"I am a scammer and have been caught by the police. Please don't believe me!" Recently, several reminder messages were sent to users through the scammer's mobile software. What is this happening? The matter has to start with a case involving a fraud gang investigating by the Lianyungang police to help the overseas fraud gangs drainage
01 "deceased person" is cheating? A letter from another province led to fraud clues
Recently, Ms. Wang, who lives in Bianxi, Anhui Province, received a strange text message, claiming that adding WeChat can bring her money. Ms. Wang added the WeChat message with a try-it-your-you-can-eat order and used her mobile phone to brush orders as recommended by the other party. Unexpectedly, in just three days, Ms. Wang was inexplicably cheated of 72,000 yuan.
After Ms. Wang reported the case, the local police found that the mobile phone number of the suspect in the case belonged to Haizhou District in Lianyungang, and then wrote a letter to ask for assistance in solving the case.
▲SMS received by the victim
After receiving the order, the Shidong Police Station of Haizhou Public Security Bureau immediately conducted research and judgment on the mobile phone number with the anti-fraud centers at the municipal and district levels. Later, it was discovered that the registrant of the number of was actually a deceased person from Lianyungang! Moreover, this number has been sending text messages to the numbers in Anhui River for the past two months, with tens of thousands of them!
"This is a typical two-card telecommunications network fraud. We must intervene quickly to prevent more people from being deceived." The police officers in charge of the case immediately made a judgment and carried out their work quickly.
02 scammer's den was destroyed police urgently sent a mass text message warning to recover damage
No matter how cunning the scammer is, he will leave clues. The police in Lianyungang Haizhou organized a special force to carry out work around the phone number of this "deceased person" and soon discovered another suspect number. The user of the mobile phone number was Gong Mou, a native of Lianyungang.
▲Mobile phone is using software to send fraud text messages in mass
▲The police used a scammer's mobile phone to send a group warning reminder
Through accurate analysis, multiple clues pointed out that Gong was a major suspect in the crime. In order to prevent the evidence of alarming the criminals, the police secretly guarded and laid control in the community where Gong lived and arrested him on the third day.
At the residence of the suspect Gong, the police found 55 mobile phones, more than 300 mobile phone cards and 2 computers on the spot. Among them, 23 mobile phones are using script software to send fraudulent text messages. Seeing this, the police officers of immediately sent warning text messages such as "I am a fraudster and have been caught by the police."
03Send 150,000 text messages in two months A man was punished in accordance with the law for suspected "helping the letter"
According to the suspect Gong, in order to "make quick money", he learned about some of the "ways to make money" of telecommunications and network fraud online, and he explored the implementation of the fraud.
▲Acatch the suspect
▲The mobile phone involved in the case was seized on the spot. "Just sending text messages, the mobile phone number is not real-name, and the police will definitely not find me." With this mentality, Gong managed to contact the online online who is far away from abroad. The other party said that as long as he sends text messages to users on the designated list and tricks them into adding the designated WeChat account, he will be rewarded according to the number of sending them. So, Gong purchased a large number of second-hand mobile phones and ownerless mobile phone cards through illegal channels. According to incomplete statistics, in just two months, he sent nearly 150,000 text messages to help overseas fraud gangs attract traffic, and illegally made more than 60,000 yuan.
At present, Gong is suspected of assisting information network criminal activities, and the Haizhou police have taken criminal coercive measures in accordance with the law. The case is under further investigation.
The police remind
In such cases, "liars" take advantage of people who have weak legal awareness and need to make money to help themselves engage in information network crimes. Some criminal suspects believe that they are only helping to send group messages or lend their bank cards and mobile phone cards, and they are not harmful to society. As everyone knows, this "little move" violated the "big red line" of the law. In this regard, the police once again advise those who have such thoughts that the online world is virtual. When encountering the "God of Wealth" online, you must be more careful and do not let petty profits ruin your bright future.
