China News Service, Mianyang, July 19 (Yang Yong, Yuebo, Chen Le) The reporter learned from the Public Security Bureau of Mianyang City, Sichuan Province on the 19th that the bureau successfully detected a trans-provincial telecom network fraud case under the guise of "redeeming mobile phone consumption points for prizes." There were 164 criminal suspects, more than 400 computers, 8 cars, and 178 mobile phones were seized. The gang defrauded thousands of victims of 1 billion points worth 10 million yuan within three months.
According to reports, Zhang Mouyun, a 33-year-old man from Jiange County, Sichuan Province, registered a "technology company" in Mianyang a few years ago. The company's headquarters is located in a commercial building on Fucheng Road. The company mainly cooperates with some telecom operators to carry out mobile phone agency services. Package upgrades, telemarketing products and other services.
In March 2020, Zhang Mouyun discovered that the points of mobile phone users can be used to redeem e-vouchers for a mobile mall platform, and a domestic telecom operator will conduct monthly settlements according to the number of "e-vouchers".
Under the temptation of huge profits, Zhang Moyun approached the company's general manager Xu to discuss and decided to take the risk and engage in telecommunications network fraud activities with "mobile phone users with more points" as the target of infringement.
Zhang Mouyun inquired through friends that a technology company in Xiamen City, Fujian Province is acting as an agent for the mobile phone point redemption business of two mobile mall platforms.
The company can help customers send the exchanged e-vouchers to the settlement platform of a telecom operator, and they will get the corresponding cash back every month.
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Photo courtesy of Mianyang Public Security Bureau
After many contacts, Zhang Mouyun successfully made his company an "offline" of the Xiamen company.
Zhang Mouyun immediately recruited “operators” on a large scale, and contacted mobile phone users through text messages and phone calls to induce victims to redeem the points in their mobile phone accounts.
On July 4, 2020, Xi Fei, a police officer from the Anti-fraud Center in Fucheng District, Mianyang City, was conducting daily inspections and found that some phone numbers were active very frequently. These abnormal numbers kept talking to unfamiliar mobile phone users, and most of them were from “tech companies”. "It's very abnormal.
Xi Fei immediately reported the clues to the Fucheng District Public Security Bureau. After a preliminary investigation by the public security organs, it was found that there was a high probability that a criminal gang engaged in telecommunications network fraud under the guise of "redeeming mobile phone consumption points for prizes" was hidden in Mianyang City.
On July 7, under the command of the Public Security Bureau of Mianyang City, the Fucheng Sub-bureau set up a task force to investigate the "science and technology company", and the project code was "7·7".
With the technical support of the Sichuan Provincial Public Security Bureau's Cyber Security Corps, the Criminal Investigation Detachment, and the Cyber Security Detachment of the Mianyang Municipal Public Security Bureau, after more than 20 days of secret investigation and evidence collection, a large-scale electronic fraud criminal group gradually emerged. The registered "technology company" is used as a cover to recruit a large number of "telephone operators" to engage in fraud and criminal activities.
On the morning of July 28, 2020, the Mianyang Public Security Bureau organized a secret assembly of more than 300 police from the Criminal Investigation Detachment, Special Patrol Detachment, Net Security Detachment, and Fucheng Sub-bureau of the Municipal Bureau.
"The net-closing operation begins!" With the order of Zhou Shu, the deputy mayor of Mianyang City and the director of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, hundreds of heavily armed police officers quickly boarded their vehicles and arrived at Fucheng Road No. 1 in the central area of Mianyang City. A commercial building surrounded the XX Technology Co., Ltd. in the building.
Company boss Zhang Mouyun, general manager Xu Mou, and employees who are expanding the business of "mobile phone points redemption", a total of 65 criminal suspects were arrested, and the public security organs seized more than 200 computers involved in the "science and technology company" in accordance with the law, and frozen the funds involved More than 3 million yuan.
The arrested "telephone operator" Xiaohong (pseudonym) confessed to the police that she had applied for work at a "technology company" more than a month ago and had to make nearly 500 calls a day to entice customers to redeem their credits for gifts.
After some operations, she will try her best to get the customer to say the verification code received, and then log in to a mobile mall provided by the Xiamen company to quickly exchange the victim's points into an electronic voucher.
When a customer asks for an e-coupon, she will follow the "routine" provided by the company, saying that the e-coupon will be fed back to the user in the form of a gift.
After stealing the merits and exchanging posts, the company took the electronic coupons as its own and made considerable profits from it.
For example, a customer’s mobile phone points were exchanged by them into an electronic coupon worth 100 yuan (for example, you can get 100 yuan in cash back by uploading to the settlement platform), but the small gift that was sent to the customer was only a "three noes" product worth more than 10 yuan, which was deceived. The person would never know that his e-coupon was dropped.
Lu Jian, a policeman from the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the Public Security Bureau of Fucheng District, is a member of the "7·7" task force. According to him, he arrived at the beginning of April 2020 by inquiring the capital flow of a "technology company" and supplemented by a telecommunications operator’s points exchange bill. In the three months before the incident in July, the gang had completed the exchange of 1 billion points, equivalent to 10 million yuan, and was deceived by thousands of people. Excluding the purchase of cheap gifts and the wages of “telephone operators”, every month The profit is as high as 2 million yuan.
As the project work progressed step by step, the police found that "technology companies" had weaved a huge electronic fraud network in Sichuan, Fujian, Hebei and other places. During the network collection operation, the police were in Guangyuan, Xichang and other places in Sichuan Province. Fifty-eight criminal suspects were arrested; in Laishui County and Yi County, Hebei Province, 41 criminal suspects were arrested.
At present, the relevant judicial procedures of this case are proceeding in an orderly manner.
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