The cost of grabbing bargains on Double 11 is too high! A woman who bought milk on Douyin fell into a trap and was defrauded of 1.54 million yuan

The Double 11 Shopping Festival has entered its final countdown and the peak of buying momentum. Various e-commerce companies have offered the biggest discounts of the year. The Criminal Police Department today specially called on the public to beware of online shopping scams. A woman surnamed Xiao in the south recently saw cheap milk on the Douyin platform and accidentally fell into the trap of a fraud group. The other party asked for a deposit on the grounds of freezing her account, causing her to lose 1.54 million yuan in just a few days. The police reminded that gangsters often take advantage of popular sales periods to defraud, and the public must be vigilant.

This fake online auction complex fraud occurred in mid-October this year. Ms. Xiao saw an advertisement selling Guangquan milk on the Douyin software, and contacted the seller named Haokang Life Hall through the messaging software. The seller guided her to use Shopee shopping to conduct transactions. Then he claimed that Ms. Xiao’s operation error caused the account to be frozen, and she had to pay a deposit equal to the account balance to be released.

Xiao lost her judgment in panic and followed the gangster's instructions to place 1.47 million yuan in cash in a smart locker at the high-speed rail station and transfer another 70,000 yuan through the Internet. It was not until the other party cut off contact that she realized she had been deceived and quickly called the 165 anti-fraud hotline for help.

In response to this type of fraud, the police stressed that consumers should remember the three principles of not making private transactions, not clicking on unknown links, and not sending goods according to instructions; including fraud groups often advertising ultra-low-price products on social platforms, and then asking buyers to send private messages through messaging software. As long as they are separated from the protection mechanism of the official e-commerce platform, there is no guarantee at all.

In addition, any claim that an unknown program is used to cheat orders or unfreeze accounts is a scam; formal e-commerce and financial institutions will never ask people to go to station lockers to deposit cash, let alone pay a deposit.

The Criminal Bureau said that when shopping, people should choose official platforms with good reputations. If they encounter suspicious situations such as claiming that there is a problem with their account, they should hang up the phone immediately and call 165 or 110 for verification, so as to avoid losing their hard-earned money due to petty gains.