In order to save a relationship, he was cheated for more than 34,000 yuan.
The reporter of Modern Express learned that the Shanghai police arrested 69 suspects, seized more than 80 mobile phones/KLOC-0, and initially verified more than 500 cases nationwide, involving more than 7 million yuan.
In this case, in July last year, Mr. Niu (a pseudonym) had problems with his girlfriend. After breaking up, all contact information was blacked out by the other party. In order to save this relationship, Mr. Niu searched online for emotional recovery skills and wanted to save his girlfriend's heart through some coup. Soon, he was attracted by a slogan of "one-on-one personal tailor, 100% saving love", and added the emotional tutor's WeChat at the bottom of the slogan for consultation.
After adding WeChat, the emotional tutor learned about Mr. Niu's basic situation in detail, and promised to provide only the personal information of his ex-girlfriend after paying the consulting fee, and would arrange exclusive "emotional experts" to communicate and persuade his ex-girlfriend to help him successfully repair his feelings, but Mr. Niu should not take the initiative to contact his ex-girlfriend in the process. Mr. Niu, who was bent on saving his feelings, immediately paid a consulting fee of 3280 yuan. The agency also immediately arranged "emotional experts" to provide emotional counseling for Mr. Niu, and said that he had contacted his ex-girlfriend.
Subsequently, the "experts" of the institution repeatedly asked Mr. Niu to transfer more than 30,000 yuan to pay for further psychological counseling on the grounds that "the ex-girlfriend has a new boyfriend" and "the ex-girlfriend has been shaken and needs to contact the current boyfriend to end the relationship" before continuing emotional counseling. Mr. Niu heard that he also transferred money. But until April this year, Mr. Niu had not successfully reunited with his ex-girlfriend, and he was perfunctory when contacting the intermediary. Mr Niu realized that he had been cheated. Not only did he not recover his ex-girlfriend, but he also lost more than 34,000 yuan.
399 yuan in advance for consultation. Insiders: This is only the first step.
On a search website, the reporter entered the word "save" and many advertisements appeared. The reporter randomly opened one, entitled "How to recover after giving up? I'll teach you three steps to restore his heart in seven days. " Web links. After clicking on the web link, the reporter immediately entered an interface similar to a chat room, and many questions popped up soon, such as: What is your emotional state? Who loved who more before? How much are you willing to pay to get him back? After the reporter randomly selected, a person who claimed to be an emotional mentor quickly got in touch with the reporter.
After the reporter answered some basic emotional questions, the emotional tutor said: "Your current emotional situation is not difficult to solve, but if you leave it alone, the opportunity may become more and more serious!" Later, the tutor said that after adding WeChat friends, you can chat in more detail and send your own micro-signals.
After adding the other party's micro-signal, the reporter briefly explained the idea he wanted to save. After a few words of communication between the two sides, the emotional tutor said that they have professional teachers who can help teach how to do it, but there is a charge for teacher guidance. The other party said, "We charge 399 yuan to help you make an appointment with a professional emotional teacher for communication and consultation, analyze your current emotional situation, give you the right direction and suggestions, and tell you what to do next."
Is there any possibility of saving feelings after giving 399 yuan? The reporter further consulted the emotional tutor, and the tutor said, "This 399 yuan is only a one-on-one suggestion from the teacher according to your situation. If you don't know how to deal with it, or you still can't get it back, you want our professional teachers to give you extra help. For example, to help you chat and meet each other, the teacher will pay more time and energy, and pay extra. " The reporter asked how much it would cost to help arrange the meeting, and the tutor replied, "It depends."
Industry insiders told reporters that, generally speaking, similar emotional mentors are routines that "let you pay a sum of money first". "Let you pay a seemingly small sum of money, say 300 to 500 yuan, and then tell you that you have difficulties, and then charge further." Insiders also said that whether or not to be cheated and how much to be cheated depends on the specific situation. "Maybe in the process of chatting, the liar finds that your financial situation is better and your determination to recover is particularly strong, so it is possible to charge you a high price. At this time, you are easily deceived. "
The lawyer reminded not to pay high fees to entrust others to save their feelings.
Does this behavior of collecting emotional guidance fees constitute fraud? After the fraud case in Shanghai, many netizens thought that the emotional tutor was a liar. In fact, sometimes the emotional tutor will give good advice, which can help the helper get out of the lovelorn or save success quickly.
In this regard, Yang Dong, deputy director of the Criminal Law Business Committee of Jiangsu Lawyers Association, director of the Criminal Law Professional Committee of Nanjing Lawyers Association and partner of Jiangsu Sanfa Law Firm, said that simply guiding lovelorn people generally does not constitute fraud. The key is whether the fact of communicating with each other to save feelings is fabricated.
Lawyer Yang Dong said that if there is indeed a case of forging chat records, such as an emotional liar caught by the Shanghai police, and if the conversation with his ex-girlfriend is forged, causing the parties to fall into the misunderstanding of disposing of property, the judicial organs can consider filing a case for investigation on suspicion of fraud. But in the end, it should be carefully determined according to the evidence of the whole case to prevent the excessive expansion and application of fraud.
"For people who are lovelorn, it is ok to pay only a small part to seek psychological comfort." Yang Dong said: "If you have to spend a lot of money to entrust others to save your feelings, you will probably end up with both money and people."