Chapter 249: Deceived
Fooled Zhang Baotong 2016.10.8
No one who has watched "Liang Zhu" has not been moved. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoThis tragedy is not a true story. But the author made up these two protagonists who are decades or even hundreds of years apart with touching stories, and the director directed the story so wonderfully, so no one who has watched "Liang Zhu" will doubt the historical authenticity of this story. The Chinese Folk Literature and Art Association even named Runan County, Henan Province as the "Hometown of Liang Zhu in China". So, I wondered if someone made up a show to trick us into trusting, would we believe it too?
I think not only Xu Yuyu, a Shandong girl who is not deeply involved in the world, will believe it, but we will also believe it. As long as you believe, you will be deceived. Recall that any of us has not been deceived by others, to a greater or lesser extent, and which person has not been deceived? Not to mention on the Internet and the news, even in our daily life, the things of being deceived abound, and they happen every day. For example, fortune telling, guaranteed pyramid schemes, selling antiques, selling fake medicines, and even shoddy and short-term sales. There are some things that we can say that we have become accustomed to and are not surprised.
People say that people who are deceived are deceived because they love to take advantage of them. But I never wanted to take advantage of anyone. But I've often been deceived. Don't talk about small things, just talk about big things. Someone else introduced my son to a business manager of a guarantee company in Xi'an. My husband and I didn't agree, but my son had to do it. So, we had to agree. After less than two months of talking, the son proposed to prepare for marriage. Because my son is not young, we started to prepare. We first invited the woman's whole family to dinner and got engaged. Then start shopping. The woman asked for a bride price of 30,000 yuan, and we bought another 20,000 yuan of ornaments for the girl. A total of 50,000 yuan was spent. We even booked the wedding reception. Prepare to get married at eleven. However, just before the eleventh day, the woman's family coaxed my son to ask us to sell one of the houses so that we could buy another big house to live in. Originally, my wife and I were very disgusted with the woman's family for constantly deceiving my son to ask for this and that, but now when I heard that their family was encouraging my son to sell the house, I immediately became irritable and immediately asked my son to blow out the lamp with the girl immediately. But the son didn't want to live or die. But we said that if he didn't blow the lamp, we wouldn't care about his marriage. When my son saw that we were resolute, he had no choice but to do so. And we also paid a heavy price for this, we and our son spent a total of 70,000 or 80,000 yuan on the girl, but they did not return a penny on the grounds that we repented. Later, we learned from acquaintances that the girl's family had cheated many people out of money under the guise of the girl talking to someone.
However, our neighbors are worse off than ours. Their son talked to a girl for two or three years, renovated the house for others, prepared to live in someone's house, and gave them a bride price of 50,000 yuan, but as a result, they were about to get married, and the woman suddenly offered to buy her a car, otherwise she would not get married. The neighbor was annoyed, so he didn't let his son marry the girl. However, he has already spent one or two hundred thousand on others.
Moreover, in the first two or three years, the guarantee wind in our community was blowing crazy. There are people who send things and receive things every day in front of the door of the complex building. Every day, there are cars pulling people to this activity and travel there. Two of our guys who played together were also involved in these activities. They kept encouraging me to get involved, saying where the interest was 10/100, where the interest was 20/100, and where there was 40/100 and 50/100. As soon as I heard it, I wondered how much the interest rate of the bank is, and I don't know how much it is more than ten times or dozens of times higher than the interest rate of the bank. If it weren't for drug trafficking or arms reselling, what industry would have been able to generate such high profits? Therefore, I told them that this was a scam, and that one day the boss of the guarantee company would run away with the money, and you would cry without tears. I even told them that Wu Ying had illegally raised more than 770 million yuan by using high interest as bait to conceal the truth about the source of funds in advance, falsely publicize business conditions, and fabricate investment projects. However, they said no, the boss's family lives in Xi'an, where did he go? Moreover, the company has a business license from the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, and the boss has taken a group photo with a certain leader. As a result, all the guarantee companies last year disappeared like a gust of wind all of a sudden. Those who participate in the guarantee are like crazy, colluding all day long to ask for money from the guarantee company. However, there are no other companies, and the bosses have run away, where are they going to ask for money? One was insured for 500,000 or 600,000 yuan, and the other was insured for more than 300,000 yuan. In their words at the time, they even had the heart to jump off the building.
