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Fraud victim pouring Coke into ATM to 'destroy record' exempted from prison
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A 26-year-old woman who poured a bottle of Coke into an ATM to "destroy the transfer record" after being swindled out of 2,700 yuan has been exempted from criminal punishment for vandalism because she surrendered herself to police and made an compensation, the Pudong New Area People's Court said Thursday.
The damaged ATM machine is worth 37,635 yuan, the court said. The woman later paid all the money to the bank.
According to the court, on November 23 last year, the woman, surnamed Liu, received a call from a "SF Express customer service staffer" who informed her about one of her parcels was seized by the customs because a fake identity card copy was found inside.
The call was later transferred to another person who claimed to be a police officer and the so-called officer said some illicit money involved in a drug-trafficking case had been transferred to her bank account. Liu was told to transfer the "illicit money" to a "security account" the swindler offered.
Liu then went to a nearby ATM and transferred 2,700 yuan to the account. To destroy the data, she poured a bottle of Coke to the machine. After losing contact with the swindler, she noticed that she was cheated and surrendered herself to local police.
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