[Source: Yangtze Evening News] On the afternoon of August 26, the Nanyang Police Station of the Tinghu Branch of the Yancheng City Public Security Bureau held a stolen goods distribution ceremony. Citizen Ms. Fan (pseudonym) and others recovered 87,000 yuan of defrauded money fro

[Source: Yangtze Evening News]

On the afternoon of August 26, the Nanyang Police Station of the Tinghu Branch of the Yancheng City Public Security Bureau held a stolen goods distribution ceremony. Citizen Ms. Fan (pseudonym) and others recovered 87,000 yuan of defrauded money from the police.

In April 2024, Ms. Fan came across a weight loss video on Douyin. She saw the obvious effect and took the initiative to contact the video publisher He. Seeing that Ms. Fan had a strong desire to lose weight, He created a false persona and used three WeChat IDs to pretend to be He, the "national agent of the Global Skin Care Wholesale Center", "Haoshan" who sells weight loss pills, and the "Testing Center" of the Beijing Food and Drug Administration ( Drug administration, court) and other three different roles.

In order to gain trust, "Haoshan", who sells slimming pills, first brainwashed Ms. Fan, claiming that the slimming pills were secret recipes passed down from generation to generation and had excellent effects when taken together with metabolic drugs. Under his guidance step by step, Ms. Fan transferred more than 40,000 yuan to "Haoshou". In order to catch the big fish in the long run, "Haoshou" pushed the WeChat account of the "Testing Center" of the Beijing Food and Drug Administration to Ms. Fan and suggested that she go to a professional institution to identify the authenticity of the weight-loss drugs. However, due to the poor acting skills of the "Testing Center", when Ms. Fan asked for the identification certificate, the other party used various reasons to evade the request and blocked Ms. Fan on WeChat.

At this moment, Ms. Fan realized that she had been deceived, so she immediately called the police for help. After receiving the call, the police from Nanyang Police Station quickly launched an investigation and quickly arrested He. He confessed to multiple criminal acts, pleaded guilty and accepted punishment, and took the initiative to return the stolen goods. Currently, the case is being further processed.

Police reminder: Losing weight is a long-term and gradual process. Anyone who promotes weight-loss foods and drugs that have miraculous effects in the short term should be sufficiently vigilant, and they should not transfer money to strangers to buy "weight loss pills" online without verification.

Correspondent Pan Lin

Yangzi Evening News/Ziniu News reporter Chen Ran

Proofreader Tao Shanggong