On January 30, 2024, with Bai Socheng, Wei Huairen and 10 other major suspects in northern Myanmar**, the four major families of wire fraud in Myanmar were completely eliminated. The arrest demonstrates the determination to crack down on wire fraud crimes, and also brings a touch of peace to the society. Drawings provided by the Ministry of Public Security.
In the past 2023, the wire fraud incident in northern Myanmar and Myanmar has become the focus of public attention, and the movie "All or Nothing" has deeply revealed the cruelty of the fraud syndicate in northern Myanmar and the shady scenes behind it, which is shocking. According to a reporter from China Business Daily, fraud gangs operating in northern Myanmar often use a variety of means, such as so-called "high-salary" recruitment or relatives and friends to "show up and talk about wealth," to lure domestic personnel to illegally smuggle people abroad to carry out "gold panning" activities. Among them, some people do not hesitate to resort to various means in order to escape legal punishment for the purpose of defrauding huge amounts of stolen money, which has become the most common form of cross-border fraud. After arriving at a criminal base outside Myanmar, these people were not only unable to earn enough money, but were restricted in their personal freedom, beaten and even trafficked, until a large ransom was paid before they could safely return to the country, and face corresponding legal punishment after returning home.
For such overseas wire fraud groups and gangs, their organizational structure is usually strict and hierarchical. The division of responsibilities between members is clear, from the recruitment and transfer of personnel, to "speech", business training, to the management and transfer of funds, there are special personnel to be responsible for ensuring that each link can cooperate to complete the criminal task.
On February 7, the Supreme People's Court (SPC) released eight typical cases of cross-border telecommunications network fraud and related crimes that were recently concluded by the people's courts, which is undoubtedly a clear signal that the law will impose strict penalties. These cases involve all types of telecommunications network fraud cases carried out by foreign fraud gangs within the territory of China, and many of them involve huge amounts of property crimes. The journalist observed that throughout the criminal chain, the principal offender and the accessory who played different roles and performed different functions were punished and convicted by the corresponding law.
After adding the victim as a friend, they are tricked into gambling activities on the platform.
In recent years, in order to escape domestic repression, many wire fraud syndicates have chosen to relocate their fraud bases abroad, and have established criminal gangs or syndicates in northern Myanmar to carry out telecommunications network fraud activities against domestic residents.
During the period from July 2017 to May 2019, Xie Mouhao and Chen Mouwang repeatedly failed to comply with national (border) border management regulations and carried out smuggling activities in the border area between China's Yunnan Province and Myanmar's Wa State. At present, Xie Mouhao and others have been detained in accordance with the law, but their criminal suspicions still exist and need further investigation and investigation. Since June 2018, the criminal gang led by Xie Mouhao and Chen Mouwang has been in northern Myanmar for a long time, and has gathered a large number of people in the country to carry out fraud activities on cross-border telecommunications networks.
In this criminal gang, Xie Mouhao is mainly responsible for the tasks of personnel pick-up, business training, and coordination of local relations; Xie Mouhao carefully arranges the training plan of each member to improve execution. As the person in charge of the department, Chen Mouwang is mainly responsible for the daily management of personnel and the verification of accounts; Zhang Mouyi is an expert in personnel recruitment, and he is good at finding potential talents, screening, training and introducing them to join criminal syndicates through various channels. There are others who are responsible for recruiting the relevant personnel.
Members of this criminal gang add victims as friends through online chat tools and then induce them to gamble on multiple platforms such as "TNT International Entertainment", "Dingji International" and "Red Seal International". Then, through a back-office operation, they first let the victim make a small profit, and then transfer the victim's funds to a bank account controlled by the criminal gang after the victim increases deposits and bets.
Xie Mouhao faced a total of more than 10.51 million yuan in fraud charges, while Chen Mouwang's fraud amount was as high as more than 9.97 million yuan. Lin Mouming knew that his actions involved a crime, but for some motive, he still helped Xie Mouhao transfer funds. Another defendant claimed that although Lin knew that the funds handled by Xie Mouhao were obtained illegally, he still used multiple bank cards of others to transfer money for Xie Mouhao many times, and transferred more than 9.07 million yuan of fraudulent funds in total.
