Recently, the Gaoyou City Court in Jiangsu Province publicly heard a case of using Meituan.com to commit fraud. 43 defendants took advantage of Meituan.com’s refund settlement loopholes to defraud refunds of nearly 2 million yuan, constituting For the crime of fraud, they were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment or short-term detention and fined. Among them, the defendant was sentenced to a maximum of 12 years in prison.
This kind of behavior must be severely punished, otherwise others will take advantage of it. Just like leaking questions in the postgraduate entrance examination during the relevant period, only 6 to 12 months in prison and a fine of 4,000 are imposed. The punishment is too harsh. Relevant departments are requested to improve the law and strictly discipline offenders.
Fraudulent methods
Police investigation found that Chen was working with a milk tea shop to defraud Meituan for refunds. It turns out that Meituan will promptly refund the money to consumers when they apply for a refund, but settlement with stores usually adopts monthly cumulative settlement. Therefore, as long as you apply for a refund immediately after purchasing the goods on Meituan’s settlement date, Not only buyers can receive refunds, but sellers can also receive settlement payments from Meituan, which leads to the emergence of system loopholes.
As long as you find the right time, swipe orders, return coupons, and settle, you can defraud a large amount of settlement money. In a very short period of time, 43 defendants were suspected of committing 31 crimes and defrauded nearly 2 million yuan.
We found that among the 43 defendants, 21 were born in the 1990s, 19 were born in the 1980s, and 11 had university education.
It can be seen that this is a fraud with high IQ. However, some stores said they were not aware that this was illegal, indicating that my country's legal publicity was not adequate and the legal quality was not high. Making quick money by exploiting loopholes in Internet tools, even though some people know it is illegal, they still jump in. Legal education is very necessary.