Xia Mouzhi "independently developed" a variety of cloud control platforms, through the Internet, instant chat tools for online sales, in just one year illegal profit of more than 26 million yuan. On November 23, 2021, the Guanyun County Court of Jiangsu Province sentenced 21 defendants, including Xia Mouzhi, Li Mou, Li Mou, and Xia Mouqiang, to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from four years to five months of detention, and fined them between 200,000 yuan and 2,000 yuan, for providing intrusive and illegally controlling computer system programs and tools, and sentenced Hu, Fu, and Yang Mouwen to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from one month to four months of detention, and fines ranging from 50,000 yuan to 1,000 yuan.
The case within the case leads to the dark curtain of cloud control
"Unsecured, unsecured, same-day lending..." In a hotel in Mong Cai City, a small city in Vietnam, Wang Moulong (who has been sentenced to three years and ten months in prison and fined 22,000 yuan for committing fraud and sneaking across the border) sits in front of a computer every day and uses WeChat to send lucrative lending information to potential "customers" in China through the MSI cloud control platform. In December 2019, because he was defrauded of 50,000 yuan by Wang Moulong when applying for an online loan, Li reported the case to the Guanyun police. On December 24, Wang Moulong was arrested and arrested.
"The traditional microfinance fraud method is not effective, can not cheat any money, MSI cloud control platform fraud effect is good, come to money quickly." According to Wang Moulong, in March 2019, he smuggled from Dongxing, Guangxi to Mong Cai City, Vietnam, rented a room in a hotel, and introduced a "WeChat marketing system" - MSI cloud control platform at a price of 2300 yuan per month. This system can log in to multiple WeChat accounts at the same time, manage WeChat accounts in batches, and deploy WeChat to carry out fraud "bait" at low cost through batch operations. Wang Moulong said that many fraud gangs are using this software.
The police handling the case started from the MSI cloud control platform and quickly locked the platform developers Xia Mouzhi and Li Mou. According to this clue, the police dug up the platform operators, agents, sales personnel and personnel who provided technical services for the platform, and after grasping the organizational structure, division of labor and crime process of the gang, in January 2020, the police successfully arrested 9 criminal suspects such as Xia Mouzhi, Li Mou, Fu Mou, and Huang Mou. In June, the police handling the case went to Shandong, Fujian, Guangxi, Henan and other places to arrest 15 criminal suspects such as Tao mou and Liu mou. At this point, the cloud-controlled client platform criminal gang that provides tools for cybercrime has been completely destroyed.
"Independent research and development" cloud control platform
Xia Mouzhi lives in Yuelu District, Changsha City, Hunan Province, and in October 2018, he used the source code downloaded from the Internet to adapt and develop it into a cloud-controlled client platform, adding functions such as chat customer workbench and group WeChat circle of friends, and realizing batch login management social accounts on the cloud-controlled web terminal. Two months later, the beta version of the 1.0 system, which was "independently developed" and named MSI Cloud Control Platform, was launched.
Since then, Xia Mouzhi has successively developed two client platforms, Good Cloud Control and Zero Degree Cloud Control. "The cloud control platform binds a WeChat account and exports the resources in the customer's WeChat, so that you can automatically add WeChat friends in batches." Xia Mouzhi's wife and brother Li Moumou said.
According to the appraisal of the forensic identification center, MSI Cloud Control, Good Cloud Control, and Zero Degree Cloud Control can realize the batch WeChat account login without installing the WeChat official client and avoiding the WeChat account security verification, and can bypass the WeChat client security protection mechanism. Subsequently, Xia Mouzhi and his wife Li set up a leather bag company, so that his brother Li Moumou, cousin Xia Mouqiang and other people served as customer service, through the Internet, instant chat tools to develop the cloud control platform online sales, and impart criminal experience. Xia Mouzhi came up with a set of low-threshold agency marketing mechanisms, and in just a few months, the business spread to all parts of the country.
Sold more than 500,000 cloud control platform accounts
In July 2019, Xia Mouzhi and his wife handed over the developed MSI cloud control platform to Huang Mou in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province. After Huang and his mother Yang took over, they found that "the money came too quickly", and in the case of knowing that it was illegal, they still absorbed Liu, Xie and others to "get rich" together. Xia Mouzhi also distributed the two client platform businesses of Haoyun Control and Zero Degree Cloud Control to 13 agents such as Tao Mou and Liu Mou, and sold the cloud control platform account for profit at a price ranging from 50 yuan to 260 yuan.
Since May 2019, this criminal gang has sold more than 500,000 cloud control platform accounts and illegally profited more than 26 million yuan. "The business done by the company is gray production, and most users buy our platform accounts for fraud, gambling and other illegal and criminal activities." Knowing that what he is doing is a gray industry, Xia Mouzhi buys a large number of real WeChat accounts from the hands of the number merchants through private channels, obtains a large amount of information from others through the software system, and tries to circumvent the blocking of WeChat, "26 yuan to 41 yuan a, the weChat signal bound by the platform is logged in by default, and it will not cause the number to be banned due to a long period of non-login." ”
The reason why the gray industry can "flourish" is not only driven by platform dividends, but also strong technical support. During this period, Xia Mouzhi signed a software outsourcing operation and maintenance service agreement with an information technology company in Hunan, and the company's responsible persons Hu Mou, technical personnel Fu Mou and Yang Mouwen and others provided professional technical maintenance for the three platforms when they knew that the cloud control platform was suspected of violating the law and committing crimes. "Xia Mouzhi is the main big customer of our company, if we give up this business, there may be problems in the company's operation, so even if I know that they are suspected of crimes, I can only do it hard." Fu confessed.
On January 10, 2020, the Jiangsu Provincial Public Security Department designated the guanyun County Public Security Bureau as having jurisdiction over the case. After the case was transferred to the Guanyun County Procuratorate, the court submitted an investigative opinion to the public security organs on issues such as the sales model, agency relationship, and amount of illegal gains on the cloud control platform, and accurately characterized the behavior of 21 defendants, including Xia Mouzhi, Li Mou, and Li Mou, as the crime of providing intrusive and illegally controlling computer system programs and tools, and the acts of hu, Fu, and Yang Mouwen as the three defendants constituted the crime of helping information network criminal activities, and on September 26, 2020, the above 24 people were prosecuted.
Correspondent Xu Yungang Shan Tiantian Yangzi Evening News Network/Purple Cow News Reporter Liu Liu
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