The case has been tried for the first time in the People's Court of Wannian County, Jiangxi Province, and the second time in the Intermediate People's Court of Shangrao City, Jiangxi Province, and now has legal effect. Thanks to the unremitting efforts of the judicial organs, the deceived people have been compensated for part of their economic losses. The judiciary has been working to recover the funds involved in the fraud and has returned more than 3.23 million yuan to the confirmed victims.
By deceiving the residents of the village to illegally cross the border to "work", the four villagers paid a ransom and successfully escaped.
The reason why many telecommunications network fraud organizations or criminal gangs that have existed abroad for a long time have been repeatedly banned is that "snakehead" gangs at home and abroad continue to provide them with "fresh blood". Outside the country, many people regard the overseas "snakehead" as their protective umbrella. Under the pretext of providing "high income", the criminal group often uses a variety of means, such as acquaintance recommendations and software chats, to solicit, induce or organize others to illegally enter the country to carry out fraudulent activities. These people are often referred to locally as "foreigners", but they are also called "black bosses" or "internationals", and even "transnationals". After the takeover of the criminal gang, the smugglers are forced to participate in the criminal act of telecommunication network fraud by restricting personal freedom.
Under the inducement and guidance of foreign criminal gangs, Pan Moujie organized the residents of the village to carry out illegal "work" activities, which not only broke their dream of "gold rush", but also made them fall into the trap of fraud gangs.
In February 2021, Pan Moujie invited Pan Mouxu, Pan Moude, Zhang Mouyang and others from the village to Myanmar to work illegally on the grounds of "high-paying" positions provided by Myanmar. Pan Moujie arranged the itinerary of the outbound personnel as planned. After the three reached a consensus, Pan Moujie and the employees of the "other company" jointly discussed the route, transportation, accommodation and joints and other related matters. After arriving in Mangshi, Pan arranged for modest accommodation, promising to wait for better job opportunities. In March of that year, the staff of the "other company" began to transfer money to Pan Moujie, with a total amount of about 1 yuan50,000 yuan, and Pan Moujie is responsible for organizing the itinerary of people going abroad. They stopped in Mangshi for a moment, after which Pan Moujie arranged for a private vehicle to continue on to the border area of Myanmar. Subsequently, Pan Moujie and Pan Mouxu set off from Hukou County, Jiangxi Province and arrived in Mangshi, Yunnan Province.
In Mangshi, the staff of the "other company" had secret contact with Pan Moujie, and then they led the four members to Myanmar secretly and took them to a hiding place for telecom network fraud. After investigation, it was found that Pan Moujie was a technician engaged in communications work. In the hideout of the crime, Pan Moujie and the other three were restricted in their personal freedom and forced to participate in the fraud of the telecommunications network.
In July of that year, they were only able to escape when the four men paid a ransom, with Pan Moujie personally paying 150,000 yuan as a ransom. During his stay in Myanmar, Pan Moujie felt deeply anxious and helpless, but insisted on waiting for an opportunity. Subsequently, Pan Mouxu and his two partners quickly returned to China, while Pan Moujie chose to stay in Myanmar and entered from the Qingshui River port in Myanmar in April 2023, and then voluntarily surrendered to the public security department.
Pan Moujie illegally planned the illegal crossing of the national (border) border by three people, which constituted the crime of organizing others to illegally cross the national (border) border. The court trial ended, and Pan Moujie was taken away. Although Pan Moujie voluntarily surrendered and voluntarily admitted his crime and accepted the punishment, he was once administratively punished for illegally crossing the border, and organized others to illegally cross the border again within a year. According to the law, he was not allowed a suspended sentence and was sentenced to one year and one month in prison and a fine of 5,000 yuan.
A gang of 24 people illegally entered Myanmar to carry out wire fraud activities with the aim of defrauding ** investments.
In order to ensure that fraud groups can operate efficiently and obtain more illegal profits, some fraud groups continue to use the "high salary" method to organize, solicit, induce or introduce others to illegally cross the border from China, transfer human resources to overseas criminal groups, and carry out large-scale fraud activities against domestic residents.
