In recent years,
offline large-scale performance events have continued to become more popular, and
concerts by first-line artists are even more difficult to get tickets for.
In January this year,
27-year-old Xiao Lu was lucky enough to grab tickets to a
idol's concert.
However, this good luck
made her fall into a scam...
Xiao Lu and her friends are all from South Korea. She is a die-hard fan of the popular boy band. On January 18 this year, the boy band held a concert in Macau. Xiao Lu bought tickets in advance and planned to watch it live. She also asked her friends to attract her to join the idol tour fan group. Not long after
joined the group, a "ticket agent" in the group said that he could provide fans with the opportunity to take photos with the boy band backstage. For 4,500 yuan, they could take 10 group photos. The other party also sent a lot of photos of fans taking photos with their idols in the past, and said that he had an uncle who worked for the organizer and that the number of places was limited. Fans in the group were quickly moved and started paying.
However, when the concert ended, everything was in vain...
The mysterious "ticket agent"
had already quit the group!
Based on the transfer information provided by Xiao Lu and others, the police quickly determined that the payee was Ms. Huang from Zhejiang, and the police immediately went to Zhejiang to investigate. However, when they found Ms. Huang, the police discovered that Ms. Huangās account payment code had long been borrowed by her best friend Yu Shuang. Ms. Huang had no knowledge of the transfer of photo fees for Xiao Lu and others, and she had already gone to the local police station. Reported the crime.
According to Ms. Huang, her best friend Yu Shuang defrauded her of the money she had saved for medical treatment and life-saving. Ms. Huang and Yu Shuang met in 2021. They got along for less than half a year and quickly became good friends. Soon, Yu Shuang began to borrow money from Ms. Huang on the grounds of starting a business.
In order to support her best friend's entrepreneurial dream,
Ms. Huang successively lent Yu Shuang 40,000 yuan.
At the beginning of 2023,
Ms. Huang fell ill and got cancer,
and needed to be hospitalized for surgery.
Yu Shuang has always been by Ms. Huangās bedside and taken good care of her.
A friend in need is a friend indeed, and Ms. Huang kept in mind the friendship her best friend Yu Shuang had for her. Later, when Ms. Huang's condition stabilized, Yu Shuang once again asked her to borrow money for working capital on the grounds of her concert ticket business. At this time, Ms. Huang had just received a medical malpractice compensation of 240,000 yuan. Remembering that her best friend had taken care of her when she was seriously ill, Ms. Huang lent it to her best friend to solve her urgent needs.
Seeing that her best friend's "business" is getting better and better, but she spends more than 6,000 yuan on medication every month, Ms. Huang wants to find Yu Shuang to repay the money. However, the other party repeatedly delays it with various reasons, so Ms. Huang can only First, he asked his friend Zhang Meng to borrow money. Unexpectedly, Zhang Meng was also borrowed 480,000 yuan by Yu Shuang. Moreover, Ms. Huangās mother also lent Yu Shuang 40,000 yuan.
After checking with a partner who was in the concert ticket business with Yu Shuang's claim,
Ms. Huang discovered that
Yu Shuang was not in business at all,
and even went missing with her.
Xuhui police investigation found that the criminal suspect Yu Shuang started to borrow online loans after losing tens of thousands of yuan in his first business in 2021. Since then, he has been using the loans to support the loans. Later, he also borrowed high-interest "lease machines" Loans", causing loans to snowball. Until June 2023, the total amount of loans owed was more than 1.2 million yuan.
In order to fill the huge loan hole, Yu Shuang deceived friends around him. At the same time, he also took advantage of the time difference between concert ticket pre-sale months in advance and the information gap that it was hard to get a ticket to defraud everywhere. Finally, the concert came to an end, and Yu Shuang was completely exposed.
Through the concatenation of cases, the police reported more than 10 frost cases across the country, with 27 victims and a total amount of about 1.45 million.
Police Tips
Nowadays, large-scale performances with more than 5,000 people
implement a real-name ticket purchase policy
Please go to official channels to purchase tickets
Do not believe
unconfirmed information posted by individuals online
When it comes to money transfers
Be more careful and screen
Source: Case Focus (Special CorrespondentäøØTang Min)
