China News Service, Shenyang, February 19 (Wang Jingwei) The Shenyang Public Security Bureau announced on February 19 that the Criminal Investigation and Anti-drug Bureau of the Shenyang Public Security Bureau recently went through a careful investigation and destroyed a WeChat account using online games to defraud overseas The criminal gang that provided help to the dens arrested 6 suspects.
"In the name of receiving game skins for free, we defrauded elementary and middle school students' WeChat IDs, and then resell them to overseas telecommunications fraud dens." According to Shenyang police, since December 2020, the police have received multiple reports of the theft of the WeChat accounts of primary and secondary school students. The stolen WeChat account was involved in many cases of telecommunications network fraud.
The police found that the theft of WeChat account was related to the same criminal gang.
The criminal gang used popular mobile games at the moment to send free "game character skins" as bait to guide the victim to join the QQ group in the game and ask the player to provide the WeChat account and password bound to the game.
Subsequently, the members of the criminal gang changed the password of the fraudulent WeChat account and sold them to overseas fraud dens at prices ranging from 100 yuan to 450 yuan per WeChat account.
On January 20, 2021, after fully grasping the criminal evidence of the gang, the police launched an operation to close the network. In an office building in Shenbei New District, Shenyang City, all six suspects headed by Ning were arrested, and the crime phone 50 was seized on the spot. The rest, 2 computers.
After investigation, since June 2020, the criminal suspect Ning Mou recruited staff on the website, pretended to be a game customer service, defrauded more than 300 WeChat accounts by the above methods, sold them to overseas fraud dens, and made more than 100,000 yuan from them. .
At present, six criminal suspects including Ning Mou have been detained by Shenyang police in accordance with the law on suspicion of helping information network criminal activities, and the case is being further processed.
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