Two men were sentenced to blackmail online stores using loopholes in Taobao platform rules

　　Reputation and sales are the "life" of Taobao stores. Two men in Hebei took advantage of the rules of the Taobao platform to fake copyright owners to complain to the merchant, causing the merchant's baby link to be deleted, and then asked the merchant to pay a expensive "authorization fee" in the name of revoking the complaint. They committed crimes repeatedly and made a total profit of more than 40,000 yuan. The Nanhai Court announced yesterday that the two men were sentenced to one year and six months in prison and eight months respectively for extortion, both of which were fined. It is understood that this case is the first online "credit" extortion case in Foshan.

　　After being complained, the product was removed from the shelves. The owner of the online store gave the money.

　　Ahao, a young man born in the 1980s in Foshan, runs a Taobao online store that specializes in men's clothing. The store is operated with great success. The best-selling clothes can be sold almost thousands of pieces every day, and the daily turnover can reach tens of thousands of yuan. In July 2016, Ahao discovered that a hot-selling baby was not placed an order. He quickly checked the Internet and found that a company complained that the product patent was infringed, resulting in the baby's link being deleted.

　　Ahao then inquired about the company through the Internet and contacted the actual person in charge. However, the company stated that it had been supplying goods to Taobao sellers normally, and had never received any complaints, and he did not know who the person complained was now. Ahao had to contact the other party through the QQ left by the complainant. As soon as it went online, the price was clearly marked: "5,000 yuan, no bargaining, the complaint will be cancelled in two minutes." Ahao then realized that he was "detached". Although the content of the complaint is not true, the link of my hot-selling product has been deleted due to the complaint. It will definitely take several days to unblock it after I appeal. After weighing the trade-offs, Ahao had to transfer 5,000 yuan to the Alipay account provided by the "complaintor". The other party withdrew the complaint and Ahao's store resumed normal business.

　　Many people have encountered similar blackmailed brothers involved in the case arrested in Hebei

　　During the same period, many Taobao sellers in various places had the same experience, most of whom were extorted 10,000 yuan, and the least of which was about 1,000 yuan. A seller who operates an online store of leather bags once told the "complainant" that he wanted to call the police, but the other party threatened him, "If you call the police, all the things in the store will be removed within a week." After he learned about the complaint process of the Taobao platform from the customer service and learned that it would take as soon as one week to deal with it, he had to find the "complainant" and transferred 9,800 yuan as required.

　　After the incident, some merchants and manufacturers who were impersonated called the police. In September 2016, the public security organs arrested the two brothers Liang Moujun and Liang Moumin, the initiator of this series of extortion incidents in Hebei. It is revealed that the Liang brothers are from Tianjin and live in Hebei. Both brothers are graduates of well-known universities and run several online stores. Their families are very good: each person has a brand-name car, and own multiple properties in Hebei and Henan.

　　The two were once victims and specifically selected hot-selling products.

　　The process of "complaint" is not complicated. The Liang brothers first download the business license and identity documents from the Internet, and use the P picture software to make changes, and then purchase the company's corresponding official domain names online. Most of these official domain names are domain names that have been stopped for a long time, and a copyright statement is made based on the company's name.

　　The second step is to find a suitable target for the crime, that is, sellers of popular products with high sales, and retain the screenshots of the pictures in the product introduction.

　　The third step is to upload the pictures to the official domain name, and submit all the above materials to the Taobao platform, apply for intellectual property certification and complain to the merchant. Because Taobao platform can only conduct preliminary review, after the submitted materials are complete, in order to protect the intellectual property rights holder, Taobao will delete the complained product link as soon as possible. Unless the complainant voluntarily withdraws the complaint, the platform staff will only wait within 3 to 4 working days before the complainant will handle the complained store’s complaint.

　　Two people were sentenced for extortion in seven crimes

　　Recently, the case of the Liang brothers suspected of extortion was heard and sentenced in the Nanhai Court. The public prosecution agency accused that the Liang brothers used false complaints to extort merchants' money from April to September 2016, and committed 7 crimes during this period and made a profit of nearly 50,000 yuan. After the incident, the two brothers returned and compensated some victims for losses of more than 30,000 yuan.

　　After trial, the court held that the Liang brothers' behavior constituted the crime of extortion, and used the Internet public platform to commit extortion many times, and punished severely as appropriate. The two were sentenced to one year, six months and eight months in prison, with both fines, and the losses of the remaining victims were refunded for more than 10,000 yuan.

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