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Text | Li Boling
Editor | Li Boling
preface
On September 3, a major operation that shook the whole country was launched on the China-Myanmar border, and the public security department dispatched heavy troops to launch a surprise attack on a cross-criminal gang "Gawaizi" that had been active for nearly 20 years.
In this special operation, the police successfully arrested 21 core members of the gang and took down 11 telecom fraud dens, destroying this terrifying and huge criminal organization in one fell swoop.
This crackdown on fraud gangs in northern Myanmar is considered to be the largest attack in nearly a decade, and it is a milestone in the anti-fraud struggle on the China-Myanmar border.
The catastrophe of the Gawaist gang
Chinese police and Myanmar police launched raids on telecom fraud rings in northern Myanmar, destroying 11 fraud parks and capturing nearly 300 suspects.
It is reported that these fraud gangs have long been entrenched in northern Myanmar, carrying out fraudulent activities through telecommunications networks and other means, mainly targeting the Chinese people.
They lure young Chinese to go with high salaries or other scams, illegally detained them, and forced them to participate in fraud, using brutal methods such as violent abuse and water prisons to threaten their victims.
The operation, which was sent by a special police team to northern Myanmar to work with local police, identified 11 major fraud gang activity areas in northern Myanmar after a long investigation and investigation, and according to people familiar with the matter, Yunnan police have been closely monitoring telecom fraud in northern Myanmar since last year.
Through technical reconnaissance, he obtained the details of multiple gangs, and lurked undercover to conduct internal investigations, and after determining the target and action plan, planned a surprise attack.
In the early hours of the day of the operation, SWAT teams launched separate attacks on 11 targets, and according to witnesses, SWAT officers broke in extremely quickly, completely unexpected by fraudsters.
According to statistics, the operation arrested nearly 300 fraud suspects, including 21 core key members, of which more than 300 people were Chinese nationals the most, with 186 people, and the rest were mainly Burmese and Vietnamese.
It is understood that most of these deceived, young people from rural or suburban areas, have been lured in, and since then, they have been closely monitored and subjected to various cruel treatment, and have now arranged special personnel for psychological counseling and other follow-up work.
The success of this operation has dealt a serious blow to the fraud gangs in northern Myanmar, causing serious damage to their vitality, and some experts believe that the disaster may quiet the fraud activities in northern Myanmar for a while.
But in the long run, there is still a need for police from all countries to maintain a high degree of cooperation and continue to crack down on cross-border telecommunications fraud, and the Chinese police said they will continue to monitor the situation in northern Myanmar to prevent new fraud gangs from filling the gap.
Seeing so many compatriots being deceived by fraud gangs to northern Myanmar, what methods did those fraud gangs use?
Wise life, away from the "Kawaist" trap
Since ancient times, the world has been full of traps, and today's information technology is changing with each passing day, and fraudsters are gradually evolving and upgrading their methods, and the "Kawaizi" group is one of the typical representatives.
Such criminal groups often use online platforms to create a kind of "Internet celebrity" image, such as Li Saigao posing as a descendant of a military to create happy party scenes on the Internet, and saying "welcome my little princess to northern Myanmar".
Li Jiarun used his appearance conditions to impersonate businessmen to create an Internet celebrity image, which is to induce victims to take the initiative to go and be deceived.
In addition, they will also have close contact through various social software, such as seducing as a beautiful woman or a handsome guy, slowly gaining the trust of the target and then luring to download controllable video software.
Extortion can then begin, a particularly despicable form of pornography that often targets young people who are sexually motivated but lack social experience.
What is even more frightening is that the Kawaizi group has continued to escalate its tactics and has begun to directly use violent means, and once the victims go to Myanmar, they will enter the home of the Kawaizi and will be exposed to extremely high risks.
They even directly used violent means, kidnapping hostages and threatening family members with ransom in small videos, especially chilling in the murderer's fluent Mandarin, and the root cause of the rampant fraud syndicate is the support behind it.
According to rumors, various clues confirm that many of the perpetrators are from Fujian, so the words "relatives are tricked into going to Fujian to find contacts" are circulating on the Internet, but the relationship between these fraud gangs is extremely complex, and there is still cooperation between different gangs.
