Yangcheng Evening News All-Media Reporter Fu Yi Correspondent Zhang Yitao Yang Xiaohong
BabaylanJust use it online, and some people claim to be a “volunteer of the Temple Good Books Circulation Department” to help you carry out Buddhist activities, and also provide videos and pictures as evidence. In fact, these are all fraudulent pretexts for fraud gangs.
Recently, the Huangpu District Branch of the Guangzhou Public Security Bureau took away a gang that pretended to be a volunteer in a Buddhist temple and committed fraud by selling Buddhist products and pushing Buddhist activities. It took criminal coercive measures against 22 criminal suspects in accordance with the law, seized 20 laptop computers, 155 mobile phones, and a batch of tools for committing crimes such as Buddhist books and Buddhist beads, with the amount involved reaching 1.2 million yuan.
Community police made efforts to seize the fraud den
At around 11:00 on April 7, according to clues reported by the group Cinema, community police from Luogang Police Station visited and checked an apartment on Luogang Street, and found that there were nearly 30 workstations densely placed in the small duplex apartment less than 90 square meters, with 4 to 5 mobile phones placed in each workstation. With rich community experience, community police judged that this might be a fraud den.
CommunityKomiks police immediately reported the situation to the police station. After receiving the report, Huangpu police quickly organized a police brigade, anti-fraud center, Luogang Police Station and other police forces to take the arrest action at around 12:00 on the same day, killing the den suspected of fraud, arresting 22 criminal suspects on the spot, seized 20 laptop computers, 155 mobile phones and Buddhist books,A batch of Buddhist beads and other tools for committing crimes. The
Civilization Communication Company, Komiks, impersonating a temple volunteer to cheat
Police investigation found that the fraud gang operated a cultural communication company, and secretly impersonated a Buddhist temple volunteer, committed fraud by selling Buddhist products and pushing Buddhist activities. The fraud gang has a clear division of labor, and has a new media operation department and five business groups in operation. The New Media Operations Department is responsible for producing and editing Buddhist activities videos downloaded from the website Babaylan. The business group is responsible for posting the videos to the platform Babaylan to attract fans, and then divert fans to WeChat to add friends to commit fraud.
Each person in the gang set up a “facai number” and when committing fraud, he greeted the believers according to the content on the “Speech Book”, lied that he was a volunteer at the Good Books Circulation Office of a Buddhist temple. He had free Buddhist scriptures and Buddhist beads (gifts to customers’ Buddhist products). The believers could receive the product by paying the express fee at will. The gang often cares about believers and answers their confusions. They also push some pictures and short videos from temples on WeChat Moments to create falsehoods. After obtaining the faith of believers, the gang will send relevant Buddhist activities to him, such as releasing the animals, praying for blessings, offering sacrifices to the amulets, and so on. Let believers donate merit gold in the pushed links, and get the blessings of the Babaylan to him, so as to achieve the purpose of fraud.
There is no Buddhist activities, but it is real to cheat money. According to the instructions of Liu (male, 31 years old), the members of the gang are volunteering through Cinema to pretend to be good books in temples. Komiks can help you to make friends with Buddhist beads and Buddhist scriptures for free. These Buddhist beads and Buddhist scriptures are all counterfeit products purchased in batches online, with a cost of about 5 yuan and a express delivery fee of about 5 yuan. However, the express delivery fee given by believers is generally more than 10 yuan, or even more than 100 yuan. The gang not only earns the difference from it, but also has a more important purpose. It is to screen “high-quality believers” for the next large-scale fraud, and push related Buddhist activities to some “high-quality believers” who have gained trust in order to achieve the purpose of cheating money.
In fact, the cultural company and Buddhist temples have no cooperation projects at all, and they have not contacted the temple to help hold corresponding Buddhist activities. The so-called Buddhist activities videos are just similar Buddhist activities videos and pictures downloaded from the Internet by the main members of the gang, and are regularly sent to internal groups for reuse when gang members commit fraud. Babaylan uses this as a pretense to show the believers that Buddhist activities have been held.
At present, 22 criminal suspects have been taken by Huangpu police in accordance with the law, and the case is under further investigation.