Mixed in 1980

Chapter 186: Fraud Guide
If life deceives you, please don't be sad or upset, because life will continue to deceive you tomorrow.

As long as you are willing to be fooled, there will always be someone who will stand up and help you, and Dangdang is different.

……

As Chen Fan wrote, Xu Jinqiu laughed.

Although Chen Fan hasn't written editorials for a long time, his style has not changed. It is sharp with a hint of humor. I always smile unconsciously when reading it.

But as she read on, Xu Jinqiu realized something was not right. He was really writing about a liar, and what he wrote were all scams that looked quite realistic.

Xu Jinqiu muttered something, and Chen Fan rolled his eyes at her: "What do you mean by very similar? Try these methods, I guarantee you will succeed."

For scammers, there was a trust bonus in the 1980s and 1990s.

Cigarettes build bridges and wine paves the way. If you meet a stranger on the road, you can chat for a long time just by handing him a cigarette. Let's see in the future, who would dare to smoke a stranger's cigarette?

If you see an old person fall down on the road, just send him to the hospital immediately. The family members will come to your house with a bunch of gifts to thank you, and they will never say that you were the one who hit him.

The trust bonus between people is the breeding ground for scammers. It can even be said that people in the 1980s and 1990s were very easy to deceive, and people were not so wary of each other.

Being cheated of money is the lightest punishment; being cheated of both money and people is truly tragic. In the 1980s and 1990s, countless women and children were abducted by human traffickers.

Not only ordinary people are easy to be deceived, but companies are also easy to be deceived. They simply don't realize that there are so many tricks between people and between companies.

This is how the water-to-oil scam came about.

In the 1980s, people admired knowledge, respected talents and were pursuing scientific knowledge. A worker named Wang Hongcheng made a great invention: just add a few drops of mysterious liquid to a basin of clean water, and the water will turn into combustible oil.

Then, through a series of means, they got away with it, making many companies, journalists and scientists believe it to be true, and even some scientific research institutions issued appraisal reports and gave their affirmation.

In the end, Wang Hongcheng successfully defrauded hundreds of millions of yuan from more than 300 township and state-owned enterprises.

There is also the big swindler Qian Hong, a man who had been in prison. He created a persona for himself as an overseas Chinese who returned to China just to build his hometown and was a senior intellectual with a doctorate degree.

Then he put on a high-end suit, rented a high-end office, hung up a sign of an American company, and claimed that he could order steel at a price lower than the market price.

With such a simple operation, four companies were successfully defrauded of 9800 million yuan.

Can we say that people in the 1980s and 1990s were stupid? They were not stupid at all, but there was too much trust between people, which greatly reduced the cost of cheating.

When it comes to cheating, foreign capital is more sophisticated.

Foreign investment was introduced after the reform and opening up, but not all of it came here to do business honestly. The number of methods they used made it difficult to guard against.

The most common practice is fake investment and real sales, passing inferior goods off as good ones.

When two parties form a joint venture, the foreign investor often requires both parties to jointly invest in the purchase of so-called advanced machinery and equipment from abroad, and the foreign investor is responsible for unified contact and procurement. In the end, what is purchased are old and outdated equipment, and the money has already been earned.

There are also a series of means such as "fake investment and real loan to earn interest rate difference", "false investment to obtain preferential policies", "fake joint venture to inflate performance" and so on.

Before he started writing, Chen Fan couldn't write a single word. But once he started writing, after experiencing the information storm, the stock in his brain came out continuously.

Chen Fan became more and more adept at writing, presenting various scams one by one from the first-person perspective of "What if I were a liar".

It was not until late August, when he went to Hong Kong again and sorted out the manuscript when he came back, that Chen Fan realized that he had written 11 words without realizing it.

Chen Fan scratched his head, somewhat surprised. He wrote so smoothly that his speed actually increased significantly.

The work had been finished, so Chen Fan didn't delay. He took the manuscript and drove straight to the People's Literature Magazine. He hadn't been here for a while, but this place hadn't changed at all.

Sometimes Chen Fan wants to complain, your magazine is making a lot of money, why don’t you find a way to have a better office and stop looking so poor all the time.

If someone doesn’t know, they would think you are really poor.

In fact, the magazine was extremely wealthy, with sales of over a million copies per issue. Especially during the serialization of "Awakening Age", sales increased significantly. "You're pretty fast this time, kid."

Wang Wei took the manuscript and was a little surprised. Judging from its thickness, he knew that it was probably around 10 words. He was indeed a quick writer.

Chen Fan took out a cigarette and handed it to Wang Wei: "You have come to my house to urge me to submit the manuscript. I am embarrassed to delay it. Please review the manuscript quickly and give me a definite answer if it is okay."

"When is your manuscript not available?"

Wang Wei smiled, lit a cigarette, and then took out the manuscript to read. But he soon wanted to slap himself. It was too early to say that this manuscript might not be good.

He looked at Chen Fan strangely and muttered secretly: "Is this kid the descendant of Qianmen? He is so familiar with these evil things."

After reading 20,000 to 30,000 words, Wang Wei closed the manuscript and said with a wry smile, "Go and consult with your sister Jingyi. It's hard to say whether this manuscript will be published."

"This doesn't involve politics, what's the problem?" Chen Fan asked in surprise.

"Are you stupid, kid? Just send these things out, ordinary people will treat them as stories, but what about the scammers? They learn skills so that they can cheat." Wang Wei couldn't help but complain.

If I didn't have a proper job, and I had these manuscripts, I would have to go out and make some money, just like obtaining peerless martial arts in martial arts novels.

You can say this book is a guide to preventing scams, but you can also say it is a guide to committing scams.

Anyway, he didn't dare to make a decision. If this thing was sent out, the publishing house might have to close down. He still had to discuss it with Wang Jing.

Compared to himself, Wang Jingyi has a wider network of contacts.

Although both are named People's Literature, the magazine belongs to the Writers Association and the publishing house belongs to the Ministry of Culture, so the levels are naturally different.

After hearing what he said, Chen Fan was also stunned.

It seems to be true.

There are a thousand Hamlets for a thousand readers. The same book will show different things in the hands of different people.

Chen Fan himself had never thought of making money through side business, otherwise, with the information in the book, it would have been possible for him to achieve a small goal in the 1980s.

This book really requires research!
The two of them didn't waste any time and immediately drove to find Wang Jingyi. After reading the manuscript, Wang Jingyi looked at Chen Fan strangely.

"You go to Hong Kong often, are you doing the things in the book?"

"..."

Chen Fan rolled his eyes and couldn't help but complain: "My buddy has his own publishing house in Hong Kong. He can make hundreds of millions from a book. Is it that serious?"

Wang Jingyi teased, "Who knows?"

Chen Fan smiled bitterly: "I can't explain it clearly, right?"

Wang Jingyi joked, "I don't know about that. Anyway, based on what's in the book, if you say you made 100 million in Hong Kong, I'll believe it."

"..."Chen Fan really has 100 million in Hong Kong.

After hearing her say this, Chen Fan immediately felt like he was drowning in mud: "Don't talk nonsense first, just tell me if this book can be published?"

"How would I know? What I say doesn't count."

Wang Jing didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and scratched his head again: "I just don't understand why you can write about this kind of subject matter? And why do you write so deeply? Where did you learn it?"

After sighing, Wang Jingyi said, "I'll hand the book over to the higher-ups. Whether it will be approved or not depends on their decision. But I don't think it's going to work out."

PS: The second update is here~
(End of this chapter)