Ms. Wang, who lives in Tongbai County, Nanyang, Henan Province, encountered a worrying thing. In April 2023, Ms. Wang's son Xiao Liu went out to work, but not long after, Xiao Liu suddenly called, saying that he had a sudden illness and asked his family to transfer money to him immediately. However, on the one hand, Ms. Wang was anxious, and on the other hand, she felt that something was wrong, and she always felt that things were not so simple.
Ms. Wang said that just a month after her son left home, she suddenly contacted her and said that she wanted to borrow money, saying that she was going to Beijing with a friend to do business. Ms. Wang felt that firstly, the family did not have much savings, and secondly, the business was not good, so it was better to be cautious, so she persuaded Xiao Liu to dispel this idea.
Ms. Wang: I said how much I had to invest, he said he wanted to get 100,000 yuan, he said he wanted to take out a loan, I said I couldn't take out a loan, he said I would find a way to get money by myself.
It didn't take long for Xiao Liu to contact his family again, but this time he didn't mention business again, but said a happy thing: he found his favorite girlfriend. Ms. Wang said that her son is 26 years old this year, and he has indeed reached the age of talking about marriage, and this news makes her happy.
Ms. Wang: He said that he was from Sichuan, and I said that you would show me a photo when you were free. A few days later, he sent it over, and one day he called me and said that his girlfriend wanted to go back to his hometown together, and her grandfather had a birthday and wanted to go back to his hometown to see.
After that, Xiao Liu asked for money, and Ms. Wang felt that it was normal for young people to not be able to save money after her son had been working for less than two years. Now that he has found a girlfriend, his family will definitely support him, so he transferred the necessary expenses to him.
After a while, Xiao Liu called again, saying that he had a stomachache and was already hospitalized in a hospital in Panzhihua and needed surgery immediately, otherwise his life would be in danger. While Ms. Wang was nervous, she had some doubts: Her son has always been in good health, and he was fine two days ago, how can he say that he is sick when he is sick? And it is a serious life-threatening illness? Just when she was hesitating, Xiao Liu made a video call.
Ms. Wang: Lying on the hospital bed in a hospital gown, looking unrefreshed, his girlfriend called and cried and said, "Auntie, hurry up and transfer money to me, if you don't have surgery, your life will be in danger."
Seeing her son in poor condition on the hospital bed, Ms. Wang was completely panicked, Xiao Liu's so-called girlfriend told her that the operation cost a total of 65,000 yuan, and asked her to call quickly, in order to make up the money, Ms. Wang quickly borrowed 15,000 yuan from relatives and immediately transferred it.
Ms. Wang: I said that we should also go over and see what is going on, first send less money, and then bring some money over, and I feel relieved.
However, things did not go as smoothly as Ms. Wang expected, a few minutes later, Ms. Wang's phone rang again, this time, it was her son's so-called girlfriend who contacted her, and the other party told her that Xiao Liu's condition had worsened, and she needed to add 45,000 yuan for the operation. She hurriedly made several video calls to see her son's situation, but was rejected by the other party. After that, the so-called "girlfriend" told her that Xiao Liu was so sick that she couldn't answer the phone.
The woman noticed an abnormality and called the police, and the police investigation found clues
At this point, Ms. Wang's heart was full of suspicions, and then thinking back to her son's various behaviors during this time, she felt more and more that there must be something hidden in this, and her son was likely to be involuntary and in danger.
In order to find out about her son's situation, Ms. Wang went to the public security bureau to report the case. Based on the clues provided by Ms. Wang, the police found more clues.
Chen Jialin, Deputy Captain of the Criminal Police Brigade of the Tongbai County Public Security Bureau in Henan Province: At that time, his son sent her inpatient medical records at the Third People's Hospital of Panzhihua in Sichuan to Ms. Wang, and also sent a location of the Third People's Hospital of Panzhihua.
If my son is really seriously ill, why would he go to a psychiatric hospital for treatment? This is obviously unreasonable. In addition, the police also found that after Xiao Liu left home, he never went to Shanghai, Beijing, let alone Sichuan, but often appeared in Liaoning. So, the police rushed to Liaoning to investigate, and found that Xiao Liu had withdrawn money a total of 5 times in the local area, but the strange thing was that every time he withdrew money, there was a strange man by his side. Who is this man, and what is the relationship with Ms. Wang's son?
Chen Jialin, deputy head of the Criminal Police Brigade of the Tongbai County Public Security Bureau in Henan Province: Through analysis, this key officer has repeatedly collaborated with some young men or women to engage in activities in supermarkets, parks and banks in the city. In addition, there are no cases of taking a taxi or driving a vehicle. We are pretty sure the man should be in the area.
The police speculated that Xiao Liu was most likely involved in a fraud syndicate, and that the man was the person in charge of guarding him. Later, the police tracked down the suspicious man and found that he also frequently appeared in many other neighborhoods in the city.
Chen Jialin, deputy head of the Criminal Police Brigade of the Tongbai County Public Security Bureau in Henan Province: According to the local people, it is true that there are some young people from other places living upstairs, and some men and women dare not look at you directly, so they sneak downstairs, and basically they can't go up during the day, either very early or very late.
After a series of investigations, the police finally found out the location of the gang's seven dens, and the arrest operation was launched. In the end, all 7 dens were eliminated and 58 suspects were arrested. Among them, Ms. Wang's son is also included.
