Recently, Xi'an Railway ** cracked a case of fraud in the online live broadcast room with high-value gifts as bait, and seized more than 13,000 live broadcast accounts involved in the case, involving tens of millions of yuan. Let's start with an example.
In the live broadcast room, you can get **mobile phone by swiping gifts.
In August 2022, Ms. Chen accidentally swiped such a live broadcast room, in which the anchor said that as long as she stayed in the live broadcast room for a period of time, she would give fans good gifts, and if she brushed more gifts to the anchor, she would have the opportunity to get an Apple mobile phone or tablet.
According to Ms. Chen, in this live broadcast room, the smallest gift is an airplane, which is equivalent to 298 yuan. The most expensive gift is called a carnival, worth 3,000 yuan, Ms. Chen calculated it in her heart, swiped a few planes, and then told the fans in the live broadcast room that as long as the total value of the gifts is high, you can definitely get a gift if you enter the list of brushes.
The anchor repeatedly emphasized in the live broadcast room that as long as the gift is in the top ten, you can immediately get a most ** Apple mobile phone worth more than 8,000 yuan, Ms. Chen, who has always wanted to change to a new mobile phone, is even more excited, and after spending more than 1,000 yuan to buy a virtual gift, Ms. Chen was pulled by the anchor to another anchor's live broadcast room.
Victim Ms. Chen: After brushing, he will let you into one of his rooms, which is locked, and normal people can't enter, so only those who have brushed gifts for him can enter.
Ms. Chen wanted to enter the list and get a new mobile phone, she kept giving gifts to the anchor, and unconsciously swiped nearly 2,000 yuan, at this time, she was far from the top ten on the list, and she still needed to brush more than 1,000 yuan of virtual gifts.
In the live broadcast room, Ms. Chen saw many people's messages, they said that they had received valuable gifts, Ms. Chen was even more convinced, ** mobile phone is close at hand, and finally Ms. Chen swiped more than 3,000 yuan in this live broadcast and successfully entered the top ten list.
Subsequently, the customer service staff in the live broadcast room contacted Ms. Chen.
Victim Ms. Chen: Let me send them my address, and then I will send them the address, and after sending it to them, they will give me the tracking number within three days.
Don't honor the gift and block the "tip" user.
Only spend more than 3100 yuan to get more than 8000 ** mobile phone, Ms. Chen was overjoyed, three days later, Ms. Chen thought about going to the platform to ask the other party for a courier number, to see if her mobile phone had been shipped, however, at this time she found out that she had already been blocked by the other party.
The promise of gifts in the live broadcast room but the non-performance of the contract aroused the vigilance of the platform.
After many attempts, Ms. Chen was never able to contact the other party's customer service, and after that, the short ** account was also cancelled. Ms. Chen filed a complaint on the short ** platform. After verification, the staff of the platform found that Ms. Chen's experience was not an isolated case, and combined with user complaints and data over a period of time, there were many cases where users were induced to give tips on the grounds of giving high gifts. The staff believes that these accounts are not only involved in violations in the live broadcast room, but may also involve fraud crimes. The platform staff fed back the clues in their hands to Xi'an** and coordinated with Ms. Chen to report the case.
The fraud gang has a clear division of labor in the live broadcast room.
After investigation, the investigators found that the gang involved in the case had a clear division of labor, and in addition to the anchors in the live broadcast room, some members served as the atmosphere group on the side.
Zhang Feng, police officer of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the Baqiao Branch of the Xi'an Municipal Public Security Bureau: There are 1-2 people who are specifically responsible for the live broadcast, and the others are responsible for working over there. They are also responsible for taking the goods next to them and making a feint, that is, holding the mobile phone box and saying that we are going to send a batch out now.
Hu Xiaokang, police officer of the Criminal Police Detachment of the Xi'an Public Security Department of the Xi'an Railway Public Security Bureau: Some suspects are fixed and only do drainage, he does not commit fraud, like some suspects, he specializes in buying a large number of trumpets, and then using the means of sending lucky bags and red envelopes to attract some fans in.
Design battle routines to induce users to change venues and continue to brush gifts.
In addition to using personal live broadcasts to attract user consumption, these anchors will also use PK to interact with anchors in other live broadcast rooms, inducing fans to enter other live broadcast rooms to swipe gifts and get mobile phones.
Live broadcast platform staff: We analyze these people's PK in the later stage, in fact, there are scripts, and they all have a unified script, such as PK's words, PK's script, including how to say, including how to deceive and induce these people to brush gifts, and then what kind of gifts are actually designed with certain routines.
Police Officer Lute of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the Baqiao Branch of the Xi'an Municipal Public Security Bureau: There are still some nurseries and greenhouses at the bottom, saying how much I have swiped, I have received a real Apple iPad or a real mobile phone, and the deceived people believe it when they see that someone has received it.
Each gang member has multiple live streaming platform accounts in their hands.
According to the clues provided by the victim and the platform, ** quickly locked a gang named Li, and after the investigation of Li, the case-handling personnel locked the identity information of other members of the gang, and during the investigation, the police found that almost every gang member has an average of about 10 live broadcast platform accounts.
