The reporter learned from the Baotou Public Security Department of the Hohhot Railway Public Security Bureau in Inner Mongolia on the 22nd that the police handling the case recently detected a telecommunications network fraud case in the name of "dating friends" and arrested 40 suspectsMore than 400 million yuan.
On February 6, 2023, Chen, a passenger on train K898, used his mobile phone to browse a "dating"**and**chat application in a chat group. Under the guidance of "customer service", Chen continued to recharge and upgrade "membership rights", and then carried out operations such as swiping orders and transfers under high profits, spending more than 290,000 yuan in less than an hour. It wasn't until he was blocked later that he realized he had been deceived.
After receiving the police, the police found that the case was extremely similar to the other two reports received before. The public security organs immediately set up a special case group to investigate the case. Through technical research and judgment, the task force confirmed that the IP address of the application software management background used for fraud was located in a certain country in Southeast Asia, and then broke through a series of technical problems and locked the IP address of the criminal suspect named Qi in the massive data.
Taking this as a breakthrough, the task force gradually mastered the hierarchical structure and crime process of the gang, drew a network with five levels, and a telecommunications network fraud den hidden abroad surfaced.
Soon, the task force obtained clues that Qi and others would return to China and formulated an arrest plan. With the cooperation of the Yunnan Provincial Public Security Organs, Qi and three others and the "snakehead" Qi were arrested. Soon, 18 criminal suspects including Zhang Mouwen, who laundered money for the gang in China, were also arrested.
According to the police of the special case group, the fraudulent company involved in this case has been entrenched abroad for a long time, and has set up multiple groups such as "speculation group", "reception group" and "operation group", with hundreds of people. According to statistics, there are more than 8,100 registered members of multiple chat application software in its mastery, and the transaction flow in just half a year has exceeded 1400 million yuan.
In the process of committing fraud, the "speculation group" is responsible for recruiting target people with a certain economic foundation and the need to make friends in multiple social software groups. After getting in touch, the "reception team" went into battle to lure the victim to recharge to become a "member", and then upgraded with false "rights" such as free appointments, assistance in booking rooms, and door-to-door services, so as to induce the victim to continue to recharge. When the victim becomes the highest-level "member", he will be handed over to the "operation team", who will lure the victim to swipe the order and transfer money under the guise that "the appointment fee can be waived by swiping the order, and the high-interest return can also be obtained". When the victim has no money to deceive, block him again.
Combined with the clues provided by the criminal suspects, the special case team locked down 4 electric fraud parks and 2 electric fraud gangs located outside the country, and arrested other suspects. On January 31, 2024, with the arrest of criminal suspect Liu, the special case team has successively arrested 40 people in the same case.
At present, the case is still being further handled.
*:Xinhua.