Chapter 239: Online Dating Scam (Part 2)
Isn't the secret here?
Guo Guo's heart sank subtly, but she didn't have time to dwell on this premonition. The three of them couldn't effectively communicate through the crowd, so she hurriedly raised her leg to try to get through.
Bang!
A cold hand grasped her wrist.
Looking along the arm, the crying girl beside her raised her head, her tear-stained face looking pale and bluish under the light:
"Do you feel sorry for me?"
Guo Guo: "...I think I'm quite pitiful."
If crying helps, she would still want to cry!
Crying girl: "..."
Then Guo Guo broke free from his arms and leaped forward, jumping directly over the girl's thighs and quickly reuniting with Zhang You Wanqing.
" There are 14 girls in the dormitory besides us." Zhang You said quickly in a low voice: "I've looked, but the Heart Sutra is not here."
Judging from the content of the conversation between these girls and the test questions, it is obvious that they are all victims of a scam and gathered in dormitory 606 for some reason.
Open the survival app, and there is only one prompt on the exam interface:
【Fighting fraud is everyone’s responsibility】
"Another dungeon without any background information." Zhang You shook his head and looked around again: "I'm going to go outside and check the situation first. You guys be careful."
The three of them pulled out their protective gear in tacit understanding.
The supernatural powers are complete, the aura is cold, and the beginning of the copy may be bad.
"Hey—where are you going?!"
Before Zhang You even reached the door, a sharp shout rang out from the crowd. Four or five people suddenly reached out and dragged her back:
"You haven't even finished filling out the complaint form yet!"
Following this voice, layers of power suddenly surged in from all directions. Two seconds later, Zhang You and the other two were inexplicably back to the place where they had just entered the dungeon.
The girl who had been crying to Guo Guo was still sitting there, covering her face with her hands. Through the gaps between her fingers, one could almost see her eyes moving.
"Wow, why do I have to be the unlucky one... Don't you really feel sorry for me?"
"Don't you want to help me?"
Guo Guo: I also want to sympathize with you, but the blood jade pendant on my neck that is heating up like crazy won’t allow me to do so.
After this incident, the temperature inside was noticeably colder than before—it seemed the rules didn't allow them to leave the dorm right now. The three of them immediately got to the point: "Appeal form?"
At the mention of this, the room suddenly became lively again. A stack of papers was pressed into their hands, and through the chatter of the girls, the outline of a simple dungeon background finally emerged.
This university is called University A. Not long ago, a number of serious fraud cases occurred, making dozens of students here become victims.
Due to the density and frequency of the cases, the victimized students soon discovered the common points: they all encountered "online dating scams", and the scammers all carried out the scams through "virtual lover platforms".
"What is a virtual lover?"
Zheng Wanqing didn't understand.
"No way, you don't even know this?" The girl next to him glanced at him in disbelief: "This was very popular a while ago, what do you usually do?"
Zheng Wanqing: "Projects, examinations, competitions..."
With each additional word she pronounced, the girl's face twisted a little, as if she were recalling some extremely painful memory. She quickly gave up questioning and explained:
"Actually, a virtual lover is just an online chat companion!"
As for the virtual lover platform, it is a store. Through the store, they will find the corresponding "chat clerk" to place an order, and then add the other party's chat software account. After the order is completed, the payment is considered completed.
——It was originally just for fun, but who would have thought it was the beginning of a trap.
Not long after adding friends, they fell in online love with these "virtual lovers" one after another.
Zheng Wanqing was even more confused: "Can they hypnotize me remotely?"
Zhang You calmly replied, "The emotional connection and sunk costs have already been established. The basic conditions for fraud have been formed."
"Wow, that's right! We've only been dating for a week, and he's already asking me to borrow 5,000 yuan, saying someone in his family is sick."
"He said there was a small investment where he could make 20,000 yuan out of 10,000 yuan, and he would cash in the profits."
"He said that dating me secretly violated store regulations and he needed to pay 50,000 yuan in compensation, but for the sake of our love, he decided to sell his kidney..."
The victims spoke one after another, giving various reasons for being deceived, and the amounts lost ranged from a few thousand to tens of thousands.
Zhang You frowned and asked, "Have you called the police?"
"I did report it, and you were the first one to call the police!"
"?"
Zhang You pointed at himself: "Me?"
The girls thoughtfully pulled out a piece of paper from the pile: "Here, this is your own appeal form, all you need is your signature."
Zhang You took a closer look and saw that it was his own handwriting, and it even recorded the process of his being deceived in a clear and organized manner:
In the narrative, the man, through countless attempts at proof, finally convinced "Zhang You" that he had accidentally hit the delivery driver's electric bike out of poverty. Then, just after the 500 yuan emergency payment was transferred, "Zhang You" realized something was wrong and called the police without hesitation.
At this point, other fraud cases were exposed one after another.
Guo Guo looked over curiously and found that his appeal form was also in it.
"I was scammed out of... 100,000??!"
Her eyes suddenly widened, but compared to the pain in her body, she was more shocked: “Am I so rich here ?”
Zheng Wanqing: "Look carefully. It says that you couldn't afford the money, so you asked if you could pay in 100 installments a week, and he blocked you."
“…”
Among the four people in 606, Zheng Wanqing and Tang Xinjue had no record of being deceived - which seemed to be in line with what would most likely happen if all this really happened in the real world.
"Wait a minute." Zhang You noticed another piece of information on the complaint form: "The target of your collective complaint... is the school?"
"What else?"
The girls sneered.
After their own investigation, they discovered that these so-called virtual lover platforms were actually sham accounts of the same company. And the scammers, seemingly scattered across the country, were actually employees of the same company.
These are not just a series of cases caused by coincidence, but a large-scale gang crime!
Not only that, they also found out that one of the members of the scam shop was a student at the school!
"We've already basically locked down his dorm building and classroom, but the Academic Affairs Office is actually shielding this liar." The girl who spoke was so angry that she gritted her teeth: "Why won't they let us continue our investigation?"
These complaint forms are their written protests submitted to the school.
As she was talking, the girl suddenly turned the conversation to Zhang You and the other two:
"I'm telling you, don't be a coward and give up halfway. Everyone has to sign this form!"
The crying and cursing stopped, and in the silent dormitory, more than ten pairs of eyes were staring at the three of them.
Zhang You and Guo Guo exchanged glances and said bluntly, "You can fill out the form, but first I want to ask, do you know where my roommate Tang Xin Jue is?"
When this name was mentioned, everyone looked at each other in surprise.
Catching the subtle changes in their facial expressions, Zhang You immediately asked, "You know, right?"
After a while, one of the girls slowly spoke up: "Student Tang, you should be taking your statement with the counselor now."
Guo Guo: "??? Didn't Xin Jue get cheated?"
"She wasn't scammed...but she got the scammer's money back, and then the scammer called the police."
"Maybe he won't be back for a while?"
