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Suspects pretend to be bosses in scams
    2018-11-07  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

FIVE suspects were arrested by Shenzhen police for allegedly swindling victims by pretending to be the bosses of the victims’ companies, the Southern Metropolis Daily reported.

One of the scams took place in September. The victim identified as Wu is an accountant at a company in Longgang District.

On Sept. 27, Wu called Pingdi Police Station to report that the company he works for had been swindled out of 680,000 yuan (US$98,243) by someone pretending to be his boss.

The police soon found out that a man had called the company’s receptionist that morning to get Wu’s phone number. The man later called Wu and asked him to take notice of a transaction of 680,000 yuan from the man’s company.

Wu felt puzzled about the call because he had not received any notice from his boss. He then received a message on his QQ account, where he found that his “boss” was in a chat group with some other mid-level directors of his company.

In the chat group, the “boss” uploaded some screenshots and a contract involving a business deal. The “boss” then told Wu to take a good look at the contract and sign the deal “if nothing’s wrong with the contract.”

Wu did not give it a second thought before starting to review the contract. It was then that Wu received another phone call from the man who had called him in the morning saying they would like to terminate the business deal because something was wrong with the contract and asking him to return the sum of money they had transferred to Wu’s boss.

Wu reported the situation to his “boss” through QQ and the “boss” said the initial sum had been transferred to his personal account, so he couldn’t transfer the refund as he was presently occupied with something else. The “boss” then gave Wu a bank account and told the accountant to transfer 680,000 yuan to that account.

When the accountant completed the transaction, he found that the QQ chat group was immediately closed. He then called his boss, who said he had never asked him to make any transactions through QQ.

It turned out a fraudulent gang was behind the whole thing. With clues provided by Wu, Longgang police tracked down the gang and found that three suspects were hiding in Wuhan, capital city of Hubei Province, while the other two were located in Binyang, a city in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

All five of the suspects were busted in the beginning of this month. Police seized the bank cards, laptops and mobile phones the gang members had used to swindle their victims.

Two of the suspects responsible for carrying out the scams were brothers surnamed Zhang. The gang committed a handful of scams in Guangdong, Shandong and Hebei, among other places, raking in over 3 million yuan. (Zhang Qian)

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