China News Service, Beijing, April 2 (Guo Chaokai) The Ministry of Public Security of China held a press conference in Beijing on the 2nd.
Li Bei, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Public Security, said at the meeting that in 2020, public security agencies across the country have uncovered 322,000 telecommunications network fraud cases, recovering a total of 187.6 billion yuan in losses (RMB, the same below).
In recent years, the Internet economy and the telecommunications industry have developed rapidly. While vigorously promoting economic and social development, they have also become an important platform for criminals to commit crimes.
At present, telecommunications network fraud has become the fastest growing criminal crime.
Li Bei said that the party committee of the Ministry of Public Security deployed the national public security organs to take the initiative and comprehensively implemented policies to combat and prevent telecommunications network fraud and achieved significant results in stages.
In 2020, the public security organs cracked a total of 322,000 telecommunications network fraud cases, arrested 361,000 criminal suspects, eliminated 11,000 criminal gangs involving "two cards", blocked 1.6 million fraudulent domain names and websites, and discouraged 8.7 million. People were saved from being deceived, and a total of 187.6 billion yuan was recovered.
Recently, the Ministry of Public Security held a national public security organ’s on-the-spot meeting on combating and preventing telecommunications network fraud in Xiamen City, Fujian Province, summing up anti-fraud work experience, and making specific arrangements to further advance the work of preventing and preventing telecommunications network fraud, focusing on four Aspects of work: First, we will always maintain a strict crackdown and increase the intensity of clue research, judgment and verification. The Ministry of Public Security will list all cases with a loss of more than 1 million yuan as supervised cases, and organize large-scale cases.
The second is to further promote the "Card Broken" operation, destroy the nationwide card collection and sales network, and cut off the "two cards" transmission channels overseas.
The third is to comprehensively deepen prevention and governance, deepen the supervision of key industries, the listing and rectification of key areas, and the introduction of anti-fraud propaganda into the community.
The fourth is to effectively manage and control fraud-related personnel, prevent outflows to commit crimes to the greatest extent, and resolutely prevent exits to commit crimes.
Affected by a variety of factors, the current cases of loan fraud, part-time order fraud, impersonation of customer service refunds, and "killing pig disk" fraud cases occur frequently.
Li Bei reminded the public to "do not click more than one", that is, "don't click on unknown links, don't trust unfamiliar calls, don't disclose personal information, and verify more transfers and remittances", and earnestly guard their "pockets."
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