At present, the crime of telecommunication and network fraud has become a prominent illegal crime with many cases, rapid increase, wide coverage, and strong reactions from the people.
Under the great attention of the Party Central Committee and the strong governance of relevant departments, the number of cases filed by public security organs across the country has dropped year-on-year for nine consecutive months since June last year, and the rapid rise in telecommunications and network fraud cases has been effectively curbed.
Although the anti-fraud has achieved remarkable results, the situation is still severe and complex, and a governance pattern of "one game of chess across the country" must be established.
The national integrated combat mode has achieved remarkable results, and the funds involved in the case have been urgently stopped to pay 329.1 billion yuan in the past year.
Du Hangwei, deputy minister of the Ministry of Public Security, said that in the past year, the Ministry of Public Security has coordinated and directed all localities to fight as a whole, and has organized 150 nationwide cluster campaigns.
For example: to organize and carry out the "cut-off" project in conjunction with the National Immigration Administration, destroy 12,000 illegal exit gangs, and arrest 51,000 smuggling suspects; Continue to promote the "break card" operation, destroy 42,000 "two card" illegal and criminal gangs, and investigate and punish 440,000 criminal suspects.
Due to the powerful crackdown, the number of people who went abroad to commit crimes against China has been greatly reduced.
Reporter Banyuetan learned from the border city of Yunnan that local public security organs have dispatched staff to set up special classes in key border areas of Yunnan, continue to carry out persuasion work, minimize the number of criminals in overseas dens, and educate people abroad to persuade fraudsters to return. 210,000 personnel.
Liu Zhongyi, director of the Criminal Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, said that the Ministry of Public Security, relying on the inter-ministerial joint meeting mechanism of the State Council, has dispatched several working groups to key countries and regions such as Cambodia, the United Arab Emirates, and northern Myanmar to carry out international law enforcement cooperation in the past year. The suspects were repatriated from abroad; 36,000 fraud suspects returning from related countries in Southeast Asia were arrested, and 15,000 cases were solved.
At present, after the deep integration of big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and other technological means with the prevention and control of telecom network fraud, a "firewall" against telecom network fraud has been built.
The Ministry of Public Security instructs all localities to establish a hierarchical linkage dissuasion mechanism.
In the past year, the National Anti-Fraud Center has directly sent 40.67 million early warning orders across the country, and various localities have used public security big data to generate 41.7 million early warning clues, successfully preventing 61.78 million people from being deceived; together with relevant departments, they have increased technical countermeasures, upgraded and optimized interception The system established a fast and dynamic blocking mechanism, improved the payment stop and freeze mechanism, successfully blocked 1.95 billion fraudulent calls and 2.14 billion text messages, blocked 2.106 million fraudulent domain names and URLs, and urgently stopped payment of 329.1 billion yuan of funds involved in the case.
Consolidate responsibility and promote the implementation of "prevention and control" measures
The number of registered cases has dropped year-on-year for nine consecutive months since June last year, which greatly encouraged many police officers.
The momentum of anti-fraud of the whole people and the whole society has never been so huge, and a high degree of consensus has been formed in all aspects.
The promotion at the national level is more powerful.
Du Hangwei introduced that the Ministry of Public Security, relying on the inter-ministerial joint meeting mechanism of the State Council, implemented the system of interview warning, red and yellow card warning and listing rectification in key fraud-related areas, issued red and yellow card warnings to 17 key cities, and jointly interviewed 20 with the Central Political and Legal Committee. The main leaders of the party and government in key counties and districts; the main responsibilities of the local party committee and government are pressed and consolidated, and the management and control work is promoted to be included in the important content of safety construction; together with the National Immigration Administration, strictly implement the exit control measures, strictly manage the issuance of documents, and strengthen the port inspection in key directions. Check and dissuade, effectively cut off border smuggling channels, and prevent a large number of fraudsters from attempting to go out of the country to engage in illegal and criminal activities.
Squeeze crime space through industry governance.
The Legal Affairs Committee of the National People's Congress accelerated the legislative work of the Anti-Telecom and Internet Fraud Law.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology organized the three major operators to upgrade and launch the "Card Breaking Action 2.0", and successively cleaned up 77.69 million high-risk phone cards and 19.31 million industry cards.
The People's Bank of China carried out in-depth "capital chain" governance and rejected 130 million suspicious transactions.
The Central Cyberspace Administration of China, together with the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, focused on rectifying outstanding fraud-related issues in the Internet industry, effectively plugging some regulatory loopholes.
Local collaborative governance is increasingly effective.
After April 2021, the Anhui Provincial Joint Conference will increase to 27 member units, and the internal and external forces will be more cohesive.
Xiong Meng, deputy head of the third team of the Criminal Investigation Detachment of the Kunming Public Security Bureau, said that the industry and units are more proactive than before: "Kunming Municipal Office Affairs Administration, China Construction Bank Yunnan Branch, and Yunnan Minzu University have all taken the initiative to communicate with work or invite opposition. Fraud lecture."
The anti-fraud atmosphere of the whole people is warm, and the potential to mobilize the masses is gradually emerging.
In tourist attractions, various office halls, real estate transaction centers and other places, you can often see policemen who invite the masses to install anti-fraud "firewalls".
As of April 2022, the National Anti-Fraud Center App has received a total of 14.66 million clues reported by the masses, and warned the masses 230 million times.
