Beijing has established a city-level anti-fraud center and opened the 96110 anti-fraud special line; more than 200 third-level anti-fraud teams in the city can make 70,000 persuasion calls a day
In the past five years, the Beijing police have avoided the loss of more than 15 billion yuan in the anti-fraud
Anti-fraud police are often fighting against "invisible enemies".
Fraud calls come in, and the money in the pockets of ordinary people may be defrauded at any time.
What the police can do is to "race" against the swindlers, cut off the outflow of money as quickly as possible, and recover the victims' losses to the greatest extent possible.
But in many cases, solving a case does not mean that the money can be recovered.
In telecommunications network fraud cases, early warning and interception are crucial.
Beijing police have established a city-level anti-fraud center, opened the 96110 anti-fraud special line, 16 public security sub-bureaus have established a second-level anti-fraud center, and the third-level anti-fraud teams of more than 200 police stations in the city can dispatch 70,000 calls a day to intercept Discourage calls.
"You can't run after the liar's butt any more, and your work must be advanced." The police carried out anti-fraud propaganda in different ways, handing out flyers in the square, giving lectures in universities, going to the residential community to mingle with uncles and aunts, and appearing on TV. , do live broadcasts, shoot short videos...
From solving cases and arresting people, to early warning and interception, from emergency payment stoppage to anti-fraud propaganda, in the past five years, Beijing police have made "anti-fraud" an important livelihood project. The loss of more than 15 billion yuan was avoided, and nearly 600 million yuan of funds involved in the case were returned accumulatively.
"You can't run after the liar anymore, work must be ahead"
Since 2012, Xu Xiaochao has been "fighting" with the telecommunications network fraud criminal gang.
At that time, he was a police officer of the Criminal Investigation Detachment of the Haidian Public Security Bureau, and was later transferred to the Criminal Investigation Corps of the Beijing Public Security Bureau. He is currently the Deputy Squadron Leader of the Sixth Detachment of the Corps.
Compared with the current cases of electrical fraud, Xu Xiaochao used "simple and rude" to describe the fraudulent methods of criminals at that time - mostly "pretending to be a military police", "guess who I am", "impersonating a kidnapper" and other routines.
They conduct preliminary investigation and judgment based on the police clues, and then go to the area where the suspect is located to carry out follow-up, evidence collection and arrest.
Xu Xiaochao introduced that at that time, the distribution of fraud gangs was relatively concentrated, and online payment and online transactions were far less developed than they are now. The victims who were defrauded eventually had to go to the ATM to withdraw cash. Therefore, the breakthrough of the case often came from the fraudsters "withdrawing money" that ring.
It is difficult for Xu Xiaochao to tell when the number of telecom and network fraud cases and the amount of money involved began to rise, but the number of business trips he made to arrest people has become more frequent since 2013 and 2014.
The difficulty of cracking down on electronic fraud criminals is also increasing year by year. The scale of criminal gangs is expanding, and the crime scene is more hidden. Mountains, jungles and reliable neighbors are all cover for criminals.
The convenience of online banking, online payment, and the diversity of social networks make the situation even more complicated.
Guo He, who started work in 2008, is now the deputy director of the Tuanhe Police Station of Daxing Public Security Bureau. He has been working at the grassroots level for a long time. He can clearly feel that in the past ten years, there have been high incidences of robbery, burglary, and theft at the community level. Criminal cases are decreasing year by year, but the patterns of telecommunication and network fraud cases are emerging one after another. "All the people's livelihood concerns or new social trends can become the entry point for fraudsters. In the past two years, some fraudsters have used epidemics, vaccines, and nucleic acid testing to defraud. , many residents are unable to guard against it.”
Wang Jia of Chaoyang District Anti-Fraud Center was deeply impressed by an elderly aunt who was defrauded of more than 1 million yuan in 2018. Until now, she couldn't stop crying when she mentioned it. Wang Jia could only enlighten her patiently. .
"Telecom fraud does so much harm to people that victims may never be able to forgive themselves and return to normal life."
Gao Shan, a policeman from the Beijing Anti-Fraud Center, always receives an elderly man in his 70s. She suffered a telecommunications fraud in 2018. The more than 5 million yuan defrauded was mortgaged on two housing loans of her own, which has not been recovered so far.
