With the increasing convenience and diversity of online platforms, people have become accustomed to choosing online platforms to meet the needs of work, shopping and even making friends. But the internet is risky after all. You will never know whether the end of the cable is a human or a ghost in human skin. Recently, the Longgang police destroyed a three-in-one fraud gang of “online dating, online pyramid schemes, and online gambling”, arrested 14 suspects, and recovered millions of dollars in economic losses.
A fraud case led to a scam gang, and the Longgang police went straight to the nest.
At the end of March 2020, Mr. Zhong, the respondent of the auxiliary city police station of the Longgang Public Security Bureau, called the police, saying that he added a WeChat account named "Anxin" in April 2019. The young woman of "Anxin" subsequently determined the relationship between men and women in love and friendship, but in the process of chatting, the other party deceived her for more than 80,000 yuan by reason of her mother's illness and younger brother's college entrance. Until mid-March this year, "Anxin" suddenly lost contact.
Longgang police immediately intervened in the investigation. After preliminary investigation, the case is a typical dating fraud. On April 23, 2020, according to background information, the police handling the case discovered that Anxin had resigned from the previous company and now appeared in Baiyun District, Guangzhou. The task force then quickly attacked Guangzhou and successfully captured An Xin after squatting in the rain for four hours. As expected, An Xin is really a male, Zou Mouwen, 22 years old. After interrogation, the suspect Zou Mouwen truthfully confessed that he used a special chat WeChat account to pretend to be a woman and chat with the host Mr. Zhong to determine the relationship, and then defrauded the host Mr. Zhong for more than 80,000 yuan on the grounds that his father was sick and his younger brother needed money for admission to college. Crime facts. In addition, Zou Mouwen also confessed that the criminal gang behind the fraud was hiding in Dongguan. After
grasped this information, in order to be able to effectively cut off the chain of telecommunications fraud, after research and judgment, the company called Chuangxin Networks is still engaged in fraudulent behaviors, and has been upgraded to use traditional dating fraud as a starting point to lure the victim into gambling The platform conducts gambling scams and scams selling inferior skin care products.
On May 7, 2020, the task force followed a line of tracking and meticulous investigation, and went straight to the gang’s nest—the third floor of a commercial building in Zhangmutou Town, Dongguan City. The scam gang was wiped out, 14 suspects were arrested, and hundreds of economic losses were recovered. Ten thousand yuan.
implemented online dating, online pyramid schemes, and online gambling frauds in the name of "third-person sales"
This group is on the surface an online company, located in an office building near the Guangzhou-Shenzhen intercity high-speed rail station. The company has an employee office area, In the boss’s office and conference room, employees work from nine to six, which on the surface is no different from ordinary office workers.
Chuangxin Network Company is headed by the boss Yao, and there are 14 people in charge, Zhu Cong, salesperson, front desk and personnel. The boss Yao is mainly responsible for planning and finance, and the supervisor Zhu Cong is mainly responsible for sales, personnel management and training; the front desk and personnel are mainly responsible for staff recruitment and reception. All new employees have to receive company training. The company issues special work WeChat accounts to employees and tells employees to pretend to be male and female. The WeChat account will be operated in accordance with the pre-beauty settings to attract popularity, increase sales, and earn more. More commissions. Company director Zhu Cong called this type of sales "third-person sales."
At the scene of the arrest, the policeman who handled the case seized multiple mobile phones and computers of the gang members. In the electronic account book of a suspect, a number of work WeChat accounts prepared by the gang for employees were clearly recorded. There are corresponding personal settings, roles, and even specific to birthplace, family background and personal hobbies. In addition, the notepad also records the progress of the work WeChat account and chat partner, as well as related words. From this, we learned that the gang members have a clear internal structure, a clear division of labor, and a complete fraud process.
The company produces professional scripts, and regularly holds "seminars" to teach employee fraud methods
can only see some clues when approaching the company's salesperson office area. Usually, three or four WeChat chat windows flash on the office computer of each salesperson. This is the main work content of the gang members every day: pretending to be a beauty, chatting with different male subjects, and after gaining trust, This is an excuse to borrow money from them, and at the same time find opportunities to divert them to gambling sites or promote inferior skin care products for fraud.
First of all, the gang members asked the salesperson to use the WeChat account dedicated to chatting with people, set up personal settings and roles (usually sexy beauties) around this WeChat account, and then use Momo, Tantan, Douyin and other online platforms Search relatedWork and life photos are regularly sent to Moments, and the number will be packaged as an exquisite sexy girl in life, so as to attract the attention of netizens and attract them to actively add her as friends.
As everyone knows, after someone adds a "girl" as a friend, the gang members will sort out notes based on the identity, age, nature of the job, etc., such as Mr. Tang, a small foreman, Li, a businessman, and Xiao, a shopkeeper, 1400. The remarks involving numbers are the key targets of fraud that the other party has invested in gambling websites provided by gang members. According to the personality and work characteristics of the chat partner, the group will prepare a special phrasebook, hold "business seminars" regularly, and use the group's "successful sales cases" to teach the salespersons to enter the chat under what circumstances, and to talk to the chat partner. After creating an ambiguous relationship and gaining the trust of the other party, borrow money and ask for living expenses on the grounds that parents are sick, younger siblings are going to school, etc., and at the same time, find the right time to pass information on gambling websites and skin care products to the other party, and choose the right one based on the feedback of the other party Slowly lead the other party to the gambling website to inject capital. Of course, nine out of ten losers will be the result of gambling. Even if you win, you can’t withdraw money.
gang fraud started, the police reminded the public to be cautious when making friends online.
It is understood that the "rich entertainment" gambling website APP that gang members drain is operated by their own company, and its price is 499 yuan in South Korea. The purchase price of a well-known brand of skin care products is only tens of dollars. During this period, regardless of the borrowing, living expenses, red envelopes, gambling expenses and other expenses sent by the chat object to the gang members' chat WeChat account, all employees handed in the company, and then the boss Yao Mou paid a fixed salary and a 1% commission bonus.
takes the salesman Zou Wen of the gang as an example. When he entered the network company in 2019, the company sent him more than 500 friends in the WeChat "Anxin" address book, including the owner Zhong. "An Xin" disguised himself as the owner of a clothing store, slowly chatting with Zhong's WeChat, and soon confirmed the relationship with the other party. When Zhong asked for voice chat or video, "An Xin" asked a female colleague of the company to help send a female voice, or "Do you not like me? You have to video with me" as an excuse to force Zhong to give up the video and meet request. Since October 2019, "Anxin" has asked Zhong to send WeChat red envelopes or transfers, ranging from 100 to tens of thousands of yuan, on the grounds that his mother is sick and has no living expenses. In just two months, Zhong transferred more than 80,000 yuan for "An Xin".
Currently, the Longgang police have arrested 14 people involved in the case and initially verified that the gang committed hundreds of cases. More than 400 victims were defrauded. The amount involved exceeded 5 million yuan. The police are actively looking for other victims.
The police warned that the Internet is risky, and any online dating for the purpose of transferring money is a fraud. Based on the case of gang fraud, the police appealed to the general public to raise their awareness of self-prevention. There are more and more online dating platforms derived from previous marriage and dating websites. The public should learn and master the basic anti-fraud and prevention awareness, and for those who do not know, Netizens who have not met in person must be cautious about the transfer requirements. Don't be deceived by criminals while being defrauded of money.
[Author] Feng Lei; Deng Ziliang
[Correspondent] Wu Yanmei
[Author] Feng Lei
[Source] Southern Press Media Group Southern + Client
