At this time, the speed of the car in front gradually increased. I didn't want to continue talking to him on the phone, but I also found this matter very interesting. I said: "Okay. Contact me when you come. I'm driving, turn back."
Get in touch.”
He smiled and said: "Okay, okay. I'll call you when I get to Jiangnan."
After hanging up the phone, I was still confused: Why are scammers so bold nowadays? Is it possible that he has some special way to defraud later?
After a while I asked Huang Shang, he should know more about such things. I thought to myself.
Huang Shang was waiting for me in the lobby of the hotel. I knew that although he was used to calling me "Doctor Feng," he still valued my current position in his heart.
I was very familiar with him, so I wasn't so polite. I asked him directly: "Shall we go to a teahouse?"
He smiled and said: "I'm ready. I've brewed a pot of Tieguanyin."
Then we walked upstairs together, and I took the opportunity to tell him about the phone call I just received. He laughed after hearing this, "Of course he is a liar. There are many such things nowadays, and people who are deceived
There are a lot of them too.”
I was very surprised, "I don't quite understand, how could he deceive people like this? And he also said that he wanted to come to our Jiangnan, doesn't this directly reveal his trap?"
He smiled and said: "He will not come. Scammers like this usually use three steps.
The first step is to obtain your information in some way, including your phone number, name, which units you have worked in before, your current position, etc. This will make you believe that he is a friend of yours many years ago.
.Perhaps I can’t remember who he is because I haven’t seen him for many years. The purpose of this is to reduce my defensiveness against him.
The second step is to tell you that he will come to you on a business trip soon and hopes that we can sit together if you are free. This will make you less defensive. Then the scammer will call you again tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.
He said that he was planning to come over in the next two days, but the money he had on him was stolen, along with his bank card and ID card. He still has a card on him, but there is no money on it, so I hope you can help.
Give him a try and pay you back as soon as he gets to your place.
It’s really strange that there are so many people now who are really deceived and will completely believe the other party’s rhetoric. However, scammers like this mainly use the method of casting a wide net to deceive everyone.”
I suddenly realized, "So that's it. Although I know he is a liar, I don't know what method he will use to deceive people. So that's it."
He said with a smile: "There are many scams nowadays, and there are also many scammers on mobile phones. For example, someone's mobile phone was stolen. After returning home, his father told him that a colleague called to say that the owner of the mobile phone had a car accident.
For emergency treatment in the hospital, you are asked to transfer how much money to a designated bank account from home. Many people will be fooled by this.
After someone registered his job resume online, a woman called him at the beginning of the month and said that she was from a mobile communications company. She said that the mobile phone line needed to be tested and asked Mr. Tang to temporarily turn off his mobile phone for three hours. Within these three hours,
This person received a call at his home, claiming that he had been in a car accident and needed to remit how much money he needed.
There is also the most direct way, that is, the scammer sends a group text message. The content of the text message is very simple: Leader, I have the photos of you and your lover. If you want to settle this matter, just transfer the amount to my account. There is a bank behind it.
Card number. In fact, these scams are very simple and easy to identify, but there are always people who fall for them.”
I immediately understood, "The last method you mentioned is actually scammers taking advantage of some people's inherent problems and guilty conscience."
He smiled and said: "Yeah. Recently, a friend of mine was deceived by such a text message. One day, my friend received a text message, which said: The account has been changed, please transfer the money to the CCB account****
, Account name: Yang. As it turned out, my friend received this text message when he was about to remit money to his business partner. He thought it was a text message from the business partner, so he remitted 800,000 to the other party. Later, the partner called
When he came to collect money, he found out that he had been deceived. In fact, the scammer used mathematical probability. For example, if he sent 10,000 messages a day, as long as one out of 10,000 people was deceived, his purpose would have been achieved."
His words immediately reminded me of an interesting thing, which was also deceived using mathematical probability——
One day, when George was deleting junk e-mails, he saw a title like this: Surprising FA Cup match predictions. He opened it curiously, and it read: Dear fans, we know you are a skeptic.