More seriously, these groups have developed into an illegal group, after the identities of Li Saigao and Li Jiarun were stripped away, they no longer appeared on the online platform, but returned to the group, Li Saigao's identity is a thug in the organization, and Li Jiarun's real identity is the second milk of a certain little leader.
There is also a strict division of labor within the group, with technicians, thugs, and coverers performing their respective duties, and the criminal chains are intertwined and coordinated.
According to the investigation, the northern part of Myanmar is in a state of warlordism, all kinds of arms, drugs and criminals are rampant, and some lawbreakers have colluded with the local government to obtain various convenient conditions.
In the face of these endless methods, we need to be vigilant, avoid credulous information on the Internet, keep a distance from strangers, and handle privacy carefully.
At the same time, we must also pay attention to the network security of our families, especially the elderly and young people who are not familiar with the world, only by establishing a correct network awareness can we stay away from these traps and protect ourselves and our families.
In this era of information explosion, intelligently processing all kinds of information, maintaining rationality and vigilance, is a life skill we must learn, stay away from the trap of fraud, live a safe and happy life, need everyone's joint efforts, but after many domestic emphasis, there are still many people in northern Myanmar.
The high-priced "piglets" who were deceived
Frequent overseas trafficking incidents have once again aroused social concern, and many cases of young people being deceived into engaging in illegal activities in Southeast Asia have been exposed online.
However, not all "piglets" are worthless, and some "piglets" with wealthy families and advanced education make these fraudsters salivate.
For example, Athena, an Internet celebrity who participated in the Miss World election, and Dr. Zhang, an excellent doctoral student who graduated from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have all become the target of high-priced "acquisitions" by fraudulent groups.
Take Athena as an example, she is a well-known Internet celebrity and once won the third runner-up of Miss World, but she was deceived by a woman who called herself "best friend" to the Philippines, and her life and death are unknown.
Athena came from a famous family, with outstanding appearance and talent, she could have had unlimited life possibilities, who knew that a "trip" caused her to fall into the dark abyss, and in her most helpless moment, it was the woman who called herself "best friend".
Athena was designed by a close girlfriend to go on vacation to the Philippines, but was kidnapped directly after arriving, and has not been heard from since.
Athena's family asked for help everywhere to no avail, could only contact the kidnappers through an intermediary, and had paid a ransom of 800,000 yuan, but Athena's whereabouts are still a mystery, a smart and beautiful girl with a promising future, so tragically fell victim to human trafficking under the calculation of her best friend.
In addition to the current Internet celebrities being deceived, talents with high education are also easily deceived, and Dr. Zhang's experience is even more embarrassing. This excellent doctoral student who graduated from the Chinese Academy of Sciences could have become a pillar of the country, but in 2020, he was deceived by a fraud group to Myanmar using greed and forced to make a living as a telecom fraudster.
In 2020, after graduating, a Chinese student named Dr. Zhang saw information on the Internet about recruiting translators in Singapore, with a monthly salary of up to 50,000 yuan.
Dr. Zhang had previously lost money in currency speculation, and his family was not good, his mother was still seriously ill, and he urgently needed money to treat his illness and pay off his debts.
After landing, Dr. Zhang was taken directly to a remote area of Myanmar, isolated from the world, and Dr. Zhang was forced to work 18 hours a day, and was beaten and abused if he failed to meet the standards of fraud.
The so-called "contract" he signed forbids him to contact the outside world, and after the one-year period, the group extorted 120,000 yuan from his family in the name of "ransom", and before the money was transferred, his bank card was frozen again, and the Chinese embassy and police in Myanmar were also actively rescuing, but Dr. Zhang has not been able to escape.
This series of shocking cases is sad, those who could have lived a decent and happy life, but lost their dignity and freedom in a moment of confusion, and these young people who were used could only bear such a tragic fate.
epilogue
The fraud gangs in northern Myanmar are inexhaustible, and if one gang falls, another gang will immediately pick up, because of the endless fraud methods, so that many people are deeply involved.
And young people who are not deeply involved in the world and elderly who are easy to be deceived are their targets, and staying vigilant in case of accidents and not greedy is the attitude we should uphold, and it is better not to be cheap than to be deceived.