Pengpeng usually likes to play an online game. Because he is only 10 years old, his skills in playing games are not very good, and he gradually became interested in the beautiful "skins" in the game. On February 8, Pengpeng saw someone in the game posting the message "Add friends to get free skins". He was immediately overjoyed and took the initiative to contact the other person, and then added the other person as a WeChat friend.
On WeChat, the other party had a voice chat with Pengpeng. After discovering that Pengpeng spoke in a milky voice and was still young, he sent a payment code and asked Pengpeng to pay 5,000 yuan to give him a beautiful gift. skin, and promised to return it in full, just go through a process. After the operation was completed, the other party used various reasons to trick Pengpeng into transferring another 1,400 yuan. After the transfer, Pengpeng did not ask about the refund, but anxiously asked about the whereabouts of his beautiful "skin". The other party said that it would take a few days. Only then could he see it, and Pengpeng believed it to be true. In the afternoon of that day, Mr. Xu found out about the incident when he found a bank transfer text message when checking his mobile phone. After asking Pengpeng, he was immediately upset, and then went to Ganma Police Station for help. After receiving the report, the police reassured Mr. Xu not to blame the child, while quickly fixing the evidence, obtaining and analyzing transaction information, clarifying and judging the whereabouts of the funds, and successfully identified the QR code payee in Leiyang City, Hunan Province. With the assistance of the local public security agency Next, confirm that the payee is the owner of a mobile phone business hall.
The boss said that a man in his 20s wanted to buy a mobile phone that day. After asking about the price, he did not pay immediately. Instead, he took a photo of the payment code and went out to make a phone call. Then he received two payments. The total amount of the transfer was 6,400 yuan. Since there was no goods available that day, the man was asked to pick it up the next day. After the cooperation between the public security agencies of the two places, the mobile phone store owner returned 6,400 yuan to Mr. Xu. Currently, the case is under further investigation and the suspect is being hunted.
The police remind that because minors are still in a special period of physical and mental development, their minds are not mature enough, their security awareness is weak, and their ability to identify fraud is not strong, they can easily become targets of criminals for online fraud. Nowadays, many children know their parents' mobile phone passwords and even payment passwords. Children with weak self-control can easily fall into the recharge "trap", and it is their parents who end up footing the bill.
Article 266 of the "Criminal Law" stipulates that whoever defrauds public or private property and the amount is relatively large shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance, and shall also or solely be fined; if the amount is huge or there are other If the circumstances are serious, the offender shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years and not more than ten years, and shall also be fined; if the amount is particularly huge or there are other particularly serious circumstances, the offender shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than ten years or life imprisonment, and shall also be fined or have property confiscated.