Woman detained for online fraud
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POLICE have detained a young woman for misusing and defrauding an online shopping website in a scam worth about 197,000 yuan (US$30,000).
Since May 2013, the 25-year-old suspect, surnamed Zhou, purchased 20 branded items from jd.com, which allows customers, who are unhappy with the products, to return them within seven days in the same condition.
Zhou took advantage of the company’s policy, stuffing the package with fake replicas and then returning them.
She told the police she bought the fake ones from taobao.com, another large online shopping platform in China.
Police said the prices of the luxury items she bought from jd.com, which included bags, purses and boots among others, ranged from a few hundred to tens of thousands yuan.
The most expensive one that Zhou bought was a leather bag worth 24,900 yuan. The fake one that she repackaged and sent back to jd.com cost about 400 yuan, police said.
Zhou said she devised the scam because she loved luxury products. She kept most of them for herself except gifting one to her boyfriend.
“My former colleagues were all hooked on luxury brands ... To some extent they influenced my habit,” Zhou told Shanghai Daily.
She also told police that she did not want others to infer that she came from a poor family.
Jd.com said it did not suspect anything until September last year when they discovered that a returned product from her was fake.
The company, a platform that convenes third-party product sellers, insists that all their products are genuine.
Wei Jun, a senior manager of products at jd.com, said usually returned goods are handed over to the sellers for inspection and that “problematic” items are sealed and ensured they are not resold. He also said Zhou’s case was the first of its kind for the company in the East China region which covers Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui.
“We can’t promise that individual cases such as these won’t happen to us again, but we promise that we’ll closely watch those who frequently return the goods like in this case,” Wei said yesterday.
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