More than 500 cities across the country acted simultaneously and arrested more than <> criminal suspects

Shanghai destroyed the extra-large "traffic drainage" black and gray industry chain

□ Yu Dongming and Zhang Haiyan, reporters of this newspaper

Recently, the Shanghai police started with a fraud case pretending to be a customer service, and after layers of analysis, research and judgment, they found a huge "traffic drainage" black and gray industry chain gang hidden all over the country. Under the unified command of the Criminal Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, the Shanghai police organized more than 1000,24 police officers to go to 500 provinces and more than 380 cities across the country, arrested more than 720 criminal suspects, seized and frozen more than <>.<> million yuan of funds involved in the case, and seized more than <> sets of computers, mobile phones and other crime equipment.

It is reported that this case is the largest crackdown on the "traffic diversion" link nationwide so far.

High-frequency overseas calls attract attention

In early March this year, the Anti-fraud Center of the Pudong Branch of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau conducted a unified review and judgment of telecommunications network fraud cases since the beginning of this year, and found that in a telecommunications network fraud case, an overseas caller contacted the victim frequently, and pretended to be a customer service staff to divert traffic to other victims many times, and then the fraudsters carried out the fraud.

With further investigation, the police discovered that the phone's login location and caller ID appeared to be overseas, but in fact it was in China, and it was a call made by a fraud gang using a virtual number.

When the user who answered the phone asked "why a foreign call", the scam gang replied: "Since we have a large number of customers, the phone is too busy, and we will call you with an Internet phone, so other regional numbers will be displayed." When the victim said that "you have not paid fees at this institution", the fraud gang responded: "Here I found that you have paid fees at educational institutions, and now you can refund it, you can add QQ group to handle it." As a result, "call drainage" guided victims into fraud traps step by step.

In this case, most of the victims had experience in consumption or financial investment in relevant educational institutions, and after using illegal means to obtain victim information, the criminal suspect used illegal means to induce drainage in response to the victim's experience, and then carried out fraud, and the victim would be deceived if he was not careful.

Corporate management to commit fraud

According to the information obtained, the Criminal Investigation Corps of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau and the Pudong Police quickly set up a special case team to trace the source and dig deeply, and sorted out and mastered the main organizational hierarchy of the black ash industry chain, which was divided into different levels from top to bottom, such as core members, "team leaders", "quality inspectors" and "operators" (customer service).

Among them, 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". The "team leader" is responsible for posting recruitment information on the online recruitment platform and recruiting part-time "operators", who are also group owners or group administrators, have several groups, and manage the "work" of available staff in the recruitment group.

Some candidates see tempting words such as "part-time at home" and "making money by calling" and sign up to become an "operator". Before taking up the post, the "team leader" will train the new "operator", teach the calling skills, and organize them to use overseas virtual call software to make calls to the "potential customers" and attract them to the designated chat group. And these "operators" are only responsible for making phone calls when they "go to work", using different phone techniques, seamlessly switching between roles such as "game customer service", "institutional customer service" and "platform customer service", and after reaching 8 hours to 10 hours of call time per day, the daily salary is about 200 yuan, and if you successfully attract 1 person to the chat group, you can get 5 yuan to 10 yuan commission.

At the same time, in order to ensure the quality of calls and supervise the "operators" to complete their work on time, the core members recruit "quality inspectors" with a daily salary of 400 yuan, and are responsible for collecting the call recordings of each "operator" every day for supervision, and identifying whether the "operator" lured the victim according to the words given by the "team leader".

In this way, the "quality inspector" supervises the "operator" and the "team leader" coordinates them to work on time, the core members manage several "team leaders", and all links of the entire drainage fraud industry are tightly organized, each performing its own duties, and intertwined. The police opened the overseas software they used and could see that "team configuration", "agent configuration", "calling grouping" and "outbound task" were all available, which was already standard enterprise management.

Multi-chain strikes do not miss a single person

Through the personnel structure of the gang, the police found that the people involved were distributed throughout the country, and the gang members mainly assigned tasks through online chat tools, and settled the salaries of employees in the form of issuing red envelopes, while the overseas fraud gang paid the core members through virtual currency. This also makes it difficult for the task force to find out the flow of funds, clarify the identity information of personnel and follow-up arrests.

"The number and scope of the people involved in this case is rare. In order to wipe out the diversion fraud gang, the special case team formulated a detailed arrest plan, coordinated with the public security organs of all provinces and cities across the country to assist in the centralized collection of the net, and ensured that the arrest operation was foolproof and no one was missed. Yin Yanlin, deputy head of the ninth detachment of the Criminal Investigation Corps of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau, said.

After the special case team carefully planned the arrest, evidence collection, interrogation, supervision and other work, the centralized network collection operation was launched, and more than 1000,24 civilian police officers were dispatched to 506 provinces and more than 27 cities across the country. After many days of multi-departmental and multi-police cooperation, the special case team arrested the first batch of 3 criminal suspects in the black ash industry chain, including <> organizers and <> technicians.

At the same time, in order to comprehensively fix the evidence, the police carried out on-site interrogation as soon as possible, and carried out on-site electronic data investigation and evidence collection on the mobile terminals involved in the case. The Pudong New Area People's Procuratorate intervened in the case in advance, coordinated with the Pudong Branch Bureau, and unified the application of law.

"According to the provisions of China's criminal law, the crimes that the suspects in this case may be involved in include the crime of fraud, the crime of concealing and concealing the proceeds of crime and the proceeds of crime, the crime of aiding information network criminal activities, and the crime of illegally using information networks. Zhu Bo, prosecutor of the Pudong New District Procuratorate, said.

It is worth noting that after further investigation by the police, it was found that the applicant already knew after taking up the job that he needed to pretend to be the customer service of educational institutions and the financial industry, and use various tactics to induce the customers on the list to join the online chat group set up in advance by the fraudsters for their subsequent fraud. Even so, the "operator" who took up the post was driven by interests, and he fell deeper and deeper step by step. What's more, because they felt that it was easy to get money, they pulled their friends and relatives into the group and fell into the net of justice together.

(Rule of Law Daily)