The guy claimed to be working away from home, but why did he fall into a fraud ring?
Ms. Wang's son was finally found, and the so-called surgery for a serious illness was purely imaginary, and the hospitalization video was also posed. So, how did he, who claimed to be a migrant worker, fall into this fraud syndicate, and what has happened to him in the past few months?
Xiao Liu told the police that during the Spring Festival of 2023, he downloaded a dating app and met a girl who called herself Xiao.
Ms. Wang's son said that at the beginning, this Xiao was very gentle and considerate, often shushing him and caring for him, so the relationship between the two quickly warmed up in a short period of time. Later, Xiao proposed that he was in the Northeast, but Ms. Wang's son was in Nanyang, Henan, and the two were thousands of miles apart, so the relationship would definitely not last long.
Unable to stand the soft and hard bubbles of the so-called "girlfriend", Ms. Wang's son finally left home on the pretext of going to Shanghai to work, but in fact, he went to Liaoning Province, where Xiao is located. After meeting, Xiao began to talk to her boyfriend about her so-called plan for the future of the two.
Ms. Wang's son: At the beginning, she said that the agency she did belonged to a kind of agency fee for other people's products, and she said if she wanted to do this with me, she said that the salary was still okay, she could live together, eat and live together, and take care of her.
It turned out that the so-called plan in Xiao's mouth was that her boyfriend was doing a cosmetics investment project with her. She told Xiao Liu that this project is a national poverty alleviation project, and it has great potential, and she can make a lot of money by paying an entry fee of 2,900 yuan. Xiao Liu was a little hesitant at first, but under the soft grinding and hard bubbles of his "girlfriend", he finally asked his family for 2,900 yuan and handed it to the project leader in Xiao's mouth.
Ms. Wang's son: I went to live in the house they rented, and she told me that there were many colleagues living together, don't mind, the environment is a very old house, the old factory in the past.
In this way, Xiao Liu moved into the rental house of his "girlfriend". As soon as he entered, he was taken to the boys' dormitory by Xiao, however, as soon as Xiao left, he found that the door of the room was locked, so he hurriedly sent a message to his "girlfriend" to ask about the situation, but he couldn't get a response from the other party, and he realized that he had been deceived. In the next few days, someone followed Xiao Liu every day, and his every move was also monitored. In addition, they are given daily lectures by lecturers.
Ms. Wang's son: She said that the investment was at least 2,900 yuan, and after success, it was 2.9 million.
Under the high-intensity brainwashing day after day, Xiao Liu began to be influenced and believed in the so-called fortune plan. According to him, not only himself, but also the young people who listened to the lecture with him will gradually be brainwashed by success, and they will continue to borrow money from relatives and friends around them for the so-called dream of getting rich, and even develop into fraud.
Routine analysis: Under the guise of marriage and love, they are deceived into dens and then deceived into investment
The routine of this fraud gang is to use marriage and dating as bait, and after deceiving people to dens, they start to borrow money to invest by controlling their freedom and constantly brainwashing, and some are even instigated to cheat money. In the following investigation, the police found that the 7 dens that were destroyed were actually just the tip of the iceberg of this fraud gang.
Li You, a police officer from the Criminal Police Brigade of the Tongbai County Public Security Bureau of Henan Province: Through our interrogation of the people who have been brought into the case, we learned that the fraud gang has a fixed organizational framework, with a level of management and a level.
In the investigation, the police found that with the first batch of 7 dens were eliminated, the other dens of this criminal group have been quickly transferred to Haicheng City, Liaoning Province, during the investigation, the police locked a total of 18 suspicious dens involved in the case, and the Tongbai police fought in different places to wipe out the 18 dens.
Su Lei, deputy director of the Public Security Bureau of Tongbai County, Henan Province: In this operation, we eliminated 18 fraud dens in one fell swoop, arrested 166 criminal suspects, and seized more than 600 yuan in cash involved in the case, as well as mobile phones, computers, props, and scripts. The whole chain has completely destroyed this extraordinarily large marriage and dating fraud criminal gang.
Ao was one of the suspects arrested in this operation, and at the beginning, he was also deceived into going to the location of the fraud group. According to his confession, the fraud group has manager, supervisor, dormitory manager, salesman and other positions. The salesman is responsible for looking for "prey" on the Internet to add friends, once someone takes the bait, the salesman will use words to accelerate the heating up, even to the point of talking about marriage, until the other party is lured to their location.
At the same time, the so-called lecturers began to brainwash the victims incessantly, and eventually, developed into an endless search for money to make unwarranted investments.
Li You, a police officer from the Criminal Police Brigade of the Tongbai County Public Security Bureau of Henan Province: First of all, these fraud suspects will defraud the victim's own property, cash and bank card deposits, and after defrauding the money, they will sell the valuable items you carry, such as gold and silver jewelry, computers, brand-name mobile phones, etc. They will try to force or coerce you to sell them and get involved in their scam.
The police investigation found that the suspect claimed to have invested in a Hong Kong cosmetics company, but in fact the company did not exist. According to the flow of funds, the police found that most of the illegal income obtained by the fraud group fell into the hands of two important suspects. Subsequently, the Tongbai police divided into two routes and went to Fenghuang, Hunan and Jingmen, Hubei, and arrested the two. At present, all the suspects involved in the case have been taken criminal coercive measures, and the case is still under further investigation.
[Source: CCTV News Client]
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