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half-price tours to popular theme parks? beware of online ticket purchase traps!

2024-08-30

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xinmin evening news (reporter wu di, reporter tu yu) during the summer vacation, all kinds of theme parks and attractions in shanghai are very popular. for this reason, some criminals have set their sights on this "hot commodity" and are willing to "lose money to gain publicity" in order to empty people's pockets! recently, changning police cracked a fraud case under the guise of preferential ticket purchases, involving more than 500,000 yuan. the suspect has been taken criminal compulsory measures according to law.

picture caption: the interrogation of the suspect. photo provided by the police

in august 2024, citizen mr. chen went to zhoujiaqiao police station of changning public security bureau to report that he encountered a scammer when buying a theme park ticket online. it turned out that mr. chen had previously met li, who claimed to be engaged in ticket purchasing business, on the internet. li told mr. chen that he had relevant work experience, so he could obtain internal discount tickets for various popular attractions in shanghai through special channels. mr. chen intended to buy an annual pass for a theme park, and li could buy it at a "50% discount". mr. chen bought 5 annual passes with a try-and-see attitude and found that they could all be exchanged and used normally.

after the previous successful transaction, mr. chen had no doubts about li's ability to buy tickets. after li's subsequent rhetoric such as "the annual card with discounts will be sold out soon" and "theme hotels can also offer discounts if you buy a large number of tickets", mr. chen decided to buy an "annual card" worth more than 500,000 yuan at one time for future business reception and gifting to customers. however, after transferring a total of more than 500,000 yuan to li in multiple installments, mr. chen has not received the goods for a long time. after several urgings, the few "annual cards" he received sporadically could not be exchanged and bound normally. seeing that li's so-called delivery date was delayed again and again, mr. chen had no choice but to go to the police station to report the case.