A Piece of News: The foreigner took it seriously, and the PUTIAN online scammer was arrested
Date: March 30, 2007
Source: China Procuratorial Daily (Held by The Supreme People's Procuratorate of PRC)
Original Chinese Version: http://www.jcrb.com/n1/jcrb1251/ca593605.htm
Translated by Sun Jin
Online swindler Li Peng can not imagine it even in his dream, that his so-called CLIENT will come from Italy thousands miles away to China to report the case to local police, for USD2100 only. In recent days, Li Peng was arrested by police under approval of Putian Procuratorate, for the reason of suspicious that he had committed a crime named Contract Fraud in PRC CRIME LAW.
In Jun. 2006, Li Peng established an online shop in a commercial B2B website, to do online-trade. In November of the year, he found SONY brand PS3 was very hot in markets world widely; he managed to get a sample PS3, and ask his clerks to post online to advertise that he has lots of PS3 in stock, and his quotation was much lower than the normal price in the market. In Dec. 22 of the year, a client from Italy got in contact with Li Peng via email, and decided to purchase 5 sets of PS3. In Jan. 2 of 2007, the Italy client wired USD2100 of payment according to mutual agreement to Li Peng's account. After Li Peng got the payment, he asked his farther to buy a pair of shoes, and couriered it to the Italy client. After the Italy client getting the courier parcel, he expressed his doubts at once. But Li Peng gave him lots of reasons such as Customs and Courier Company's working mistakes. Feb. 6, the Italian who thought he was scammed, came to Putian City, Fujian Province, to report the case to local police. (Reporter: Wang Lei, Lin Guoqiang)
If you had been scammed by a PUTIAN fraud, as a criminal case you would have to report it to Putian local police, plz do make it sure that you had related documents ready. First is the evidence certifying that you had paid them. T/T WIRE or WEST UNION. Second all your records of conservation with the guy. And third is what cargo you had got from the guy. And you will need to come to China in person, or entrust a local attorney.
Some telephone numbers as following:
Putian City Police Office Case Report Hotline: +86-594-110 (Online police officer may not be able to speak English)
Putian City Police Office Net-security Department
email: ptga@winmail.cn
Telephone: +86-594-2682800, 2682802 (Online police officer may not be able to speak English)
Fax: +86-594-2682803
Fujian Province Police Office
General Team of Crime Investigation
Telephone: +86-591-87094290 (Online police officer may not be able to speak English)
Related Chinese Law article
PRC CRIMINAL LAW
Article 224. Whoever, for the purpose of illegal possession, uses one of the following means during signing or executing a contract to obtain property and goods of the opposite party by fraud, and when the amount of money is relatively large, is to be sentenced to not more than three years of fixed-term imprisonment, criminal detention, and may in addition or exclusively be sentenced to a fine; or be sentenced to not less than three years and not more than 10 years of fixed-term imprisonment and a fine, if the amount of money is huge or there are other serious circumstances; or be sentenced to more than 10 years of fixed-term imprisonment or life imprisonment and a fine or confiscation of property, if the amount of money is particularly huge or there are other particularly serious circumstances:
(1) sign a contract in the name of a made-up unit or under somebody else's name;
(2) use forged, altered, or invalid negotiable instruments or other false certificates of property rights as guaranties;
(3) fulfill small-amount contracts or partially fulfill the contract, instead of actually fulfilling the contract, to inveigle the opposite party into continuing to sign and fulfill the contract;
(4) go into hiding after receiving goods, payment, advance payment, or property as guaranty from the opposite party;
(5) defraud the opposite party's property through other means.
This is really a great success story, and I hope that many people will read it, because it has the potential to help your country enormously.
Quoting from [Lawyersun]:Great Story! The big question that is most relevant to all buyers in this forum is: Did the buyer get compensated? It is great to see China law crack down on fraud - I'm confident that this is going to do wonders for a long stable economic growth here.A Piece of News: The foreigner took it seriously, and the PUTIAN online scammer was arrested
Date: March 30, 2007
Source: China Procuratorial Daily (Held by The Supreme People's Procuratorate of PRC)
Original Chinese Version: http://www.jcrb.com/n1/jcrb1251/ca593605.htm
Translated by Sun JinOnline swindler Li Peng can not imagine it even in his dream, that his so-called CLIENT will come from Italy thousands miles away to China to report the case to local police, for USD2100 only. In recent days, Li Peng was arrested by police under approval of Putian Procuratorate, for the reason of suspicious that he had committed a crime named Contract Fraud in PRC CRIME LAW.
