Greedy and cheap ＂bonus hunter＂ employees were sentenced.

CCTV News:Mention "bonus hunter", everyone is familiar with it. Now, the word often refers to participating in various preferential activities to save money or profit from it. Some wool can reap benefits, but some wool not only can’t reap benefits, but even it will break the law.

In June this year, a number of company employees were sentenced in a case caused by "bonus hunter".

The incident occurred in a complaint phone call received by a shopping mall. The customer complained about a private car with a license plate number beginning with Su N. After inquiry, the staff found that the car often went in and out of the parking lot of the mall, and all the parking fees were settled in the mobile phone client of the mall by deducting points. What shocked the staff even more was that more than 100 different mobile phone numbers were bound to the name of this car.Moreover, the parking fee of the car is also abnormal, and no parking fee has been paid for almost a month.　

The staff of the shopping mall expanded the search scope and found that there were about 120 vehicles with similar situations, and a large number of different mobile phone numbers were bound to the names of these license plate information. After preliminary estimation, in 2020 alone, the shopping mall lost nearly 370,000 yuan in parking fees.

Next to this shopping mall is an office building where many companies work. Deng, a company employee, parked his car in the underground parking lot of this shopping mall almost every day in order to pick up and drop off customers.

Deng said that the parking rule of this shopping mall is that a car is free for the first hour, and after one hour, it will be charged according to the hourly rate in 10 yuan, with the daily limit of 80 yuan. When a mobile phone number registers a new member on the mobile phone client of the mall for the first time, it can also get 500 points, which can be exchanged for one-hour parking time in the parking lot of the mall.

One day in June 2020, Deng heard from his colleagues that there was a software called "Gathering Codes and Receiving Codes", which claimed that parking for one hour was only 2 cents.

Deng said that if you want to use this software, you have to recharge it first. After the recharge is successful, you can get a strange mobile phone number by clicking the get new number function in the software and selecting the place to park. Next, use this number to register new users of the parking mall. After that, you can return to the software interface of the mall, fill in the verification code obtained by registration, and you can successfully register as a member. At the same time, you can get 500 points sent by this mall to deduct the parking fee.

Operate it once an hour, eight times a day, and spend 1.6 yuan money, you can park your car until after work. And if you pay the parking fee in full, you need 80 yuan. In this way, this software called "Gathering Codes and Receiving Codes" has become an open secret among employees of Deng’s company.　

The staff of the mall reported the case quickly. According to the vehicle data provided by the mall, the police sorted out and determined the owner information of 120 cars involved. After verification, these car owners are almost all staff members in this office building next to the shopping mall. On January 5, 2021, the police launched an operation. In the end, 25 car owners including Deng were listed as suspects in this case.

Car owners were very surprised. Why were they summoned to the police station because of this? First of all, they think it’s just greed, and why greed touches on illegal crimes.

Subsequently, the police conducted further investigations on the software called "Gathering Code and Receiving Code" used by Deng. According to the relevant registration information, the police locked Shimou, the person in charge of this company, and quickly arrested him.

Shimou confessed that he downloaded the original code of the software from a forum registered overseas and developed this code-receiving software.

In June, 2021, the Yangpu District People’s Court of Shanghai successively heard these cases. In the first instance, the court sentenced Shimou, a software developer, to six months’ imprisonment and fined him for the crime of helping information network criminal activities. In the first instance, the court sentenced three car owners to imprisonment ranging from six months to nine months for fraud, all of which were suspended for one year and fined. The investigation and trial of other people involved in the case are still in progress. Deng and other drivers were granted bail pending trial by Yangpu Branch of Shanghai Public Security Bureau because the amount involved did not meet the criteria of criminal law.