It would be reasonable to say that scammers deceive us ordinary people and laymen. However, it is a little strange to be able to deceive experts and experts. A few years ago, an expert on cultural relics from the Forbidden City went to Anyang, Henan Province to inspect the excavation of Cao Cao's tomb. When he came to Anyang, he saw many migrant workers digging a cemetery. Two days later, a farmer said he had dug up a stele from Cao Cao's tomb and wanted him to help take a look at it. The old expert took a closer look at the stele and felt that the stele did not look like a fake. So, I asked how much the stele would cost. The peasants said at least half a million. The old expert shook his head and said that it was only worth seventy or eighty thousand at most. Farmers don't sell. In the end, when the old expert left Anyang, he went to the farmer's house again and offered to give 150,000 yuan. But the peasants said at least 200,000. So, the old expert bought the stele with 200,000 yuan. Because he knew that the stele was worth at least a few million. However, after he transported the stele back to Beijing, he invited a few friends from his company to see the stele, only to find that the stele was fake. And it was later found out that even the tomb of Cao Cao was fake.
and Xiaoyi, who graduated with a master's degree and works in Shanghai, is 37 years old this year, has been divorced once, and wants to find another partner. So, she registered on the Lily Network and spent money to become a "Crystal Lily" member of the Lily Network. Although Baihe.com does not implement the real-name system, "honest members" must upload various supporting documents such as ID cards, driver's licenses, real estate certificates, degree certificates, etc., and the more documents uploaded, the higher the level of integrity. Xiaoyi met a three-star "honest member" named Jiang Haifeng on the Internet. This person was born in 1974 and has a mediocre appearance, but he graduated from the Department of Finance of Tsinghua University and is the chairman of the board of directors of a listed company. Xiao Yi once asked to see the other party's ID card, but Jiang said that he didn't bring it, and said, "My information has been uploaded to Baihe.com, I am an honest member, what are you worried about?" Xiao Yi also checked Jiang Haifeng's identity on the Internet, and the listed company Jiang said did have a major shareholder named Jiang Haifeng, so Xiao Yi believed it. After the relationship between the two was confirmed, Jiang often said that he was on a business trip, and Xiaoyi was also busy with work, so the two did not meet often, but Jiang Haifeng called almost every day to ask for warmth. Jiang also often said to Xiaoyi, "Let's get married", "I like children very much, let's give birth quickly" and so on. This made Xiao Yi feel that Jiang was seriously considering getting married. They also went to the hospital for a premarital physical examination, and Xiaoyi also made serious preparations for pregnancy. The two began to talk about marriage. In June of the same year, Xiaoyi became pregnant. After Jiang Haifeng found out, he was very happy on the surface, but gradually Xiaoyi found that Jiang Haifeng met and called her less and less. She was in a hurry to get married, but Jiang procrastinated perfunctorily with various excuses. At first, Xiaoyi thought that Jiang was just a man with no sense of responsibility, and he had thought about having an abortion, but because he was an elderly woman, he couldn't choose. In addition to the children, Xiaoyi was also defrauded of 100,000 yuan by Jiang on the grounds of buying internal shares. Later, after Jiang Haifeng was arrested, Xiao Yi learned that Jiang Haifeng was a farmer, and his wife was also deceived by him.
