Ningxia police smashed a telecommunications network fraud gang that specifically defrauded elementary and middle school students
Xinhua News Agency, Yinchuan, June 8 (Reporter Zhang Liang) The reporter learned from the Yinchuan City Public Security Bureau of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region that the Yinchuan City Police recently successfully killed a large inter-provincial telecommunications network fraud gang that targeted elementary and middle school students for fraud, and arrested the suspect. 16 people.
On April 8, 2020, 13-year-old Sheng Moumou, Lijun Town, Yongning County, Yinchuan City, was defrauded of paying more than 36,000 yuan by means of red envelopes. After the incident, the Yongning County Public Security Bureau arrested the criminal suspect Yang Moumou in Dongguan City, Guangdong Province on April 27, and used this as a breakthrough to consolidate more than 40 similar cases in 12 provinces, districts and cities across the country. From then on, a telecommunications network fraud gang that used primary and secondary school students as criminal targets and defrauded in a "killing fish dish" was discovered.
The police immediately set up a task force to investigate the case. After more than a month of in-depth investigation, the task force clarified the organizational structure, personnel composition and means of committing the crime of the "fish killing" group. After investigation, the suspects Ni Moumou, Yang Moumou, Gong Moumou and others used the status of the majority of elementary and middle school students in the country during the epidemic to access the mobile phone through the online class. For students with poor anti-fraud awareness and shallow life experience, through QQ, Social software such as Douyin defrauded its trust by means of red envelope rebates and birthday party benefits, and then sent WeChat and Alipay QR codes to allow primary and secondary school students to scan the code to pay, thereby defrauding their money.
On June 1, the task force transferred more than 70 police officers and divided into 10 arresting groups to go to 8 provinces and cities across the country to carry out centralized arrests. A total of 16 suspects were arrested, 31 bank cards were detained, and the funds involved were frozen at 1.875 million yuan. At present, the suspect has been escorted back to Yinchuan, and the case is being further investigated.