If you receive a call from a stranger who claims that the "Armed Police Force" needs to purchase a large amount of goods, would you think it's "pie in the sky"? If you don’t verify it, but instead prepare to transfer the money excitedly. Then what awaits you will be the "routine" carefully prepared by the scammer for you.
Recently, Boss Yang, who runs a restaurant in Guangyuan City, received a call from Luzhou. The caller claimed to be the "Logistics Director" of a certain unit of the Sichuan Armed Police. Since the troops were training at a base in Guangyuan, he needed to order a large amount of fruit from him and asked for help. Purchasing a large amount of "War Police Brand" military vegetarian food and military "Sturgeon Caviar".
Faced with the sudden large order from the "troops", Boss Yang was not very convinced at first, because units usually have a complete set of procedures. It is a bit unreasonable to purchase directly over the phone and also specify a purchasing agent. The other party seemed to have "taken into consideration" Boss Yang's concerns, prepared a "purchasing list" and a "purchasing contract" in advance, added them to WeChat and sent them.
▲False list and contract
There is a list and a contract, and the other party also "swore to it" on the phone. Boss Yang no longer had any doubts about this and immediately started preparing the goods. However, he searched all over Guangyuan and could not find the designated "war police brand" military vegetarian food and military sturgeon caviar. Not wanting to lose the opportunity to make money, he had no choice but to inform the "Logistics Director" about the inability to find the goods. Unexpectedly, the other party not only did not cancel the order, but recommended the WeChat account of a "food company" to him and informed Boss Yang of the company. With these two kinds of goods for sale, you can also make an extra profit by "eating the price difference" when ordering.
▲Fake Merchant WeChat
Subsequently, Boss Yang added the merchant’s WeChat account and transferred more than 200,000 yuan in payment to the other party’s designated account. However, a few days later, not only did he not wait for the shipment, the "logistics director" also suddenly disappeared. In the end, Boss Yang finally realized that he had been deceived, and immediately went to the police station in his jurisdiction to call the police.
▲Part of the transfer records and being blocked by the other party
What Boss Yang encountered was a typical "military and police procurement" fraud, but the fraud did not stop there. In past cases, some fraudsters have also sent "military ID cards" and "photos in military uniforms" to make merchants relax their vigilance.
▲False military officer certificate
Some scammers will also use rhetoric to constantly emphasize, "first-hand money, first-hand goods" and "please feel free to deal with the military", gradually dispelling merchants' concerns.
It is important to remember that military and police personnel will implement strict written procedures when purchasing supplies, and this "air-to-air" form over the phone or online is not possible.
[Source: Panda Anti-Fraud]
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