During the period from June 18, 2019 to April 2, 2020, Xiang Mouxing repeatedly cooperated with Su Mouhua, Wang Mounan, Li Mouwei and others or plotted others to illegally cross the border from Ruili City, Yunnan Province to Sister Mu in Myanmar. This led to the formation of a criminal gang of telecommunications network fraud, in which Xiang Mouxing was the main member, and Su Mouhua, Wang Mounan, Li Mouwei and others were the core members.
This fraud gang lured victims to invest in fraud** such as "Asia-Pacific Finance" and "Ping An Finance" by publishing false information such as "top-up betting" and "**swiping" in its dedicated QQ group. They then change the data on the backend to cause the victim's funds to be lost or the account to be abnormal. They then defraud the victim by luring them to continue transferring money on the grounds that they need to keep topping up to unlock the account or paying a commission to withdraw money. The star was investigated by the public security organs on suspicion of fraud. After the incident, Xiang used his money laundering team to transfer the proceeds of the fraud to someone else's bank account. ** Swift operation led to the successful dismantling of the fraud syndicate's headquarters. After investigation, the total amount of fraud committed by this fraud gang reached more than 3.09 million yuan.
In the "criminal chain" of this case, all the people involved have been included in the case. This case is a case of illegal fundraising. The Intermediate People's Court of Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province conducted the first instance and the Yunnan Provincial High People's Court conducted the second instance.
By disguising himself as "Gao Fu Shuai", he successfully defrauded 196 people, with a total amount of 27.96 million yuan.
A fraud gang has been established abroad, and they recruit people from China on a large scale, and then go to the dens of fraud to carry out criminal activities, or provide assistance to fraud crimes abroad at home, thus building a complete black and gray industry chain.
In February 2019, Zeng and Zhong illegally crossed the border of Yunnan Province into Myanmar, and then established an organization called "Fortuna International" in Myanmar's Mengbo region, which recruited people from China on a large scale and specialized in the criminal activities of telecommunications network fraud. Soon after, Wang and others showed excellent organizational and planning capabilities in the "God of Wealth International" group, and they used advanced network technology to carefully design various fraud schemes, and rapidly expanded the scale and influence of the criminal gang. Beginning in March of that year, Wang, Gao Mouli, and 54 other members, either alone or in cooperation with others, illegally crossed the border to Mengbo in Myanmar, joined the "God of Wealth International" and became core members of the criminal gang.
Members of Fortuna International" disguised themselves as "rich and handsome" and used social networking to add domestic residents as friends. They gradually win the trust of the victim through various means, such as chatting and falling in love. They tricked the victim into making deposits and bets on a fake gambling platform. Then, they modified the data through the background, manipulated the lottery results, and transferred the victim's recharged funds to a bank account controlled by "Fortuna International", thereby defrauding the victim.
Although Fang, Peng and others clearly knew that "Fortuna International" was using the information network to commit fraud, they still provided the group with a fund account and assisted in the transfer of criminal proceeds; Xu Mouqing is a computer genius, and although he knows that the "Black Eagle Network" is using information networks to engage in illegal activities, he still actively participates in and provides technical support. Although Ye Mouzhen, Tang Moubo and others knew that other people were carrying out criminal activities through information networks, they still manufactured and sold malware in accordance with regulations to provide the technical support needed for crimes; In the tracking of this criminal network, Li Moutao and others were revealed to be involved in a huge amount of money. Although Guo and his team knew that this was the illegal proceeds of telecom network fraud, they still used bank cards to cover up and hide the transfer behavior; Chen knew that Su Mouzheng was involved in the crime of fraud, but he chose to turn a blind eye and even condone his behavior. When Su Mouzheng joined the fraud gang of "God of Wealth International", he also induced others to take drugs.
From April 2019 to October 2020, the fraud gang "Fortuna International" defrauded a total of 196 victims, involving an amount of more than 27.96 million yuan.
The case has been tried for the first time in the People's Court of Xiji County, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, and for the second time in the Intermediate People's Court of Guyuan City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.
He volunteered to follow the "smugglers" to Myanmar, but was eventually sold to dens for training in the fraud business.
Fraud syndicates operating in Myanmar often use false "high-paying" recruitment tactics to lure domestic workers out of the country and thus "make a lot of profits easily". These people often take advantage of the abundant natural resources and rapid economic development of the local area to defraud the state of funds and resources. In order to pursue higher returns, some people choose to take risks, and they voluntarily follow the "snakeheads" across mountains and seas, sneak across national borders, and even go to foreign countries.