Hu Xiaokang, police officer of the Criminal Police Detachment of the Xi'an Public Security Department of the Xi'an Railway Public Security Bureau: If he directly drains traffic in a live broadcast room to commit fraud, his account will soon be blocked and controlled, so he needs to take some small accounts, and then accumulate fans first, attract some fans in the live broadcast room of the small number on the grounds of sending lucky bags and red envelopes, and then lead him to the live broadcast room of the large number to commit fraud in the way of live PK.
Fraud gangs intersect with each other and have financial exchanges.
After investigating the gang led by Li, the investigators found that in addition to Li, there were many such gangs involved in the case that used high gifts as bait to defraud in the Internet live broadcast room, and these gangs intersected with each other and had certain financial transactions. This has added a lot of difficulty to the police handling the case.
Cross-platform crimes, involving tens of millions of yuan.
After combing and analyzing the capital flow of Li's gang, Xi'an ** successively discovered Wang's gang in Henan and Huang's gang in Zhejiang, and through in-depth investigation, they were not only defrauded on a live broadcast platform.
* Immediately organize the police to arrest these gangs that use high-value gifts as bait to commit fraud. The amount involved in the case amounted to tens of millions of yuan, and more than 13,000 live broadcast accounts involved in the case were seized.
Reveal the modus operandi How to use words to induce users to swipe gifts.
After spending nearly two months analyzing and sorting out the clues involved in the case, Xi'an ** arrested the entire live broadcast fraud gang and uncovered their criminal routines.
* When these fraud gangs were arrested, it was found that most of their so-called "live broadcast rooms" were rented civilian houses or apartments, and the furnishings were also very simple.
Wang Yanlei, police officer of the Criminal Police Detachment of the Xi'an Public Security Department of the Xi'an Railway Public Security Bureau: There is a small room at the scene, and then there are many mobile phones, and the background wall is the empty boxes of some mobile phones and tablets, which are used for decoration.
So how do they organize the discourse to induce fans to give crazy gifts to the fraud gang?
Hu Xiaokang, police officer of the Criminal Police Detachment of the Xi'an Public Security Department of the Xi'an Railway Public Security Bureau: Like him, this method is to pretend to be the owner of a jewelry store or hotel, and then give a small gift to send an Apple mobile phone, and then pretend to be the CEO of this listed group, saying that he just likes to help others, and whoever gives a reward gift he thinks is a friend, and he can help them solve their financial difficulties, which is equivalent to a reward gift of nearly ten times or five times the high amount of cash return.
Accomplices set off the atmosphere in the live broadcast room to control the user's psychology.
Through fixed words, the atmosphere of the live broadcast room, and the messages of fans, the victim will be convinced that this is really giving a gift.
Hu Xiaokang, police officer of the Criminal Police Detachment of the Xi'an Public Security Department of the Xi'an Railway Public Security Bureau: The suspect's psychological control of the victim is also very good. He can see which victims have this psychology of being greedy for small gains, and which ones can go to the Tao, and which ones can give him more gifts, and after being greedy for small gains, he is unwilling to give up. In fact, some victims have a gambler's mentality, after rewarding gifts, small to large amounts, and then the victim bets that this person is definitely not **, he will definitely send me a mobile phone or a large amount of cash back for a while.
In order to prevent regulatory discovery, a "battle" link is deliberately set up to drain traffic.
At the same time, the police learned that after the anchor broadcast in the live broadcast room for a certain period of time, the anchor would use the live broadcast PK to attract traffic to introduce the fans and viewers in his live broadcast room to the other party's live broadcast room, so as to continue to swipe virtual gift fraud.
Zhang Feng, police officer of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the Baqiao Branch of the Xi'an Public Security Bureau: My fans have swiped enough on my side today, and I can't brush anymore, because it is easy to be discovered by the regulator if I brush again, so he will introduce this fan to another live broadcast room to give his other accomplice a gift.
Under the operation of the fraud gang, even if the amount of reward per fan is not much, as the number of people who attract ** gradually increases, their income will increase.
After the live broadcast ends, the fraud gang will no longer log in to the used account, and will enable a new account for live broadcasting. Why would they do this?Where do you get these short ** accounts?
Hu Xiaokang, police officer of the Criminal Police Detachment of the Xi'an Public Security Department of the Xi'an Railway Public Security Bureau: Usually they don't use the short ** account registered with their real name, usually ranging from 100 to 300 yuan, in some black and gray industry groups, buy these fraudulent accounts.
Live broadcast platform staff: For example, they will go to some remote places to cheat some accounts, for example, send you some small gifts, and ask you to help register a Douyin account, and they can use this account.
*During the follow-up visit to collect evidence, it was found that because the amount of money involved in the case was not large, many victims were troublesome and afraid of being embarrassed, and sometimes they were unwilling to cooperate**.
These fraud gangs are distributed in 26 provinces, municipalities and regions across the country, and the personnel within the gangs are relatively mobile, and the total number of people involved in the cases is relatively large. Up to now, a total of 142 suspects have been arrested in Xi'an, and the case is still under further investigation.
CCTV reporter He Jie, Zou Qiyuan, Wen Chao, Liu Haitao).
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