Selling tickets for concerts and baseball classics online, and repurchasing game consoles.

(Photo by reporter Huang Liangjie)

[Reporter Huang Liangjie/Kaohsiung Report] South Korean group TXT, singer Zhang Huimei, and the band Power Train are holding concerts in various places in Taiwan. Fraudulently selling tickets, remitting money to unsuspecting game console sellers, and buying Switch, PS4 game consoles, and game CDs in large numbers. There are more than 40 victims nationwide, and each person was defrauded from an average of 600 yuan to 8,000 yuan. Xingda arrested suspect Xiao in New Taipei City, and confiscated evidence such as mobile phones and 1,600 yuan.

In addition to discovering fraudulent sales of tickets for the band and concerts of well-known singers by the Criminal Investigation Team 5, Xiao Nan also sold online the World Baseball Classic Group A preliminaries at the Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium. In fact, Xiao Suan didn’t even have a single ticket No, he saw that the fans and music fans were eager to buy tickets. He claimed online that there were tickets for sale, and then provided the account of the third-party scammer. This account is a normal and legal account for selling game consoles.

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More than 40 netizens mistakenly believed that Xiao Nan was selling tickets, and remitted money to the game console purchase account provided by Xiao. The seller sent the game console to Xiao Nan after receiving the money. After receiving the concert tickets and asking for a refund, the account was immediately listed as a warning, and everyone discovered that they had encountered a fraudulent group.

According to the investigation, Xiao was suspected of self-taught three-party fraud. He first posted sales information or private messaged unspecified buyers on the special pages of concert ticket sales and game console sales on social networking sites, falsely claiming that he had ball game tickets, concert tickets and Switch. , PS4 game consoles, game CDs and other products can be sold. After the buyer remits money, because there are no products to send, if the other party asks for a refund, another buyer will be tricked into remitting the shopping money to the account provided by the buyer. , used as a refund, causing the original buyer's entity account to be listed as a warning.

Suspect Xiao was transferred to the Kaohsiung District Prosecutor's Office. After the prosecutor applied for custody, the judge ruled that 10,000 yuan should be released on bail.

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Selling tickets for concerts and baseball classics online, and repurchasing game consoles.

(provided by the police)

Selling tickets for concerts and baseball classics online, and repurchasing game consoles.

(provided by the police)