Collecting service fees under the guise of collecting treasures, Chongqing police cracked a series of treasure fraud cases

　　Recently, the police in Liangjiang New District of Chongqing City accurately attacked and detected a series of fraud cases with high "service fees" under the guise of "cultural relics" treasures, smashed five criminal dens, seized a large number of criminal tools such as computers, mobile phones, fake cultural relics and fake auction albums, and arrested 116 suspects, involving nearly 7 million yuan.

　　It is reported that in late May this year, the police in Liangjiang New Area received an alarm from Mr. Li, a mass in the jurisdiction, saying that the staff of a cultural communication company in the jurisdiction took the initiative to contact the collection in their hands as "cultural relics", which was of great value. The staff of the company said that the company can arrange a trade fair or auction to auction the "cultural relics" in Mr. Li’s hand at a high price and invite Mr. Li to the company for an interview.

　　So, Mr. Li came to the company with "baby" and was appraised by "experts". The market price exceeded one million yuan. Mr. Li hurriedly asked about the details of the exhibition auction, but the staff of the company told Mr. Li that the auction of "cultural relics" needed a certain process and related service fees were charged. If the auction was successful, the service fees would be refunded in full, but 8% of the auction amount would be charged as commission. Subsequently, Mr. Li signed a "service agreement on entrusted transaction of works of art" with the company, and paid a "service fee" of 66,000 yuan to the company at 10,000 yuan and 56,000 yuan respectively.

　　After a period of time, Mr. Li found that the company had no qualification for treasure-making, and the so-called auction activities of the company were purely fictitious. The collection in his hand was identified by the relevant departments as old objects and had no collection value. After discovering that he was cheated, Mr. Li immediately reported the case to the police in Liangjiang New Area.

　　Since then, the police in Liangjiang New Area have successively received such "Jianbao" fraud warnings, and the modus operandi is highly similar, and immediately set up a task force. After careful investigation, the police have mastered five collection trading companies named Jianbao in the jurisdiction and their personnel structures. The police found out that each of these five companies has a general manager and deputy general manager, an administrative department and a business department, and a sales team under the business department. Each group has 3 to 10 members, and the company has corresponding positions such as department manager and finance.

　　On June 20, the police in Liangjiang New Area acted in a unified manner, attacked with precision and destroyed the fraud gang in one fell swoop.

　　The police investigating the case said that the criminal gang recruited a group of ordinary employees who didn’t understand the identification and auction of cultural relics in the society. After the company’s unified training and exchange of words and fraud techniques, they invited customers to the company by telephone, and used the so-called "expert" appraisal and "appraiser" valuation to induce customers to auction their collections, and then signed an auction exhibition contract to collect "service fees".

　　Xiong Moumou, the main suspect in the case, took the initiative to explain to the police that the company he opened was not a Jianbao company at all, and the company did not have any qualifications for cultural relics appraisal and auction. The so-called "cultural relics appraisal experts" and "price appraisers" were all "played" by insiders. The auction and exhibition are also a scam of the company’s "director", and it is impossible for the auction to succeed, just "going through the motions".

　　Xiong Moumou also confessed that in order to better implement fraud, they will regularly give employees "vocational training" to teach relevant fraud operation procedures and words; At the same time, in order to hide the fraud, they will arrange the auction site abroad, so that customers can’t arrive at the scene in person. In addition, we will also make false invitations to the auction and shoot live videos of the auction and send them to customers to dispel their doubts and defraud their trust.

　　At present, the case is under further investigation. (Reporter Zhan Haifeng correspondent Zhang Wei)