China News Service, Hefei, September 16 (Zhao Qiang, Huang Zheng) posing as a government leader, voluntarily added WeChat and QQ, the head of the company, to commit fraud against the head of the company under the guise of caring about the work and development of the company.

On September 14, the Public Security Bureau of Hanshan County, Anhui Province quickly cracked a fraud case posing as a "government leader" and successfully arrested the suspect.

  Recently, Fu, a resident of Hanshan County, received an application message claiming to be a “government leader” to add a WeChat friend on his mobile phone.

After adding friends, the other party used the guise of caring about the work of the company and the development of the company, and after gaining the trust of Fu, the "leader" borrowed 270,000 yuan from Fu to his relatives on WeChat for urgent use. Fu then followed the request 270,000 yuan was transferred to the account.

However, it didn't take long before Fu suddenly realized that he was deceived.

Confiscated money and seized bank card on the spot Huang Zhengshe

  On September 2, Fu rushed to the Hanshan County Public Security Bureau to report the case. At this time, the Hanshan police found that such recent cases of fraud by posing as "government leaders" were in Anhui, Guangdong, Shandong, Shanxi, Hubei and other provinces across the country. The city has a high incidence trend.

The mass losses are large and the social impact is bad.

  The Hanshan Police immediately set up a task force, on the one hand, quickly issued early warning information to the county, on the other hand, mobilized multiple police types to carry out case investigation work.

After carefully sorting out tens of thousands of data and information, the police of the task force gradually launched an in-depth investigation around clues such as the flow of funds involved in the case, and successfully identified Guangxi resident Wang (a pseudonym) as suspected of committing a major crime.

  On September 14, the police from the Hanshan Police Task Force went to Guangxi and successfully captured the suspect Wang and others, collected 50,000 yuan of stolen money on the spot, and seized more than 10 bank cards and SIM cards.

  After interrogation, the criminal suspect admitted to pretending to be a leader and defrauding victims in many parts of the country.

At present, the suspect in the case is under criminal detention and the case is under further processing.

  Police reminder: Recently, criminals have used WeChat, QQ and other forms to pretend to be government leaders to add friends, and gain the trust of the parties under the guise of caring about the work and development of the enterprise.

Later, on the grounds that his relatives needed money and the parties needed to transfer money on their behalf, they asked the business owner to help transfer money.

Many business owners in Hanshan’s jurisdiction have received similar frauds.

  The police reminded: the general public should be vigilant, do not transfer money easily, and be sure to verify the true identity of the other party before sending money.

In case of fraud, please save transfers, chat records, and other relevant information such as the other party's WeChat ID, mobile phone number, bank card number, and report to the public security organ in time.

The public security organs will continue to increase their crackdown on telecommunications network fraud and crimes.

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