In Jun. 2006, Li Peng established an online shop in a commercial B2B website, to do online-trade. In November of the year, he found SONY brand PS3 was very hot in markets world widely; he managed to get a sample PS3, and ask his clerks to post online to advertise that he has lots of PS3 in stock, and his quotation was much lower than the normal price in the market. In Dec. 22 of the year, a client from Italy got in contact with Li Peng via email, and decided to purchase 5 sets of PS3. In Jan. 2 of 2007, the Italy client wired USD2100 of payment according to mutual agreement to Li Peng's account. After Li Peng got the payment, he asked his farther to buy a pair of shoes, and couriered it to the Italy client. After the Italy client getting the courier parcel, he expressed his doubts at once. But Li Peng gave him lots of reasons such as Customs and Courier Company's working mistakes. Feb. 6, the Italian who thought he was scammed, came to Putian City, Fujian Province, to report the case to local police. (Reporter: Wang Lei, Lin Guoqiang)
Quoting from [Lawyersun]:A Piece of News: The foreigner took it seriously, and the PUTIAN online scammer was arrested
Date: March 30, 2007
Source: China Procuratorial Daily (Held by The Supreme People's Procuratorate of PRC)
Original Chinese Version: http://www.jcrb.com/n1/jcrb1251/ca593605.htm
Translated by Sun JinOnline swindler Li Peng can not imagine it even in his dream, that his so-called CLIENT will come from Italy thousands miles away to China to report the case to local police, for USD2100 only. In recent days, Li Peng was arrested by police under approval of Putian Procuratorate, for the reason of suspicious that he had committed a crime named Contract Fraud in PRC CRIME LAW.
In Jun. 2006, Li Peng established an online shop in a commercial B2B website, to do online-trade. In November of the year, he found SONY brand PS3 was very hot in markets world widely; he managed to get a sample PS3, and ask his clerks to post online to advertise that he has lots of PS3 in stock, and his quotation was much lower than the normal price in the market. In Dec. 22 of the year, a client from Italy got in contact with Li Peng via email, and decided to purchase 5 sets of PS3. In Jan. 2 of 2007, the Italy client wired USD2100 of payment according to mutual agreement to Li Peng's account. After Li Peng got the payment, he asked his farther to buy a pair of shoes, and couriered it to the Italy client. After the Italy client getting the courier parcel, he expressed his doubts at once. But Li Peng gave him lots of reasons such as Customs and Courier Company's working mistakes. Feb. 6, the Italian who thought he was scammed, came to Putian City, Fujian Province, to report the case to local police. (Reporter: Wang Lei, Lin Guoqiang)
Good to know that the scammer got arrested.I want some leads on how to contact the Shijiazhuang police station for busting a similat racket of which am a victim.Anyone here who could give me information on Shijiazhuang police station ?
Quoting from [Rob Bailey]:
Quoting from [Lawyersun]:
Great Story! The big question that is most relevant to all buyers in this forum is: Did the buyer get compensated? It is great to see China law crack down on fraud - I'm confident that this is going to do wonders for a long stable economic growth here.
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It's true that this is a great story, however, in nowadays after one year I wrote these words, I still can see same type of victims crying and complaining over nearly same type of frauds from that same city here in this same forum again and again repeatedly. I just wonder why they were/are not stoped, by these who can do something over this and them.
Quoting from [lalitha_krish]:Quoting from [Lawyersun]:A Piece of News: The foreigner took it seriously, and the PUTIAN online scammer was arrested
Date: March 30, 2007
Source: China Procuratorial Daily (Held by The Supreme People's Procuratorate of PRC)
Original Chinese Version: http://www.jcrb.com/n1/jcrb1251/ca593605.htm
Translated by Sun JinOnline swindler Li Peng can not imagine it even in his dream, that his so-called CLIENT will come from Italy thousands miles away to China to report the case to local police, for USD2100 only. In recent days, Li Peng was arrested by police under approval of Putian Procuratorate, for the reason of suspicious that he had committed a crime named Contract Fraud in PRC CRIME LAW.
In Jun. 2006, Li Peng established an online shop in a commercial B2B website, to do online-trade. In November of the year, he found SONY brand PS3 was very hot in markets world widely; he managed to get a sample PS3, and ask his clerks to post online to advertise that he has lots of PS3 in stock, and his quotation was much lower than the normal price in the market. In Dec. 22 of the year, a client from Italy got in contact with Li Peng via email, and decided to purchase 5 sets of PS3. In Jan. 2 of 2007, the Italy client wired USD2100 of payment according to mutual agreement to Li Peng's account. After Li Peng got the payment, he asked his farther to buy a pair of shoes, and couriered it to the Italy client. After the Italy client getting the courier parcel, he expressed his doubts at once. But Li Peng gave him lots of reasons such as Customs and Courier Company's working mistakes. Feb. 6, the Italian who thought he was scammed, came to Putian City, Fujian Province, to report the case to local police. (Reporter: Wang Lei, Lin Guoqiang)
Good to know that the scammer got arrested.I want some leads on how to contact the Shijiazhuang police station for busting a similat racket of which am a victim.Anyone here who could give me information on Shijiazhuang police station ?
I can give you their telephone numbers however do not put much hope over telephone conversations, if you really want to do something, you need come to CHina in person or entrust some Chinese here to help you. Remember that most Chinese police offiers can not speak good English, include the police officers online. +86-311-89662222, or +86-311-110. Good luck.