On the other end of the network, messages from strangers are packaged with ulterior motives, and it is difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood. Mr. Wang from Dezhou, Shandong Province encountered such a situation, he chatted with the so-called beauty in the same city on a dating app, and was cheated of more than 10,000 yuan.
Dating apps hide scams
Recharging tens of thousands of yuan was blocked in the online chat
Victim Mr. Wang: There are a lot of people who take the initiative to chat with you.
The multiple chat boxes that popped up, and the messages sent in them one after another, made Mr. Wang interested in this chat software, and then he chose one of the chat boxes to chat.
The other party claimed to be a woman who had recently divorced, and Mr. Wang himself was also divorced. However, in the process of chatting, Mr. Wang soon noticed that something was wrong.
Victim Mr. Wang: That person claimed to be Xia Jin, but later I found out that her accent was wrong, I said aren't you from the Northeast, she said I was from the Northeast, she said that I was from the Northeast, she said that my object was Xia Jin, and after the divorce, she still lived in Xia Jin, which was equivalent to a divorce without leaving home.
The other party said that Xiajin County and Mr. Wang's Wucheng County belong to the same Dezhou City, and the intimacy between the villagers dispelled the doubts in Mr. Wang's heart, so he thought that he could have further exchanges with the other party, but at this time there was a new accident.
Victim Mr. Wang: I said why don't you add WeChat, she asked me to report the number, I reported the number, she said I couldn't see it.
And for this situation, the other party also gave an explanation.
Victim Mr. Wang: That software costs money, and you have to recharge it after a few minutes of chatting, and you can see how many digits you can give as a gift.
However, after Mr. Wang recharged, he still did not smoothly add the other party's WeChat, no matter how he operated, the other party always claimed that he could not see the last few numbers sent by Mr. Wang, and then, the other party kept asking Mr. Wang to continue to recharge.
Victim Mr. Wang: After charging it many times, WeChat always can't be added, and the number can't be said completely, so I found out that I was deceived, and I stopped talking after being deceived.
According to Mr. Wang's calculations, he recharged a total of more than 13,000 yuan, but he didn't even add the other party's WeChat friends, and after Mr. Wang stopped recharging, the other party no longer replied to any messages from Mr. Wang. Seeing this, Mr. Wang reluctantly uninstalled the chat software.
Scams on the same software
Kami Sennin Kami
said that after recharging and swiping gifts, you can get the WeChat of online chat beauties, but after recharging 10,000 yuan, she was blocked. At the same time that Mr. Wang was distressed by this, the police in Wucheng County, Dezhou, Shandong Province also received clues from the higher authorities, and there were many people across the country who encountered similar situations to Mr. Wang.
It turned out that in a fraud case cracked by the Linyi police in Dezhou, they obtained fraud clues involving this chat software, and then, they reported the clue information to the Dezhou City Public Security Bureau, and after investigation, the police found that the victims in this case were all over the country, including Mr. Wang from Wucheng County.
Ding Renjie, instructor of the Serious Crime Squadron of the Anti-Telecom Fraud Brigade of the Wucheng County Public Security Bureau: We brought him to verify the situation, and when we made a record, he said that because he had been cheated of so much money when he was chatting with this software, he felt embarrassed and did not call the police, so we only learned about his deception after receiving the clues.
After persuasion, Mr. Wang finally told the police about the process of being deceived, and the Wucheng police also learned about the methods of this criminal gang to defraud.
Yang Maosheng, Captain of the Serious Crime Squadron of the Anti-Telecom Fraud Brigade of the Wucheng County Public Security Bureau: The female user on the other side was very active and active in the chat, saying that she was also very satisfied with Mr. Wang and wanted to live with him. In this way, this happiness led Mr. Wang into a kind of love illusion.
Ding Renjie, instructor of the Serious Crime Squadron of the Anti-Telecom Fraud Brigade of the Wucheng County Public Security Bureau: Say some sweet words, such as I want to be with you, etc., or they will express their inner desire to find a wife and a partner.
In the name of love
Induce top-up to buy gifts
Sweet words, all kinds of care, in the name of love, so that the victim mistakenly thinks that he is about to usher in a sweet love, and when the victim falls into this hallucination, the next thing is to lure them to constantly spend money to recharge and buy gifts.
Yang Maosheng, Captain of the Serious Crime Squadron of the Anti-Telecom Fraud Brigade of the Wucheng County Public Security Bureau: At first, it doesn't cost money to chat, but later, the minimum charge is 19 yuan, and you may be able to chat about 100 words or 200 words.
