Nowadays, audio-visual websites such as "Tik Tok", "Aauto Quicker", "Volcano" and "Watermelon Video" have sprung up rapidly, attracting a large number of netizens to participate in the interaction, and many criminals are also involved in it, frequently making moves. Recently, our province has also received many cases of fraud using the above-mentioned audio-visual websites. In this regard, Jiangsu police reminded the public that this kind of fraud has a large audience, wide spread and strong confusion. Netizens should raise their awareness of prevention and protect the safety of personal property.

　　Correspondent Changgong New Yangzi Evening News/Yangyan reporter Yu Yingjie

　　Using video

　　These three types of fraud cases are frequent.

　　Changzhou police made a special analysis of fraud cases on audio-visual websites and found that the following three categories of fraud cases are more prominent.

　　A, birthday celebration, lovelorn red envelope rebate category

　　[Case 1] Liu fell in love with Tik Tok and added a WeChat friend through Tik Tok. On September 9, he saw this friend in a circle of friends who was engaged in red envelope cashback activities, so he chatted with him. The other party said that there was a fan feedback activity with red envelopes, which was "transfer to 50 yuan and return to 55 yuan and other grades, and each person can play for up to three times". Liu believed it, transferred 4950 yuan to the other party through WeChat, and later found that he was cheated.

　　[Case 2] On August 27th, Qin met and joined a QQ group of online celebrity’s birthday red envelope party through Tik Tok. When he saw a man nicknamed "Brother", he claimed that 300 yuan could get a rebate of 3,888 yuan for sending red envelopes, so he added the other person’s WeChat as a friend and sent red envelopes through WeChat, and was cheated by 1000 yuan.

　　[Case 3] On August 24th, Wei met a netizen from Tik Tok and added the other person’s WeChat. The other person said in the WeChat circle of friends that "he was dumped and got a breakup fee of 1 million yuan. If someone sent 200 to 10,000 yuan, he would return it 10 times". Then Wei transferred 888 yuan to the other person through WeChat, and later found that he was blacked out by the other party.

　　B. Fake products sold in Wechat business

　　[Case 1] On September 6th, Gongmou saw a online celebrity blogger recommend cosmetics worth 198 yuan in Tik Tok. Gongmou believed that WeChat transferred 1188 yuan and was cheated.

　　[Case 2] On August 29th, Xu met a netizen through Tik Tok and added the other party’s WeChat. The other party said that he would get a chance to roll the dice if he bought a slimming product of 298 yuan. According to the request of the other party, Xu transferred a total of 5,000 yuan through WeChat, but did not receive the product and found that he was cheated.

　　[Case 3] On August 17th, when Meng used Tik Tok, he saw a message that there was a low-priced mobile phone for sale, so he added the other party as a WeChat friend. The other party said that Apple X, OPPO and other mobile phones only cost 198 yuan, and Meng paid 198 yuan through WeChat. The other party said that it was necessary to go through customs, pay customs duties, etc., and Meng made a total transfer to 800 yuan through WeChat payment. Later, the other party also asked for a transfer, and Meng realized that he had been cheated.

　　C, praise fans, buy and sell Tik Tok accounts.

　　[Case 1] On August 28th, the swindler said that he could help people to brush the praises on Tik Tok. After contacting him, Miao believed it, and provided his own WeChat payment verification code according to the request of the other party. As a result, he found that 6700 yuan in his WeChat was transferred away by the other party.

　　[Case 2] One day in July, Zhu bought a Tik Tok account for 10,000 yuan on the virtual asset trading service platform of "YuZhao.com". At the beginning of September, the seller contacted Zhu and said that someone wanted to buy the Tik Tok and invested 16,000 yuan. After discussion between the two parties on September 5th, Zhu agreed to sell Tik Tok’s account to the other party. Subsequently, the other party successfully tied the mobile phone number to the Tik Tok account, but the other party did not transfer 16,000 yuan to Zhu, but deleted Zhu’s WeChat.

　　Like to follow suit

　　Young people who are inexperienced are easy to be recruited.

　　After analyzing the above-mentioned cases, Changzhou police found that most of the targets targeted by criminal suspects are young people who are inexperienced, have poor preventive ability, like novelty and like to follow suit.

　　In terms of the modus operandi of these fraud cases, criminals take advantage of the victim’s curiosity and greed, and constantly attract fans through the newly popular "Tik Tok", "Aauto Quicker" and "Watermelon Video" apps, asking the deceived to pay by scanning the QR code, issuing red envelopes, transferring money, etc. Once the money is defrauded, the victim will be blacked out immediately.

　　Police tips

　　Don’t trust marketing videos

　　At present, short online videos are very popular among netizens, and the number of video views is tens of thousands. However, due to the short video time, vague background and fragmentary information, some lawless elements also blend in and take the opportunity to commit fraud.

　　The police reminded the majority of netizens to improve their awareness of self-prevention, not to trust videos with marketing, money and other properties on short video platforms such as "Tik Tok" and "Aauto Quicker", and not to transfer money and remittances to the other party easily. If you find that you have been cheated, you should call the police immediately.