's "health care products" and "therapeutic drugs" to the elderly, exaggerating the efficacy of the products to tempt the elderly and thus carry out fraud. , exaggerating the efficacy of the product to tempt the elderly to commit fraud.
Risk warning: The elderly attach great importance to health and wellness, so scammers use this to induce the elderly to spend sky-high prices to buy useless health care products or drugs. At the same time, there are also some elderly people who are plagued by diseases who will be particularly "superstitious" about various "magical" therapies in order to ensure longevity and health. As everyone knows, this just entered the trap designed by the criminals.
Therefore, in the face of health product fraud, we should not believe that there is a miracle cure for all diseases, and if you have a disease, you must take the initiative to go to the hospital for medical treatment. Health care products can not cure the disease, on the contrary, counterfeit health care products may aggravate the patient's condition and miss the opportunity for treatment.
Winning scams: Fraudsters always use various "annual meetings", "company anniversary celebrations", "special members" and other ways to find ways to convince the elderly that they are the "lucky ones" who have won the lottery, or to deceive the elderly into transferring money to the designated account on the grounds of giving gifts to the elderly for free and making the elderly pay personal income tax.
Risk reminder: The elderly should strengthen their awareness of self-prevention, do not trust the suspicious phone calls and text messages of strangers; do not disclose the identity information of family members at will, and do not covet unearned profits.
"Warm" scam: Fraudsters target empty nest elderly people, pretend to be sons and grandchildren in front of the elderly, "care" and "care" for the elderly, win trust through "accompaniment", commit criminal acts, and defraud property. Gain trust, commit criminal acts, defraud property.
Risk reminder: The elderly should establish a sense of prevention, consult with their children when things happen, and do not trust the words of others. More importantly, children should pay more attention to the elderly, do not give the scammers the opportunity to play the family card, let the spiritual world of the elderly be enriched, and no longer be coaxed by the sweet words of the scammers to willingly take out the money.
"Pension Payment" scam: Fraudsters, under the guise of knowing the staff of the Human Resources and Social Security Bureau and the Social Security Bureau, collect tens of thousands of amounts of money from uninsured persons at one time, falsely claiming that they can help uninsured people to carry out agency services, and pay social pension insurance premiums at one time to enjoy pension pensions.
Risk Warning: It is recommended that the elderly pay more attention to some policies and social news that are closely related to their lives. Children should communicate more with the elderly in the family to understand their recent living conditions. In many cases, scammers usually let the elderly hide the situation from their families, if they find that the elderly have been deceived, they should immediately and patiently persuade them, stop the loss in time, and immediately call the police.
Impersonating the Public Prosecutor's Law Scam: Fraudsters impersonating public security, procuratorates, courts and other staff, forging "red-headed documents", taking advantage of the elderly's low legal awareness and panic psychology, saying that if they want to carry out arrests, they must pay a security deposit to prove their innocence.
Risk Warning: The public prosecutor's office will not conduct case-handling investigations by telephone or network, there is no "safe account" or "verification account", and it will not notify the personnel involved in the case to verify funds, transfer money, etc. by telephone or network. If you receive such a phone call, you must consult with your family more, and if you have doubts, you can consult the nearby public security organs, so that you do not trust, disclose, or transfer money.
Author: He Yi
Pictured: Some of the comics are from the police
Edit: Zhou Chen