Beauty salons are cheated by prepaid cards. Can you call the police?

Beauty salons can call the police if they are cheated in handling prepaid cards. In fact, the forced trading method of beauty salon routine consumers is already a fraud. Fraud refers to the act of defrauding a large amount of public and private property by fabricating facts or concealing the truth for the purpose of illegal possession.

Article 266 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), whoever defrauds public or private property in a relatively large amount shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance, and shall also, or shall only, be fined for a huge amount or if there are other serious circumstances, be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than 10 years; if the amount of punishment is especially huge or if there are other particularly serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years or life imprisonment, and shall also be fined or his property confiscated. Where there are other provisions in this Law, such provisions shall prevail.

Explanations on Several Issues Concerning the Specific Application of Laws in Handling Criminal Cases of Fraud Article 1 Whoever swindles public or private property in an amount of more than 3,000 yuan, 30,000 yuan, 100,000 yuan and 500,000 yuan shall be deemed as "a large amount", "a huge amount" and "a particularly huge amount" as stipulated in Article 266 of the Criminal Law respectively. The higher people's courts and people's procuratorates of all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government may, in combination with the economic and social development of the region, jointly study and determine the specific amount standards implemented in the region within the scope of the amount specified in the preceding paragraph, and report them to the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate for the record.