The old man often took the bus for more than an hour to the Criminal Investigation Corps to inquire about the progress of the case. She told Gao Shan that she knew that there was little hope of getting the money back, but the house was gone, so she could only rent a house, and her son and daughter-in-law were also deceived because of her. Opinion, "You said where else can I go, why don't I come to you to complain."
The most worrying thing about this type of case is that solving the case does not mean that the money can be recovered.
Su Xingbo, head of the Tenth Detachment of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau, is also in charge of preventing telecommunications and network fraud. He said that most of the money these criminals defrauded were quickly squandered, and it was difficult to recover the victims' losses from them.
When he happily informed the reporter that "the case has been solved", the other party asked him, "What about my money?" Su Xingbo was speechless.
"You can't run after the liar's ass anymore, and the work must be advanced."
Anti-fraud police are always ready to "rob people" with liars
In November 2015, the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau established the country's first provincial-level anti-telecommunication network fraud crime center.
In January of the following year, authorized by the Ministry of Public Security, the "Ministry of Public Security's Investigation and Control Center for Combating and Governing New Types of Illegal and Criminal Telecommunication Networks" was also established in Beijing. wait for work.
With the continuous advancement of technology, more and more victims who have received fraudulent calls can be accurately located. The Beijing Anti-Fraud Center finds out which people are experiencing telecommunication network fraud, and will push the warning information to the local anti-fraud center. Provide warnings to the masses.
In May 2018, the anti-fraud center in Chaoyang District, Beijing was established. Wang Jia took the lead and four other police officers became the first members of the anti-fraud center.
How to make the "brainwashed" party believe that he is the real policeman and see that the other party is a fake policeman?
How to contact the party and prevent him from sending money in the face of the party who diverts or shuts down the phone call under the inducement of the liar?
It's the conundrum that surrounds them every day.
Wang Jia recalled that on the second day of the establishment of Chaoyang Anti-Fraud Center, she encountered a case of telecommunications fraud posing as a public prosecutor.
She called Ms. Cui, the client, but was picked up by a man. The other party said that Ms. Cui was his wife and was not deceived. Wang Jia was relieved and then hung up.
These remarks aroused Wang Jia's suspicion. "The man who answered the phone had a southern accent, and he had been reluctantly speaking Mandarin, and repeatedly emphasized that 'my wife was not deceived.'" The "beep" sound was different, and she speculated that Ms. Cui's phone had been diverted.
Call forwarding can only forward incoming calls, but not text messages.
Wang Jia started texting to "bomb" Ms. Cui, "Now it's a fake police officer who is writing you a record, call 110 to call the police" "Don't make a loan, they're a liar, you don't have any criminal record"... Thirty or forty text messages After sending it out, Wang Jia received a call from Ms. Cui, and before Ms. Cui could speak, she raised her voice and reminded loudly, "The person who called you just now was a liar, and your call was transferred, so you can't be lied to! "
Before she finished speaking, Ms. Cui cried out with a "wow".
Ms. Cui told Wang Jia that she received a call saying that she was suspected of being involved in a money laundering case, and she was very scared. She had already transferred all deposits to a bank card according to the request of the other party, and prepared a room in the hotel to communicate with the "police" using QQ. Taking the transcript, luckily I saw the message from Wang Jia, and the money in the bank card has not been transferred to the liar.
In the eyes of the anti-fraud policemen, their work is like "robbing people" with liars, and each side has a site, "see who can pull more ordinary people into their own site."
The city can intercept 70,000 fraudulent calls in a single day
In addition to the Beijing Anti-fraud Center and the anti-fraud centers of district-level sub-bureaus, in recent years, various police stations in Beijing have also made anti-fraud work a top priority.
"Hello, this is the Daxing Anti-Fraud Center of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau. Did you receive a strange call at 1:11 pm? It was a fraudulent call. Don't answer it when he calls again. You will do whatever he says. Don’t believe it, if the other party adds your WeChat or QQ, you must not agree. Have you downloaded the National Anti-Fraud APP?”
In an office less than 20 square meters in the Tuanhe Police Station of Daxing Public Security Bureau, four desks are placed against the wall in pairs. In order to reduce mutual interference, the four anti-fraud officers work facing the wall.
Their speech was crisp and fast, and they had to finish a series of dissuasive words in the shortest time and accurately judge the status of the other party.
Was he not fooled, or was he almost deceived?
Have you been "brainwashed" by the swindler, or have you transferred money to the swindler, or are you pretending to be calm with the police under the swindle of the swindler?
