In order to grasp the movements of the daughter during the rebellious period, the father bought mysterious software online and sent red envelopes in the WeChat group continuously according to customer service requirements. He did not call the police until he realized he was cheated. After the procuratorate of Changzhou Economic Development Zone, Jiangsu Province, the defendant Zhang and 21 others were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from five years to eleven months for fraud, and each was fined. In addition, 40 other criminal suspects in the case were arrested by the public security organs, and the case is under further investigation.
uses software as bait to cheat the victim of money
Mr. Wang's daughter is in a rebellious period and often does not go home. Mr. Wang is very worried. In March 2021, his daughter was still in a daze. Mr. Wang was anxious to ask for help online. When he searched for keyword "real-time positioning" on a website, an advertisement appeared at the top of the web page. According to the contact information on the advertisement, Mr. Wang added customer service WeChat.
"This software uses hacking technology, which can be positioned in real time based on WeChat, QQ, and mobile phone numbers, and can also view chat records simultaneously. There are one-on-one guidance from professional and technical personnel, and will provide teaching and meetings." Customer service introduced to Mr. Wang.
positioning tracking and synchronizing chat records, which made Mr. Wang excited. The customer service also said: "This software is priced at 580 yuan, but because it belongs to the gray industry, it cannot be sold through formal channels. If you build a group, you can directly send red envelopes in the group."
After Mr. Wang established the group as required, the customer service successively brought several people named detective, technology, and finance into the group. Mr. Wang sent two red envelopes: 180 yuan and 400 yuan. After the finance department received the red envelope, the customer service sent another download link. However, Mr. Wang cannot use the software after installing it. At this time, the customer service asked to pay a software service fee of 1,390 yuan, and Mr. Wang did the same. Afterwards, the technology and detectives took turns to ask Mr. Wang to send red envelopes in the group for various reasons such as sincerity, deposit, decoding fees, and server rent. Mr. Wang, who is eager to love his daughter, sent more than 100 red envelopes in a daze, with a total amount of more than 45,000 yuan, but the software is still unavailable. Only then did Mr. Wang realize that something was wrong and asked for a refund, but the customer service said that "the refund will be received in three days." However, the next day, Mr. Wang found that all the members of the group had left the group and he was blocked by the customer service, so he had to call the police.
Easy part-time job to grab red envelopes and earn commissions
The police quickly filed a case for investigation, and a group of "pointers" who specializes in helping upstream fraud criminal gangs receive payments surfaced. In January 2021, Zhang met his WeChat friend "Beautiful Life" through a friend introduced by a friend. "Beautiful Life" provides Zhang with an easy part-time opportunity. As long as you grab red envelopes in the group, you can earn commissions. You can get 400 yuan in compensation for every 10,000 yuan red envelopes you grab.
This part-time job has zero threshold and zero investment. As long as you use a mobile phone to operate it easily, you can easily get hundreds of yuan in a short period of time. Zhang knew in his heart that this part-time job was shameless, but he still enjoyed it. Not only did he do it himself, but he also brought several colleagues and friends to do it together under the instruction of "Beautiful Life". In addition, Zhang is also responsible for counting the flow of money, summarizing the fraudulent funds, and transferring them to the online through the collection QR code according to the requirements of "Beautiful Life".
Zhang's colleague Chen confessed after being arrested: "Zhang asked us to change our WeChat nickname to finance, change our avatar, turn off our circle of friends and add functions, and then go to the group to grab red envelopes. After grabbing it, transfer the money to him and ask nothing else." "I know this may be illegal, but the money is earned quickly and easily, and my colleagues are doing it, so I did it too." Another suspect in the gang said.
21 "pointers" were arrested
After further investigation, the public security organs found that this was a fraud gang selling fake positioning software. The gang attracted the victims to add WeChat to purchase by posting false positioning software advertisements online, and then defrauded the victims of money on the grounds of sincerity, deposit, decoding fees, authorization fees, server rental fees, etc.
Unlike previous telecom fraud cases, the gang received payments in the form of WeChat group red envelopes, hiring "pointers" to pretend to be financial personnel to collect red envelopes, and then collect and transfer funds through offline QR codes so that the funds involved were transferred and diverted layer by layer in different accounts.However, since the public security organs cannot initiate a quick stop payment procedure similar to bank cards for WeChat red envelopes, once the funds involved in the case flow into the crowd through the red envelopes, it is extremely difficult to track them down. After investigation, from January to April 2021, Zhang and 21 other "pointers" received more than 2.33 million yuan in red envelopes for fraudsters.
On June 15 this year, the public security organs transferred the case to the Changzhou Economic Development Zone Procuratorate for review and prosecution. After the review by the prosecutor in charge, the prosecutor in charge believed that Zhang and others knew that the red envelopes they robbed were stolen money from fraud, but they still entered the WeChat group established by the victim in the name of finance and other things to collect red envelopes, transferred the money involved in the case to the fraudsters, and made profits from them in a certain proportion. They should be considered as accomplices of the fraud crime. In addition, the Changzhou Economic Development Zone Procuratorate actively promoted the work of recovering stolen goods and rescuing losses. Zhang and 21 other "pointers" plead guilty and accepted punishment, and have returned more than 320,000 yuan of stolen money.
htmlOn July 19, the Changzhou Economic Development Zone Procuratorate filed public prosecutions against 21 criminal suspects on suspicion of fraud. Recently, the court made the above judgment. It is reported that the main culprit in the case is still on the run and the public security organs are pursuing it.(Source: Procuratorial Daily Author: Kong Weina Comic: Yao Wen)
