On July 9, the Central Broadcasting Network reported that the Shanghai police recently cracked a new type of "emotional redemption" fraud case. Under the banner of professional emotional counseling institutions, criminal gangs pretend to be psychological counselors and use verbal skills to lure emotionally frustrated people to purchase so-called "emotional recovery services", thereby defrauding victims of a large amount of money. Up to now, the Shanghai police have arrested a total of 69 criminal suspects, and preliminarily verified more than 500 cases involving all parts of the country, involving more than 7 million yuan.
In May this year, the Jinshan Branch of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau received a report from Mr. Niu, a citizen, that in July last year, he and his girlfriend had emotional problems, and after the breakup, WeChat and phone were blocked by the other party, resulting in the inability to contact. In order to make his girlfriend change his mind, Mr. Niu found an emotional recovery agency on the Internet, and the other party said that he would arrange an emotional expert to persuade his ex-girlfriend. Gu Feng, deputy head of the criminal investigation detachment of the Jinshan Branch of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau, said: "Because of his emotional frustration, Mr. Niu searched for emotional counseling services on the Internet, and then he clicked on the link of this website to get in touch with the other party and added WeChat. After that, he found that although he kept paying money, he did not actually achieve any of the promised effects, (only to find that he had been deceived), so he came to our substation to report the crime. ”
Fraudulent WeChat chat records (provided by the interviewee units issued by the Central Broadcasting Network)
Gu Feng revealed that after understanding the basic situation of Mr. Niu, the other party promised to provide only the relevant personal information of his ex-girlfriend, and would arrange for an exclusive "emotional expert" to communicate and persuade his ex-girlfriend to help him successfully repair his feelings. Subsequently, the so-called "experts" of the agency successively demanded that Mr. Niu transfer more than 30,000 yuan to purchase services on the grounds that he "found that his ex-girlfriend had a new boyfriend and needed further work guidance". Gu Feng pointed out that criminals often take advantage of the parties' eagerness to save their feelings, carefully design fraudulent words to gain trust, so as to defraud the parties of money, "The difficulty in handling such cases is that the victims will be deeply involved in it, and they will not easily report the case if they do not know that they have been deceived." Most of the victims always believe that the pie painted by the fraudsters is real, so he does not feel that he has been deceived, and can only keep filling in the money. ”
Gu Feng told reporters that the staff of the agency had never contacted Mr. Niu's ex-girlfriend. It is understood that there have been more than 400 victims like Mr. Niu.
The police investigation found that the division of labor within these criminal gangs was clear. Criminals will widely publish emotional redemption advertising information on various online social platforms to attract people who encounter emotional problems to add WeChat for consultation. Criminal suspect Xiao Mou said that these so-called "emotion analysts" are actually employees temporarily trained by the company, and these employees will communicate with the victims according to the training techniques, and then fabricate successful recovery cases to cater to the victims, so that they believe that with the guidance and help of these staff, it is very likely to successfully save feelings and repair romantic relationships.
Case-handling personnel: We saw a lot of verbal content at the scene, which mainly includes?
Xiao Mou: Opening statement, understand some basic situations, and then analyze and draw conclusions, make crises, draw blueprints, give examples, block roads, plans, quotations, and solve customer problems, a total of 10 parts.
Case-handling personnel: What is the specific concept of the next crisis?
Xiao Mou: It is to tell the trainee something that he cares about more, that may happen, and that he does not want to lose.
Case-handling personnel: Drawing blueprints and examples?
Xiao Mou: It is to give him confidence and tell him that after the two of them reconcile, there will be a better future.
Investigator: What does blocking the road mean?
Xiao Mou: Blocking the road is to prove that he does not have the ability to solve the problem, and needs some other way to help him.
Fraud WeChat chat records (courtesy of Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau)
Fraudulent mobile phone (courtesy of Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau)
It is understood that these fake "emotion analysis masters" will provide the so-called tailor-made recovery plan according to the subjective determination of the difficulty of the victim's emotional recovery, ranging from a few thousand yuan to tens of thousands of yuan. In the process, the gang requires the victim not to take the initiative to contact the other party, so as to take advantage of the situation that the victim and the other party cannot communicate, falsify screenshots of chat records with the other party, falsely claim that they are doing the other party's work, and then fabricate false information such as the other party's new love affair to show that the gang's work is "effective", so as to continuously strengthen the victim's confidence and trick the victim into continuously transferring and upgrading service projects. Gu Feng told reporters that in fact, the gang has never contacted the predecessor of any victim, "After the victim pays the first money, the criminals will take advantage of the victim's desire to stop the loss or the psychology that I will continue to do things since I have invested money." Because they will also agree with the victim that once the money is paid, they are not allowed to have any contact with their predecessors, and if there is contact, then their contract may be voided, if it does not play a role in emotional redemption, this responsibility lies with the victim. Therefore, the victim may think that since I have already invested money, I will continue to invest some money, with a glimmer of hope, and let myself step further into the abyss. ”
The "master of emotional redemption" was arrested (courtesy of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau)
At present, Xiao Mou and 55 other criminal suspects suspected of fraud have been criminally detained by the public security organs in accordance with the law, and another 14 criminal suspects have been taken criminal compulsory measures in accordance with the law, and the case is under further investigation.
The police also remind the general public that they should remain objective and rational when feeling frustrated, improve their awareness of prevention, do not be confused by the so-called "emotional recovery" consultation service, and once such scams are found, please retain relevant evidence and report to the public security organs as soon as possible.