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Shanxi Daily New Media reporter Zhang Xin reported that by helping people "take accounts" to launder money through bank cards, luring minors to commit "running points" money laundering, impersonating public security, procuratorial and judicial fraud crimes, inducing victims to download APP to invest in telecommunications and network fraud... Telecommunications Internet fraud crimes are numerous, which makes people unable to guard against. In recent years, the province has continued to increase its crackdown and punishment for telecommunications and network fraud crimes to effectively protect the property safety of the people. On May 23, the reporter learned from a press conference held by the Provincial Government Information Office that Shanxi released 10 typical cases of investigating and cracking down on telecommunications and network fraud crimes, further improving the public's awareness of risk prevention of telecommunications and network fraud.
Case 1 Help people "take accounts" to launder money through bank cards
html On March 29, the Anti-Fraud Center of the Luliang Municipal Public Security Bureau, together with the Xiaoyi Public Security Bureau, closed the Internet and arrested it, and destroyed a money laundering gang that specifically helped overseas telecommunications fraud, arrested 13 criminal suspects, and seized a large number of mobile phones and bank accounts that were used for the crime. After investigation, in January this year, the main culprits of the gang, Ren and Xing, learned in Taiyuan that they could make money by helping people with bank cards to help people with their accounts through bank cards. So they organized relatives and friends to provide their own bank accounts. Wang provided the transfer requirements information to Ren and Xing through the "paper airplane" chat software. Ren and Xing then organized others to use mobile banking to transfer money to "launder money", and took a commission of 3.5% of a thousand, making illegal profits of more than 350,000 yuan, and the funds involved were over 100 million yuan.Case 2 Help information cyber crime "running points" money laundering
html On March 28, Shuozhou Municipal Public Security Bureau, together with the Development Zone Public Security Bureau, destroyed a "running points" money laundering den involving a "running points" with a flow of more than 60 million yuan. The task force arrested the suspect Guo and found that he was online. Finally, he arrested the information cybercrime gang led by Lin Mouming, destroyed a "score-running" money laundering den, arrested 6 suspects, seized 7 computers, 26 mobile phones, 45 U shield html, 1 hard drive, 48 bank cards, 7 mobile phone cards, 4 POS machines, 1 bill, 5 passports, 10 business license, and 1 personal seal, and seized 2 cars and a series of tools and items involved in the case. After investigation, the gang formed and began to recruit employees in September 2021, and gradually formed a relatively stable criminal gang headed by Lin Mouming. It began to implement the " run score " money laundering activity in February 2022. Within two months, the case was involved in the case's turnover was more than 60 million yuan and illegally made a profit of 980,000 yuan.Case 3: Induce minors to implement "score-running" money laundering
html On March 25, the Salt Lake Branch of Yuncheng Public Security Bureau discovered in his work that the bank card activity under the name of a minor Zhang was abnormal. After in-depth analysis by the police, it was initially concluded that the "score-running" gang of Yanhu District hidden money laundering. After investigation, the gang, led by the suspect Jie, absorbed the so-called "members" through the pyramid scheme, recruited people to develop the "downline" of selling bank cards, and organized the "downline" to launder money through points. On the one hand, Xie directly instigated and lured unemployed minors in the Salt Lake District to implement "score running" money laundering and act as accomplices; on the other hand, he attracted "members", "classmates", "relatives" and other personnel to instill "dreams of wealth" and acted as "backbone" to implement "score running" money laundering for them. The Yanhu Public Security Bureau successively arrested 19 suspects of money laundering through points, seized 8 computers, 20 mobile phones, and 31 bank cards on the spot, and recovered 55,000 yuan of illegal income. At present, the case is under further investigation.Case 4: Tempting victims to download fake stock speculation APP to engage in telecommunications fraud
html On March 22, the Datong City Public Security Bureau destroyed the telecommunications network fraud and drainage criminal den headed by the criminal suspect Zhang, and arrested 11 criminal suspects. After investigation, it was found that since November 2021, the suspect Zhang and several people have collected telephone cards and recruited multiple operators to call 1,000-2,000 fraud calls every day according to the established language, tricking the victims into downloading fake stock trading and investment apps such as Gugu, Aiyoo, Bela, and HOGOO provided by overseas fraud gangs. The overseas fraud gang then carried out targeted fraud on the victims, involving 13 telecommunications and network fraud cases, with the amount involved reaching more than 800,000 yuan.Case 5 Induce victims to invest in
On March 9, 2021, a telecommunications network fraud case involving more than 550,000 yuan occurred in Luzhou District, Changzhi City. After the incident, many police officers in Changzhi City concentrated on analyzing and judging and synthesizing operations to target the fraud group fund owners. On April 24, 2021, the task force went to many places to unify the Internet by closing the funders, shareholders, group leaders, and fraud operators who "returned" to this case. After investigation, the gang attracted traffic through social platforms such as , Douyin, and , inducing victims to invest in the "Corporate Letter Chat" false investment platform. The case involves 216 related cases of black and gray industries. With the active promotion of the public security organs at the provincial and municipal levels, a national cluster battle was launched on December 7, 2021. Up to now, Changzhi City has arrested 30 criminal suspects, seized and frozen more than 3 million yuan of funds involved in the case, seized 3 real estates worth more than 16.5 million yuan, and seized 1 vehicle for crime, achieving a full-chain crackdown in the case.
