In 2023, after two years, the public security organs of Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province, cracked a case involving the unfreezing of national assets of more than 10,000 defrauded people in 29 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities across the country, and arrested 178 criminal suspects, involving an amount of 200 million yuan.
According to the police of the task force, in September 2017, the fraud criminal gang led by Xing Moumou fabricated fake projects such as "the prosperous Chinese digital currency strongly supported by the state", and developed members layer by layer by setting up WeChat groups and QQ groups, and tricked victims into buying so-called "digital currency membership cards" in the name of investment.
The strange thing is that in this case, the victim who was defrauded hid in the deep mountains and old forests ...... after receiving the police**Recently, a reporter from Nandu went to Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province, and the police handling the case told the reporter about this bizarre fraud case.
Invest 1,000 yuan to buy a "national project".
Can you get 50 times the cash back on virtual currency?
Rewind the clock to 3 years ago.
At the end of 2021, Lin Cheng (pseudonym), who returned to his hometown from other places, found that his father (Uncle Lin) had been overly addicted to his mobile phone recently, often chatting with strangers on WeChat. All kinds of behaviors made Lin Cheng feel very strange, but his father told him that he was investing: as long as he invested 1,000 yuan, he could return 50,000 yuan worth of digital currency at the end of the year.
What project can have such high profiteering? Is pie really falling from the sky? This made Lin Cheng suspicious. By the end of the year, the rebate agreed by the project had not been realized for a long time, and Jiang's ** who recommended his father to participate in the project could not get through. Jiang's loss of contact was like a gavel that woke up Uncle Lin, and also made him wake up from the dream of making a profit of 50,000 yuan.
Alarm! After realizing that this might be a **, Lin Cheng immediately chose to go to the Taiwanese Investment Zone Branch of the Public Security Bureau of Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province to report the case.
Uncle Lin later recalled that in July 2021, a woman surnamed Jiang approached him and said that she had a project of "Prosperous China" virtual currency in hand. Jiang claimed that after paying to become a member, he could get the 50,000 digital currencies that the National Bank would issue soon. Under Jiang's flickering, Uncle Lin paid 5,000 yuan to buy five cards.
The membership card purchased by the victim.
She said that it was the currency promoted by the state, and as soon as I heard that it was a national policy, I thought it was true. Coupled with such an attractive profit, this made Uncle Lin decide to "gamble". Now, Uncle Lin felt that he was dizzy at that time, and he said regretfully, "I have never gambled, and I have never been exposed to this kind of project before." I didn't expect to capsize here in this life. ”
Cai Yibin, a police officer of the task force, told reporters, "The fraud gang is to seize the psychology of the victims, take advantage of people's patriotic feelings, endorse them, take the national policy as an introduction, and buy from a small amount, promising to obtain a high amount of digital currency to lure investment." ”
At the beginning, Uncle Lin was convinced of the project, and he also recommended other owners in the community to join it. Li Li (pseudonym) learned about it from Uncle Lin. "If you look at the information about the project in their group, you will quickly become addicted and you will feel that it is real. Li Li said.
During this time, the fees that members need to pay have also increased from 1,000 to 1,200 yuan. With the ****, Li Li also began to be anxious, "I think this is just like **, buy up or not buy down, otherwise you will lose a lot." For Li Li, this project that can easily make money in a short period of time, as well as "** endorsement", "I just think that the first one to eat crabs must have meat to eat!" ”
After Li Li spent 7,200 yuan to buy 6 cards, and then in the second stage, Li Li reinvested another 5,000 yuan in the so-called "500,000 high-value digital currency" to promote the project. It wasn't until the police came to the door that she realized that the so-called "national project" was actually a **.
"Shengshi China" fraud project WeChat group notification.
The so-called "good news" posted in the WeChat group of the "prosperous China" fraud project
Li Shaohui, deputy director of the Taiwanese Investment Zone Bureau of the Zhangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau, observed that the fraud targets in this case were relatively specific, mainly middle-aged and elderly people and women. "These people are relatively easy to be **, criminals make some fake documents, and then PS some**, they will believe it, and even pull friends around them to join**.
According to the analysis of Wang Zhijun, a police officer of the special case group, in addition to information blockage and lack of knowledge, these people often also have simple patriotic feelings, and they are more likely to be "recruited."
Why does the victim become the perpetrator:
At most, 15 groups were built in three days, absorbing thousands of people.
After receiving the clues, the local ** took the clues as the starting point and set up a special case team to investigate and collect evidence through the WeChat group chat information and bank funds provided by Lin Cheng and repeatedly verified that this is a case of fraud and crime of unfreezing national assets.
