In recent years, with the rapid development of the Internet, some criminals have used online public platforms to create and spread rumors about companies, commit crimes such as extortion and damage to business reputation, use cyber violence against companies to obtain illegal ben

In recent years, with the rapid development of the Internet, some criminals have used online public platforms to create and spread rumors about companies, commit crimes such as extortion and damage to business reputation, and use cyber violence against companies to obtain illegal benefits, seriously infringing on the legitimate rights and interests of companies.

A few days ago, the Supreme People's Procuratorate released a number of typical cases of punishing in accordance with the law the use of cyber violence to infringe on the legitimate rights and interests of enterprises.

Punishing "key presses that hurt companies"

On a WeChat public account called "Diaozhuanfangfang", there are many articles and reports exposing companies suspected of "pyramid schemes". On the surface, these articles are exposing the shady story and upholding justice for consumers. However, the true intention of the "whistleblower" is not that simple. A company in Shenzhen where Mr. Ruan works has been reported.

Mr. Ruan, the person in charge of a victimized company: The source of their negative news is incorrect. They grasp a little problem and magnify it. In fact, many things, government departments have proven to us that MLM has nothing to do with us. But he doesn’t write about this, he only writes about things that have something to do with us.

In Mr. Ruan’s view, these reports are basically taken out of context and distort the facts. However, when he wanted to defend his rights, he found that it was not easy. After

inquired around, Mr. Ruan’s company learned that there was a key figure behind these media accounts, Huang Moumou, so they contacted the other party. Huang Moumou told Mr. Ruan that the company's "negative news" can be deleted, but deletion and no longer writing come at a cost.

Mr. Ruan, the person in charge of a victimized company: We went to find him. At that time, they had 20 self-media accounts. Each of them had to pay 5,000 yuan. After 20 accounts, they would not write about us. It would not be enough if we did not pay. Our total loss at that time was nearly 200,000 yuan, of which he wanted another 100,000 yuan, and he went to help us solve the problem.

Mr. Ruan’s company is not alone in what happened. There are other companies that have been blackmailed by this “anti-fraud and anti-fraud” WeChat official account. In April 2023, the Fuling District Public Security Bureau of Chongqing received relevant clues from the Chongqing Public Security Bureau and immediately launched an investigation.

’s preliminary investigation shows that these self-media accounts all belong to the same company, and the behind-the-scenes controller of this company is Huang Moumou. Huang Moumou used his self-media account to blackmail many companies across the country, but most companies, like Mr. Ruan, chose to spend money to eliminate disasters.

Uncovering the shady secrets of the "black draft"

After careful investigation and obtaining relevant evidence, the Fuling police in Chongqing arrested Huang Moumou and others in May 2023. How was the content of Huang Moumou’s self-media account concocted? How did he step by step force companies to spend money to eliminate disasters?

After Huang Moumou and others arrived at the case, they explained their methods of committing the crime to the police handling the case. In 2022, Huang Moumou registered a cultural communication company and registered self-media accounts on WeChat, Weibo, and Toutiao. He and his employees go online every day to search for negative information about various companies, and then hire full-time writers to process it into "black drafts" about companies suspected of pyramid schemes.

He Jianhuai, a policeman from the Sixth Brigade of the Criminal Police Detachment of the Fuling District Public Security Bureau of Chongqing City: Huang Moumou pays great attention to negative information about the company. After collecting it, he wrote some untrue and exaggerated articles about companies involved in pyramid schemes, and then repeatedly published them on his self-media account.

In order to make these "black articles" more "lethal" to the company, Huang Moumou also hired trolls to increase the reading volume and repost, build momentum on the Internet, and further expand the impact of negative news about the company. At the same time, attach contact information after the article and wait for the company to contact you.

He Jianhuai, a policeman from the Sixth Brigade of the Criminal Police Detachment of the Fuling District Public Security Bureau of Chongqing City: As soon as these people saw that Huang XX had published a negative article, it spread quickly, and relevant personnel in their anti-MLM circles would also actively build momentum, creating a lot of trouble for the company. Huge public pressure. When companies are forced to do so, they will use other personnel in the anti-MLM circle or proactively contact Huang to solve the problem.As long as the company proactively contacts Huang, Huang will extort money from the company through cooperation or paid deletion of posts.

Sometimes in order to avoid being hit, Huang Moumou will cover up his company's behavior as legal and compliant, and in the name of public opinion cooperation, he will sign a contract with the blackmailed company in a pretentious manner, and once the service period is up, the company will have to pay again. .

He Jianhuai, a policeman from the Sixth Brigade of the Criminal Police Detachment of the Fuling District Public Security Bureau of Chongqing City: This year’s cooperation fee is 5,000 yuan, 10,000 yuan, and 20,000 yuan. After the time is up, if the company does not take the initiative to find him and provide the cooperation fee, he will Will continue to publish negative corporate news immediately. As soon as the company sees that Huang has published a negative article, it will know that the cooperation fee is due, and the company will take the initiative to contact him and provide money for cooperation again.

In November 2023, the public security organs transferred Huang Moumou to the Chongqing Fuling District Procuratorate for review and prosecution on suspicion of extortion. After a comprehensive review of the case file materials, the prosecutor guided the public security organs to supplement relevant evidence for the investigation, and by comparing the testimonies and transfer records of relevant personnel of the victim companies, it was finally determined that Huang was suspected of extorting 21 companies and illegally profiting 550,000 yuan. . His wife Lu Moumou knew that Huang Moumou had committed extortion crimes in advance, but still provided her bank account to help Huang Moumou collect 120,000 yuan of stolen money.

