Jiangsu Taixing police recently cracked an online fraud case and arrested 30 suspects, with the amount involved exceeding 10 million. What is surprising is that because the scammers' performance was too real, some deceived people were reluctant to report the case.
Ms. Li, who was cheated of more than 2 million yuan, said that she had depression at that time due to family and emotional problems. Every time she chatted with the other party, she felt very caring and heartwarming, so she "had been cheated and accepted." After several consecutive days of work, Ms. Li reluctantly agreed to accept the police's inquiries.
impersonating the identity of a successful man to talk to women about life, family and emotions, and after gaining trust, they are encouraged to invest in futures to defraud money. The Taixing police in Jiangsu recently solved an online fraud case and arrested 30 suspects.
After investigation, the victims were spread across more than ten provinces, cities and autonomous regions including Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Inner Mongolia, and the amount involved exceeded 10 million.
. What is surprising is that because the scammers' performance is too real, some deceived people are reluctant to report the case. Ms. Li from Zhejiang said that she suffered from depression due to family and emotional problems at that time. Every time she chatted with the other party, she felt very caring and heartwarming. Although she was cheated of more than 2 million yuan, she did not want to report the case.
Online Free futures , I lost more than 300,000 in less than a month
One day in early December last year, Ms. Wu (pseudonym), a 40-year-old Taixing citizen, came to the public security organs with a frustration and reported the case, saying that she was cheated of hundreds of thousands of times in online futures trading.
Ms. Wu told the police that she did not work. More than a month ago, she met a boss named Guo who claimed to be from Chengdu, Sichuan on WeChat. In the next month, Boss Guo asked her about her well-being online. The two had a great chat. Although they had not met, Ms. Wu had a good impression of "Boss Guo".
△ Police raided the fraud company
A month later, "Boss Guo" recommended her to log in to a futures trading platform called "Jin Fuxin" and registered an account. Under his guidance, she tried to trade several times and earned more than 10,000 yuan.
tasted the sweetness, and Ms. Wu trusted "Boss Guo" more and then increased her investment in order to make more profits, but she lost more than 300,000 yuan at once. In order to recover the losses, at the suggestion of "Boss Guo", more than 400,000 yuan was invested until he "has lost all his money".
At this time, Ms. Wu felt that she might have been fooled, and then complained to " third-party payment platform ". But after complaining, when she registered her futures account again, she found that the account had been frozen. A few days later, a personal account transferred more than 400,000 yuan to her, and she actually lost more than 300,000 yuan.
After listening to Ms. Wu’s story, the police in Taixing decided to make this case a key case in the "Net Clean 2019" operation and set up a special task force to carry out investigation.
involves more than 10 provinces and cities, and the fraud of tens of millions of yuan
task force quickly found out that "Boss Guo" does have someone and has a certain popularity in Chengdu, Sichuan, but the business he runs does not involve online futures.
police rushed to Chengdu. With the help of the local police, they found out from the market management department that the company "Jinfuxin" was registered in August 2016. The company's legal representative Lei Mouyun, whose main business is wine, beverages and tea;
The registration information of the human resources and social security department shows that the registration address of the company "Jinfuxin" is located in a high-end office building in the center of Chengdu. The police then conducted a secret visit and learned that there were more than 20 employees working normally at "Jinfuxin" company, most of which were young people.
Further investigation, the police found that "Jin Fuxin" company actually acted as a "mascot", responsible for contacting the victims, defrauding their trust, and committing fraud. Behind the scenes is a software company located in Xiamen, Fujian. The company is responsible for the development and daily maintenance of futures software. After 15% of the fraudulent funds are "pulled", the remaining 85% will be transferred to the company that commits the fraud.
At the same time, the police also found that "Jin Fuxin" company has begun to change careers and engage in online game business, attempting to "whitewash" itself with millions of dollars that have been cheated, and 7 employees are studying abroad.
△ Police arrested 30 suspects
On January 20 this year, Taixing police dispatched more than 80 police forces. With the support of the police in Sichuan, Fujian and Hunan, all 30 criminal suspects involved were arrested. After investigation, the victims were spread across more than ten provinces, cities and autonomous regions including Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Inner Mongolia, Hunan, Tibet, Shaanxi, and more than 10 million yuan of funds involved in the case.
customized script, the deceived women were immersed in it. During the interrogation, several suspects confessed that they identified the fraud target as a 30-50-year-old woman, using the identity of a successful man to talk to the deceived women about their lives, family and emotions. After understanding the basic situation of the deceived women, they will customize the script, analyze the chat records regularly, modify the script in time, and deceive their trust, and then believe the deceived women.
The method of fraud is also an old routine - creating false web pages to allow deceived women to register an account, and by modifying the background data, the deceived women "make first and then lose", and then use the grounds of "stop loss to save losses", to deceive deceived women to continue to invest. In order to help the deceived women dispel their concerns, the suspect also set up a "third-party payment platform" to create the illusion of "formal" and "trustworthy".
When Ms. Wu complained to the "third-party payment platform", "Jin Fuxin" company was preparing to "wash hands with gold plates". In order not to attract the attention of the police, she returned the last more than 400,000 yuan to Ms. Wu through her personal account.
During the investigation, the police found that because the scammers were too professional, there were still those who were deceived.
Ms. Li (pseudonym), a Zhejiang native who runs a clothing wholesale business, was cheated of more than 2 million yuan. Faced with the police investigation, she admitted that when she met "Boss Guo", she was depressed because of family relationship problems and had been diagnosed with depression by the doctor. Every time she chatted with "Boss Guo", she felt very caring and heartwarming. She said, "At the lowest point in my life, he helped me. Even if I was cheated, I accepted it. I won't report it!"
After working for several consecutive days, Ms. Li reluctantly agreed to accept the questioning of the police.
At present, 6 of the 30 suspects have been transferred to prosecution in accordance with the law, and the case is still under further investigation.
Source: Modern Express (xiandaikuaibao) Correspondent Lu Yushun Reporter Mao Xiaohua
Guangzhou Daily All-Media Editor: Shi Yu
