"Wool picking" is something that many online shopping users talk about, and many shopping ** and e-commerce platforms will also launch various activities in a timely manner to attract users. However, this has also become a means for some criminals to defraud, how do they use "wool" to defraud?This also starts with a warehouse of goods seized by **.
This warehouse is full of bags of goods, but this is not a warehouse of an e-commerce company, nor is it a site of a logistics company, not only that, but on a bag of goods, there is also a "seizure decision" issued by the Dingtao Branch of the Heze Public Security Bureau. Why are these daily necessities piled up in warehouses, and why are they seized by the public security organs?It all started with a patrol of the Heze Public Security Police in Shandong Province a few months ago.
Wan Fang, police officer of the Internet Security Brigade of the Dingtao Branch of the Heze Municipal Public Security Bureau: Our police found during the patrol that in the village of a township in Dingtao District, we saw a group of elderly people surrounding them, and several of them were registering them for medical insurance.
Several men claimed to help the elderly apply for medical insurance through their mobile phones**, but they were very panicked when they saw the patrolling police.
Wan Fang, a police officer of the Cyber Security Brigade of the Dingtao Branch of the Heze City Public Security Bureau: The movements are very big, and then he starts to operate the things on his mobile phone. We went forward to check these men and found that there were still some undeleted messages on their mobile phones, all of which were villagers' mobile phone numbers, verification codes, and so on.
The police found that although these men claimed to be helping the elderly to register for medical insurance, they sent a large number of registration verification codes in the chat software, involving a variety of social software, e-commerce platforms, etc. Subsequently, the police took several suspicious men back to the public security organs for questioning.
Wan Fang, police officer of the Internet Security Brigade of the Dingtao Branch of the Heze Municipal Public Security Bureau: It was found that these men used the name of applying for ** medical insurance for the villagers to send the mobile phone numbers and verification codes of the elderly to the upstream for registration of WeChat accounts, Jingdong accounts, ** accounts, QQ accounts, Douyin accounts, etc.
The police told reporters that in order to use social software and e-commerce platform accounts normally, they must be authenticated through their mobile phone numbers and ID cards, and many elderly people in towns and villages have never registered these software, so they have become the target of criminals.
It was found that these people took the mobile phones and ID cards of the elderly in their hands under the pretext of applying for medical insurance, and took advantage of the characteristics of the elderly who were not familiar with the Internet access on mobile phones, and started their own operations without scruples.
Wan Fang, police officer of the Internet Security Brigade of the Dingtao Branch of the Heze City Public Security Bureau: He took the mobile phone of the elderly in his hand, he needed to register for ** medical insurance, he needed face recognition, the elderly he didn't know, he thought he was registering for ** medical insurance.
The police investigation found that there are more than a dozen different group chats in the mobile phone chat software of the members of the local push gang, and each chat group corresponds to a software, and there is a special person in the group who is responsible for purchasing mobile phone numbers, ID numbers and other information to register accounts for real-name authentication.
Wan Fang, police officer of the Internet Security Brigade of the Dingtao Branch of the Heze Municipal Public Security Bureau: These local push gangs sent the mobile phone numbers of the elderly victims to 15 groups at the same time, and after receiving the mobile phone numbers, they began to register, and then the villagers' mobile phones will receive a verification code, and they will quickly send this verification code to the group, and complete the registration upstream.
* Quickly locked up the leader of the local push gang, Li, and arrested all the members of the ground push gang, including Li.
Wan Fang, police officer of the Network Security Brigade of the Dingtao Branch of the Heze City Public Security Bureau: There are more than 10 people in Dingtao District, and the two people surnamed Li are the main people, leading these more than 10 people They are divided into five groups, and at the same time they are distributed in various villages every morning, to tell the villagers to handle the best medical insurance and attract the masses.
What is the secret behind 140,000 accounts per person?
*After combing, it was found that one person had registered 140,000 accounts. Who is this person?What kind of criminal chain is hidden behind him?
The case-handling personnel found that after different accounts were diverted, different software platforms had special teams for follow-up operations. After analysis and judgment, a person with the online name "Crazy" attracted the attention of **.
Wan Fang, police officer of the Internet Security Brigade of the Dingtao Branch of the Heze Municipal Public Security Bureau: The number of registrations of the WeChat name "madman" is very large, and the sales volume is relatively large, and now we have seized 140,000 Jingdong accounts of "madman".
One person, 140,000 accounts, such an astonishing number, the investigators judged that there must be an unknown secret hidden behind the "madman".
Police officer Wan Fang of the Network Security Brigade of the Dingtao Branch of the Heze Municipal Public Security Bureau: Sell the account directly after registration. The "madman" is called Chen, and he sells his account to his boss.
After investigation**, it was found that Chen registered and verified the account of the e-commerce platform in batches through software, and then he packaged and sold the account to Shangjia.
Wan Fang, a police officer of the Network Security Brigade of the Dingtao Branch of the Heze Public Security Bureau: There is a batch of software, and he can guide the mobile phone number to the robot in batches, register a Jingdong account, and then sell it.
The police who handled the case found that most of these accounts were purchased by the "Wool Party" across the country. Wool party refers to buyers who use coupons in shopping, make up orders for exemption, and make up budgets to "gather wool". The investigators found that these buyers, who bought a large number of e-commerce platform accounts, would cause hundreds of thousands or even millions of yuan of losses to the e-commerce platform every time they "picked wool".
