Modern Express News (correspondent Ning Gongxuan reporter Gu Yuansen) men and women met on the Internet, after a period of network chat, feelings quickly warmed up, women proposed to give gifts to each other, men gladly paid on behalf of each other, but after buying items, they were blocked... Recently, the criminal police detachment of the Nanjing Municipal Public Security Bureau dispatched elite police forces, together with the criminal police brigade of the Jiangning Sub-Bureau and the police station of the high-tech zone, to fujian to smash an online dating shopping fraud gang, arrested 62 criminal suspects, and has colluded with more than 300 cases nationwide, involving an amount of more than 10 million yuan.
After online dating exchanged gifts, the girlfriend disappeared
In November 2021, Mr. Sun, who lives in Jiangning District, Nanjing, received a request from a female netizen to add friends, who said that she was 38 years old, divorced by a scumbag, and is currently opening a small shop in Shanghai, with no material requirements, and wants to find a mature man to spend the rest of his life with.
After a period of exchange, Mr. Sun, 55, found that the woman seemed to be tailor-made for herself, in line with the courtship conditions she left behind when she registered on the dating platform, and more beautiful and understanding. During the day, the woman is busy taking care of the business in the store, and at night, the two talk on the Internet, and their good feelings are getting better and better, and they become boyfriend and girlfriend.
Soon, the woman proposed that in order to express their hearts, the two sides gave each other a gift. Then the woman sent a screenshot of an online shopping platform order, saying that she had carefully selected a belt for Mr. Sun, and at the same time sent a payment link, saying that she liked a dress and hoped that Mr. Sun would pay on behalf of him as a gift for himself. Mr. Sun saw that "his girlfriend took the initiative to choose a gift for himself, and the clothes that the other party wanted were only a few hundred yuan, so he did not hesitate to pay." A few days later, the woman said that the clothes had been received, and when she was busy for a while, the two would meet and strive to "run" as soon as possible. Later, the woman asked Mr. Yang to pay in the same way and bought a bracelet of more than a thousand yuan, but Mr. Sun did not wait for his girlfriend to send his belt.
When asked to pay on behalf of him again, Mr. Sun realized that he might have been deceived, and his girlfriend disappeared shortly after. On February 27, 2022, Mr. Sun reported to the police station of the High-tech Zone of Jiangning Branch.
Fraud gangs operate in a corporatized way and scam in the name of love
After receiving the police, the Investigation Information Center and the Anti-Fraud Center of the Jiangning Sub-bureau immediately carried out a back-trace analysis of the whole chain of big data based on the clues provided by the victims. Through the integrated analysis of capital flow and information flow, a new type of fraud gang suspected of luring victims to shopping through online dating was soon discovered. The sub-bureau attaches great importance to it, immediately organizes the elite police forces of various departments to set up a special case team, mobilizes superior forces, and under the precise guidance of the Criminal Police Detachment Investigation and Guidance Center and the Anti-Fraud Center of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, keeps a close eye on the case, finds out the organizational structure of the criminal gang, and carries out the whole chain of cluster attacks.
Based on clues such as the victim's shopping online store, the special case team gradually dug deep into the flow of information and funds. Soon, a dating shopping scam scam gang gradually surfaced.
After investigation, since October last year, the criminal suspects Chen X and Guo X have set up a trading company in a city in other provinces, aggressively solicited employees, pretended to be divorced women living in Shanghai, looked for male objects in various dating software, and then deceived male victims with online dating, marriage, meeting and other reasons. And this online store is also a fake shopping online store opened by the criminal gang, and the physical object does not exist.
"The criminal gang is well versed in the psychology of online dating, 'raised' a number of WeChat signals, each Of which has an exclusive personality, some are 28-year-old single mothers, some are divorced clothing store owner wives, some are jewelry store bosses, the common characteristics are beautiful, do not value materials, self-improvement." Chen Chao, commander of the four major teams of the criminal police detachment of the Nanjing Municipal Public Security Bureau, said that in order to make people more realistic, they sent circles of friends every day, sent selfies, and some chicken soup for the soul to create a positive single woman image.
Chen Chao introduced that in the choice of victims, the fraud gang adopted a strategy of casting a wide net. Because the single amount is not high, many people find that they are not silent after being deceived. The scam gang chats with the victim in a fixed way, and sometimes when it encounters a "super-program" problem, the gang members will ask the group leader how to reply. In the process of fraud, once the other party insists on voice, video calls and other behaviors, the gang will temporarily pull a female employee to charge, "if the other party asks why there is a difference in appearance, it will be a photo beauty to prevaricate." "In order to deceive the victim's trust and let him pay, the suspect will also use the P-map software to fake the screenshot of online shopping, falsely claiming that he also purchased gifts for the other party, in fact, the suspect did not buy any goods."
Thousands of miles rushed, and the fraud gang was nested
After combing, the fraud gang has 4 high-level suspects, more than 60 gang members, 10 marketing departments, and hundreds of fraud crimes throughout the country.
△ Arrest scene
On the basis of fully studying the arrest plan, on March 9, led by the leaders of the criminal police detachment of the Nanjing Municipal Public Security Bureau, the Jiangning Branch Mobilized More Than 120 Police Forces, Rushed thousands of miles to attack, and went to the criminal dens to carry out centralized network collection operations against the criminal gang. At about 9:00 a.m. on March 10, with the close cooperation of the local public security organs, 1 gang den arrest team and 4 mobile arrest groups attacked synchronously, unified and comprehensively closed the net, arrested 62 suspects involved in the case in the office building of a commercial center in other provinces, and found a large number of fraudulent templates, pictures, accounts, etc. Through the chat information and commodity sales records seized at the scene, more than 300 cases were preliminarily connected nationwide, and the amount involved was more than 10 million yuan. At the same time, 132 computers and 277 mobile phones used in the crime were seized. The work of seizing and sorting out the items involved in the case, interrogating and handling the case by the personnel involved in the case, and the follow-up arrest of the whole chain of the personnel involved in the case is continuing to advance.
△ The police seized a large number of mobile phones used in the crime at the scene
After interrogation, the main suspect of the gang confessed to the crime of setting up a fake shopping website and posing as a woman to find the victim to lure money. On the evening of March 11, under the condition of ensuring that various epidemic prevention and control measures were done, Chen mou and other criminal suspects were safely escorted back to Ningbo and criminally detained in accordance with law.
At present, the case is still being further handled.
(Courtesy of the police)