China News Service, Beijing, April 9th (Guo Chaokai, Zhang Ziyang) A reporter learned from the Ministry of Public Security of China on the 9th that in 2020, the nationwide crackdown on telecommunications network fraud and crime has achieved significant results.
A total of 322,000 telecommunications network fraud cases were cracked throughout the year, 361,000 criminal suspects were arrested, more than 272 billion yuan (RMB, the same below) of the funds involved in the case were stopped and 8.7 million people were dissuaded from being deceived, and economic losses were recovered. More than 187 billion yuan has effectively safeguarded the people’s property safety and legitimate rights and interests.
Data map: Police escorted suspects of telecom fraud.
Photo by Chen Chao
Since the State Council’s inter-ministerial joint meeting on cracking down on new types of telecommunications network crimes at the beginning of last year deployed and launched a new round of special crackdown actions, the Ministry of Public Security and the member units of the joint meeting have continuously strengthened investigation and crackdown, early warning and prevention, industry supervision and comprehensive management of the source. In-depth promotion of special actions.
The Ministry of Public Security has successively organized operations such as the "Great Wall" and "Cloud Sword" to capture fund owners, shovel dens, open platforms, and cut funds, and carried out 15 national centralized collections.
The public security organs, together with operators such as China Telecom, China Unicom, and China Mobile, relied on the clue quick hit mechanism to destroy 11,000 domestic fraud dens and arrested 69,000 suspects.
In order to further curb telecommunications network fraud crimes, the Ministry of Public Security, together with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the People’s Bank of China, the Supreme People’s Court, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate and the three major telecommunications operators have jointly launched a "broken card" operation.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology deployed special governance and joint supervision to rectify the stubborn illness of card collectors and sellers; the People's Bank of China launched special inspections, successively interviewed and notified more than 3,000 banks and payment institutions, and rectified within a time limit, and punished 26,000 untrustworthy people nationwide .
Up to now, a total of 12,000 "two-card" criminal gangs have been eliminated across the country, 213,000 criminal suspects have been arrested, 3.286 million mobile phone cards and 191,000 bank cards have been seized, 422 "inside ghosts" in the industry have been investigated and punished, and business operations have been punished. There are 12,000 outlets and institutions.
In order to effectively prevent fraud and illegal criminal activities, the Ministry of Public Security, the People’s Bank of China, and the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission continue to improve the work mechanism for stopping payment and freezing, and promptly push early warning information to discourage the people from being deceived; together with the Central Cyberspace Administration of China, the telecommunications department has established a normalized blocking seal The blocking mechanism blocked 1.82 million fraudulent domain names and URLs, 730 million fraudulent calls, and more than 1.5 billion short messages.
The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Public Security said that telecommunications network fraud has become the fastest-growing criminal crime that seriously affects the people's sense of security. The public security organs will further promote the "broken card" operation, severely crack down on black and gray property crimes, and resolutely curb the high incidence of telecommunication network fraud crimes. (Finish)