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Recently, the Nanhai Branch of Foshan Public Security Bureau cracked a fraud case of charging others for car purchase fees on the grounds of helping to buy vehicles below the market price. It is understood that more than 40 members of the public have been deceived, involving as much as $7 million.

Ms. Wang from Nanhai, Foshan, learned from an automobile trading company in Hantian Science and Technology City that the store could buy a new car at a lower price, so Ms. Wang bought a new car at the full price of 140000 yuan, but Ms. Wang was slow to mention the car. After many fruitless negotiations, Ms. Wang chose to call the police.

According to the police investigation, it is found that this is not a simple case of breach of contract, but a huge fraud. According to the confession of Zhou, the person in charge of Auto Trade City, he took over the company in April 2019, mainly by collecting customers' car purchase deposit and buying cars to customers through 4S stores, so as to make a differential profit, but due to poor management, Zhou hung out the banner of selling at a loss to attract customers, hoping to increase sales, strive for more profits from automobile manufacturers or earn greater profits through after-sales service.

At first, the paying customers could indeed mention the new car at a lower price. Zhou's sales volume was also growing under the publicity of consumers, but the profit space given by the manufacturer could not make up for the loss. With the expansion of the loss, Zhou has been unable to pay the amount of car purchase, can only through loans to advance part of the money.

In order to repay the debt, Zhou began to "make up for the west wall"! Zhou made up for the difference and loan interest of the front customer by collecting the purchase money of the customer behind, but the customer who had paid the car was unable to pick up the car and began to urge Zhou to pick up the car. Zhou issued the company's invoice falsely claiming the invoice of the 4S store to deal with the customer, and sent the customer a photo of the new car to allay the customer's concern about picking up the car. At the same time, Zhou continues to collect car payments from new customers to make up for the funding gap.

Even so, the funding gap is still growing. In the face of customers' urging to pick up the car, Zhou began to refuse to listen to customers' phone calls or messages. Many customers began to suspect that they had been cheated. Zhou was detained by the police after reporting the case. Zhou's "grand plan" was also announced to an end.

The police handling the case said that Zhou used the means of high entry and low output to sell cars at a price much lower than the market, and even knowing that he was unable to perform, he still signed a sale and purchase contract with many people and was suspected of contract fraud. After verification, Zhou has collected deposits from more than 40 customers without delivering the vehicles, and the amount involved is as high as 7 million yuan.

Through online inquiries, as there are many cases of cheating when buying cars at low prices, consumers buy cars in non-4S stores just to save money, but they should still be cautious when buying cars, and don't fall into the traps of merchants because of small profits. Of course, it does not mean that you can not buy a car at a low price. Now some 4S stores will also lower the price through terminal concessions, so as to attract consumers to buy a car, but to buy a car to a regular 4S store authorized by the manufacturer. at the same time, when paying for the car, the car company should also be required to issue a formal invoice and indicate the vehicle frame number and other identification information.

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