The Paper's senior reporter Li Jing
The WeChat group "learning to speculate in stocks" is actually fraudulent, college students "part-time" during the winter vacation have become accomplices, and there are gangs in addition to the gangs... A fraud case led to a number of telecommunications crime chains, and 2 telecommunications fraud "drainage" gangs of more than 40 people were finally arrested.
From November 9 to 10, the Shanghai Hongkou District People's Procuratorate initiated a public prosecution in the Case of Illegal Use of Information Networks and held a public hearing at the Hongkou District People's Court.
In the WeChat group, 8 people learned to speculate in stocks, and 8 people were defrauded of more than 5 million yuan
In January 2021, Mr. Xu, a Shanghai resident, received a phone call from a self-proclaimed "customer service staff of a securities company" who invited him to enter the stock exchange WeChat group, saying that there were professional stock analysts in the group. After Mr. Xu joined, he followed the guidance of the group, downloaded a stock investment software, and invested more than 1.9 million yuan in it. But soon after, the withdrawal channel was closed and the app could not be opened... Mr. Xu then called the police.
The police quickly locked down Xiao Shao, the "customer service" who called and invited Mr. Xu to join the group, and through WeChat chat records and transfer records, a multi-person gang with mature operation, clear distribution of benefits and division of labor surfaced.
From December 2020 to January 2021, Yang leased a number of office locations in Chengdu, recruited many people as team leaders, and hired a number of salesmen, the content of which was to call and invite people to form WeChat groups.
After training, the salesmen took the "customer" mobile phone number and the WeChat group QR code distributed by the group leader, used fixed words, pretended to be the customer service of the securities company to make a call, invited people to enter the WeChat group, and then recommended that they add the "group assistant" WeChat. When the WeChat group is full, the group leaders ask the salesmen to leave the group, distribute the remuneration according to the number of people they invite, and then call to form a new group chat.
In two months, 8 victims were pulled into these WeChat groups and defrauded of more than 5 million yuan.
The WeChat group is a "pig farm", and there is also a home behind the upper home
After Yang arrived at the case, he confessed that the "customer' mobile phone number was purchased from illegal channels on the Internet, and the Two-dimensional Code of the WeChat group was purchased from the "Miss Li" of the upper family, and the built WeChat group would be sold back to the upper family, from which they extracted the "intermediate fee".
Not long after, "Miss Li" arrived at the case. After that, "Miss Li's" upper family "Mr. Xiong" also came to the case, and the prosecutor found that behind "Mr. Xiong", there was also the upper family...
The salesmen do only the most basic, initial "drainage" work. They did not know that the WeChat group formed by them would be sold through countless layers of houses, and eventually become a "pig farm" for fraudsters.
After January, Yang's gang was dismantled and dispersed. When the police locked down a salesman, they found that after he left the original "team", he joined Zhang's "team".
As a result, a gang with exactly the same pattern of crime was also locked in. On May 13, Shanghai police traveled to Chengdu and arrested 43 members of the two gangs in one day.
After review, Zhang's gang defrauded 5 victims of more than 900,000 yuan in the name of "recommending stock" investment. Among the two gangs, 43 criminal suspects each participated in the establishment of more than 10 to more than 30 WeChat groups, and illegal profits ranging from more than 1,000 yuan to more than 200,000 yuan.
Part-time college students during winter vacation are conditionally not prosecuted
Most of these "salesmen" are "post-95s", who have become accomplices of fraudsters due to their lack of awareness of the rule of law. The Hongkou District Procuratorate held that the above-mentioned two telecommunications crime diversion gangs, which set up communication groups for those engaged in stock investment telecommunications network fraud for carrying out fraud, both violated the criminal law, and should be investigated for criminal responsibility for the crime of illegally using the information network, so they were prosecuted.
At the same time, the criminal suspect Xiao Shao was made a conditional decision not to prosecute. Xiao Shaoshang is less than 20 years old and is a first-year student who "works part-time" during the winter vacation. Taking into account that he was still receiving education, the procurator asked Xiao Shao's parents and the school to make educational punishments and observations at school in the future, and on this premise, after public hearings and reviews, finally made a decision not to prosecute.
From November 9 to 10, the case was heard at the Hongkou District People's Court. The Surging News reporter learned from the trial that at present, the court has ruled in the first instance: The defendant in the case committed the crime of illegally using the information network, the main offender Yang was sentenced to two years in prison, Zhang was sentenced to one year and nine months in prison, and fined 20,000 yuan respectively; the remaining salesmen were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from six months to one year and three months, and fined.
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