Claiming that "the hair can be sold at a sky-high price" and "the master of success" were suspected of fraud and were investigated.
"I am a magnet to attract money … …” In the venue of a hotel in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, more than 100 "students" from the audience shouted together with Yang Taoming, the "master of success" on the stage. In the student’s description, Yang Taoming claimed that he could sell a hair for 60,800 yuan.
On April 16th, Beijing Youth Daily reporter learned from the police that Yang Taoming, a "master of success", and his team had been investigated for fraud by Haishu Branch of Ningbo Public Security Bureau, Zhejiang Province, and more than 30 people had been detained by the police. According to the police handling the case of the Economic Investigation Brigade of Haishu Public Security Bureau, Yang Taoming is a pseudonym, and he only has a high school education.
After claiming to transmit "cosmic energy", students can swallow torches and step on charcoal.
On February 22nd, a training course entitled "Super Persuasion" led by Yang Taoming, a master of success, and sponsored by Zhejiang Attractive Culture Communication Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Attractive Company) was held in Ningbo, Zhejiang, with hundreds of participants.
The company once published an article claiming that Yang Taoming is "a world-renowned speaker, an authority on the potential development of Chinese in the world, a best-selling author, a mentor for small and medium-sized enterprises, and the chairman of Attractive Culture Communication Co., Ltd., a piece of white paper can be sold for 40,000 yuan, a doll for 46,000 yuan, and a hair for 60,000 yuan … …”
The article also said that Yang Taoming was promoted by the world’s top experts, which stimulated his potential, detonated his inner energy and changed his life.
Another article, "Teacher Yang Tao (Tao) Ming started to register at the fire-fighting meeting in December, breaking through inner fears and inspiring unlimited potential! The article pointed out that the way for Yang Taoming to stimulate his potential is that after he passed on "cosmic energy" to the students, the students can swallow torches, female students chop boards, and step on hot coals barefoot … …
Both articles are accompanied by an advertisement to sign up for the lecture of "Master of Success".
The reporter of Beiqing Daily interviewed several students who had taken the Yang Taoming course. They all said, "These disguises are the beginning of a trap. He (Yang Taoming) only taught us how to brag and then followed his words ‘ Pull the head ’ To attract more people to attend classes. "
Yang Xiao (a pseudonym) is a treasure mother. She attended Yang Taoming’s "Success Speech" for three consecutive days from February 22nd. Yang Xiao said that during these three days, nearly 700 students (including old students) participated, and the daily course time lasted from 9 am to 12: 30 pm.
Yang Xiao said that the courses taught these days are mainly "10 steps of persuasion". In the process of sharing these contents, the other party will also be interspersed with many so-called success stories. There are "so-and-so earned 2,000 yuan a month before, and now he earns 100,000 yuan a month after he tried his best to attend my class" and "so-and-so immediately talked about a big bill of more than 1 million yuan after listening to the class" … … There will also be students talking about how successful they have become after signing up for courses in Yang Taoming.
"He never talks about how to succeed, but keeps stressing ‘ After this man studied with me, he succeeded and became rich ’ 。” She said, "even if you talk about the content, it is only the basic marketing knowledge and politeness."
Constantly selling credit cards to buy classes ranges from 5,800 yuan to 600,000 yuan.
For the purpose of training courses, Yang Xiao thinks that it is to let students buy training courses in Yang Taoming. She said that the first afternoon, she was invited to the stage.
"I didn’t know what I was going to do when I went to the stage. Later, I learned that it was originally necessary for us to swipe our cards to buy classes." She told the reporter of Beiqing Daily that after the students took the stage, the staff would lead the students under the stage and once again improve the recognition of the students on the stage. The "mentor" on the stage would also constantly emphasize that "as long as you sign up for my class, you have already succeeded. Half", so that the students on the stage will always be excited and recognized, and constantly encourage them to swipe their cards to learn the following courses.
Xiang Yang (a pseudonym) from Jiangsu is Yang Xiao’s fellow "students" and was assigned to different groups. She was introduced by a friend. She showed several live videos to the reporter of Beiqing Daily. In the video, the students were grouped and sat in the center of the venue, and a staff member stood by every few rows. Yang Taoming shouted on the stage, "Raise your hand if you have the courage to let everyone know!"
Many people in the audience raised their hands and rushed straight to the stage. Others raised their hands and quickly put them down. At this time, the staff standing by came forward to persuade the "students" who had raised their hands to take the stage.
"As long as you have the courage to come to power, you can increase your chances of success … …” Encouraged by the enthusiastic "students" on and off the stage, several people got on the stage.
"Friends who are on stage today have a special reward." Yang Taoming said that he had a 7-day training in the near future, and the price was 70,000 yuan. "And friends who came to power today, I only charge you 30,000 yuan!"