, we don’t believe everything easily, but we are sure that we have designed a wonderful method to predict the results of football matches with absolute accuracy. This afternoon, the British Football Association Cup will be held in the third round, against Coventry and Sheffield.
Thanks to German United, we predict that Coventry will win.
After George saw it, he smiled contemptuously and didn't take it seriously. In the evening, he watched the results of the game on TV. As expected, the Coventry team won with overwhelming force.
Three weeks later, George received another email from that person: Dear fans, do you still remember that in the last round of the FA Cup, we accurately predicted Coventry's victory in advance?
Today Coventry will play against Middlesbrough, and our prediction is that Middlesbrough will win. At the same time, we strongly advise you not to bet with others, but please pay close attention to the results of the game and take a look at us
Are the prediction results accurate?
That afternoon, the two sides drew 1-1. The Coventry team was originally very strong, but it failed to perform at all. However, in the extra time the next Tuesday, the Middlesbrough team won with a score of 2-0. This time George
A little surprised.
A few days later the email from the man came again, predicting that Middlesbrough would lose in the fifth round and Trenmere would beat it, which was exactly what happened.
Before the quarter-finals, the email told George: Trenmere will lose to Taunton Hen. This is indeed the case.
Four predictions, all four were correct!
Then, the man said to George in an email: We bought out a mathematician's latest research results. Now you probably believe that we are indeed very sure and can predict things like God. In the semi-finals, Arsenal will
Will beat Ipswich.
George was an unconvinced person. He notified many friends to watch the live broadcast of the game together in the afternoon, and planned to humiliate the guy who talked nonsense after Arsenal lost. But when they fell behind, the Arsenal team caught up and finally
They actually won 2 to 1. It’s incredible!
The next day, the incredible email came again, this time it said: Dear fans, you have experienced our magical football forecast, are you convinced now? We have made five correct forecasts, five shots
No. 5 Middle School, you will definitely agree that it is definitely not luck, especially since we guessed all the upsets correctly.
Now we make a special deal with you: within one month, we will provide you with the game forecast, and you only need to pay a deposit of two hundred pounds. Then, send an email to inform the two participating teams
We, we will notify you of the forecast results. We sincerely look forward to receiving your order.
The asking price of two hundred pounds is indeed not low, but if you can know in advance which team will win, you can win two hundred thousand pounds from the lottery dealer.
Of course, George also suspected that they were a consortium secretly manipulating football matches, or a gangster, but none of this had anything to do with George, as long as the forecast results were accurate. So, he took out two hundred pounds.
In fact, these people are just a bunch of liars. There may be a few mathematicians among them.
At the beginning, if they sent out 8,000 emails to fans, half of them were predicting that Team A would win, and the other half were predicting that Team B would win, then 4,000 people would get the prediction that was accurate, and the other half would take it as a win.
A joke forgotten.
Next time, they only send emails to the four thousand people who got the correct forecast, and half of them predicted that Party C would win... By analogy, the so-called forecasters always send new emails to some of the people who got the correct forecast, and finally, the remaining two
The forecasts received by one hundred and fifty people will all be correct. Of course, they will think that the forecast is absolutely effective. If fifty people among them pay two hundred pounds, it will be a very considerable sum for the planners of the scam.
Income.
Of course, the more emails they send out in the first batch, the greater the final profit, because they don't need any capital other than sending emails.
While we were talking, we had already arrived in a private room in the tea house. The tea had been brewed, and Huang Shang poured me a cup as soon as we sat down. The tea was very strong and fragrant.
He smiled and asked me: "Dr. Feng, are you here specifically to ask me about that scammer's phone call today?"
I smiled and said, "That's definitely not the case. I received this call on the way to your place. By the way, Huang Shang, didn't you say you wanted to consult me if you have any questions? You tell me first."
He smiled and said, "Okay then."
However, his expression immediately became gloomy, "Dr. Feng, my wife has been getting thinner and thinner recently. I asked her to go to the hospital for a check-up but she refused. I am very worried..."
My heart suddenly sank: This woman is indeed very sensitive sometimes. What is she afraid of? I immediately asked him: "Then do you think there is anything wrong with her body recently?"