The anti-fraud situation is still severe and should not be underestimated
The crime of telecommunication and network fraud seriously infringes upon the vital interests and property safety of the people. Some people go bankrupt after being deceived, and some enterprises stop work and go bankrupt after being deceived.
At present, the rapidly rising trend of telecommunication and network fraud crimes has been effectively curbed, but the situation is still severe and complex and cannot be taken lightly.
In 2020, public security organs across the country cracked a total of 322,000 telecom and network fraud cases and arrested 361,000 criminal suspects.
From April 2021 to April this year, this figure has risen to 394,000 cases and 634,000 cases.
Under the circumstance that China has stepped up its efforts to crack down on electronic fraud crimes, criminal dens have accelerated to move abroad.
At present, in Cambodia, the Philippines, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, northern Myanmar and other countries and regions, there are still a large number of criminal gangs committing fraudulent activities to our citizens.
The head of the group uses overseas chat software to direct domestic personnel to engage in various crimes such as App production and development, drainage and promotion, trading information, money transfer and money laundering, and the domestic and overseas connections are closely connected.
Liu Zhongyi said that the new type of cyber crime represented by telecommunication network fraud has become a mainstream crime, and telecommunication network fraud is no longer a simple social security issue, but a complex social governance problem.
The incidence of telecommunication network fraud in the world's major developed countries is also increasing rapidly, becoming a new type of global cybercrime combat and governance problem.
At the same time, many new features have appeared in the crime of telecommunication and network fraud.
Some fraud groups closely follow social hotspots, tailor-made fraud "scripts" for different groups, and improve the success rate through precise fraud.
At present, there are more than 50 types of fraud discovered by the public security organs. Among them, online rebates, fake investment and wealth management, fake online loans, pretending to be customer service, and pretending to be public prosecutors are the 5 main types of fraud, especially the rebate fraud and fake investment platforms. Cases of a combination of fraud occur frequently, and major cases of defrauding more than one million yuan have occurred from time to time.
With the advancement of science and technology, the offensive and defensive confrontation is constantly escalating and changing.
Fraud groups use new technologies and new formats such as blockchain, virtual currency, AI, GOIP, remote control, and screen sharing to continuously update and upgrade criminal tools, and the offensive and defensive confrontation with the public security organs in terms of communication networks and transfer money laundering is constantly intensifying and escalating.
From the perspective of communication network channels, the use of fake apps to commit fraud has accounted for 60% of all cases. Fraudsters use a large number of seconds dial, VPN, cloud voice calls, as well as foreign operators' phone cards, SMS platforms, and communication lines to commit fraud.
From the perspective of capital channels, the proportion of traditional three-party payment and public account money laundering has been reduced. A large number of benchmark platforms and digital currency are used for money laundering, and the use of USDT (Tether) is the most serious harm.
Criminals also forge fraudulent funds into normal corporate and personal financial transactions, or use virtual currency, underground banks and other channels to try to avoid monitoring and interception, making it more difficult to crack down.
Constructing a "National Game of Chess" Governance Pattern
At present, there are still some local anti-fraud centers in the country that do not have a physical structure or organization, and some anti-fraud exploration and innovation work cannot be carried out due to limited manpower; fraud crimes; some processes of collection, recording, comparison, early warning, and crackdown are still not smooth, lack of professional electronic evidence extraction, pseudo base station positioning, video retrieval and other equipment; in some places, anti-fraud work has almost become "a public security organ. It is still inconvenient for public security organs to publicize anti-fraud in enterprises and schools.
There is no doubt that the prevention and control of new types of cyber crimes represented by telecommunication network fraud crimes is a "must-answer" for my country's social governance capabilities and system construction.
As a complex system engineering, it is necessary to build a governance pattern of "one game of chess across the country".
It is necessary to incorporate anti-fraud publicity work into the comprehensive management system, and strengthen the supervision responsibility of key regions, departments, industries and relevant persons in charge.
Give full play to the role of the joint meeting system at all levels to combat new crimes on telecommunications networks, organize and coordinate each member unit to combine the responsibilities of the system, strengthen publicity and education for internal cadres and workers, and carry out daily publicity for service management objects.
Li Xiaokai, an associate professor at the School of Criminal Justice, China University of Political Science and Law, believes that coordinating the establishment of an integrated case-handling platform for telecommunication and network fraud crimes, scientifically merging and classifying cases, and rationally assigning specific main investigation agencies will help optimize the allocation of police forces and improve the efficiency of case handling. .
In view of the increasingly industrialized and collectivized characteristics of fraud groups, in the fight against fraud, it is necessary to precisely focus on the cross-regional, cross-departmental, and cross-domain characteristics of such crimes.
Most regions in China have incorporated anti-fraud and anti-fraud into the "grid management platform", making it a basic work for the community; some regions have taken the lead in setting up new crime research and operations centers, using big data, cloud computing and other investigative methods to combat new crimes such as electrical fraud .
These effective practices and experiences deserve further promotion.
As long as the governance pattern of "one game of chess in the whole country" is firmly established, the crackdown on telecommunication and network fraud crimes is maintained, and the effectiveness of the crackdown is continuously consolidated and deepened, the people's war against fraud can be won.
Source: "Ban Yue Tan Internal Edition" Issue 8, 2022
Banyue Talks Reporter: Xiong Feng, Wang Yan, Zhai Xiang