Tiger Police

Chapter 523 Theft
"It's happened in the market before."

Wang Qinian turned sideways and pointed to the booth next to him.

Following the direction he pointed, Hu Pingtao saw a green WeChat QR code pasted on the concrete platform of the booth.

Wang Qinian explained: "All the stalls in the market are fixed. Usually, at the end of the year, the lease contract is signed with the market management party. There are two types of one-year and half-year terms. The location of Sanlin Street is good, and the surrounding areas are residential areas. There are many people, and the business is easy to do. Therefore, the merchants renting booths will basically not change. To save trouble, everyone posted WeChat QR codes on their respective booths.”

Hu Pingtao knew it well, and he asked seriously: "You mean, someone secretly changed the QR code of the merchant?"

Wang Qinian nodded, and pointed at Zhang Xianglin: "When Lao Zhang got into a fight with that young man, I guessed it was a similar situation. Later, I went to Lao Zhang's shop and asked him to take out his mobile phone and open WeChat. After paying, I compared the QR code pasted on his store door, and it turned out to be fake."

Zhang Xianglin said bitterly: "The QR code I usually use was pasted on another one, the size is the same as mine. I can't tell the difference at all. As long as the customer scans the code to pay, the money will be transferred to someone else's account. gone."

Hu Pingtao's expression became serious.

This matter looks simple, but its nature is very bad.

He asked Wang Qinian, "So you called the police?"

Wang Qinian nodded: "Everyone is in business, everyone is afraid! Lao Zhang encountered such a thing today, it is hard to say that it will happen again in the future. It is fine if you only lose a hundred dollars. If the problem cannot be solved, then If this continues, no one in the market will dare to accept the method of mobile phone payment.”

Hu Pingtao gave a soft "huh" and turned to Tan Tao: "Have you found anything here?"

Tan Tao also looked serious: "I rushed over as soon as I received the call to the police. The merchants have reported the problem to the market management. The WeChat QR code has been replaced.”

"More than 40?" Hu Pingtao was taken aback: "So many?"

Tan Tao explained: "The same method is used, and a new one is pasted on the surface of the original QR code of the operator. In this way, as long as the customer scans the code to pay, the money will be automatically transferred to the counterfeiter's account, and the merchant will be able to pay for it as soon as possible. Not even a penny."

Hu Pingtao frowned and thought for a moment, then asked suspiciously: "Scan code payment prompts on mobile phones, and I usually buy vegetables, and merchants are basically equipped with electronic reminders. Since so many people's QR codes have been counterfeited, Why didn't anyone else find this problem except Zhang Xianglin?"

Wang Qinian came over and explained: "Let me talk about this matter! I, like Lao Zhang, cook seafood. Just say me! Most customers usually come to me to buy bamboo prawns, as well as flower snails and crayfish. .It is not the poor who can afford these things, usually a catty and a half catty would cost at least a hundred dollars."

"If someone scans the QR code to pay, if I ask to see his mobile phone, it will be very rude. People, we all pay attention to mutual respect. The same is true for electronic reminders. Think about it, you just paid here, and there Just automatically prompt: how much to pay... This really makes people a little embarrassed."

"Some people are single, and he is the only one at home. He can't finish eating a catty of shrimp and a catty of fish, but he is greedy and wants to eat everything, including bamboo shrimp, salmon, flower snails, sea cucumbers, oysters... In short As long as he doesn’t have to buy a whole lobster, he will basically buy some, one or two, two or two, which is not much, and it’s only a few tens, or even a dozen yuan.”

"If he scans the QR code to pay, and the electronic prompter calls out like this, he will feel ashamed."

Hu Pingtao nodded: "So many merchants are not equipped with electronic prompters?"

Wang Qinian sighed: "Doing business is the same as being a human being. We all pay attention to integrity. This is good for everyone."

Hu Pingtao turned around and walked to the door of Zhang Xianglin's store, carefully observing the WeChat QR code posted outside the store door.

The counterfeit code pasted on the surface has been torn off, and the real QR code below has also been destroyed.The location is on the surface of the steel frame of the house outside the store, and there is some black dirt around it.Judging from the remaining traces, the time for the counterfeit code to be posted should not be long.

Tan Tao saw through his thoughts, walked over, and lowered his voice: "I guess the counterfeit code was posted yesterday. What Wang Qinian said just now has some truth, but not all merchants in this market are like this."