According to the data of the Beijing Anti-Fraud Center, the number of fraudulent calls that can be intercepted in Beijing in a single day is about 70,000, and the victims of these 70,000 calls need to be contacted by anti-fraud personnel one by one. On the third-level anti-fraud team of more than 200 police stations in the city.
The anti-fraud team at the Tuanhe Police Station makes more than 250 persuasion calls every day.
In April of this year, they received a fraud warning message pretending to be a public prosecutor. A lady in the jurisdiction was answering a fraudulent call. The call time had been 20 minutes, and the 96110 anti-fraud hotline could not be reached.
For experienced anti-fraud police officers, this is a red flag. The victim is likely to have been "brainwashed" and the call has already been diverted.
Anti-fraud officer Li Shuyang quickly obtained the victim's home address. He immediately called the police, and on the way, he urgently contacted the anti-fraud center of Daxing Public Security Bureau to implement a protective freeze on the victim's bank card.
When Li Shuyang came to the door, the victim was on a video call with the liar. She believed in the "Harbin police" on the phone, but suspected Li Shuyang who came to dissuade her.
Li Shuyang took out his credentials and immediately interrupted the screen sharing between the victim and the liar, saying, "Which 'branch' are you from! Dare to make a video with me?" The other party took the initiative to hang up the video.
Afterwards, Li Shuyang helped the victim to cancel the mobile call forwarding, verified the bank card, verification code and other information, and determined that the 700,000 yuan in the card had not been taken away by the fraudster.
Such "fighting battles" are staged almost every day.
It is not easy to bring back the victims who have been "brainwashed" by liars, and misunderstanding and abuse are inevitable.
Li Shuyang mentioned that there was a female dissuader who was scolded and cried by the victim, but she still did not give up the dissuasion, and patiently asked the other party for the details of the fraud.
The reality is that early warning and interception cannot guarantee that all frauds will be blocked, and the "battle" cannot be won every game.
Sometimes, when the interception call is made, the victim is silent for a while, and then bursts into tears after realizing it.
Guo He remembers an old man who was deceived by making friends online. When he found out that the situation was wrong and called the police, he had been in contact with the other party for a year.
Guo He said that for such victims, they usually keep in touch, on the one hand to follow up on the progress of the case, on the other hand to prevent the elderly from being defrauded twice.
According to the police's previous data, they found that in the hands of criminals, there is a list of "easily deceived people", and those who are successfully deceived are often easy to be deceived next time. Even online gambling, it is not uncommon for a victim to be defrauded multiple times."
Simultaneous anti-fraud promotion
The more victims they come into contact with, the more the anti-fraud police officers realize that the work has to “go forward”.
In parallel with case detection, early warning reminders, and emergency payment stoppages, there is also anti-fraud publicity.
Since 2021, Gaoshan has become a full-time anti-fraud publicity police officer of the Beijing Anti-Fraud Center. He has begun to frequently leave the unit, enter the community, and enter the school to explain anti-fraud knowledge to the public and teach everyone how to protect their wallets.
This is quite a challenge for Takayama.
An anti-narcotics major, he has always been less talkative, serious, and doesn't like to make public appearances. In his own words, "I am a boring person." But now, he has become the most "publicized" among his classmates.
After becoming an anti-fraud policeman, Wang Jia also forced herself from "social fear" to "social cow".
I went to the TV station to record programs, went to the community to teach the elderly, and also went to the campus to give lectures to college students. Even if I took a taxi, I did not forget to tell the driver to "don't be cheated."
Since Chaoyang Public Security Bureau established a telecom team in 2012, Wang Jia has been handling telecom and network fraud cases.
The anti-fraud propaganda has changed from "extensive" to "precise", which was discovered by Wang Jia and her colleagues bit by bit.
Previously, Wang Jia and her colleagues compiled a booklet of cases of victims being defrauded, made posters and leaflets and distributed them to the masses. As soon as they turned around, these things went into the trash can.
Su Xingbo once carried anti-fraud promotional materials in his car, and when there were a lot of people, he moved them out and distributed them to everyone anytime, anywhere.
Later, they discovered that such a "flooding" type of mission had little effect.
Now, in the face of the elderly in the community, health care products, investment and financial fraud routines are the focus of the explanation. For company employees, the content has become a case of pretending to be a boss to deceive an accountant, pretending to be a customer service provider of a charger, and falsely claiming a false credit report. , brushing fraud is the focus of prevention.