Case 6: Impersonating the fraud crime of public security, procuratorial and judicial
In August 2021, the Linfen Municipal Public Security Bureau cracked down on a den that set up GOIP equipment to provide voice transfer services for overseas fraud criminal gangs. After investigation, the GOIP equipment den was mainly engaged in fraud crimes of impersonating public security, procuratorial and judicial fraud. In the later stage, loan fraud and cancellation of campus loan fraud were gradually increased. Criminals successively set up 5 GOIP equipment dens in , Huozhou City, . After rigorous investigation, the Linfen Municipal Public Security Bureau successfully cracked down on the den, arrested three suspects, and seized three GOIP equipment.
Case 7 Purchase citizen personal information to register a mobile phone card
On June 13, 2021, the Changzhi Municipal Public Security Bureau successfully arrested the suspects Meng Moubo and Du Mou, and seized more than 7,900 IoT card , registration cards, 3 Maochi units, more than 10 mobile phones, 3 computers, and number-phones. After investigation, the suspect wholesale and sells mobile phone cards that have not been registered in real name, making profits from it, and purchases a large number of citizens' personal information online, registers virtual cards through other people's identity information, creates mobile phone cards, traffic cards, registration cards, etc., and then sells them at a price higher than the "white card" to make profits. All 11 suspects in the same case have been arrested and five criminal gangs colluded with each other to buy and sell real-name mobile phone cards.
Case 8 Telecommunications network fraud through foreign exchange platform
On August 14, 2020, a telecommunications network fraud case involving a total amount of more than 4.53 million yuan occurred in Jinyuan District, Taiyuan City. The victim was successively defrauded by three platforms including "Baiyihui". After rigorous investigation, the police finally locked in the fraud group headed by the financial owners "Brother Tian" He Mouhua and Liang Mou, and successfully destroyed it. On December 15, 2021, the Taiyuan Intermediate People's Court and the Taiyuan Jinyuan District People's Court made a public first-instance verdict on the suspect in the "8.14" telecommunications network fraud case. The "funding owner" Liang was sentenced to life imprisonment, deprived of political rights for life, and confiscated all his personal property. His wife, parents, parents-in-law, cousin and other relatives and friends, as well as other persons involved in the case, were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from three to fourteen years and five months.
Case 9 Acquisition of mobile banking accounts to help information online crime payment settlement funds
On August 6, 2021, the Jincheng Public Security Bureau arrested 5 criminal suspects who were "up and down" for online gambling platforms. The task force digged in depth and successfully destroyed a criminal gang involving a large number of people and a huge amount of money involved in the case, and arrested 117 criminal suspects. After investigation, from October 2020 to August 2021, the suspects Pei Mouxiong and Liu Moujia knew that they had committed information cyber crimes online, and successively developed Duan Mou and other personnel to rent multiple houses to open "studios", recruited more than 40 people including Li Mouhao, Ma Mou, Zhao Mou, etc. to acquire other people's mobile banking accounts at high prices, and contacted the online crime through a overseas chat software to help information cyber crime payment settlement funds.
Case 10 Induce victims to download APP to invest in telecommunications network fraud
On August 29, 2021, the Jinyuan Branch of Taiyuan Public Security Bureau received a report from Qin, a man in the jurisdiction, saying that he was induced to download the "buy base 0 yuan" APP online and invested on the platform, and was cheated of more than 400,000 yuan.After receiving the alarm, the Anti-Fraud Center conducted in-depth analysis on the capital flow and information flow of the case, and gradually determined the identity of a first-level bank card owner, a water house money laundering gang, a technology, a server construction gang, and a telecommunications fraud criminal gang, successfully destroyed its criminal den and arrested 17 criminal suspects.
Source: Shanxi Daily