Hu Pingtao agreed: "Yes! If he was careless, Zhang Xianglin would not have discovered this problem today... Well, what you mean is that the more than 40 merchants with counterfeit codes are all selling seafood. ?”

Tan Tao explained: "Not exactly. Some sell beef and mutton, some sell dry goods, and some sell butter cheese... By the way, there are two other wholesale frozen products."

"Wholesale frozen products?" Hu Pingtao thought to himself, and then expressed his thoughts: "Seafood is quite expensive, and beef and mutton are not cheap. I bought mutton once last month, 75 yuan per kilogram, and mutton is not expensive. Like pork, it can be chopped up and bought. A sheep is divided into several large pieces: four legs at the front and back, two pieces of lamb chops in the middle plus a lamb spine, and then the neck and head. Anyway, buying a single piece costs at least 200 to [-] yuan. Money. If it is a strong big sheep, I am afraid it will be more than three hundred."

"Dry goods, beef, seafood... Hehe, do you see something tricky?"

Tan Tao is very smart, and he can tell right away: "You mean, the perpetrators are selective?"

Hu Pingtao nodded: "What Wang Qinian said before is quite reasonable. Doing business pays attention to the word "integrity". Especially when paying, if the merchant requires the customer to show the payment voucher, there is nothing wrong with the reason, but the customer After all, I feel a little uncomfortable. Therefore, some merchants will not make such requests, and customers are satisfied, so they will come again."

"The other is the timeliness of counterfeit codes. Although this method of committing crimes is ingenious and hard to detect, it cannot be used for a long time. At most, it will be discovered within one or two days, or even half a day. Therefore, the perpetrators did not choose small businesses. .Compared to a vegetable vendor with only a few dollars per transaction, merchants with a single transaction of about [-] yuan are more attractive to him.”

Tan Tao said: "I've also thought about this issue. We have to investigate this case as soon as possible, otherwise..."

He shook his head and didn't say anything later.

Hu Pingtao knew what Tan Tao was thinking.

This side of Sanlin Road is a busy city.There are as many as thousands of operators in the vegetable market.The counterfeit code is very common and has no technical content. It can be printed in batches with simple machinery and equipment.Although this kind of thing is easy to find, the harm and impact caused cannot be ignored.

Merchants open stores to make money.Once they find that the customer has scanned the counterfeit code and the money has not been credited, they will definitely not accept this fact and will definitely ask the customer to scan the code again.

No one is willing to pay for the mistakes of the other party.What's more, the wrong code scanning is a problem that the merchants themselves failed to check in time.If it is to buy daily side dishes, the transaction of a few dollars is fine, but it can be tens of hundreds of dollars... No one wants this kind of loss!
The customer has already paid the bill, and it is certainly impossible to return the item to the merchant.

If the merchant has not received the money, he must ask for the item back.

Conflicts arise from this, and this kind of thing is not clear at all, and it is difficult to mediate.

No wonder Tan Tao was so anxious on the phone, saying "something has happened" over and over again.

Once the solution is not resolved, the Eryuan Road Police Station alone has to send people to the Sanlin Market every day, and the efforts are not thankful. Both merchants and customers have to point their noses and scold them.

Hu Pingtao called Long Xu over, got together with Tan Tao, and said in a low voice: "Let's divide the work: I will lead the first team and check from the market. When I came in, I saw that there were several monitors here. The camera, the video from the market management side is called out, and the suspected criminal suspects are first found."

"Tan Tao, you take the second group and go to the city bureau to find the network monitoring detachment. Now it is very convenient to apply for a WeChat account with a mobile phone, but you must use an ID card. Even if one person has multiple accounts, there is no problem. Please help from the network monitoring Let's lock the target as soon as possible."

"Long Xu, you lead the third group to carry out a comprehensive inspection of the market. I suspect that apart from the more than 40 counterfeit QR codes, there may be other merchants who are also victims. Your task is still quite heavy. The other is to verify and Sort out the information and find out the specific amount involved.”

……

From afternoon to night, Hu Pingtao took Cui Wen to stay in the computer room of the market management office, staring at the monitoring screen, searching all the videos within a month along the time.

The focus is on footage during the week.