For the purpose of making money and making a fortune, Jiang Moujian still voluntarily advanced funds to smuggle into Myanmar despite knowing that he had gone abroad to engage in telecommunications network fraud and other illegal and criminal activities. Unfortunately, he ended up being trafficked to a crime den by foreigners, and only after paying a ransom was he able to get out safely.
In October 2020, Lin Moucheng and Jiang Moujian were offered high salaries** by others and decided to go to Myanmar secretly. The two contacted the local customs staff and asked for assistance in customs clearance. After the two arrived in Kunming City, Yunnan Province, after a detailed introduction and arrangement, under the leadership of the "snakehead", they set off from Kunming City, took a car to the Sino-Myanmar border area, and then walked up the mountain into Myanmar.
After arriving in Myanmar, the two were assigned to observe a casino in Mengbo County, Wa State, and were later sold to a telecommunications network fraud center to be trained in the fraud business. When Lin Moucheng was waiting for the rubber boat by the river, he was very anxious. After paying a ransom of 20,000 yuan, Lin successfully left the hiding place of the fraudster. On November 8 of the same year, he illegally entered by rubber boat from the banks of the Kang Shijie River in Wa State. After Jiang entered the Meng'a Passage at Menglian Port, he was taken to a simple hut by a group of strangers. On June 3, 2021, Jiang Moujian entered the country through the Meng'a channel of Menglian Port in Yunnan Province.
The case of Lin Moucheng and Jiang Moujian's illegal border crossing has been tried by the Fuqing City People's Court in Fujian Province and has become legally binding.
Gangs that smuggled into Myanmar to carry out "pig slaughter" activities used "team building" tactics and drug abuse to control their members.
Overseas fraud gangs often use false recruitment information such as "high salaries, low thresholds, and flexible working hours" to lure domestic personnel to illegally enter overseas to carry out "gold panning" activities. Under such circumstances, how can the public security organs effectively crack down on such crimes? Gao clearly knew that smuggling to Myanmar was illegal and criminal, but he still actively went to overseas fraud dens to carry out "pig killing" fraud. When he tried to flee back to the country, his personal freedom was restricted and beaten, and he was not able to return until a hefty "ransom" was paid.
In February 2021, Gao received a "high salary" and secretly entered Myanmar to join a criminal gang of telecommunications network fraud. During the investigation, it was found that the company had serious fraud risks and organizational loopholes. This scam syndicate is clearly organized and divided into several different teams. Each team has different levels such as team leader, director, manager, team leader, and salesman, and sets a clear target amount for them to commit fraud. Penalties are imposed on those who do not comply with regulations or fail to meet these goals through fines, corporal punishment or beatings.
After Gao became a member of the fraud group, he impersonated others to create a "high-end" character image according to the instructions of his superiors. He used karaoke entertainment software to find women as his scam targets, and then induced victims to use social software to chat, so as to use his "words" to cultivate feelings with the other party. As the victim's trust gradually established, Gao began to use more ingenious fraud schemes. After winning the victim's trust, the victim can be induced to recharge and invest in the APP platform controlled by the fraud group in the name of investment, and then induce the victim to continue to recharge under the pretext of paying taxes and deposits.
In the process of joining the fraud gang, Gao defrauded a total of more than $1.7 million in funds. Gao was forced to be imprisoned in a fraud syndicate and had to ask his family for help. After that, Gao tried to escape from the criminal gang, but failed to do so, and was caught and beaten. After that, he contacted relatives in China and paid a hefty "ransom" to the fraud gang before he was able to return to China.
On August 31, 2021, Gao voluntarily surrendered to the public security department after receiving a notice from the public security department. After investigation, it was found that Gao was a young man who was deceived. He claimed that the fraud syndicate used methods such as forced "team building" and drug use to control its members, and stipulated that its business commissions were limited to consumption in the telecom fraud park, and that it was not allowed to return to the country by mail.
Gao was sentenced to four years and three months in prison and fined 15,000 yuan on suspicion of fraud, and his criminal proceeds will be recovered in accordance with the law and returned to the victim.