New tricks are coming again! Merchants with POS machines should be alert

Recently, Baiyun District has discovered a new type of POS machine fraud: criminals use the "swipe card cash" rebate as a bait, defrauding the owner to pay cash, and then waiting to steal the pos machine to cancel the transaction. It is reported that this modus operandi is the first time in the city.

technique

Stealing the POS machine after "swapping the card"

How is the POS stolen after the card is swiped?

At 15:00 on January 27, Wu, who was in the convenience store near the Jiangxia subway station, received a middle-aged man who asked Wu to use the POS machine in the store to help him “swipe the card” and promised to pay. 1.5% benefit fee. Wu did not think too much, agreed to use the other party's debit card to swipe 25,375 yuan, and then gave the other party 25,000 yuan in cash. Later, from the surveillance video provided by the police, it can be seen that in just a few minutes, Wu was taken away, and another man walked into the store, stole the POS machine that had just swiped the card, and sat on the electric car opened by the accomplices. Leave the scene quickly.

Later, when Wu tidyed up the goods in the store, he discovered that the POS machine was stolen. Then he learned through the mobile phone WeChat that the transaction of 25,375 yuan was cancelled.

During the investigation of the case by the Baiyun Police, the case was repeatedly investigated, and there were several incidents in which the victim was defrauded by this “swipe card cash” method, but some of the victims were punished for fear that they would help people to cash in and cash out. Therefore, after being deceived, he did not provide timely clues to provide clues. Instead, he chose to "snap his teeth and swallow it", which to some extent brought obstacles to the investigation work of the task force. According to reports, the lawless elements "general choice of convenience stores or supermarkets in the villages of the city."

breakthrough

Three people failing to commit crimes

At noon on April 6, the suspects went to a supermarket in Jiangxia Village, Huangshi Street. In the same way, they asked the victim to “swipe the card” for more than 40,000 yuan. In the afternoon, the lord discovered that the POS machine was stolen. Fortunately, the timely call to the customer service phone freezed the POS machine, and the attempt of the suspect to cancel the transaction did not succeed.

Something was later thought of, and on April 5th, this group of people came to their supermarkets. The benefits of paying 1.2% of the handling fee were 48,000 yuan. At that time, two men came together to handle the “swipe card cash”, which is very likely Come to "step on the spot."

This crime of the suspects made a breakthrough in the investigation work: According to the victim, one of the suspected men rode a special electric car, and one other woman participated in the crime on April 6th. It seems to be living in an apartment dozens of meters away.

According to this clue, at 23 o'clock on April 6 and at 3 o'clock in the morning, the police arrested the suspect suspect Han (female, 27 years old, Yichun, Jiangxi) and the suspect Wenmou (39 years old, Henan Biyang) ). After further investigation, the police arrested another suspect, Zou (30 years old, Guangdong Enping), on April 8.

Behind the scenes

Operation "Cancellation of the "General Lu" is at large

After review, the suspect Wenmou is a company employee, with a monthly income of three or four thousand yuan, and his wife and son who just went to elementary school rented in Jiangxia Village, Huangshi Street. Last year, Wen met a man who claimed to be "General Lu." At the beginning of this year, under the invitation of "Lu Zong", because of the loan sharks at the time, he was involved in the fraud crime with the suspect Zhu.

It is reported that the illegal gang will go to the "stepping point" before committing the crime, and then one person will come out to find the owner to cash out, the other one will pretend to buy things to distract the owner, and the last one will wait for the opportunity to steal the POS machine. It is generally the responsibility of “Lu Zong” to swipe the card and cancel the transaction on the stolen POS. After each success, “Lu Zong” will get the most money, and the rest can be divided into four or five thousand yuan.

The suspect did not commit crimes together after March, and Wenmou again wooed the suspect who was in the foot-stay shop and had a hot relationship, letting Han take the role of shopping to distract the owner or "see the wind" and commit crimes. After she succeeds, she can get 1,000 yuan.

According to preliminary investigations by the Baiyun police, the three suspects and the fugitives "General Lu" have committed eight crimes in this way, defrauding the property for more than 240,000 yuan, and one fraud before the arrest of 40,000 yuan. Freeze the POS machine without failing.

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POS machine fraud methods are diverse

Coincidentally, the reporter searched online and found that similar cases have occurred in the field since this year. In January of this year, two men in Weinan, Shaanxi Province used the time difference of “pos machine credit card transaction can be revoked before 24 o'clock on the same day” to defraud in Baoji. Two merchants in Baoji could not resist the promise of “1% benefit fee” and were defrauded of 82,000 yuan.

In addition, in recent years, there have been many cases of using POS machines to implement fraud, and there are cases in which the modified POS machine is used to extract the information of the user's bank card. Some merchants have not purchased the POS machine after the normal way, and found that they cannot be accounted for. The seller who sold the POS machine registered his bank card information on the machine, so the money for the transaction was transferred to the seller's account.

Police reminder

Help people to swipe their cards in a serious situation or on the crime of illegal business

The use of POS machines to help people “swipe their cards” to profit is a false transaction that undermines the normal financial order. There are clear provisions in our country's laws. For serious cases, criminal liability is pursued for illegal business operations. The police will further investigate and deal with the illegal acts of the relevant swindlers in this case.

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