Rich businessmen cheated 80 million euros and stunned netizens with silica gel masks
4hw.com.cn: Recently, chicley appeared in court and faced a number of charges such as organized fraud and embezzlement of identity. Because of the huge amount of money involved and up to 150 victims, he is known as the boldest fraudster in history. How did he disguise himself as secretary of defense with a mask? How did you successfully cheat 80 million euros? How to expose it in the end?
>& gt; Born in poverty
Stealing books at the age of 8 and dropping out of school at the age of 13
Learn acting, practice acting and start cheating
In 1967, chicley was born in a poor family in Paris, France, with Jewish descent. His father was a Tunisian mechanic. Chickley was an uneasy child from an early age. As early as the age of 8, he began to steal books from school and resell them to his classmates. When he was older, he began to steal other people's credit cards, disguised as the card owner himself, and invited himself and his friends to spend.
At the age of 13, chickley dropped out of boarding school. After mixing with the society, he studied acting and worked as a real estate agent and advertising marketer. For a long time, he has been learning how to deceive people. He is often arrested for sneaking around.
Chicley is very smart, but it's a pity that he didn't use his intelligence in the right way, but in 'cheating'. After honing his acting skills, he began his fraud career. Because his father was Tunisian, he tried to get the Tunisian government to pay for some fictional tiger helicopter orders.
In 2005, the 38 year old chickley was unwilling to cheat any more. He turned his target to some large international enterprises with strong financial resources, including France post, Lafayette department store, Paris Disneyland, HSBC, American Express, Barclays Bank, etc. His false identity when he cheated was the CEO of these companies. He deceived the company's employees by phone and asked the company to pay him cash or transfer. A total of 33 enterprises and banks were cheated, with a total amount of 60.5 million euros. After the incident was exposed, 52.6 million euros of the stolen money was recovered.
>& gt; Impersonate CEO
Telephone fraud Bank branch president
One ring leads people into the trap
In July 2005, a series of bomb attacks shocked the world occurred in London, killing 52 people and injuring more than 700 people. In France, which is separated by a sea from Britain, everyone talks about fear.
'Hello, I'm the CEO of the bank. The police suspect that some customers of our bank are providing operational funds for terrorists. Their accounts are opened in your branch. Please cooperate with secret agent Paul to investigate & hellip& hellip;' After receiving the call from the CEO, the head of a branch of France post bank really began to cooperate with the investigation of agent Paul, who was also disguised by chicley.
In the next three days, 'Paul' asked the branch president to take out the cash deposits of several major customers' involved in terrorism 'in the bank and scan them to see if they were related to the source of funds of several terrorist attacks they found before, and return them after inspection. Therefore, the branch head took out 358000 euros and took a taxi to a cafe. After checking the joint code, she handed over the safe containing the huge amount of money to the joint staff, who was disguised as chicley's mistress.
When it was time to return the cash, the branch head couldn't contact 'Paul', and the bank CEO didn't know about it, so she knew she had been cheated.
Chicley cheated such a large sum of money for the first time. He cheated big companies with his own 'CEO fraud method'. In his words, 'everyone who receives my call doesn't believe me in the end. My ring-to-ring deception finally leads them into a trap'.
In 2009, chicley was arrested by the French government and charged with fraud. But after he was released on bail, despite the restriction order, without a passport, he took his wife and children to charter a private plane and flew all the way to Israel and hid in his mansion in Israel.
>& gt; Escape to Israel
Pretending to be the Secretary of defense to cheat important political and commercial officials
He was caught cheating the president of Senegal
Chicley was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment for fraud in France. Israel refused to extradite him. Later, he divorced his French wife, married an Israeli woman, gave birth to four children, and obtained dual citizenship of Israel and France. The French government was helpless to him and watched him live at ease in a foreign country. In Israel, chichley also received media interviews from time to time to show off his "achievements". Although he temporarily 'retired', the 'CEO fraud method' invented by him has been imitated all over the world and is still used by many fraudsters.
When the huge amount of money from fraud was almost wasted, chicley decided to return to the Jianghu. This time, he decided to pretend to be a senior official of the French government. Let & middot; Eve & middot; Ledrion served as French defense minister from 2012 to 2017. At present, he is the foreign minister of the country. He acts relatively low-key, the people are not so familiar with him, and he looks a little similar to chicley, so he has become the target of chicley's impersonation. Since 2015, chicley disguised himself as ledrion with a silicone mask and asked rich businessmen and politicians to assist the French government in paying ransom to save journalists held hostage by the extremist organization Islamic state (is) in the Middle East, successfully defrauding 80 million euros, more than half of which came from a Turkish businessman.
Chicley first pretended to be ledrion's aide and pretended to arrange the other party to talk to the 'minister of Defense'. Initially, these 'ministerial' talks were conducted by telephone, and later further upgraded to 'interview'. At this time, chicley, wearing a mask, appeared and pretended to be the Secretary of defense for Skype video conference. He told the swindler that it was inconvenient for the government to pay the ransom directly, so he needed to find someone to help pay the ransom. The money should be kept absolutely confidential so that the outside world could not find its source. He asked to transfer the money to the designated bank account. He will also put forward tempting conditions, such as' lifelong tax exemption 'for these businessmen and allowing these politicians to receive the Legion of honor medal.
The screenshot of the video call shows that 'ledrion' sits in front of the desk in the minister's office, with a French flag and a portrait of then French President Hollande behind him. The room was dimly lit and 'ledrion' sat far from the camera. It was difficult for the victim to realize that he was just a fake wearing a mask.
In the end, chickly cheated Senegalese president Markey & middot; Salle was exposed because the other party had a good personal relationship with the real ledrion, while chicley spoke in an overly polite tone.
A businessman who was almost cheated said that in retrospect, his meeting with the 'minister of Defense' was indeed full of doubts, but the other party was really like the Minister of defense himself, and the other party sought assistance in the name of national service. If the amount was any less, he would agree.
>& gt; Arrested and jailed
The scam reappeared this year
The three impersonated the foreign minister by imitating his tactics
Counterfeiting the French defense minister to cheat, the victim is either rich or expensive, chicley continues to commit crimes abroad, and the French police have been looking for opportunities to arrest him.
In August 2017, the French police finally waited for a good opportunity. Chickley left Israel and came to Ukraine. At the request of the French police, the local police soon arrested him. When he was arrested, he still lied and claimed that he came to Ukraine to worship the tomb of a famous Rabbi, but the evidence found by the police on his mobile phone showed that he came to buy the most advanced silicone mask.
During his detention in Ukraine, chickley constantly provoked the police and bribed the guards to bring him a refrigerator with steak and vodka and live a comfortable life. Then, he recorded a film and posted it on social media to ridicule and abuse the French police.
At the end of November 2017, chicley was finally extradited to France and sentenced to prison. Since then, chicley has been detained by the French authorities, but the story did not end with the liar's imprisonment. Earlier this year, the 'ledrion' scam reappeared. The French embassy has received reports that some 'French foreign ministers' are seeking financial assistance from influential' friends of France 'in the same way as before. In February this year, three French citizens of Israeli descent were arrested in Israel. At present, it is not clear whether the three are just imitating chicley or his accomplices. The case is still under investigation.
Recently, chicley appeared in court and was accused of organized fraud and embezzlement of identity. After being sentenced to seven years' imprisonment last time, chicley hid in Israel for eight years. This time, he was finally arrested and could not escape prison again.