"Free maintenance" scam exposure: dedicated to the elderly

I wonder if you have seen small advertisements such as "Free Home Maintenance and Testing" in your own community?

The project can be described as a variety of services, including free water purifiers, free gas inspection, free maintenance and other services.

It looks good, isn't it very exciting?

Then you have to be careful!

Scam process

Case number one

Ms. Liu, Nanjing, saw an announcement in the community saying that "a free maintenance of the gas cooker of residents in the community in the near future", also said that "a limited number" was also called, reminding the owner to register as soon as possible.

Thinking that my own stove has not been maintained for more than a year. In addition, the signature of this announcement is the "Security Inspection and Maintenance Service Center", so Ms. Liu let go of her wishes and reserved the maintenance time based on the phone call.

Later, a man who claimed to be a presencer came to Ms. Liu's house and went to the door to check for ten minutes. Then she told Ms. Liu's gas stove at home. There was a lot of hidden safety hazards and needed to be replaced immediately.

Ms. Liu immediately panicked and quickly obeyed the suggestion of the other party, and bought a set of "brand" stoves worth 2,600 yuan from the other party.

However, after the inspector left, she found that the new cooker couldn't get angry. When she contacted the insider again, the phone was already unable to call.

Case 2

Ms. Zhang Chongqing saw that someone was sending "free cleaning air conditioners" in the community owner group. Thinking that summer has arrived, her home air conditioner does need to be cleaned. Essence

After the appointment time, a man in a casual clothes and a mask came to Ms. Zhang's house. After removing the air conditioner, it was simply scrubbed. Then it said that the cooling effect of the air conditioner was too poor to add fluoride.

So under the man's flickering, Ms. Zhang added 7 pressure of fluoride for a total of 800 yuan.

I thought that the air -conditioning refrigeration effect would be better after the fluoride, but I did not expect that the air conditioner was not refrigerated the next day, and the master who gave her fluoride yesterday had already brought her black.

She asked the maintenance master angrily to check it out, only to find that the air conditioner itself had only 5 pressures, and it was impossible to add 7 pressure fluoride.

"Free door" common routine

The proportion of elderly people in old communities is often large, and gate guard management is relaxed, and strangers are casual in the community. These all provide convenient conditions for scammers.

They usually spread the nets, posted various announcements in the community, and attract users to contact them with various free services.

Such people especially like to pick up the elderly alone. Once the old man recruits, the loss is difficult to recover! Here are some scam routines commonly used by scammers. See if there are similar advertisements around you:

1. Free gas inspection

Fraud routine: First exaggerate its word "majesty", and then "launch" its safety products such as gas stoves and hoses, pay the money to issue receipts, and observe the replacement with the residents for the next day, but then it cannot be contacted.

2. Free installation alarm

Fraud routine: Pretend to be a property or the neighborhood committee, and hold a list of a serious list in his hand, lied that it was free to install a anti -theft alarm for residents in the community, and the installation process just took out a cheap "anti -theft device" and directly stuck to the door.

3. Install the water purifier for free

Fraud routine: The scammers use the slogan of "purifying the water quality", install the water purifier for free, try it for free, and the so -called water quality test will be performed after the door. The name of the water purifier is used to perform fraud and seek illegal interests.

4. Free home appliance cleaning

Fraud routine: Take customer information in the name of cleaning up appliances, and then arrange the so -called "staff" on -site service, deliberately damage the machine, and post for pseudo customer service calls. After the customer is trustworthy, install counterfeit brand -name products and collect deposits for fraud.

Avoid being deceived, remember these three:

Don't be stunned by the word "free"

Free persuasion! Free persuasion! Free persuasion!

Seeing the four words of free service, you should immediately be vigilant! You must know that you wo n’t drop the pie in the sky, and do n’t think you are the one who chose that day.

Online information needs to be carefully identified

When you see a free service information sent by someone in the group, you need to carefully identify the true identity of the person, and at the same time, you need to understand the more information of this person as much as possible to avoid the way to find someone.

"Announcement" of authenticity needs to be verified

We have a natural sense of trust in the announcement of the official seal of the institution. The scammers also use this to imitate water and electricity departments in daily announcements to scam.

As soon as they see such an announcement, they can easily relax the alert as soon as they see this announcement.

Therefore, when we see a similar announcement in the community, we need to contact relevant agencies through official channels, such as water plant power plants and various maintenance sites for consultation and verification, so as not to be deceived.

Source: Woodpecker Family Maintenance Butler

From: Porcelain Metropolis Public Security

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