On November 26, the reporter learned from the Chongqing Municipal Public Security Bureau that recently, under the guidance of the Ministry of Public Security’s special command center for combating “pig killing” and the Criminal Investigation Corps of the Chongqing Municipal Public Security Bureau, in the promotion of the “net clean 2020” special operation, the Ministry of Public Security successfully cracked a major cross-border “pig killing” telecommunications network fraud case supervised by the Ministry of Public Security, arrested 102 criminal suspects, seized more than 20 million yuan of funds involved, and destroyed 6 black and gray industry dens.
On December 27, 2019, Mr. Li, a citizen of Chongqing, helped netizens to "god reward hard work". The two talked about everything and became very close, and soon they became brothers.
On January 1, 2020, the netizen began to introduce a certain online investment and financial management platform to Mr. Li, saying that his cousin has an acquaintance on the platform and knows the inside story, and small investment can make big money. On January 6, Mr. Li recharged 10,000 yuan for the first time, earned 1,000 yuan under the guidance of netizens, and withdrew cash to the bank card. Subsequently, the netizen lied that he would not withdraw the existing overnight bonus, recharge 100,000 yuan and recharge 1 million yuan to become a supreme member, tricking Mr. Li to continue to increase his investment. By January 23, Mr. Li recharged more than 1 million yuan one after another, but found that the platform could no longer withdraw cash. But the "brothers" who once talked about everything are gone, disappearing like the evaporation of the world. Only then did Mr. Li realize that he was being deceived.
On January 26 this year, Mr. Li went to the Public Security Bureau of Qianjiang District 8 to report the police. The police officers in charge of the case realized that Mr. Li had encountered a "pig killing" telecommunications network fraud.
Qianjiang police quickly set up a special task force to investigate and deal with it, actively recovering stolen goods and rescuing losses for the victims.
After 4 months of online and offline investigation, the task force obtained detailed information about the funds involved in the case, drivers (individuals who transport and deposit and withdraw criminal funds), and water rooms (organizations that bleach funds for criminal suspects). A fraud gang involving a huge amount, a large number of people and a long transportation route has surfaced.
On May 15, under the unified guidance of the special command of the Ministry of Public Security to crack down on "pig killing", Qianjiang police mobilized 130 police forces and formed 7 arrest teams to Shandong, Shanghai, Fujian, Tianjin, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Jiangsu and other places to carry out the first network closing operation, arrested 56 criminal suspects, seized more than 11 million yuan in cash involved, freeze 5.7 million yuan in funds involved, seized 7 vehicles, more than 180 bank cards, more than 50 computers, and more than 150 mobile phones, cutting off the funding channels of overseas fraud dens in the country in one fell swoop. On June 13, the task force once again went to Yunnan, Tianjin, Hunan, Jiangsu, Anhui and other places to carry out the second network closing operation, arresting 34 overseas website production personnel and sales staff at all levels.
Two network-closing operations were carried out, and Qianjiang police destroyed 6 black and gray industry dens, forcing fraud gangs hiding in a certain country in Southeast Asia to disband salesmen and transfer dens.
At present, the case is being further explored.
How does this industrial chain that harms countless people commit fraud? On July 25, the police officer of the special project arrested Wang, a criminal suspect who had just returned from a fraud den in a Southeast Asian country, in Tianjin.
According to Wang's confession, the part of the "pig killing" fraud group is the "telling service group", "technical group" and "money laundering group". In the "Telephone Service Group" where Wang is in, everyone has special chat routines and skills, and they are familiar with fraud scripts. They add friends through various social software every day, disguising themselves as "successful people" and cultivating feelings with them. After winning the trust of the victim, he revealed that he had loopholes in investment and financial management platforms, gambling websites, or had acquaintances inside, and guided him to recharge and bet. First, use small profits to tempt netizens to take the bait, and then use the dual temptation of emotions and huge profits to carry out in-depth fraud.These platforms and websites are provided by the "Technical Group". They customize and build different investment and financial platforms and gambling lottery websites every day according to the characteristics of the victims. Once discovered, they will be closed directly, which will not affect the "Tel Service Group" to commit fraud against others. In order to avoid police investigation, the servers of these platforms and websites are all located abroad. Money fraudulent through platforms and websites finally entered the "money laundering group". After being laundered by a fourth party illegally paying platforms, underground banks, digital currencies, casinos, etc., it entered the fraud group account.
Police remind: online friends need to be cautious, online investment is risky. 's so-called "stable profit without losing money, backend loopholes, low cost, high return, making big money, making quick money" are often pretexts for scams. Criminals are also constantly renovating their frauds. Citizens should keep their eyes open and be vigilant to avoid paying money without verification. Once they find that they have encountered fraud, keep chat records and transfer records, and seek help from the public security organs in a timely manner. (CCTV reporter Mou Liang)
(Editor Wang Yiran)
