China News Service, Changsha, January 14 (Tang Xiaoqing, Wenjian) The Changsha County Public Security Bureau of Hunan recently cracked a case of a very large “live platform” telecom fraud group.
The police disclosed on the 14th that the case arrested 184 persons suspected of “live platform” fraud; they seized hundreds of computers, mobile phones and other items involved in the crime, and dozens of boxes of financial information; freezing the funds involved in the case of millions of yuan; 3 telecommunications network fraud criminal groups.
In June 2020, the Public Security Bureau of Changsha County Bureau found a den that was suspected of using a live broadcast platform to commit telecommunications fraud. It immediately led by the Criminal Investigation Brigade, and joined forces with multiple police types and police stations to set up a "6.09" task force to fully carry out investigation work. .
The police disclosed the case.
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After more than a month of special investigations, a telecommunications fraud gang headed by Sun and Xiao emerged.
In the early morning of July 30, 2020, the task force mobilized more than 100 police officers to carry out a network collection operation, and successfully destroyed a gang that used a live broadcast platform to implement telecommunications fraud, arrested 30 suspects, detained 24 computers and more than 40 mobile phones. More than 500,000 yuan of funds involved in the case were frozen.
On October 15, 2020, by carrying out a centralized network collection of multiple dens, the police also uncovered a large-scale use of the live broadcast platform to carry out telecom fraud.
The group developed a live broadcast platform through technical personnel, recruited agents and anchors, used chat software to attract fans to the live broadcast platform in the name of dating, and used a false PK method to allow the victim to recharge and brush gifts on the live broadcast platform to commit fraud.
91 people involved in the case were arrested, 60 people were detained for criminal purposes, and hundreds of computers and mobile phones were seized.
The police showed off the crime computer.
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During the in-depth interrogation of the principal offenders of the two cases, the police obtained key clues: There are multiple similar fraud dens in Changsha.
"Through concentrated and in-depth research and judgment on clues, a very large'live platform' type of fraud group was presented." Chen Jiawei, deputy head of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the Changsha County Public Security Bureau, introduced that the criminal gang had "corporated operation", "clear division of labor" and "project-based operations." , The group is divided into management, anchor, and chat, and cooperate with each other to carry out telecommunications fraud against unspecified online groups.
The chatter uses social software such as Momo and Tantan to add the victim's WeChat friends, pretending to be the female anchor launched by the company to chat with the guests, to participate in the PK activities or task activities in the anchor’s live broadcast room. Meet or fall in love, dating and other benefits, and use this as an excuse to trick customers into recharging consumption in the live broadcast room.
After the case was reported, the Party Committee of the Changsha County Public Security Bureau mobilized elite forces to establish a "1.07" task force, which comprehensively used a variety of investigative measures to find out the organizational structure of the criminal group and the identity information of the persons involved, and dispersed the locations of multiple dens. On January 11, 2021 A centralized network collection was launched at 8 pm that day, more than 400 police forces were dispatched, and a unified operation was launched in six dens. In one fell swoop, 184 persons suspected of “live platform” fraud were arrested, and hundreds of computers and mobile phones involved in the crime were seized, as well as financial information. Dozens of boxes, freezing millions of yuan of funds involved in the case, and knocking out 3 telecommunications network fraud criminal groups.
Currently, 132 criminal coercive measures have been taken in this case.
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