The anti-fraud policemen tried their best to "fancy" output.
Li Shuyang was assigned to Tuanhe Police Station as soon as he graduated from University. He has just been in the police for more than 3 years. After becoming an anti-fraud publicist, he returned to campus with his anti-fraud video clips.
"Don't be surprised when you fly for a big prize, there will be no pie in the sky; the judiciary has strict law enforcement and won't let you transfer money; part-time billing is tricky, cheating you with money is the purpose..." With a taste for Mandarin, Li Shuyang made a short video in the conference room of the police station with a tripod in front of him holding up his mobile phone.
He also used H5 technology to make anti-fraud promotional animations, which exploded the circle of friends of young people, and the effect was much better than static image and text matching.
Gao Shan has also tried various forms of anti-fraud propaganda, participated in public welfare environmental protection activities and rode the Beijing Second Ring Road, made fashion blockbusters with film and television stars, and once starred in a short video with a group of "meow stars" that became a hot search. .
His task is to stage an anti-fraud propaganda sitcom anytime, anywhere, in combination with different occasions and for different groups of people.
"National Anti-Fraud" Subtly Affects Everyone
In the second half of 2021, the number of telecommunications network fraud cases and the amount involved in the Chaoyang Public Security Bureau will both decrease.
The emergence of this "inflection point" made Wang Jia excited. "The effectiveness of anti-fraud publicity work is gradually showing, and the national anti-fraud is subtly affecting everyone's life."
Guo He said that the front desk staff of hotels and guesthouses in the jurisdiction have received anti-fraud publicity training.
This year, a staff member of a pedicure shop in Daxing District reported to the police that when a person entered the door, he found an empty room, and he did not need pedicure services, so he made a phone call himself, suspected of being involved in telecom fraud.
The police came to the door and found that it was true, and immediately stopped and stopped.
Gao Shan is the group owner of 34 WeChat groups, including more than 5,000 community policemen in various communities in Beijing, and teachers and staff responsible for security work in the city's universities, middle schools, and primary schools, as well as leaders of communities and enterprises.
Everyone shares new cases in the group at any time, and Gao Shan is responsible for collecting and promoting good anti-fraud videos and articles.
With these 34 groups as the center, the group members continue to radiate the anti-fraud content to the outside, forming the fourth-level anti-fraud force in Beijing following the city-level anti-fraud center, the branch anti-fraud center, and the police station anti-fraud team.
According to Gao Shan, more than ten colleges and universities in Beijing have set up their own anti-fraud teams, including teachers and student leaders, responsible for the school's anti-fraud publicity and primary anti-fraud persuasion.
The anti-fraud publicity has been quite effective, but "people are even harder to catch."
Xu Xiaochao and his colleagues have traveled to Japan, Europe, and Southeast Asia to fight criminals under the unified deployment of the Ministry of Public Security since 2017.
Among them, in 2018, my country and European countries jointly launched the police law enforcement cooperation operation against telecommunication network fraud for the first time. The cyber fraud criminal group captured 76 Taiwanese criminal suspects and escorted them back to Beijing, where they completed follow-up trials, inspections and appraisals, and transfer for review and prosecution.
In recent years, the crackdown on the domestic electronic network fraud black and gray industry is a major blow to the fraudsters.
Xu Xiaochao introduced that although most of the criminal gangs that carried out the fraud were overseas, many links in the fraud process were assisted by domestic criminals.
For example, providing fraud gangs with bank cards for money laundering and distributing stolen goods, telephone cards for contacting victims, building illegal signal transfer tools, and organizing money laundering "water houses", etc. These are called the black and gray industrial chain of telecommunications network fraud cases. , is the "accomplice" of the fraud gang.
In 2020, Beijing police cracked the country's first criminal case of selling mobile phone cards and arrested 32 suspects.
Xu Xiaochao introduced that the gang involved in the case organized and sold more than 7,500 mobile phone cards, involving 176 telecommunications fraud cases across the country, involving a total amount of more than 13 million yuan.
According to data released by the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau in May this year, in the past five years, the number of telecommunications network fraud cases solved and the number of suspects arrested have increased significantly, avoiding losses of more than 15 billion yuan, and accumulatively returning nearly 600 million yuan of funds involved.
Beijing News reporter Zhang Jingshu intern Wang Xiaochen