An Weiguo, Captain of the Cyber Security Brigade of the Dingtao Branch of the Heze Public Security Bureau: Sometimes there are discounts for the first order, and there are coupons. A single order is roughly different, defrauding different money, generally a single has more than 10 yuan, there are dozens.
It turns out that these people use the rules of the platform to use newly registered accounts to participate in newcomer activities, and they can buy dozens of yuan of goods as long as they spend one or two yuan.
An Weiguo, Captain of the Cyber Security Brigade of the Dingtao Branch of the Heze City Public Security Bureau: After they finished the work, they sent the orders to middlemen and suppliers, and then they partnered to commit fraud.
After combing**, it was found that after these so-called "wool parties" got the accounts, they contacted the suppliers of the e-commerce platform through the middlemen, and the three parties agreed on the goods, amount and account number of the order, and the supplier completed the order in the form of false delivery.
Li Kebei, deputy director of the Bandi Police Station of the Dingtao Branch of the Heze Public Security Bureau: The newcomer account of this platform can be purchased for a penny 149 yuan of goods, the platform will put 12The cost price of 7 yuan is hit on the supplier's account, and then the first goods will send empty packages in the form of false delivery, and he will directly get 12$7 profit.
Although the profit of an order is only a dozen yuan, but through tens of thousands of accounts at the same time, the wool party, middlemen and ** merchants can make a profit of hundreds of thousands of yuan or more.
An Weiguo, Captain of the Cyber Security Brigade of the Dingtao Branch of the Heze Municipal Public Security Bureau: Now it is basically the largest "wool" gang, involving more than 2 million people, and middlemen and suppliers jointly carry out fraud.
At the same time, it was found that some "wool" gangs will also directly buy goods, and then wait for the opportunity to resell to earn the difference.
Li Kebei, deputy director of the Bandi Police Station of the Dingtao Branch of the Heze Public Security Bureau: They are directly on the platform, which is cheaper, which has a newcomer subsidy, directly place an order, place an order and then receive the goods by a special person, they collect the goods into a warehouse, and then contact the consignee, and then sell to the consignee at a higher price than they buy.
In the warehouse in Chongqing, more than 100 tons of rice, hundreds of boxes of edible oil, and a large number of daily necessities were seized.
Using the information of the elderly to register an account to defraud the e-commerce platform.
In addition to the e-commerce platform, the suspect also used the identity information of the elderly to register a large number of social software and short ** platform accounts, and after "processing", they were sold for profit.
After analysis and judgment, Wang and others gradually entered the sight of **, and the case-handling personnel found that Wang and others purchased a large number of real-name verified social software accounts from the local push gang.
In order to avoid startling the snakes, ** launched an investigation into the rented house of Wang and others.
Wan Fang, police officer of the Internet Security Brigade of the Dingtao Branch of the Heze City Public Security Bureau: Through various first-class materials and visits, the people in the village reported that there was a foreigner who used a lot of electricity here, and we felt that the room was more suspicious.
After fixing the evidence, the police who handled the case knocked on Wang's door.
Wan Fang, police officer of the Cyber Security Brigade of the Dingtao Branch of the Heze City Public Security Bureau: After opening the door, I was very surprised, many mobile phones were open in batches at the same time, and there were many chargers and batch charging equipment, and they set up a studio there and put three computers.
After arriving at the case, Wang and others confessed that they did not directly resell the account after purchasing it, but needed to go through a period of "account maintenance".
Wan Fang, police officer of the Cyber Security Brigade of the Dingtao Branch of the Heze Municipal Public Security Bureau: Numbers that often do not log in, or do not have real-name authentication after only registering a number, will be cancelled quickly. They buy a large number of second-hand mobile phones online, and then log in to these accounts from time to time every day to maintain their accounts. Like WeChat, they raise it for at least a month before they start selling.
Wang and others through the software, using two or three computers, can operate hundreds of mobile phones at the same time, after a month of "raising the number", a WeChat account can often be dozens of times the number of ***
An Weiguo, Captain of the Network Security Brigade of the Dingtao Branch of the Heze Municipal Public Security Bureau: The mobile phone number is sold to the WeChat recipients, which is about 10 yuan, and they buy WeChat and do not sell it, but raise the number, and after raising it for a month, it can be sold for about 200 yuan.
Wan Fang, a police officer of the Internet Security Brigade of the Dingtao Branch of the Heze City Public Security Bureau: Then it was sold, and finally it went to the hands of fraudsters, reaching four or five hundred yuan each.
According to the investigation**, most of these social software accounts were purchased by fraudsters to commit crimes, and some were also used to attract traffic for telecom network fraud.
Wan Fang, police officer of the Cyber Security Brigade of the Dingtao Branch of the Heze Municipal Public Security Bureau: Through the seizure of these WeChat accounts and the comparison of the national anti-fraud platform, a number of cases involving telecom fraud have been discovered.
Up to now, more than 60 suspects have been arrested, more than 1,000 mobile phones have been seized, and the case is still under further investigation.
Dong Hong, deputy director of the Dingtao Branch of the Heze Municipal Public Security Bureau: After the personal information of citizens is violated, they often do not know it at the first time, and the personal information of these violated citizens is used for other illegal crimes, forming a series of black and gray industry chains. We don't want to leave your personal information easily, and we don't want to scan the *** in some public places
The elderly need to raise awareness of prevention and protect personal information.
Throughout the criminal chain, the suspect took advantage of the fact that the elderly were not familiar with smartphones, and easily obtained their personal information, and then committed the crime. Helping the elderly raise their awareness of prevention and protect their personal information is not only the obligation of family members, but also the responsibility of the whole society.
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