China News Agency, Beijing, April 14 (Reporter Zhang Su) Liu Zhongyi, director of the Criminal Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security of China, said in Beijing on the 14th that telecommunications network fraud is not a simple social security issue, but a complex social governance problem.

With the continuous deepening of the crackdown and governance work, some new changes and new characteristics have appeared in the crime of telecommunication and network fraud, and the characteristics of transnational organizations are becoming more and more obvious.

  On the same day, the Information Office of the State Council of China held a press conference on the progress of cracking down on the crime of telecommunication and network fraud.

Liu Zhongyi said at the meeting that the fraud group is well-organized and has a clear division of labor, showing the characteristics of transnational organized crime such as multi-industry support, industrialized distribution, group operation, refined division of labor, and cross-border layout.

  He further introduced that the leaders and backbones of the group often hide abroad, under the guise of high-paying recruitment, to lure and recruit young people who have not yet been involved in the world to engage in fraud activities abroad. There are still a large number of criminal gangs committing fraudulent activities to Chinese citizens.

The head of the group uses overseas chat software to instruct domestic personnel to engage in various types of crimes such as APP production and development, drainage and promotion, trading information, money transfer and money laundering.

  In addition, Liu Zhongyi also said that in recent years, with the rapid development of the information society, the crime structure has undergone major changes, traditional crimes have continued to decline, and new types of cyber crimes represented by telecommunication network fraud have become mainstream crimes.

The incidence of telecommunication network fraud in major developed countries in the world is also increasing rapidly. Especially in the context of the new crown epidemic, people's production and life have been transferred to the Internet at an accelerated rate, which has further exacerbated the high incidence of telecommunication and network fraud crimes. It has become a global problem in combating and governance .

  Since last year, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China has launched a number of measures to combat telecommunications network fraud, such as "one-pass inspection" and 12381 SMS, which have achieved remarkable results.

Sui Jing, director of the Cyber ​​Security Administration of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China, said on the same day that the next step will be to organize and carry out special governance in the Internet field and cross-border telecommunications business, build an international import and export SMS early warning system, and launch an "anti-fraud business card" to realize the identification of calling numbers. The authoritative mark of , which can effectively identify the authenticity of the number.

  Regarding the punishment of telecommunications network fraud and related crimes, Li Ruiyi, head of the Criminal Division III of the Supreme People's Court of China, said that he will continue to insist on severe punishment of telecommunications network fraud crimes in accordance with the law, especially to work with the public security and procuratorial organs to further increase the recovery of stolen goods. We will further solve the problem of difficulty in investigating and obtaining evidence and identifying such cases.

  Du Hangwei, deputy minister of the Ministry of Public Security of China, said that in the next step, efforts to educate and persuade overseas fraudsters to return will be intensified, and exit control measures will be fully implemented. channels, and resolutely eradicate the breeding ground for crime.

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