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If a person is suspected of fraud and the amount is relatively large, he may be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance, and may also be fined or solely fined; the specific sentencing depends on the circumstances.

The "Interpretations of the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate on Several Issues Concerning the Specific Application of Laws in Handling Criminal Cases of Fraud" (effective from April 8, 2011): Fraudulent public or private property worth 3,000 yuan to 1 Those exceeding 10,000 yuan, 30,000 yuan, 100,000 yuan or more, and 500,000 yuan or more shall be deemed as "relatively large amounts", "huge amounts" and "especially huge amounts" as stipulated in Article 266 of the Criminal Law respectively. .

Anyone who defrauds public or private property up to the above-mentioned amounts and meets any of the following circumstances may be severely punished in accordance with the provisions of Article 266 of the Criminal Law:

(1) ) By sending text messages and making phone calls, or using the Internet, radio and television, newspapers and magazines, etc. to publish false information to defraud an unspecified majority of people;

(2) Fraud in disaster relief and emergency rescue, flood prevention, special care, and poverty alleviation , immigration, relief, and medical funds;

(3) Fraud in the name of raising donations for disaster relief;

(4) Fraud against disabled people, the elderly, or people who have lost the ability to work Property;

(5) Causing suicide, mental disorder or other serious consequences to the victim.

If the amount of fraud is close to the standards of "huge amount" or "particularly huge amount" stipulated above, and falls under one of the circumstances specified in the preceding paragraph or is the leading member of a fraud group, it shall be deemed as a second-tier crime in the criminal law respectively. "Other serious circumstances" and "other particularly serious circumstances" stipulated in Article 166.

Article 266 of the "Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China": Whoever commits the crime of fraud and defrauds public or private property if the amount is relatively large shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or surveillance, and shall be fined concurrently or separately. fine; if the amount is huge or there are other serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years, and shall also be fined; if the amount is particularly huge or there are other particularly serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than ten years or life imprisonment and shall also be fined or confiscation of property. If this law provides otherwise, the provisions shall prevail.