4 held for defrauding car service company
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POLICE have detained four suspects for allegedly defrauding a Chinese car service company of around 160,000 yuan (US$25,200).
The four took advantage of Yihao Zhuanche’s policy of reimbursing contracted drivers if their passengers fail to pay the fares. The suspects reportedly “played” drivers and passengers to each other and profited from the scam, Putuo District police said yesterday.
Passengers who use Yihao Zhuanche’s limousine service can pay from their Alipay accounts. The fare is deducted from their accounts two hours after the completion of the trip, according to the company’s official website.
Yihao Zhuanche’s customer service told Shanghai Daily that a passenger’s account is blocked from making another car booking until the fare is paid.
Police said the suspects bought new mobile phone numbers with other people’s identity cards and applied for both drivers and passengers accounts.
This is the first such fraud case handled by the police. Similar cases have also been reported by other car rental companies who prefer to stop doing business with cheating drivers rather than file charges against them with the police.
“The problem is difficulty in collecting evidence and determining the amount of money that was defrauded,” a police officer surnamed Jiang from the Changshou Road police station said yesterday.
The main suspect surnamed Dong reportedly made 30,000 yuan by playing both the driver and the passenger in February and March this year. After Yihao Zhuanche blocked his account, he got the three others involved in his scam.
“In one instance they made about 2,200 yuan by driving 600 kilometers, earning from both the reimbursement of fares and the subsidy from the car service,” Jiang said.
Qiyang, the company which runs the car service, reported the fraud to the police in August after discovering that there were several instances of the passenger and the driver using the same account.
Kuaizhi Technology, the Hangzhou-based parent company of Qiyang, declined to say if it had managed to do away with the loophole.
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