Fraud 200 million yuan?! This milk tea shop is "not simple"

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Recently, a citizen of Wuxi posted a post on a social platform reminding young workers looking for part-time jobs to beware of a local milk tea shop.

It is understood that the milk tea shop mentioned in the post opened in 2022 and was originally a franchise store of a local chain brand. However, recently, all the old employees of the store have resigned, and store operators are constantly recruiting new people in order to maintain the operation of the milk tea shop. However, the poster said that "once the new employee finds a problem, the salary will not be paid directly", saying that the store has owed six or seven employees' wages.

After the post was released, it not only attracted a group of onlookers, but also attracted many local citizens' enthusiastic comments and revelations. Nearby residents said that because the milk tea brand joined by the store was well-known in the local area, the milk tea shop attracted many locals to spend money when it opened, and some users even signed up as members and joined the store community.

However, the members of the group revealed that the store operator claimed to be the supply channel for many high-quality goods, and often used the community to release to the members of the group information on low-price group purchases of all kinds of popular products and rich buying and giving activities, so as to attract users in the group to recharge members and place orders to buy other products. The community group purchase model lasted for two years, until early January this year, someone in the group sensed something was wrong, and a number of victims went to the local police station of Xinwu District South Station to report the case.

According to the investigation of the police station, there are only thousands of victims deceived by the owner of the milk tea shop in Wuxi, involving nearly 200 million yuan, as well as victims in Shanghai, Zhejiang, Anhui and other places. Based on this, on January 19, the public security organs formally filed the case on suspicion of fraud.

(the source of the picture comes from netizens who broke the news.)

To everyone's surprise, on January 21, when the police handling the case was ready to take the person concerned to the detention center, the other party claimed to be pregnant. This unexpected situation changed the original process of handling the case, and the parties changed to live under surveillance due to pregnancy and were released on bail pending trial.

But even so, the parties are still unrepentant, still sell low-cost products through so-called special channels to members, and the stores involved continue to operate. Netizens said that during this period, there are still some uninformed consumers who recharge their members and buy low-cost products after joining the store community. According to people familiar with the matter, although the amount of money involved in the case is still under audit, it is roughly estimated that the actual amount involved in the case may reach 300 million yuan.

(photo provided by deceived netizens in March this year)

As the incident continued to ferment and had seriously affected the reputation of the joining brand, the brand announced on the social platform on the evening of November 5 that it had terminated its cooperation with the parties and issued a relevant statement, while forcing the store to remove the sign of the store, requiring the store not to continue to use all materials printed with the brand logo.

However, judging from the photos taken by nearby residents, the store has recently changed its signboard and continued to operate, and the third-party platform has also changed its name.

In addition, residents revealed that due to the shortage of manpower in the store, the store has been recruiting new employees, and workers who do not know the situation here are highly likely to encounter arrears of wages by the operators, so they remind job seekers to be on guard against the recruitment information of the milk tea shop and not to be deceived.

Picture from: Xiao Hong Shu

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