Prices are clearly marked
Video chat costs 5 yuan for 1 minute
In addition to text messages, this chat app can also be used for voice chat or video chat, but this requires more top-up.
Yang Maosheng, Captain of the Serious Crime Squadron of the Anti-Telecom Fraud Brigade of the Wucheng County Public Security Bureau: The voice is a few cents a minute, and the video is 5 yuan a minute.
Chatting requires money to recharge, and victims often ask to add the other party's WeChat for more convenient communication, but whenever this link is carried out, the situation that Mr. Wang encounters will appear.
Yang Maosheng, Captain of the Serious Crime Squadron of the Anti-Telecom Fraud Brigade of the Wucheng County Public Security Bureau: When he wants to add the other party's WeChat, the other party will tell him that if he typed out his mobile phone number, or said it through video and voice, the platform would automatically block it. That is, the phone number is not heard or seen by the other party. Only by giving a gift to increase the so-called intimacy, when the intimacy reaches a certain level, the contact information can be automatically unlocked.
On the grounds of increasing intimacy
Deceit recharge "brush gifts"
Will increasing intimacy unlock contact information? Mr. Wang's story proves that this is not so simple.
Yang Maosheng, Captain of the Serious Crime Squadron of the Anti-Telecom Fraud Brigade of the Wucheng County Public Security Bureau: She made up this so-called platform, the reason for automatic blocking, and then deceived Mr. Wang into giving them gifts.
As the investigation deepened, a criminal gang headed by Tang surfaced.
More than 100 people are recruited online
"Downline" engaging in fraudulent activities
According to the police investigation, since the beginning of 2022, Tang has begun to recruit more than 100 downlines to engage in fraudulent activities by posting recruitment information online.
Yang Maosheng, Squadron Leader of the Serious Crime Squadron of the Anti-Telecom Fraud Brigade of the Wucheng County Public Security Bureau: I need a few people to help promote it together, send this kind of software link in various big WeChat groups, and then tell everyone that this software can make money.
In addition, she also specially made a script and asked the gang members to defraud the victim through chat software according to the content of the script.
Yang Maosheng, Captain of the Serious Crime Squadron of the Anti-Telecom Fraud Brigade of the Wucheng County Public Security Bureau: She will tell her how to package herself, for example, if the region is the case, as long as the male user says where it is, Tang will teach the registrant to say where it is, so that the male user feels that the possibility of running is very large, it is a kind of software for chatting in the same city, in fact, they may be thousands of miles behind.
Seizure of the "Little Love" software
The amount involved exceeded 10 million
After grasping the information of the criminal suspects, the Dezhou police immediately organized and carried out arrest operations, and went to Guangdong, Shaanxi, Chongqing and other places to arrest all the criminal suspects involved in the case. According to statistics, this case involved more than 1,000 victims from all over the country, and the amount involved amounted to more than 10 million yuan.
He Lei, Captain of the Anti-Telecom Fraud Brigade of the Wucheng County Public Security Bureau: It is divided into four war zones, and a total of more than 150 suspects have been arrested.
Platforms are lax in their oversight and even extract revenue from them
In the investigation of this case, the police also found that the chat software used by the suspect also has many problems such as lax supervision, and even extracts profits from the suspect's fraud activities and becomes a tool to help the suspect commit fraud.
Yang Maosheng, Captain of the Serious Crime Squadron of the Anti-Telecom Fraud Brigade of the Wucheng County Public Security Bureau: The gifts obtained will be in the form of diamonds, displayed on the platform at a ratio of 1:10, for example, 10,000 diamonds may be 1,000 yuan, and there will be a 2%-8% handling fee in the process of withdrawal, which will be collected by the platform.
This chat software, called "Xiao Qingsi", has now been seized by the police, and the relevant person in charge has been taken criminal coercive measures on suspicion of aiding information network criminal activities. At present, the case is under further investigation.
Ding Renjie, instructor of the Serious Case Squadron of the Anti-Telecom Fraud Brigade of the Wucheng County Public Security Bureau: Online dating needs to be cautious, you must not be deceived by others, and empty your money bag, as the main channel for marriage and dating, when we are chatting with strange netizens involving money transfers and other methods, we must cover our money bags.
Governance dating software
The platform must be more compact
In recent years, the scale of online dating users has been expanding, and the number of downloads of such dating software has increased significantly. However, some criminals just take advantage of the lax review of platform user information, disguise their identities to defraud money, and even derive a black chain of interests. In addition to rationally looking at dating software and improving awareness of prevention, it is more important for relevant departments to consolidate the responsibility of the platform and increase supervision.
Source: CCTV news client