The Guangzhou police reported on January 4 that the Public Transport Branch of the Guangzhou Public Security Bureau (hereinafter referred to as the Public Transport Branch) had destroyed a criminal syndicate that used to increase credit card limits to commit fraud. The case involved 920 victims in 30 provinces and municipalities across the country. The amount involved Up to 16.8 million yuan (RMB, the same below).
The police launched investigations, evidence collection and network collection operations in Guangdong, Hunan, Hebei, Liaoning, Heilongjiang and other places.
The suspect initially stated that his gang used a "phishing" website disguised as the bank's official website to send fraudulent text messages to trick the victim into applying for credit cards, increasing the limit or loan to obtain relevant information, and then binding the victim's bank card to the mobile phone for the crime. Relevant payment functions can use cardless cash withdrawal or POS machine swiping to withdraw the victim's funds.
According to statistics, the police successively arrested 8 suspects and seized 346 mobile phones and 16 POS machines.
Up to now, the police have arrested 7 suspects in accordance with the law, successfully prevented the huge losses of more than 600 of them, and frozen 78 Alipay and bank card accounts under the names of gang members and the inflow of funds.
At present, the series of cases are still under further investigation and evidence collection.
(Fang Weibin Gong Xuan)
Material: Provided by Guangzhou Police
Editor in charge: [Tian Boqun]