If you are cheated, should you call the police or find a lawyer?

If it constitutes a criminal offence, you can entrust a lawyer to report the case; If it is just a general fraud, you can entrust a lawyer to file a civil lawsuit. For fraud cases, it is difficult for the police to file a criminal case, or not to pursue it after filing a case, which makes it impossible to pursue the criminal responsibility of the liar. It is precisely because of the above reasons that the police do not file a case or it is difficult to file a case, which is also a helpless move of the police. The police are really busy. The police station has limited police force and no manpower to deal with these fraud cases. Moreover, whether a stakeholder criminal case can be filed or not, the police station doesn't count at all, and it needs the approval of the leader to be established. In this way, it is more difficult to file a criminal case. In fraud cases, if the police do not file a case, the victim can only defend his rights through legal channels, but only through litigation. But how to file a case is also a problem in litigation, and where the court has jurisdiction is also a problem. Sometimes the victim knows nothing about the liar, so he can't sue at all, so he can only call the police, but the police are too busy to help, so safeguarding rights has become an empty talk for the victim, because there is no way to defend rights.

Explanations of the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate on Several Issues Concerning the Specific Application of Laws in Handling Criminal Cases of Fraud Article 1 Whoever swindles public or private property in an amount of more than 3,000 yuan, more than 30,000 yuan, more than 100,000 yuan and more than 500,000 yuan shall be deemed as "a large amount", "a huge amount" and "a particularly huge amount" respectively according to the provisions of Article 266 of the Criminal Law. The higher people's courts and people's procuratorates of all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government may, according to the economic and social development of the region and within the scope of the amount stipulated in these Regulations, jointly study and determine the specific implementation amount standards in the region, and report them to the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate for the record. It is difficult to verify the amount of fraud by using telecommunications technologies such as texting, phone calls and the Internet. However, under any of the following circumstances, it shall be deemed as "other serious circumstances" in accordance with the provisions of Article 266 of the Criminal Law, and shall be convicted and punished for fraud (attempted).