He shook his head and said: "On weekdays, I spend most of my time either in this hotel or in a restaurant over there. The chairman will ask me to go at any time, so I don't spend much time at home. I just recently discovered that she has lost weight.
A lot, I heard it seems like only cancer...
Dr. Feng, I'm very worried. My wife probably thinks her illness is serious, so she doesn't agree to go to the hospital. Now that our child is still so young, I'm really worried. Dr. Feng, can you help me think of something?
Persuade her to go to the hospital for a check-up? You know, my wife is very stubborn and I can't do anything to her."
I thought about it and said: "Huang Shang, there are many reasons why a person suddenly loses weight, and it may not necessarily be cancer. I think it may be because your nervousness also affects her emotions, causing her to have
She's scared. Let's take some time and I'll ask her about some of her symptoms and then analyze them based on the specific situation."
He was very happy, "This is great. Doctor Feng, then you talk about your situation first, and then I will bring my wife here and ask you to talk to her. My wife, unless I go there in person
Pick her up, otherwise she won't want to come here at all."
I was a little surprised, "Why?"
He smiled bitterly and said: "
My heart suddenly moved: This time I have to trouble him with something like that again, maybe he will be wary and reject me politely. If that happens, I won't have much to say. As the saying goes, if you want to take something, you must give it first...
...Well, that's it. I smiled and said to him: "Huang Shang, I'm not in a hurry. Let's settle your wife's matter first. While I'm in the provincial capital now, I can immediately take care of her if necessary.
Find a suitable expert. You can go back and pick her up now, I will drink tea and wait here."
He smiled and said: "Okay. I'll go back to pick her up right away. Doctor Feng, you must be bored here alone. I'll ask a few people to come in and play poker with you for a while."
I hurriedly said: "No, just find me a book and read it."
He smiled and went out immediately.
At this time, I suddenly felt that something was not right: logically speaking, he should not agree to the suggestion I just made right away, because he obviously knew that I came to him today for something more important, and from my previous experience
Judging from the things I asked him about, he could definitely guess what I wanted to find him about.
Now that I am the mayor, I will not come to him for general matters. If it comes to other matters, I will definitely go directly to Lin Yi or the provincial leader. Huang Shang is definitely a smart man. This is not only because
I know something about him, which is one of the reasons why Lin Yi reused him.
Therefore, this cannot be explained by the reason that he cares too much about his wife.
I immediately thought of something: He didn't want me to feel that I owed him something. Maybe he always had an idea in his heart: He and I should maintain a relationship where no one owes anyone anything.
Why is he doing this? Maybe this is his code of conduct, or maybe he doesn't want Lin Yi to think that I am too close to him, because he doesn't want to fall out of favor in front of Lin Yi.
Of course, it's possible that I'm overthinking it.
Anyway, as long as he is willing to do this favor for me, wouldn't it be better if I don't let him feel that he owes me for this? I immediately thought to myself.
I was thinking wildly here and was confused when I heard someone knocking on the door outside. I couldn't help but smile bitterly: This Huang Shang actually asked someone to accompany me. I called outside: "Please come in!"
"
Immediately, I saw three people coming in, one man and two women. Judging from their attire, they should be the waiters here. They are all young. The one at the front was a male waiter. He came over and said to me with a smile: "Feng Shi
Sir, Mr. Huang said that there may be a traffic jam now, and it may take a long time to come back, so let us play poker with you for a while."
I thought to myself: Since Huang Shang has already arranged it, let’s play. Anyway, it’s time to wait. I smiled and said, “Okay. So what should we fight?”
The male waiter said: "Upgrade it. Just have fun."
I smiled and said, "Okay. How about us two men beating them two women?"
Of course they won't say it right. Since it's just pure entertainment, what does it have to do with whose family it is?
The waiter started shuffling the cards, and he was very skillful. I smiled and said: "Let's make a rule. If one party is three levels higher than the other party, he will be punished slightly, such as scratching his nose with a poker or something."
How about it?"
One of the waitresses said: "Just hold your chopsticks in your mouth."
I was suddenly stunned, "Have chopsticks in your mouth? How to hold them in your mouth?" (To be continued)