"National asset unfreezing fraud" is a long-standing fraud method. Li Shaohui introduced that in this kind of fraud, criminals take advantage of the public's trust in the party and the state, under the banner of the state, some pretend to be state leaders and agency staff, and some forge official documents, certificates, and seals of state organs, and fabricate investment projects such as "Cloud Digital Trade", "Zhitian Finance", "Digital Currency", "Pension Assistance", etc., with low investment and high return as bait, to trick victims into paying "registration fees" and "project start-up funds" to invest in fraud, and with the help of Internet communication tools to develop offline in".
After combing through the relevant clues, in 2022, the Criminal Investigation Detachment of the Zhangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau and the Taiwanese Branch followed the line to arrest the criminal suspect Jia and others. In 2023, after further digging by the task force, the net will be collected in many places across the country, and 17 backbone members including Xing Mouzhong will be arrested successively.
Li Shaohui introduced that the criminal gang led by Xing Mouzhong and others pretended to be a national policy, for the purpose of illegal profits, under the guise of false projects, and with small investments that could obtain high returns as bait, the development of hundreds of people at all levels, and a large number of people were deceived, involving more than 29 provinces across the country, and the amount involved was huge.
Nandu observed that many of the suspects arrested had been victims but had since turned into fraudsters. A criminal suspect admitted to reporters that she was deceived by investing in "Five Elements Coin" at first, because she wanted to return to her capital, and then slowly entered the industry, and was also confused by this high return, and changed from a "deceived person" to "**."
At that time, the family couldn't listen to any persuasion, so they were immersed in this 'work' and didn't go downstairs for a few days. At most, she pulled 15 groups in 3 days and developed thousands of people. Talking about today, she is full of remorse, "I hurt my family. ”
To hide from the police. The victim went deep into the mountains and forests for more than 20 days.
In the investigation of this case, the most troublesome thing for police officer Wang Zhijun was the victim's non-cooperation, "(These people) have a difficult life, and instead pin their hopes on the high returns claimed by the project." ”
At the beginning of the investigation of the case, the police of the special case group called the deceived people one by one and asked them to go to the public security bureau to cooperate with the investigation of the case. After eating a lot of "closed-door soup", the task force changed its thinking and went to the door for an interview. After meeting, they first talked to the victims, and finally made some of the victims gradually sober up and realize that they were in the middle of the **.
Cai Yibin said that in this case, 10,000 people were deceived, but there was only one person who reported the case. "The victims are not even willing to come forward to accuse, they still have the illusion that the project will be fulfilled and that they will make a fortune. ”
What impressed police officer Wang Zhijun was that he had gone to Henan to find the nearly 60-year-old victim, Chen, who was an employee of a small supermarket. "We sat from morning to night, helping her sell things and do chores, hoping to get closer to her. Wang Zhijun introduced that it was not until the store was closed that Chen asked rhetorically, "Why don't you leave after you have finished the test?" This rhetorical question made the police a little confused for a while.
What exactly is a "test"? Later, according to other victims, in the process of joining the project, the fraud gang would take "preventive shots" in advance, claiming that the national project needed to be kept secret, and if there were people from the National Security Bureau and the Public Security Bureau, it would be to test their loyalty and confidentiality.
Cai Yibin also encountered a victim who hid in the deep mountains and old forests for more than 20 days in order to avoid the police and be loyal and confidential.
The so-called 'loyalty test' is nonsense. Cai Yibin reminded the public to keep their eyes open, there is no free lunch in the world, and it must be a fraud to make a profiteering project that can make several times the profit by paying a part of the money.
It is reported that in 2023, the Ministry of Public Security will deploy public security organs across the country to launch a fierce offensive against the illegal crime of national asset unfreezing fraud, cracking more than 260 cases and defeating more than 180 criminal gangs, involving an amount of 1.5 billion yuan, and achieving remarkable results.
A relevant responsible person of the Ministry of Public Security said that the public security organs will further intensify their efforts to crack down on the crime of unfreezing national assets, quickly crack down on existing cases, tackle major cases, pursue suspects, and recover stolen money, so as to resolutely safeguard the safety of the people's property and the overall stability of social security.
The public security organs reminded the masses that there are no national assets unfreezing projects and organizations in our country, and all those who let you invest under the banner of unfreezing national assets are frauds; Anyone who "entrusts" or "authorizes" investment in the name of *** is a fraud; Anyone who claims to be able to obtain a huge return by paying tens or hundreds of yuan in membership fees is a fraud.
According to the relevant laws and regulations, all those who instigate, instigate, or publicize information on the unfreezing of national assets, or recruit members and organize illegal gatherings, are suspected of violating the law and committing crimes, and the public security organs will strictly investigate and deal with them in accordance with the law. If you find clues about similar violations and crimes, please report them to the public security organs immediately.
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