** Jing'an Procuratorate.
My fellow countryman said that he was going to gamble abroad, and his salary was at least seven or eight thousand a month. When I got overseas, I knew that the company's gambling platform was specifically designed to scam. ”
The company can control online gambling and investment platforms, and customers basically lose money. ”
The company doesn't allow real names to be revealed, and we all use nicknames. ”
Recently, when the Jing'an District Procuratorate handled a series of cases involving more than 50 people including Li and Yin who were suspected of fraud, a number of people who went to overseas fraud dens to participate in fraud and returned to China (hereinafter referred to as "returnees") made the above confessions after arriving at the case.
What kind of company is this?
What is the purpose of setting up various network platforms?
Why do you want to go abroad to scam?
Why do you need to be called by a nickname?
Behind this series of question marks.
What kind of cross-border fraud gang is hidden?
Facts of the case
Invested more than 2,700 yuan in virtual currency
The old man was "violently negative" overnight
At the beginning of December 2022, Uncle Wang, who lives in Shanghai, received a friend application from a stranger on WeChat, and after adding the other party, he was pulled into a ** group. There are "masters" in the group, and there are "senior mentors" who introduce how to make a fortune by buying.
At first, Uncle Wang had the mentality of giving it a try, and made a few small investments with the "senior mentor", but then he began to lose money. At this time, the "senior mentor" told Uncle Wang that it is not good now, you can try virtual currency, and the return on investment is higher.
Seeing that the "senior mentor" said "frankly", Uncle Wang believed it, and was immediately pulled into another investment group, and logged in to a virtual currency investment platform to buy products according to the *** provided by customer service. At first, Uncle Wang was not very relieved, and planned to test the water, only recharged and exchanged for 40 US dollars for investment, and soon after the customer service informed him that he had made a profit, and transferred more than 800 yuan to him through Alipay. After this test of the waters, Mr. Wang confirmed that the platform has high investment returns and can be withdrawn, so he slowly lowered his guard and gradually increased his investment in virtual currency products to wait for the lottery. As of January 2023, Mr. Wang has successively recharged more than 2,700 yuan to the platform, and the virtual currency products he purchased have all won the lottery, and the principal and income of the back-end account have reached 200 million yuan. At this time, Uncle Wang wanted to withdraw all the money but found that it could not be operated, and after contacting customer service, the other party successively delayed the withdrawal on the grounds of paying personal income tax and system maintenance. During the stalemate, Mr. Wang realized that he might have been deceived, so he immediately reported the case to the Jing'an Branch of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau (hereinafter referred to as the "Jing'an Public Security Bureau").
Dig out overseas fraud rings
More than 50 returnees have been arrested
After receiving the clues, the Jing'an Public Security Bureau immediately launched an investigation, and a fraud den gradually entered the field of vision. After fund tracing and trajectory investigation, it was quickly determined that this was likely to be a cross-border telecommunications network fraud gang.
In the name of "XX Company", it has a number of related "gaming"** or investment platforms such as "XX International" and "XX City", and lures victims into investing under various banners such as "mentor guidance" and "steady profit and no loss". Based on the investigation, the Jing'an Public Security Bureau quickly locked down the people involved in the case, and successively arrested 59 returnees across the country from February to April 2023.
Involving multiple people at home and abroad
What kind of criminal gang is this?
In view of the large number of returnees arrested in the early stage, it takes time and effort to break them one by one, how to quickly clarify the organizational framework of the gang and find out the criminal methods has become an urgent problem to be solved.
To this end, the Jing'an District Procuratorate intervened in advance, using the investigation supervision and coordination mechanism to guide the investigators to focus on the organizational structure and internal division of labor from the aspects of work content, length of time abroad, subjective and objective evidence standards, etc. Through the cooperation of the procuratorate and the police, it was basically clarified that this case was a cross-border "corporatized operation" fraud gang with clear levels, clear division of labor, and concealed methods.
They are tightly structured, and there are multiple levels of "company" up and down. In addition to the top-level "boss" giving orders, there are multiple management levels such as "supervisor", "team leader" and "team leader".
They have a clear division of labor.
Form a strip including.
platform construction, promotion and drainage, payment and settlement".
of the criminal chain.
First of all"Front-end pig hunting"., by inducing the addition of *** pull groups and other methods, in the name of "online gambling" and "financial investment" to lure potential groups into the group.
Again"Stir-fry the group and raise pigs"., planting a "group trust" in the group to be responsible for "speculating in the group", fabricating false facts such as "making a steady profit without losing" and "making a lot of profits", inducing target customers** or logging in to various apps set up by the fraud gang, and inducing victims to continuously increase capital investment in the name of small cashbacks, cash withdrawals and recharges.