In the video, a student said that he had financial difficulties. Yang Taoming said to him, "We all know your situation. In the past, I had a student who wanted to attend a class, and then signed up with a credit card. Eight credit cards were maxed out. After listening to the class, he later succeeded." Under the contrast of the audience, the students on the stage had to promise to pay the money.
Yang Xiao said that he was recommended a course of 5,800 yuan, and the course of 30,000 yuan the next day. After that, there were courses of 50,000 yuan and 140,000 yuan to choose from, among which the most expensive "one-to-one course" was as high as 600,000 yuan.
Yang Xiao and Xiang Yang told the reporter of Beiqing Daily that on February 22nd, they saw about 30 people who bought a course with a credit card of 5,800 yuan, and there may be more than 20 people who bought a course with a credit card of 30,000 yuan on the 23rd, and several students bought a course with a credit card of 140,000 yuan privately. Yang Xiao said that there is an elder sister in her group, claiming that she also bought a successful course for her husband and daughter, which cost a total of 720,000 yuan.
The two recalled that after experiencing the speech of the "Master of Success", the whole person’s brain and body were in a state of serious exhaustion. "We didn’t have time to think, just followed their emotions on the spot, and we didn’t have time to think about what we had learned. We either paid for it with the help of the team, or we stepped down despondently." Yang Xiao said, especially after getting out of that exciting and passionate environment, he realized the horror of this "speech". He said, "Some students in the audience will cry bitterly, and some will stand on the stool and cheer."
Later, with the help of "Li Xu Anti-transmission and Fraud Prevention Team", she and several students reported the case to Ningbo police, believing that these training courses were suspected of pyramid selling and were harmful training.
In April last year, Mr. He, the husband of Ms. Liu from Zhejiang, fell into a "lecture on success" in Yang Taoming, and has not returned since she left home.
Ms. Liu said, "When he (my husband) went, he first paid a registration fee of 2,000 yuan, and later paid 60,000 yuan to those people by swiping a credit card." Ms. Liu told the reporter of Beiqing Daily that she reported the case when she found something was wrong, but after that, the couple quarreled every day because of this matter.
By the end of September last year, Mr. He left home in a fit of pique, and so far he hasn’t come home. No matter how to persuade his family, it’s useless. After Ms. Liu sent him some information, all the contact information of Ms. Liu was blacked out. For those who advised him to return to his family, he left a sentence: "There are many kinds of people, I will filter them, I will absorb what is useful to me, and I will ignore what is useless. What about you, you are a person who will hit a person when he is down." And said, "I am very grateful to Teacher Yang".
More than 30 "successful masters" and their team were arrested by the police for alleged fraud.
"In fact, let us brainwash ourselves first." Mr. He, a former "disciple" of Yang Taoming, told the reporter of Beiqing Daily that he originally had his own career, but later he was introduced to study in Yang Taoming because of operational difficulties. He was also brainwashed in the activity, and he paid the money in a muddle. He can learn the content, but how to "pull the head" through the script and guide the students to pay the money on stage.
Later, Mr. He showed the contents of the script to the reporter of Beiqing Daily. The first article of the "Top Ten Success Rules of the Company" was "Company First, Teacher Yang First". The script described in detail the different reasons for dealing with different students and how to guide them to pay the money, and mentioned "gratitude" and "success" many times … … The number of words in the whole speech script is as high as 16 thousand words.
"They verbally promised that as long as the head is pulled and the deal is made, it will give a certain cash back, or become a benchmark created by Teacher Yang. Now think about it, it is brainwashing and cheating! Teach us to brag and eat. " Mr. He said that many so-called Yang Taoming disciples were brainwashed into abandoning their homes and careers, constantly inventing success stories and frantically urging newcomers to pay.
With the same experience, Ms. Zhang from Quzhou, Zhejiang Province, signed up for a course in Yang Taoming in order to lay a foundation for her own business, and paid tens of thousands of yuan in tuition fees on the spot. "In the future, every time we participated in the training, we were asked to pay in various ways. Later, I even mortgaged the property and paid a total of 240,000 yuan." Ms. Zhang said that after that, the only training Yang Taoming gave her was "pulling people’s heads".
On April 16th, the reporter of Beiqing Daily learned that Yang Taoming and his team, the "master of success", have been investigated for fraud by Haishu Branch of Ningbo Public Security Bureau, Zhejiang Province, and more than 30 people have been detained by the police.
According to the police handling the case of the Economic Investigation Brigade of Haishu Public Security Bureau, Yang Taoming is a pseudonym, and he only has a high school education. "At present, we are visiting victims all over the country to collect evidence. This stage will last for a long time, and the specific details of the case are not convenient to disclose." He said. (Text/Reporter Wang Haoxiong Coordinator/Sun Huili)