htmlOn August 25, the Huangshi Yangxin Police announced that the public security bureaus at the two levels of Huangshi City, and Yangxin County, worked closely together, and after months of investigation and investigation, they successfully destroyed a telecommunications and network fraud group hiding in a high-end office building, criminally detained 11 members of the criminal gang in accordance with the law, seized 22 computers and 25 mobile phones involved, and the amount involved was more than 23 million yuan.
guru "gold mentor"
Three friends were cheated of online investment by more than 3 million
In early May 2022, the Anti-Fraud Center of Yangxin County Public Security Bureau received an emergency warning order, and Mr. Wu in the jurisdiction was suspected of being subject to online investment fraud. After the anti-fraud dissuasion team members warned him, the system still reminded Mr. Wu that he was still using the fraud-related APP intensively.
When the police came to contact Mr. Wu again, Mr. Wu said that he was using the fraud-related APP to invest in stocks online. What made the police even more worried was that Mr. Wu and two friends were also using the APP to invest in stocks. From mid-to-late April to early May this year, Mr. Wu and his three friends successively recharged more than 3.11 million yuan through 8 different bank cards provided to the stock trading platform.
The police further inquired and learned that Mr. Wu was previously pulled into a stock trading QQ exchange group by strangers. During the explanation and guidance of the "gold medal lecturer" in the group, when he saw the group members taking screenshots to share that investment has made a lot of profits, Mr. Wu, who had spare money and had nowhere to invest, also got in mind. According to the guidance of netizens in the QQ group, Mr. Wu downloaded and registered the APP.
At first, Mr. Wu, who was cautious and cautious, made a small investment attempt. Under the guidance of the "Investment Master", Mr. Wu made a lot of profits and was able to withdraw cash from the investment APP at any time.
Excited Mr. Wu shared the investment and financial management method with two friends and showed up to say that he had made money. Out of trust, Mr. Wu’s two friends also downloaded the APP to trade stocks, hoping to make money together and get rich.
When the police reminded the APP that was suspected of fraud, Mr. Wu, who was suspicious, also demonstrated the relevant operations of the stock trading platform to the police. What is more slap in the face is that the platform can no longer withdraw cash. After realizing that he was cheated, Mr. Wu and the other two called the police for help.
full efforts to investigate and solve the case
The police destroyed the fraud den across provinces
After receiving the alarm, Yangxin County Bureau attached great importance to it, and Lanshan, deputy county magistrate and director of the Public Security Bureau, ordered the police of the Criminal Investigation Brigade to quickly sort out and analyze the information provided by the three victims, screen and identify valuable clues, and reported to the relevant departments of the Huangshi Municipal Bureau to provide technical support, and make every effort to investigate and solve the case.
After joint research and judgment by the public security organs at both municipal and county levels, through technical tracing and network tracking, the APP involved in the case was finally discovered was developed by a technology company located in Sichuan Province. Regarding the company's further investigation, the police found that the company has long used technical means to widely search for domestic and overseas telecommunications network fraud gangs on the Internet, and customized and developed fraud websites and fraud apps according to the other party's needs to obtain high rewards.
After locking in relevant evidence, the public security organs at the two levels of Huangshi and Yangxin carefully organized and established a special team. With the strong assistance of the Sichuan police, they fully grasped the organizational structure of the criminal gang, the identity information of the person in charge and the backbone members.
htmlOn August 15, more than 20 arresting police officers from the Criminal Investigation Brigade of Yangxin County Public Security Bureau rushed to Sichuan to prepare for the arrest.
htmlAt around 2 pm on August 17, with the cooperation of local police, the arrest team controlled all 15 employees of the company in one fell swoop in a high-end office building in a local area. After verification and confirmation, all three main persons in charge of the company, Fan, Li and Xiao, were arrested. The police seized 22 computers involved in the case and 25 mobile phones committed the crime on the spot.
High salary temptation Programmer
"Technology company" is actually a fraud accomplice
The company, which was seized by the police, has a sign of "cloud computing technology" and its office location is located in a high-end office building in a high-tech zone in a city in Sichuan. On the surface, it is an ordinary network technology company, but in fact it is a criminal gang that specializes in providing "technical support" for domestic and foreign telecommunications and network fraud crimes.
The gang has a clear division of responsibilities. The men born in the 1980s and 1990s, Fan, Xiao and Li, are mainly responsible for contacting domestic and foreign fraud organizations, understanding the other party's needs and making quotes, while other employees of the company are mainly responsible for the technical development of fraud APPs and fraud-related websites.
In order to make a lot of money, the gang is also very hard-working. This year alone, the company has produced six fraud-related APPs for fraud groups, making millions of yuan in profits. The online stock trading app mentioned above, where Mr. Wu and his three were cheated of 3.11 million yuan were one of them.
According to the programmer involved in the case, the APP or website developed and produced by the company has a "backdoor" to ensure that the controller can freely manipulate the user interface to display the specified data information in the background. The telecommunications use this information to deceive the victims, making the victims think they have made profits and stored them in the APP account. In order to gain the trust of the victim, the victim will initially make a successful profit from withdrawal. Once the victim recharges and remittance reaches a certain amount, he will use the APP interface to display various information to remind him that the withdrawal is not enough and the money needs to be transferred and remittances, and finally close the APP and the victim loses all his money or even loses everything.
Among the company's 18 employees, 11 are suspected of committing crimes. Many of them are highly educated talents who are new to society. They have weak legal awareness and insufficient social experience, but have not withstand the temptation of high salaries. Even though they know they are providing services to criminals, they are lucky enough to think that they only write procedures and the law cannot pursue them. But I didn't know that I was trying the law for the sake of small profits, and finally regretted it when I touched the bottom line of the law.
As of now, the police have verified that the fraud APP developed by the gang has successfully defrauded 70 cases nationwide, with the amount involved in the case reaching more than 23 million yuan. 11 people including Fan, Li, Xiao, etc. were suspected of assisting information cybercrime activities, and were all criminally detained by Yangxin police in accordance with the law. The case is still under further investigation.
Police remind
Investment and financial management should be cautious, be sure to choose a legal and formal platform with a financial license, and do not be confused by the so-called "high return, low risk" inducement of investment. The so-called "professional guidance", "insider information" and "high-reward screenshots" on the Internet are all operations of the telecommunications network fraud team. Beware of being deceived and damaged by property. Once a clue or situation is found for investment and financial management platforms or gangs that are suspected of economic crimes, report the case to the public security organs in a timely manner.
