Recently, the Xiangtan police in Hunan released a case of "killing pigs" telecom fraud.
On June 23 last year, the Xiangtan Public Security Bureau received a report stating that some citizens were defrauded by means of "killing pigs" through futures and stock trading. After multiple investigations, the police finally eliminated the fraud gang, and 26 people were involved in the case. All the suspects were arrested, 59 victims were located in 14 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, and the loss amounted to more than 6.69 million yuan.
Ms. Huang from Xiangtan, Hunan, is a stock investor. During a stock exchange with friends, she was drawn into a stock trading group known as an expert, and then she was drawn into a virtual group called "Changxinhui". Investment platform.
Victim Ms. Huang: At that time, only 10,000 yuan was transferred in, and I made a thousand yuan to be able to transfer out, so I didn’t even think about it.
Ms. Huang continued to invest more than 290,000 yuan after the virtual investment platform named "Changxinhui" "Investment Profits", but when Ms. Huang wanted to withdraw the money, she couldn't do it.
Hu Dingkang, captain of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the Yuetang Branch of the Xiangtan Public Security Bureau: refused to withdraw money for various reasons, such as the platform was closed today, and something went wrong with the network.
When the victim had to withdraw the money a few days later, he blocked her.
Ms. Huang felt deceived, so she hurried to call the police.
After investigation by the police, it was found that the money invested by investors in "Changxinhui" was directly transferred to another company. The investment amount displayed on the investment platform was actually a series of figures left to the backstage operation of the scammer.
In the process of implementing fraud, the entire criminal gang has a clear division of labor.
Tang Fayang, deputy director of the Xiacheng Police Station of the Yuetang Branch of the Xiangtan Public Security Bureau: (installed on the computer) automatic dialing software to dial these numbers in large quantities, and at the same time they set three levels of ABC in the robot software.
Type A is intended customers, Type B is general intended customers, and Type C is no intended customers.
They will add WeChat to A-type and B-type intended customers and general intended customers to pull them into the pre-established large group.
In the WeChat group, potential salespersons will act as support from time to time, set off the atmosphere, tout the professionalism of teachers, make customers in the group believe in teachers more, and then pull interested customers into small groups and introduce the "Changxinhui Virtual" platform , Fraud by means of reverse operations and charging fees.
Hu Dingkang, captain of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the Yuetang Branch of the Xiangtan Public Security Bureau: This stage is called "pig raising". When the victim invests a lot, the platform controller is also the company's fraudster. He thinks the victim will withdraw all the money. When going out, when there is no additional investment, all the money will be eaten up through the investment of the online platform.
After fixing the relevant evidence, in June 2020, the project team went to Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi, Sichuan and other places to arrest 26 suspects. Until April 11, 2021, the last main criminal was arrested. It is understood that 59 victims were located in 14 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, and the loss amounted to more than 6.69 million yuan. At present, the case has entered the stage of prosecution.