As Hu Pingtao said before: posting counterfeit codes has a strong timeliness.It only takes a day or two to work.If it is a merchant with high vigilance, it will be discovered at that time, and the perpetrator will not be left with a chance.

It was the first time Cui Wen assisted in the investigation of such a case, and he was very interested in it, and he was full of energy.

"Boss, how should we characterize this matter?" Cui Wen stared at the surveillance video and slowed down, and asked a question: "I think it's a bit fraudulent to counterfeit someone else's QR code, but think about it carefully. , and I feel like it doesn’t make sense.”

"Scam?" Hu Pingtao glanced at him and said with a smile, "Why do you think so?"

Cui Wen explained: "He used his own QR code to replace someone else's, which is a fraudulent act."

Hu Pingtao explained with a smile: "Let me popularize it for you! To constitute a fraud, there must be five components: deceitful behavior, the victim's misunderstanding, eager to punish the misunderstanding, the perpetrator or a third party to obtain Damage to property, property of the victim."

"For comparison, let's say Zhang Xianglin! Customers buy salmon in his store, and he has already delivered the goods to the customers. At this time, the property rights of the merchants are already in a certain and controllable state, and customers must subdue him. Waiting for the payment. At this time, you can understand the receipt QR code as Zhang Xianglin’s cashier box, so the customer scans the code to pay, which is equivalent to paying to the merchant’s cashier box.”

"The criminal suspect secretly replaced Zhang Xianglin's payment QR code, which is equivalent to secretly replacing Zhang Xianglin's cash register with his own cash register. In this way, the payment delivered by the customer fell into the hands of the criminal suspect. And so he took it as his own."

"At this time, the suspect did not actually have the merchants or customers fabricating facts or concealing the truth. Therefore, it cannot be concluded that the merchants and customers were deceived subjectively. Let's change our perspective. The merchant, that is, Zhang Xianglin, who asked customers to scan the code to pay, did not Subjectively and voluntarily paying property to the criminal suspect’s QR code.”

"Think about it this way—the customer is not the victim, nor the victim. The business is the victim, but not the victim."

Although Cui Wen has received relevant training, he is not a professional graduated from the police academy.He was confused when he heard it, but he was somewhat clear about it, and asked suspiciously: "According to this, this case can't be considered a fraud?"

"Of course not." Hu Pingtao explained with a smile: "Because what I said just now does not meet the objective conditions for the crime of fraud. But the criminal suspect's behavior of obtaining property by exchanging the QR code of the merchant by secret means already meets the crime of theft. objective constituent elements of

"Theft?" Cui Wen raised his eyebrows, and suddenly realized: "So it is like this!"

Hu Pingtao urged him with a smile: "Don't think so much. Hurry up and watch the surveillance. We don't have much time, and we can't completely count on Tan Tao."

Cui Wen didn't understand: "The network supervisor of the Municipal Bureau can find the target along the QR code as long as he moves his hands. Why don't we just hand over the case to them?"

Hu Pingtao gave him a blank look: "This is a proper credit, hand it over... At the end of the year, do you still want a bonus?"

"Besides, Internet surveillance is not omnipotent. Criminals are getting more and more sophisticated now. Do you think that a mobile phone card can lock an ID card [-]%? The road is one foot high, and the devil is one foot high. Both sides are Fighting wits and courage. At least a little clue, we must check to the end."

"Finally, if this case drags on for a long time, we will have nothing to eat. Then I will send you to the vegetable market to resolve disputes over counterfeit codes every day."

Cui Wen was scared when he heard it, and quickly stared at the monitoring screen, not daring to say a word.

……

After ten o'clock in the evening, Hu Pingtao basically identified the suspect.

It was a middle-aged man in a white sweatshirt and shorts, in his 30s, with a thin body and flexible movements.His committing time was mainly around [-]:[-] noon yesterday, and after [-]:[-] last night.There are few people in the vegetable market during these two hours, and the administrators and security guards are off work.Because some merchants' warehouses and stores are together, the market will leave doors for them.

The man moved quickly. He prepared a QR code with the sticker torn off in advance, and quickly covered the payment code outside the store while the merchant was not paying attention.

Hu Pingtao looked at the surveillance video, pointed to the screen and said, "He is not alone, there are accomplices."

(Long live the great Chinese People's Liberation Army!)

(End of this chapter)