And then"Pig killing at the back end"., using background control of wins and losses, restricting withdrawals and other methods to grab money.
Eventually"Transfer of funds"., by building a fund transfer channel, using downstream cover-up, concealment and other help behaviors to "launder" stolen money.
The "faces of all beings" in the den of fraud
The case was transferred to the Jing'an District Procuratorate. During interrogation, some returnees told prosecutors about their "mental journeys" of participating in overseas fraud densSome people put forward many arguments in a vain attempt to dissociate themselves from the ...... of the fraud den
In the face of the 'appearance of all beings' in the fraud den, the procurator should start with objective evidence, ascertain the facts of the crime, accurately characterize it, and not be fooled by the 'appearance' to ensure the accuracy of the accusation. The prosecutor in charge said.
Scams also have "pass-on bands".
"Defecting to relatives" became accomplices
Unlike other people who went to overseas "companies" alone, Bao Moumou, a returnee, mentioned that she went abroad to "seek refuge with relatives" when she talked about her experience of going abroad. In 2021, she was unemployed at home at the time and received her cousin's WeChat, and after the greetings, her cousin asked her "Do you want to come abroad to make a lot of money", Bao Moumou immediately asked about the overseas situation, and the cousin was vague. Despite this, in order to make a lot of money, Bao Moumou decided to go abroad to meet his cousin and cousin-in-law. After arriving overseas, Bao Moumou quickly noticed that the company was abnormal: colleagues used nicknames among themselves, and the company also required employees to use overseas chat software. Her job is to log in to the computer every day with 5-10 different group chats, and each *** adds 5-10 different group chats at the same time, and she is responsible for sending texts and ** for follow-up fraud in the group - in the company, a position like her is called "drainage". After the case, Bao Moumou repented that she was not at the beginning, and standing in the defendant's dock with her were also her cousin and cousin-in-law who "took refuge" at the beginning.
The company also requires employees to use overseas chat software.
"Thinking that I won't be caught".
Twice went abroad and finally fell to justice
Before the criminal suspect Zhao Moumou was arrested, he had a "resume" of going abroad to engage in cross-border wire fraud. "The company is engaged in telecommunications network fraud, and has opened a webpage similar to buying lottery tickets on ** for customers to recharge through online channels, thereby defrauding others of money." Her position at that time was "customer service", and she used the company's ** software to reply to customers' questions through the computer, and the content of the replies was all words that the company had set. Zhao Moumou "worked" from February 2019 to early 2020, and then returned to China for less than a year, and she went to another overseas company to engage in "the same work". Why take the plunge again?Zhao Moumou said, "I wanted to make money at that time, and this job has no technical content." Have you ever thought about the consequences of doing this?She replied, "I don't think I will be arrested if I do this illegal thing abroad." In fact, the protective shell of "overseas work" that Zhao Moumou believes obviously cannot help her escape legal punishment. After the case, as investigators track and penetrate the linked accounts, there will be nowhere to hide from cross-border crimes, and the illegal gains of relevant participants abroad will also be recovered in accordance with the law - "making money" and "not being caught" have become an empty dream.
After the incident, he still had a fluke
In the face of ironclad evidence, he finally pleaded guilty and accepted the law
After returning person Li Moumou arrived at the case, he still felt that he could "escape". "I don't know", "I haven't seen it", "I don't know" ......In the face of the interrogation of the investigators, Li Moumou always talked about him left and right, trying to deny the fact that he was involved in the fraud. In order to avoid legal responsibility, Li Moumou also fabricated his part-time work experience in an attempt to "dissociate" himself from the criminal den. The prosecutor then proceeded from objective evidence, combined with the recovered electronic data and documentary evidence, and quickly locked down his criminal conduct and approved his arrest. As the investigation deepens, more and more objective evidence confirms that Li Moumou participated in overseas criminal dens for nearly half a year, and his criminal responsibility should be pursued in accordance with law. In court, Li Moumou, who faced ironclad evidence, finally pleaded guilty and accepted the law. He said that it didn't take long after he went abroad to know that "the company was doing fraud", but he was lucky to stay in the company. Standing in the defendant's seat, Li Moumou finally realized that the "luck mentality" was nothing more than "covering his ears and stealing the bell", and in the end it was still difficult to escape the law.
