Chapter 20: Reporting the case to the police and handling it across provinces
"Sister, I'm going back." Dong Fuyun helped to clear the dishes and then said goodbye.
"Uncle, I have something to tell you." Seeing this, Xu Heye hurriedly followed him and approached Dong Fuyun. Xu Heye said, "Uncle, tell me the truth, have you been staking out that fraud gang during this period?"
Dong Fuyun refused to cooperate and walked away quickly. "This kind of thing has nothing to do with a little girl like you. Just study hard and don't get involved in things that shouldn't be your business."
"No." Xu Heye grabbed Dong Fuyun's hand, afraid that he would run away. "Uncle, one person's plan is short, but two people's plan is long. Talk to me, maybe I can give you some advice."
Dong Fuyun slowed down his pace and asked, "What do you think?"
Xu Heye put her hands on her hips, acting savage and unreasonable. "Uncle, you're just stuck in your old ways. Who says I can't offer any useful advice? Was it me who reminded you to take Mother Lu to the hospital for a checkup? Was it me who warned you to be careful of scammers?"
Dong Fuyun said, "Okay, I'll tell you about it and you can give me some advice."
Xu Heye: "Then what is your problem now?"
Dong Fuyun said, "Although we are sure that the group is scammers, we have no evidence. I tried to talk about this with the aunts who were targeted by the scammers, but they didn't believe it."
At this point, Dong Fuyun added with a depressed look on his face, "Even Lu Jun's mother didn't believe it. She said he was such a good person, why would he lie to her? He said that when she fainted due to illness before, it was the scammer who took her to the hospital and paid more than 80 yuan for her medical expenses.
Later, she wanted to return the money, but they refused to accept it. They said she was sick and the money was just a gift for her while she was sick.
"Humph, small favors, it really is a scammer's routine."
Dong Fuyun also said: "Is that so? Even your biological father can't be so kind to you. How can a stranger be so kind to you if he just gives you 80 yuan?"
"Why were they so kind to you? They said the matchmaker was kind and compassionate, that she admired a hardworking and kind mother like you and couldn't bear to see her terminally ill and still without a daughter-in-law, so they matched her with such a good girl. It was obviously a lie, but Mother Lu and the other deceived aunts just believed it."
Xu Heye sighed. This is really... First, give small favors to create the image of a rich mother who is not after your money.
Then they began to build up their mentality, saying they understood your suffering and difficulties. For these middle-aged and elderly women who have been trapped in their families all their lives, busy with work and suffering, and may not even be understood by their husbands and children, this is like meeting a confidant.
Even in later generations when anti-fraud propaganda was broadcast on TV every day, there were people who were deceived by this kind of thing, let alone these simple, kind-hearted old ladies who had never seen the world in the early 1990s?
Dong Fuyun brought the conversation back to the point: "There's no evidence, and the victims aren't cooperating. If we call the police in this situation, I'm afraid not only will we fail to catch the scammers, but it will also alert them. What if they feel threatened and run away?"
Xu Heye felt that his uncle and the others had made a mistake. "Uncle, China is so big. Do you think that group of people would only commit fraud in Hucheng?"
Dong Fuyun seemed to be thinking about something.
Xu Heye continued, "They are so skilled at this and have such a precise grasp of the psychology of the deceived women. This must have been achieved through many, many scams."
"Although no one in Hucheng has reported it to the police, there must be people in other places who have been scammed. This happened in my hometown of Gan Province. There must be people in Yangcheng and Beijing who have been scammed by them."
"This case must be a major national crime. It's only because of the current lack of information connectivity that they can get away with it. You can report it to the police station in our area and persuade them to join forces with the police station in another province to investigate the case."
If not, it's just a phone call and a waste of time. But if it's true, and the case is solved and the criminals are caught, the police will have made achievements, and it will be easier to get promotions and salary increases in the future."
Dong Fuyun's eyes lit up, and he patted Xu Heye on the shoulder, saying happily, "Good boy, you're really smart. No wonder you were able to continue studying in the second grade after transferring back, and didn't repeat a grade like the others."
Xu Heye smiled, feeling somewhat guilty. She was simply taking advantage of her past life. Knowing that this group had committed a number of crimes long before, and given that cross-provincial police joint investigations were common in later generations, she was able to offer this suggestion.
I don’t know if my uncle can successfully convince the police to jointly investigate the case across provinces.
Otherwise, I could only watch helplessly as the scammers took away the victim's money. Although my uncle and the others were watching, I probably couldn't escape, but I wasn't sure I could get the money back.
Scammers like this do illegal and dirty work, and they make money quickly, so naturally they are hedonists above all else and live one day at a time. There's no guarantee that they won't go on a shopping spree as soon as they get the money.
It's hard to get your money back after you've spent it. After all, those who sell goods, sell alcohol, or run restaurants are legitimate businesses. You can't let them sell goods, provide services, and then lose money.
"Uncle, you can do it, just use your intelligence and eloquence." Xu Heye clenched his fist, made a cheering gesture, and then turned back to the rental house.
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