Chen Nuo/Xinhua News Agency reporters recently learned from the Public Security Bureau of Bianxi County, Anhui Province that the local police cracked down on a cross-border telecommunications fraud gang and arrested 9 criminal suspects. The gang set up dens at home and abroad and

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0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 The gang set up dens at home and abroad and used false Bitcoin and other trading platforms to cheat.

On September 5, 2019, the victim Hu went to the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the Public Security Bureau of Bianxi County reported that he had been defrauded of more than 400,000 yuan. After investigation, in May this year, Hu added a netizen through WeChat. The netizen recommended him to download and register a financial software to make money, and arranged a financial teacher for him online to guide Hu to invest in Bitcoin in the financial software. Soon after, Hu found that his money could not be withdrawn, and then he found out that he was cheated.

The police immediately set up a special task force to clarify the identities of the relevant suspects and their activity trajectory in Shenzhen, Guangdong. The police also found that some of the suspects in the gang may travel to the Philippines in the near future. On September 10, the police successfully arrested 8 criminal suspects including Yin and Song in a hotel in , Longgang District, Shenzhen, and arrested the criminal suspect He at a subway station in Longgang District, Shenzhen the next day.

After interrogation, the gang has established dens in Manila in the Philippines and China since March 2019, using fake trading software as a fraud platform. First, it tricked victims into registering the software through WeChat , and invested a lot of money to trade and invest in the software. Then the gang controlled the victim's profits and losses by modifying the backend data, restricting the victim's cash withdrawal, and then committed fraud.

At present, the suspect Yin and others have been criminally detained.

(Original title is "Anhui destroys a cross-border telecommunications fraud gang")