Teacher Wang Boqi was interviewed by SETN: Little Red Book Fraud! The account of the victim who bought the “game points” as a money laundering tool was frozen.
2024/03/31 16:13:00
Reporter YU,TAO, HE,MENG-CHE /New Taipei City Report
The first third-party fraud incident of “Little Red Book” came out in China! A woman surnamed Chen used Little Red Book as a purchasing agent. She met a buyer in China and asked her to purchase game points. After confirming the receipt of the payment, the woman surnamed Chen was shocked that her account was frozen the next day, and she was also suspected by the police as a member of a fraud group. Finally, she realized that she had met a third-party fraud from China.
The woman ran a purchasing business in Xiaohongshu, but she was defrauded by a buyer in China, and she became an accomplice in fraud and her account was frozen.
Reporter You Tao: “China APP Little Red Book, have you used it? Now it’s loved by many young people, and they even trade on it, but now it’s reported that a Taiwan Province woman has been victimized. 」
Just like Tik Tok, Little Red Book focuses on short audio and video, which is quick and eye-catching, and penetrates into the world of young people. A Miss Chen from New Taipei sees business opportunities and runs purchasing in Little Red Book. Unexpectedly, she almost becomes an accomplice in fraud.
Conversation to discuss the details of purchasing, but there are many problems. It turns out that Miss Chen runs purchasing in China app Xiaohongshu, and meets a China buyer who signed “Little Sweet Potato” and asked him to help purchase game points totaling RMB 1,900. After the two traded through China “Idle Fish” platform, Miss Chen confirmed that the money was ok before delivering the goods. Unexpectedly, the account was frozen the next day, and even became a warning account, only to find that she was caught in a third-party fraud.
Third-party fraud has emerged in an endless stream, and now it has reached into the short audio-visual world. The suspect swindled Chen and another victim at the same time, letting the money flow between them, while taking the counting card himself, and the fisherman benefited. Although the victim was alert to report the case, experts admitted that it was difficult to find out the suspect behind it.
Wang, Po-Chi, an associate professor of the Department of Criminal Justice of Ming Chuan University, said: “If its parent company is located in China, it may be that the other party is actually unwilling to start (investigate), or it may be unwilling to cooperate in the investigation, which may cause a very big breakpoint in the investigation, and it may be difficult to find out who the perpetrators are. 」
China APP Xiaohongshu attracts young users with “short audio and video”
The police said that there were attempts to trace the case through Xiaohongshu and WeChat, but the parent company did not have a window in Taiwan Province, and China companies generally turned a blind eye to such criminal cases and could not access the information of the perpetrators. Now they can only remind people to be vigilant when using similar apps.