The main culprit was an anti-MLM volunteer

In February this year, the Chongqing Fuling District Procuratorate prosecuted Huang and Lu for extortion. What is sad is that Huang Moumou was once a victim of illegal pyramid schemes before embarking on the road of illegal crimes. After escaping from the MLM organization, he also became a volunteer to assist the public security organs in rescuing MLM personnel. From a pyramid scheme victim to a criminal who extorts companies, what kind of warning does Huang Moumou's behavior bring to people?

In 2011, Huang was deceived into a pyramid scheme by a friend. In 2013, Huang Moumou, who had been in the MLM organization for two or three years, escaped from the MLM organization and joined the anti-MLM QQ group and became an anti-MLM volunteer. He cooperated with the public security organs many times to rescue MLM victims and appeared to expose the case. MLM scam.

Yu Ping, Prosecutor of the Second Prosecution Department of the People’s Procuratorate of Fuling District, Chongqing City: Huang Moumou feels that they are doing a very just thing. Because I have participated in MLM organizations, I am familiar with the operation mode of MLM organizations, and I also have a good understanding of the mental state of MLM personnel.

Over time, the "Anti-MLM Alliance" with Huang Moumou as one of the core members was formed. They used new media platforms to promote anti-MLM knowledge and published a list of companies involved in MLM. This behavior not only allowed them to obtain online traffic income, but also earned a lot of remuneration through offline "anti-brainwashing" work. However, as the public security organs continue to intensify their efforts to crack down on pyramid schemes, MLM organizations and personnel have decreased sharply, and the need for paid rescue of victims has also gradually decreased. Huang Moumou's income continues to decline.

Yu Ping, prosecutor of the Second Prosecution Department of the People’s Procuratorate of Fuling District, Chongqing: In 2016, members of the anti-MLM circle discovered that they had posted negative articles about companies online that were related to pyramid schemes. Companies would contact them to delete the posts, and they would be able to get money from the companies to delete the posts. Waiting for benefits. This method of making money was quickly familiar to anti-MLM members, who imitated and cooperated with each other.

In 2017, Huang Moumou saw that this method was profitable and began to layout his own media account. First, we vigorously reprinted and published a large number of false and negative articles related to enterprises on WeChat public accounts and other self-media. After these articles spread on the Internet and seriously affected the normal production order of the company, Huang Moumou began to close the Internet.

Yu Ping, prosecutor of the Second Prosecution Department of the People’s Procuratorate of Fuling District, Chongqing: The victim company proactively contacted Huang to delete his post, and Huang proposed service cooperation under false pretenses. Once the victim company did not pay the amount specified by Huang Moumou, Huang Moumou showed his true colors, refused to delete the post, further hyped up the negative information, and threatened the company to ask for money.

In March this year, the Fuling District People’s Court of Chongqing held a hearing on the case in accordance with the law and sentenced Huang to ten years in prison for extortion and a fine of 50,000 yuan. His wife, Lv Moumou, was sentenced to two years in prison, suspended, and fined 5,000 yuan for helping Huang Moumou receive stolen money. At the same time, the court ordered the two to compensate the company for all losses.

Create a good business network environment

"Spreading rumors with one mouth will break your legs in defending rights." Through this typical case, we noticed that the crime cost of spreading rumors and slandering enterprises on the Internet is very low, but the cost of corporate rights protection is relatively high.

In recent years, the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the Ministry of Public Security, the Central Cyberspace Administration and other departments have taken various measures to severely crack down on illegal and criminal activities that use cyber violence to make money, and effectively strengthen judicial protection of corporate interests and reputations.

In March this year, the Central Cyberspace Administration of China deployed a special campaign to “clear and optimize the business network environment – ​​rectify information chaos involving corporate infringements”. Focus on rectifying issues such as smearing and defaming the image and reputation of enterprises and entrepreneurs without factual basis, fabricating and disseminating false information, seeking illegal benefits through extortion, interfering with the normal production and operation order of enterprises, and maliciously hyping public information related to enterprises. It is required that website platforms and accounts that "commit crimes against the wind" and with serious circumstances should be strictly punished in accordance with the law, and various typical cases should be publicly exposed, so as to effectively create a good business network environment.

In October 2023, the Supreme People's Court issued typical cases involving the protection of the personality rights of private enterprises and private entrepreneurs, covering the fabrication and dissemination of false information by Internet self-media to harm the reputation of private enterprises, smearing enterprises or enterprise products, and false claims by competitors in the same industry without factual basis. Complaints about commercial defamation and other illegal phenomena provide guidance for courts in hearing similar cases.

A few days ago, the Supreme People's Procuratorate issued five typical cases of punishing in accordance with the law the use of cyber violence to infringe on the legitimate rights and interests of enterprises. The case involves crimes such as using the Internet to extort companies, damaging business reputation, and provoking quarrels and provoking troubles. It sends a strong signal to the whole society that crimes of cyber violence that harm companies should be severely punished in accordance with the law and resolutely change the phenomenon of low illegal costs and high rights protection costs.

Zhu Lisa, Deputy Procurator-General of the People’s Procuratorate of Fuling District, Chongqing: Currently, the procuratorate is carrying out a special campaign of “Procuratorial Protection of Enterprises”. Relying on case handling, we also conduct in-depth analysis of the causes and social governance issues behind this type of cyber violence that harms businesses. Actively strengthen the docking with cyberspace, public security and other departments, constantly improve the reporting channels for online illegal and criminal activities, effectively strengthen the management of enterprise-related information content on the Internet, promptly and effectively curb the occurrence of such cyber violence, and ensure a clear cyberspace. Help build a legal business environment.

At the same time, relevant departments also remind enterprises that if they encounter online rumors and online violence, they can make complaints and reports through the reporting hotline 12377 or the reporting website established by the Central Cyberspace Administration of China’s Illegal and Bad Information Reporting Center, or report the relevant situation through the 12309 Procuratorial Service Center .