It is reasonable for a person to be deceived, but if a group of people, or even a group of experts, are deceived, it is even more jaw-dropping and bizarre. This happened a few years ago. Mr. Wei, who lives in Malaysia, came to the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and said that according to his mother's wishes, he would donate a "glaze red jade pot spring bottle" passed down to him by his ancestors to the motherland. After Mr. Li, an expert in ancient ceramics at the Palace Museum, he concluded that the bottle was a treasure of the Yuan Dynasty and a national first-class cultural relic. As a result, Mr. Wei received a certificate of award from the state. After receiving the reward, Mr. Wei claimed that his home still treasured more than 2,000 pieces of ceramic relics from the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, and was willing to pay a lot of money to hire experts from Chinese mainland to go to his home in Malaysia for identification. At the kind invitation of Mr. Wei, several experts and scholars, including members of the Cultural Relics Appraisal Committee of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, went there one after another. Through media hype, Mr. Wei, who had never been known to the international collecting community, soon became the largest overseas collector of Yuan and Ming ancient porcelain. Some have estimated that Mr. Wei's collection is worth billions of dollars. This made the Chinese scholars and experts amazed after seeing it, and they even said that after reading Mr. Wei's collection, "the history of Chinese ceramics should be rewritten". However, soon after, the District Court of San Francisco convicted Mr. Wei's eldest daughter and son-in-law for selling 45 pieces of porcelain, purported to be Ming and Halal, to five Chinese Americans for $640,000. The FBI found that the 45 pieces of Ming and Qing porcelain sold by Mr. Wei and his children were fakes. In the identification of Mr. Wei's cultural relics, several national-level experts were "punched in the eye", which caused a great sensation in the cultural relics world for a while.
In recent years, fraud cases have been increasing unabated, emerging one after another, cheating money, goods, sex, marriage, and even adultery. And the reason why we are deceived is nothing more than these reasons: First, love takes advantage. These people can easily be deceived by Ponzi schemes that use new investors' money to pay interest and short-term returns to old investors in order to create the illusion of making money and then deceive them into investing more. In addition, they will be deceived and deceived by pyramid schemes, discounts, gifts, trials, etc. The second is to do what he likes. Taking advantage of the psychological needs of the victim to defraud the victim is a common trick used by fraudsters many times before. For example, a 16-year-old girl in a poor mountainous village tricked a 23-year-old female graduate student into the mountains under the pretext of providing an internship. Some well-known painters in Beijing listened to the lie that a certain company was going to hold an art exhibition, and dozens of people handed over hundreds of precious paintings worth tens of millions of yuan to the fraudulent company. The third is overconfidence. It may seem plausible to be deceived out of ignorance, but many of those who are deceived are experts or experts. As we mentioned, Cao Cao's tombstone and Mr. Wei's fake cultural relics case are like this. Fourth, too much belief. Trust is the main reason for being deceived. And when someone pretends to be a public prosecutor or a soldier to defraud, people will trust them more. Because they are law enforcement officers and public officials of the state, it is easy to gain people's trust.
Sometimes we are deceived not because we are too naïve, too simple and too ignorant, but because the liar is really cunning and very good at it, so we can't guard against it. Of all the examples we have cited, which one is fooled and deceived by naivety, innocence, and ignorance? If any swindler wants to deceive you, he will use your needs and weaknesses to concoct a series of very elaborate deceptions to lure you in. He will make you feel that everything is normal and everything is going with the flow. Nowadays, counterfeiting and deception are all high-tech and information-based. For example, some counterfeit coins and counterfeit coins cannot even be recognized by machines. Therefore, we should not underestimate the ability and tricks of fraudsters. However, no matter how much fraud is carried out, the word "trust" is inseparable. If you control the two barriers of "trust" and "vigilance", you can avoid many deceptions. Therefore, we should try our best to deal with people we trust more and do not engage in financial transactions and monetary transactions with strangers and unfamiliar people. Usually, it doesn't matter if you buy vegetables and oil and let others cheat you, but for thousands of dollars, especially tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands, you must confirm whether the insurance is reliable before you make a move. Especially for online transactions, pay special attention to security. If security cannot be guaranteed, it is better to abort the transaction than to be deceived. (To be continued.) )