“Dad, I need money urgently”, a woman defrauded an elderly man living alone out of 3 million. What was the result?

As the aging of our country's society deepens, the lives and health of empty-nest elderly people have attracted more and more attention. At the same time, there are also some people with ill intentions who are eyeing these lonely old people and even use some despicable means to do some despicable things.

The thing I am about to talk about happened in Anyue County, Ziyang City, Sichuan Province. Uncle Luo suddenly received a strange phone call. The caller claimed to be Uncle Luo's daughter. Uncle Luo has a son and a daughter, both of whom have grown up and have families. The eldest son works in Chengdu and comes home to visit every month. His daughter and son-in-law are far away in Shenzhen. They usually communicate by phone and don’t see each other much. When he heard that his daughter In urgent need of money, Uncle Luo agreed without hesitation. After hanging up the phone, he ran to a nearby bank and transferred 13,000 yuan to the bank account provided by his daughter.

Because the caller was his daughter, Uncle Luo did not doubt why his daughter had changed her phone number and bank account. As soon as Uncle Luo finished paying, his daughter called again. The other end of the phone told her that she was seriously ill and needed tens of thousands of dollars. Uncle Luo sent another 60,000 yuan.

Luo Da and his wife are both retired workers, and their combined monthly retirement salary is more than 4,000. Excluding daily expenses, the more than 60,000 yuan was the emergency money saved by the old couple. After Uncle Luo made the second payment, the phone rang again, and the other party continued to ask for money.

Early the next morning, when he was about to go to the bank for the third time, Uncle Luo’s cell phone rang again. This time it was the mobile phone number that my daughter Luo Yan had been using before. Uncle Luo suddenly realized that he had been deceived and quickly called the police. The police received 17 such reports one after another. Most of the people who are deceived are elderly people whose children are outside the home.

It is very likely that these fraudsters are the same group of people. In order to avoid the police's attack, this group of people committed crimes in two places. The location of the fraud and the location of the withdrawal are separate. One group of police officers went to Pengxi County in Sichuan Province to find the location where the phone fraud was committed, and another group went to Dianbai County in Guangdong Province to find accomplices who had withdrawn money.

By retrieving the surveillance video of the withdrawal, the police who went to Dianbai County quickly identified the suspect. The investigation revealed that the suspects all had the surname Fan and it was a family-style fraud. The police who went to Pengxi County, Sichuan Province to search for the location of the fraud also had a harvest and found two suspects who made fraudulent calls.

Anyue police deployed more than 30 police officers to arrest the suspect Tian Xiaofen, her husband, and her sister. In their home, the police seized more than 20 mobile phones, more than a dozen bank cards, two property registration certificates, and a book full of numbers. Behind these numbers is the anger of more than 200 elderly people. And helpless, the total losses of more than two hundred elderly people reached an astonishing more than three million.

After these people were exposed, instead of feeling guilty or panicked, they were particularly surprised. Maybe he felt that he was hidden enough, but he was still found out by the police.

The two Tian Xiaofen sisters are extremely cunning. Because they are natives of Sichuan, in order to increase the chance of successful fraud, they target all elderly people in Sichuan. They use a wide net method. , the number of calls made every day actually reached 300 to 500.

The sisters’ fraud methods were not clever. They took advantage of the old man’s psychology. After the call is connected, if the person on the other end of the line is an old man, she will be very attentive to greet her and call her father and mother. The sweet words of the two sisters will make the old man feel more comfortable as he listens, and the old man's vigilance will become weaker and weaker. Later, when the scammer called and asked for money on the pretext of being sick, the old man transferred the money to the designated bank account without saying anything.

According to Tian Xiaofen’s account, the bank cards they used to defraud were all bought by his husband Fan through illegal means, and these cards were not in their hands, but in the hands of people from their own clan, or In the hands of those responsible for withdrawing money, once the two sisters succeed in their fraud, Tian Xiaofen's husband Fan will tell the cardholders through text messages or phone calls to ask them to withdraw the money in Guangdong Province. The money was given to Tian Xiaofen, and one-third of the so-called commission was taken.

When arresting Tian Xiaofang, the police found that they lived an extremely simple life, with a family of more than a dozen people crowded into a small house of only 80 square meters. They committed more than 200 crimes in a city in Sichuan Province and obtained more than 3 million yuan in stolen money.

By the time they were caught, the money was missing by two-thirds.

It turns out that Tian Xiaofang was also afraid that the matter would be exposed, so she transferred most of the money to her mother's name. Tian Xiaofang was born in a small mountain village in Suining, Sichuan, and is the second oldest child in her family. In order to support her family, she went out to work very early. While working part-time, I met Fan from Guangdong Dianbai. Fan was an honest man at the time, and after they got married, they had a son and a daughter.

But it was after the birth of her son that Tian Xiaofen’s thoughts changed unknowingly. In Tian Xiaofen's subconscious, there has always been a sense of inferiority. In her opinion, it was because her parents had no son that the whole family was looked down upon. After having her son, she felt that she was finally proud. As her children grow up day by day, Tian Xiaofang feels pressured by the financial burden on her family.

Her husband Fan was diagnosed with severe liver disease again, and all his savings were spent on treatment. Tian Xiaofen, who was anxious about money, found that many relatives in her husband’s family were very good at making money. They called every day. You can make money with just a few phone calls. She envied these people for getting something for nothing, and even coveted other people's new houses, and eventually fell into a sinful and misguided path.

Frauds were successful again and again, and the numbers in the bank cards continued to rise. Later, even Tian Xiaofang's sister joined and a fraud gang was officially formed. In order to avoid attracting attention, she spent more than half a million yuan to buy a house in her son's name, and the remaining money was placed in her mother's name. Because of her guilty conscience, she dared not live in the new house.

Tian Xiaofen’s children did not originally have nothing. They could have inherited simplicity and kindness from their parents, these very precious spiritual wealth. But precisely because of Tian Xiaofen's endless greed, all they left to their children were the negative assets of shame and low self-esteem.

With this incident, I would also like to remind everyone that modern life is fast-paced and stressful, but for parents who live alone. We still have to try our best to make time to visit and make phone calls from time to time. Just imagine, if parents can't even distinguish their children's voices on the phone, how long has it been since the two parties communicated?