Yancheng police detected more than 5,000 female anchors involved in a very large online dating fraud case
Xincheng, Yancheng, June 16th (Reporter Gu Hua correspondent Chen Xi) used the guise of "making friends in the same city" and "single looking for objects" to attract male users to install registered apps, and then "video chat" and "meet offline". In the name of lure the victim to recharge and carry out fraud... On June 16, the reporter learned from the Public Security Bureau of Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province that the city police successfully detected a large-scale online fraud in the operations of "punishing theft and defrauding" and "net net 2020". In the case, 242 suspects were arrested, and the amount involved exceeded 150 million yuan.
In March this year, Mr. Shen of Binhai Yancheng reported to the police that he had been scammed on a dating platform. When browsing a short video app, he downloaded an app based on the advertisements pushed, and many "beauties" sent messages to chat with him.
"The location sent by the other party is nearby, and it feels quite real." When Mr. Shen wanted to reply, the input box was blocked by the recharge prompt box. According to the prompt, Mr. Shen recharged the membership fee of 69 yuan. After recharging, he chatted for a few minutes. The platform prompted the need to continue to recharge 139 yuan, and continued to chat for ten minutes. The platform also prompted the need to continue to recharge. Mr. Shen felt deceived.
The police arrested the scene. Photo courtesy of the police
After receiving the report, the Yancheng police analyzed the flow of funds involved and found that the stolen money was remitted to a company in Beijing. After investigation, the company involved has more than 3,000 WeChat collection accounts and more than 300 Alipay collection accounts for fund transfer. The company's monthly capital flow reaches tens of millions of yuan, the total amount involved exceeds 150 million yuan, and the number of victims exceeds 10,000 .
"Through analysis, it was found that the victims were distributed all over the country." In the follow-up investigation, the police found that there were multiple victims in Yancheng. Then the police set up a task force and found a large corporate telecommunications fraud gang, with dens distributed in multiple cities.
According to the police, many apps developed by a Beijing company use obscure promotional language and pictures of beautiful women to attract users to install and register, and use the written programs to pretend to be female users and send hello messages such as "want to make friends and want to know" to the users. When the victim is "hooked", the anchor within the gang or on behalf of the gang will pretend to be a female member and conduct voice and video chats with the victim.
"There are currently more than 5,000 female anchors involved in the case, ranging in age from 20 to 50." Lu Shi, the policeman handling the case, said that the company involved had hired anchors and arranged special words to convince the victims that the APP had many real "want to make friends" "Beauty."
In order to attract more people to register and use the APP, the company also has a software promotion team. Through various network platforms, it chooses to place ads in areas with strong consumption power and high fraud success rate. Millions.
After investigating the gang organization system and locking up relevant criminal evidence, on June 8th, Yancheng police launched a network collection operation in Beijing, Xi'an, Hangzhou and other places, and successfully arrested 242 suspects headed by Yan and Yang. Several laptops and mobile phones used in the crime were seized on the spot.
"Most of the personnel responsible for technology development are highly educated talents, and some people do not even know that they have become accomplices of telecommunications fraud gangs." After preliminary interrogation, the police found that the level and division of labor of the scam gang were clear, and its internal functions not only set up overseas business , Anchor agent team, financial team, customer service team, etc., and even someone in charge of R&D client and product design.
At present, the case is still under investigation. (Finish)