On April 19, the Shanghai Public Security Bureau disclosed a "serial" fraud case. Sun Ranran (pseudonym), a former actor, was attracted by Lu Ziqi who generously rewarded her with 200,000 virtual gifts during a live broadcast. The two developed into a couple. Unexpectedly, the other party was actually a "rich second generation" disguised by the woman, but Sun Ranran believed her. All kinds of rhetoric were deceived. In order to give her "boyfriend" more money, she adapted the reasons why her "boyfriend" cheated her and defrauded her fans of more than 3 million yuan. Eventually, both men were arrested on suspicion of fraud.
On the evening of December 11, 2023, the Shanghai police, with the cooperation of the Beijing police, summoned a woman named Sun Ranran in accordance with the law.
Sun Ranran was once an actress, with a bright future in the eyes of outsiders, so why did she become a criminal suspect? The incident began when Hu Wen (pseudonym) reported the case one day at the end of 2023. Hu Wen told the police that he first watched the live broadcast on a short video platform, and then paid attention to Sun Ranran who was doing the live broadcast. Out of the idea of "showing off", he gave Sun Ranran a virtual gift worth 200,000 yuan in just a few days, and soon he added it to Sun Ranran's WeChat account.
At that time, Sun Ranran always told Hu Wen that he and his relatives were encountering various financial difficulties. Considering that Sun Ranran was an actor by profession, he should have the ability to repay, so Hu Wen very generously lent money to him one after another. Sun Ranran received 2.4 million yuan.
But every time it was time to repay the money, Sun Ranran would always encounter all kinds of troubles, resulting in no money to repay in the end. Later, Hu Wen became suspicious of Sun Ranran's reason for borrowing money, so he reported the case to the police. The day after
received the report, another reporter, Qiao Yuanhang, who had been in contact with Hu Wen, also came to the police station after learning that Hu Wen had reported the crime. He said that he also lent Sun Ranran 880,000 yuan, and Sun Ranran's reason for borrowing money from him was almost the same as Hu Wen's.
After investigating Sun Ranran's bank statements, the police found that the money transferred to Sun Ranran by the reporter was not used to solve her urgent financial needs as Sun Ranran said when she borrowed the money. Therefore, the police determined that Sun Ranran was suspected of fraud.
After arriving at the case, Sun Ranran told the police that she noticed a male fan named Lu Ziqi who claimed to be born in 1999 during a live broadcast. Lu Ziqi said that she was worth over 100 million yuan, owned luxury cars and a large estate, and was extremely generous. She gave Sun Ranran a virtual gift worth 200,000 yuan in just one week. In Sun Ranran's view, Lu Ziqi was sweet-tongued and could provide emotional value. So they quickly started dating online.
And Sun Ranran's "nightmare" began. Sun Ranran said that Lu Ziqi later said that she was deceived by a friend into an underground gambling den and was detained after owing a huge gambling debt, so she needed money to repay the gambling debt. He and his mother had a joint account with 6 million yuan in it. Because he had cut off contact with his parents, he wanted to use illegal means to change the account to his own name and withdraw the money. Therefore, he needed to establish relationships and other reasons to ask for money from Sun Ranran.
Sun Ranran, who was in love, did not realize that her online boyfriend Lu Ziqi was defrauding her. In order to give Lu Ziqi more money, she not only used her and her parents' savings, but also borrowed money from everyone around her, even a huge amount Online loans. In order to continue raising money for Lu Ziqi, she even began to use Lu Ziqi's reasons for deceiving her and then modified them to defraud her fans Hu Wen and Qiao Yuanhang. After
learned about Lu Ziqi, after investigation, the police captured a woman named Qiao Nan (pseudonym) in Gansu. She is the person who has been dating Sun Ranran on the Internet for 3 years. According to Qiao Nan, she saw the name Lu Ziqi while reading novels online. Qiao Nan said that she had few friends in the real world, so she packaged herself as a "rich second generation" on the Internet, and then used a wide net to send virtual gifts to different female anchors to become friends with them. , get care from them.
But after all, the persona is fake. When Sun Ranran and other female anchors asked to meet her offline, she made up reasons such as being detained and needed to get money from a joint account with her mother before they could meet. On the one hand, she delayed and refused to meet. On the other hand, he defrauded the female anchor of money.After the
case was solved, I learned that my online boyfriend turned out to be a woman. Sun Ranran was greatly shocked, but this was not the reason for her to defraud the two victims. What she said was for love was just an excuse to alleviate her inner guilt.
At present, criminal suspects Sun Ranran and Qiao Nan have been arrested by the procuratorate in accordance with the law on suspicion of fraud.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Dai Youqing
