Tianshan.com - Xinjiang Legal Daily reporter Zhang Weiling Correspondent Zhang Xu Ma Yuntian
Recently, the Changji People's Court concluded a case in which a man faked a woman to commit online fraud in the name of marriage. The defendant, Zhao Mou, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for fraud, fined 20000 yuan, and returned more than 62000 yuan to the victim.
Zhao, who is 30 years old, has no fixed job. With the popularity of online dating, he wants to pretend to be a woman and cheat on the dating platform to make money. In December 2022, Zhao downloaded women's pictures and videos from the Internet to "package" his short video account. Later, the information of "I lost my job, borrowed 200 yuan for dinner, and asked for help from a kind-hearted person" was released. After Wang saw the video, he contacted Zhao personally, added his WeChat, and sent him a 200 yuan red envelope.
Later, Wang asked Zhao for photos and videos. When Zhao learned that Wang was divorced, he used Wang's psychology to buy and download women's photos, videos and voice chat packages on the Internet. Soon after, Zhao and Wang became "boyfriend and girlfriend" on WeChat.
In the following months, Zhao defrauded Wang of a total of more than 62000 yuan by fabricating the loss of his mobile phone, lack of money for colleagues' gatherings, no accommodation fees for business trips, and no money to buy medicine when he was ill. All the gains from the fraud were squandered by him.
During this period, Mr. Wang's requests for video meetings and phone calls were repeatedly evaded by Mr. Zhao for various reasons. At the beginning of April this year, Wang, who had just transferred money to Zhao, once again proposed to make a video call with his girlfriend, but was rejected. Reminded by a friend, Wang suspected that he had been cheated, so he called the police. Until Zhao was captured by the police, Wang did not know that it was a man who had been in love with him all day.
After investigation by the public security organ, Zhao has been punished by law for fraud and theft for many times. The Changji People's Court made the above judgment according to law after hearing.
[Editor in charge: Liu Fang]
