Yesterday, the Burmese police handed over to the mainland public security organs six important leaders of the Kokang wire fraud criminal syndicate in northern Myanmar, including Bai Socheng, and four other major criminal suspects. For a long time, these criminal groups have wantonly organized and opened fraud dens and frantically carried out criminal activities of telecommunications network fraud, with various fraud methods. "Online swiping" is one of the high-incidence cases. In this kind of scam, why do some people "find it irresistible" to like comments and swipe orders on the Internet? Why do many victims keep telling themselves to stop "one more order," but they still can't do it? Ms. Li, who lives in Huangshi, Hubei Province, fell into such a scam, and at first she easily earned more than 1,000 yuan, but in the end, she was defrauded of more than 250,000 yuan.
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One day, while swiping her phone at home, Ms. Li came across a message claiming that she could get a cash reward for liking a video. Driven by curiosity, she added the contact information of the other party and joined the so-called "part-time" group.
After entering the group chat, Ms. Li found that the members who joined the group first frequently posted screenshots of the income they obtained by doing tasks in the group. Seeing that others could earn generous commissions at their fingertips without investing was so impressed that Ms. Li quickly began to do the tasks she was asked to do.
Under the guidance of the other party, Ms. Li made a small profit on the first day, earning more than 100 yuan in just one morning. The next day, the group administrator took the initiative to tell Ms. Li that there was another kind of task, and the income could be higher. Ms. Li was once again moved.
Victim Ms. Li: Then on the third day, they pulled me into another group, that is, to grab that kind of number, you have to grab that number, you can do the kind of task, and then grab a serial number, he has a single number, a serial number, and then grab a 5-even number, that is, you have to do 5 tasks to get back the commission.
Ms. Li's five-in-a-row mission requires 5 consecutive swipes before she can get a rebate, but Ms. Li's nominal return is much higher than that of ordinary tasks, and she thinks that she can make a lot of money now.
Victim Ms. Li: Then the first batch, he said that it seemed to be more than 10,000 yuan in advance, and then the second time it should be more than 50,000 yuan.
Ms. Li invested about 70,000 yuan in two installments according to the rules of swiping orders. But just when Ms. Li thought everything was normal and was about to carry out the third operation, an accident occurred.
Victim Ms. Li: I just followed his operation, and he said that I was wrong. I said that I just operated according to what you said above, and he said that everyone else who followed my operation above is right, why are you not right?
Ms. Li, who has invested more than 70,000 yuan, saw that if she didn't finish the task, not only would she not get cashback, but even the money she invested in the task would be wasted, so she had to continue to swipe the order.
But the other party once again refused the rebate on the grounds of operation error, and also asked her to make up for the loss fee due to operation error before she could continue to complete the remaining order.
Victim Ms. Li: I want to make up 120,000 yuan and then continue to operate this order, I made up it, but I didn't call 120,000 at one time, I played separately, and I should have called it anyway.
The first few times she invested money had emptied Ms. Li's savings, and she called after collecting the 120,000 yuan, but as expected, the other party still said that it was a mistake, and then Ms. Li felt that she might have been deceived.
Use petty profits to lure the victim into a trapObviously, Ms. Li's every step was operated according to the other party's requirements, but there were always problems, in fact, this was the other party's means to trick her into constantly investing money. Ms. Li, who had emptied her savings, finally realized that something was wrong and chose to call the police.
At the beginning, Ms. Li could receive a rebate of one or two yuan just by moving her fingers, and she could receive a rebate of more than 40 yuan by slowly investing more than a dozen yuan, and then she could receive a rebate of more than 1,000 yuan by investing more than 100 yuan. In this way, Ms. Li walked into the trap set by the suspect step by step.
Yan Ruiqi, police officer of the command center of the Tieshan District Bureau of the Development Zone of the Huangshi Municipal Public Security Bureau: The suspect has mastered the psychology of the victim, that is, the idea of wanting to be greedy for a small amount of money and make a lot of money.
It wasn't until Ms. Li began to take the other party's so-called "big order" that she could earn 200,000 yuan, and under the guidance of the other party step by step, Ms. Li transferred a total of more than 250,000 yuan that she finally realized that something was wrong.
After receiving the report, the police immediately initiated the procedures for stopping payment and freezing. Analyze and judge the direction of funds.
Yan Ruiqi, police officer of the command center of the Tieshan District Bureau of the Development Zone of the Huangshi City Public Security Bureau: At the beginning, we made several transfers to her, why did the scammer follow this requirement at this point in time, and why did the scammer want her to transfer like this?
With the in-depth digging of the case and the combing of the flow of funds, the police have arrested 4 suspects who are related to the capital chain involved in the case, and after interrogation, the suspects all confessed to providing the bank card to Gao, a man in Wuhu City, Anhui Province. All funds in the account are traded in a fixed place, at a fixed time, and in and out of the fast-in.
Zeng Xianghai, Deputy Director of the Tieshan District Branch of the Development Zone of the Huangshi Public Security Bureau: Trace back layer by layer, and after tracing back, you will find that some of these are further back, and you will find that some funds have a process of convergence, in fact, they are engaged in the buying and selling of virtual currency.
It turned out that the victim, Ms. Li's money, was transferred to the corporate account through several personal accounts, and then from the corporate account to the virtual currency dealer, and each step was committed by an independent criminal gang, with a clear division of labor and no mutual acquaintance. According to the police handling the case, after the victim's money was transferred to the suspect, it only took about two hours to be completely laundered.
Zeng Xianghai, deputy director of the Tieshan District Branch of the Development Zone of the Huangshi Municipal Public Security Bureau: They actually accepted the instructions of overseas wire fraud groups and online gambling groups, and sent the funds abroad through the wallet address of the virtual currency, which was circulated abroad through the virtual currency.
Although the police handling the case have figured out the way in which the criminal gang transfers funds through virtual currency, it needs the support of the payment channel behind it, and the normal payment channel and method will definitely not be able to complete such an operation, so who provides the criminal gang with the convenience of the payment channel?
Yan Ruiqi, a police officer from the command center of the Tieshan District Bureau of the Development Zone of the Huangshi Municipal Public Security Bureau: When we knocked out this virtual currency running gang, we looked back and found that there was a little problem with the aggregation and diffusion of his funds.
What exactly is the fourth-party payment platform used by the suspects, and where does the money go?
Huangshi Municipal Public Security Bureau Development Zone Tieshan District Bureau Criminal Investigation Brigade Police Yu Mian: The four-party payment platform mainly relies on the third-party payment platform payment interface, it is mainly through a large number of shell companies, using the company's bank account, opening an account in the third-party payment company, after opening an account, and then hiring relevant technical personnel to write code to embezzle this payment interface.
The Huangshi police gradually dug deeper and found out that there were more than 30 members of this "four-party payment platform" gang, all over the country. The gang has laundered money for fraud groups and online gambling platforms, and the capital flow is as high as more than 20 billion yuan.
At the scene of the arrest, the police seized the business license, official seal, financial seal, Youdun and mobile phone card, this criminal gang has a clear division of labor, and there is a special person responsible for every step.
The Huangshi police investigation found that this illegal fourth-party payment platform completed currency conversion with the help of virtual currency and overseas, opening up a fast, fast and hidden payment channel for telecom fraud and online gambling gangs, and the funds involved in the case were 170 million yuan, and more than 17 million yuan of funds involved in the case have been frozen.