The whole chain hits hard
"Cross-border fraud" cannot escape justice
Different from traditional fraud, cross-border telecom fraud relies on information technology and is carried out in a non-contact way, with servers and personnel usually located overseas, and the criminal means are more hidden. In order to break the "invisibility cloak" such as "cross-border" and "information technology" of telecom fraud, the Jing'an District Procuratorate has fully performed its duties, peeled off the cocoon of the case and consolidated the foundation of the accusation, dug deep and carefully investigated the clues of upstream and downstream related crimes, so that cross-border criminal criminals have nothing to hide.
Actively perform duties and form a joint force to strike
In the investigation stage, when faced with the large number of people who arrived in the case in the early stage and were scattered, how to quickly find out the organizational structure of the gang involved in the case, the prosecutor guided the investigation by intervening in advance, and quickly clarified the crime process, crime mode, and specific division of laborIn the process of reviewing for prosecution, the Third Procuratorial Department of the Jing'an District Procuratorate relies on joint meetings, public procuratorial consultation mechanisms, and other unified judicial concepts and detailed evidence review standards to weave a dense criminal legal network from entity to procedure, on how to clarify knowledge and distinguish between principal and accessory offenders and other facts that affect conviction and sentencing, so as to ensure that the punishment is appropriate for the crime. At the same time, through the method of "fund backtracking", it keenly captures clues related to other cross-border fraud-related crimes, and promptly transfers them to the public security organs for simultaneous investigation.
Trace the source and dig deep to chase down the backbone elements
In order to ensure the comprehensiveness and timeliness of the crackdown, the procurator combined the "strike return" with the "pursuit of fugitives abroad", and through the specific division of labor among the members of the criminal den and the personnel who have been brought into the case in the early stage, quickly locked down the core personnel engaged in personnel management and background control in the criminal gang, and on the basis of credible and sufficient evidence, approved the arrest for the crime of fraud in advance, and handed it over to the public security organs to carry out cross-border pursuit in accordance with law.
Up and down and the whole chain of blows
In the course of the review, the prosecutor found that the overseas fraud gang had formed a complete black and gray industry chain, with the upstream directly committing fraud, and the downstream "inducing group pulling" and "card laundering". How to cut off the telecom fraud industry chain?Procurators are to verify the whereabouts of the funds and compare them one by one in conjunction with the interrogation records, to find out in detail whether there are other persons who have gone to overseas fraud dens to engage in promotion, customer service, drainage, or provide funds for "laundering" channels, and promptly carry out prosecution work. At the same time, front-end black industry personnel who have criminal intent to contact overseas fraudsters and provide stable technical support are to be found to be accomplices to the crime of fraud in accordance with law, and are to be accurately characterized and severely punished. Up to now, the Jing'an District Procuratorate has issued more than 30 prosecution documents, of which more than 10 fugitives have been brought to the case one after another.
Since June 2023, the Jing'an District Procuratorate has successively prosecuted more than 50 defendants for the crimes of fraud, aiding information network criminal activities, and covering up and concealing criminal proceeds.
In the next step, the Jing'an District Procuratorate will continue to uphold the concept of "full-chain crackdown, precise prevention, and integrated governance", severely punish cross-border wire fraud crimes in accordance with the law, and dig deep for clues to cut off the online "black and gray" industrial chainStrengthen the review and screening of assets involved in the case, clarifying that assets that are criminal proceeds or proceeds, promptly sealing, seizing, or freezing them in accordance with law, striking at wealth and cutting off blood, and squeezing the space for fraudsters' interests to the greatest extent. At the same time, we should give full play to the role of data governance, from individual cases to similar cases, through big data analysis and comparison, to discover risks and hidden dangers, and promote the governance of litigation sourcesRely on typical cases to carry out legal popularization and publicity, truly increasing the public's awareness of risk prevention.
Beware of cross-border wire fraud
"Steady profit and no loss" is a pretext, and "hold on to the money bag" should be remembered. In the virtual network world, "mentors" and "group friends" may be criminals pretending, and criminals use the victim's small psychology to lure various APPs, and set up a set of "small wins and small profits" to trick the victim into increasing the weight. The majority of netizens should remember to refuse all gambling-related behaviors, and even more beware of falling into the trap of wire fraud.
Overseas is not outside the law, so don't take risks. Do not blindly leave the country because of "high salary" and "refuge with relatives", "overseas" is not an invisibility cloak to evade criminal sanctions, and any illegal and criminal acts will be punished by law. Returnees should voluntarily surrender and strive for leniency.
The black and gray industry chain is also suspected of committing a crime, so don't defy the law. Providing others with help such as "laundering" funds from bank accounts, advertising and promotion, etc., also touches the legal red line. Fraudsters conceal their identities and evade crackdowns through the help of others, and the helpers are also suspected of committing criminal offenses.
The names of the people involved in the article have been changed).