Zhongxin Wanghai, 5 May (Reporter Li Shuzheng) This reporter learned from the Shanghai police on 25 May that recently, the Shanghai police smashed a huge "traffic drainage" black and gray production gang and arrested 25 criminal suspects.
Shanghai police began with a fraud case impersonating customer service and discovered a huge black and gray industrial gang hidden in various parts of China. Under the unified command of the Criminal Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security of the People's Republic of China, more than 1000,500 police officers went to more than 380 cities in China, arrested more than 720 criminal suspects, seized and frozen more than <>.<> million yuan of funds involved in the case, and seized more than <> pieces of computers, mobile phones and other crime equipment.
Fu Jiongjie, deputy head of the Criminal Investigation Detachment of the Pudong Branch of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau, said that the scale of the case, the large number of arrests, and the unprecedented depth of the crackdown on the drainage link "severely deterred the arrogance of using telephone diversion to connect with telecommunications fraud crimes abroad." ”
In early March this year, the Anti-fraud Center of the Pudong Public Security Subbureau found in a telecommunications network fraud case that an overseas caller contacted the victim frequently and pretended to be a customer service staff to divert traffic to other victims on several occasions, and then the fraudsters carried out the fraud. Although the phone's login location and caller ID appeared to be overseas, the scam gang was actually using a virtual number to make calls within the country.
The special case team arrested more than 506 criminal suspects in the first batch of the black ash industry chain, including 27 black ash industry organizers and 3 technicians. Photo courtesy of Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau
To this end, the Criminal Investigation Corps of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau and the Pudong Police quickly set up a special team to trace the source and dig deeper, and sorted out and mastered the main organizational hierarchy of the industry chain, which was divided into different levels from top to bottom, such as core members, team leaders, quality inspectors, and operators (customer service).
According to the police, the core members Xue, Gu and Bao are responsible for docking with overseas fraud gangs, obtaining lists and telephone information of potential victims from abroad, and subcontracting the list to lower-level team leaders. Team leader, responsible for posting recruitment information on the online recruitment platform and recruiting part-time operators. "The team leader is also the group leader or administrator, they have several groups, each group has about 100 people, and recruits staff who are free in the group every day to 'work'." Fu Jiongjie said.
In order to ensure the quality of the call and supervise the operators to complete their work on time, the core members also recruited quality inspectors with a daily salary of 400 yuan, who were responsible for collecting the call recordings of each operator every day for supervision, and identifying whether the operators lured the victims according to the words given by the team leader. In this way, the quality inspector supervises the operators, the team leader coordinates their work on time, and the core members manage several team leaders..."All links of the drainage fraud industry are closely organized, each performing its own duties, and intertwined. Fu Jiongjie said that relying on the black ash industry of "traffic diversion", telecom fraud criminal gangs have been able to carry out "precise" fraud.
Up to now, 506 criminal suspects have been taken criminal compulsory measures by the police in accordance with the law, and the cases are still being further investigated. Photo courtesy of Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau
The people involved in the case were distributed throughout China, and the gang members mainly assigned tasks through online chat tools, and settled the salaries of employees in the form of red envelopes; Overseas fraud gangs pay core members corresponding remuneration through virtual currency.
On April 4, more than 25,1000 police officers went to more than 100 cities in China to carry out centralized network collection. The special case team arrested more than 506 criminal suspects in the first batch of the black ash industry chain, including 27 black ash industry organizers and 3 technicians. More than 720 computers and mobile phones used in the crime were seized, and more than 380.506 million yuan of illegal gains were recovered and frozen. Up to now, <> criminal suspects have been taken criminal compulsory measures by the police in accordance with the law, and the cases are still being further investigated.
Data show that since the beginning of this year, the number of completed telecom network fraud cases reported in Shanghai and the number of cases filed have continued to maintain a downward trend year-on-year. Shanghai police arrested more than 4000,160 suspects of various telecommunications network fraud black and gray property crimes, and destroyed more than <> black and gray industry criminal gangs.
More than 500 people were arrested for the huge "traffic drainage" black and gray production gang. Photo courtesy of Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau
Yin Yanlin, deputy head of the ninth detachment of the Criminal Investigation Corps of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau, said that in the next step, under the unified command of the Ministry of Public Security, the Shanghai police will base themselves on domestic and overseas attacks, further strengthen international police cooperation, and continue to increase the full-chain crackdown and punishment of telecommunications network fraud crimes. "In particular, we will step up the pursuit and arrest of fraudsters who are on the run or absconding abroad, forming a strong deterrent." Yin Yanlin said. (End)