One Person's Fraud Caused the Whole County to Be Blacklisted by E-commerce: A Man Used AI to Generate Pictures of Rotten Fruits to Get a Refund of 16,000 Yuan for Fruits and Was Sentenced to One Year in Prison
In Hengshan, Hunan, from Oct 2025 to Jan 2026, Tan used AI to fake rotten fruit images, claiming quality issues to get refunds without returns. He made 100+ orders for expensive fruit, scamming over ¥16,000, using 75 phones, leading to the entire county being blacklisted by platforms temporarily. The court has concluded the case.....