Recently, Inner Mongolia Baotou Railway** successfully detected a telecommunications network fraud case with "dating and dating" as bait. In this case, the victim, Mr. Chen, was defrauded of 290,000 yuan within an hour.
At the beginning of 2023, Mr. Chen opened a "dating" **follow the steps** designated application software on the K (fast) 898 train from Chifeng, Inner Mongolia to Baotou, and soon found the girl he liked. After talking, Mr. Chen was looking forward to meeting the "goddess" on a date, but he regretted the move.
In the software, the so-called customer service staff instructed Mr. Chen to constantly recharge and upgrade the membership rights of the software, and then carried out operations such as swiping orders and unblocking under high profits. In less than an hour, Mr. Chen spent more than 290,000 yuan. When he got out of the car and was on the way to the hotel, he was blacked out by the so-called goddess, only to find out that he had been deceived.
After receiving the alarm, the Baotou Railway Public Security Department quickly organized capable police forces to carry out investigations. Investigators found that Mr. Chan's deception was very similar to two other fraud cases that had been reported recently. In all these cases, the victims were induced to ** the same type of application software, and then, under the guidance of the customer service staff, they recharged members, swiped orders and other operations, so that the victims could transfer money to their designated bank cards.
After analysis and judgment, a special case team was set up to investigate the three cases, and found that the design style, operation process, and guidance routines of the multiple application software involved in the case were extremely similar, and even the naming rules of the app package were the same or highly similar.
This case involves a cross-border investigation, and the challenges are enormous. Under the guidance of the Hohhot Railway Public Security Bureau, the task force and the Baotou Municipal Public Security Bureau set up a joint task force to coordinate the tackling of key problems and group operations.
This case reminds us once again to be vigilant when engaging in online dating to avoid being taken advantage of by criminals. At the same time, we should be skeptical of any online platform that needs to be recharged, swiped, unblocked, etc., so as not to suffer economic losses.