After the end of this year, the detachment of the Beijing Haidian Branch received clues from the Beijing Municipal Criminal Investigation Corps and found that an elderly man had installed fraud software on his mobile phone, which claimed that after recharging 100 yuan and developing offline, he could get 10 times the rebate. The police have recently arrested 11 suspects.
It is claimed that the recharge development of offline rebates for the elderly is trapped in cloud digital trade fraud
In December last year, Lu Mouzhen, an elderly man in Haidian District, Beijing, saw on the short video platform: "Cloud Data Trade" and other three software claimed that recharging 100 yuan could make a profit of 1,000 yuan. Subsequently, she downloaded "Cloud Digital Trade", and from December 8 to 28, 2023, she recharged 15,800 yuan in the software in 6 installments, but she did not "profit" after recharging, and the principal could not be withdrawn.
After receiving the report, the police formally filed the case and set up a special case team based on the clues they had before. Before the Spring Festival this year, the police found that several members of the fraud gang had returned to China one after another. At the end of February, the special case group cooperated with the police in many places and arrested 11 criminal suspects in Shenzhen, Guangdong, Zhuzhou, Hunan, Leping, Jiangxi, and Zhengzhou, Henan.
Officer Shi, Criminal Investigation Detachment of the Haidian Branch of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau: On April 3, the Haidian District Procuratorate approved the arrest of 8 people, which is the first time that the whole chain of this cloud digital trade fraud gang has been cracked down.
What is a cloud digital trade scam? How to be tempted?
In January this year, the Ministry of Public Security announced the names of the first batch of national asset unfreezing fraud projects and fraudulent apps, including "Cloud Data Trade". So, what is "cloud digital trade"? How do these scams get money?
Cloud Digital Trade is a large-scale MLM model in China, which usually uses high rebates as bait, requiring participants to pay different amounts of fees, and then pay rebates and bonuses according to the development of downlines.
Officer Shi, Criminal Investigation Detachment of the Haidian Branch of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau: The Yunshu Trade Private Asset Fraud Project is a major synonym for a new type of national asset unfreezing crime, which can be traced back to 2011. Song Miqiu, male, 46 years old, a native of Wuchang, Heilongjiang, pseudonym Zhang Jian, established a pyramid marketing system and named "Yunshu Trade". On June 6, 2017, he was arrested for organizing and leading pyramid schemes, and was later sentenced to 12 years in prison by the Guiyang County People's Court. After Song Miqiu was cracked down, other criminals found an opportunity to continue to fabricate projects to promote and guide the development of new victims to invest.
According to reports, most of these fraud gangs were established overseas, and after fabricating words, making mobile phone software, and planning and organizing fraud projects, they then contacted domestic agents to attract traffic through self-media, and developed offline on niche social platforms to induce participants to invest.
In recent years, as MLM organizations have been continuously exposed, MLM has also changed a lot of "fashionable" terms, such as "network direct selling" and "human resource operation", and some MLM organizations have even taken on the name of "national policy" and the development of "national enterprises" to make themselves look "tall" and "legitimate", which also makes some people easily deceived.
Officer Shi, Criminal Investigation Detachment of the Haidian Branch of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau: In the past, the national assets unfreezing project was developed offline in the form of traditional hand-to-hand and word-of-mouth, but now the new type of national asset unfreezing project fraud is based on the App, relying on some words, and is a combination of offline pyramid schemes and telecommunications network fraud, which is more confusing and deceptive.
The new type of fraud is more confusing, how to "avoid pits"
In these so-called "investment projects", fraudsters combine pyramid schemes and telecom network fraud, plus some deceptive and deceptive tactics to make it easier for victims to take the bait. So, in the face of scams like "cloud data trade", how to avoid being deceived?
According to the police, this kind of fraud, criminals earlier used the unfreezing of assets during the Republic of China period and overseas gold mining projects as bait, and in addition to the above-mentioned words, "Cloud Digital Trade" has gradually developed into fraud projects such as pretending to be national policies and using the development of the Internet economy.
Officer Ma, Investigator of the Criminal Investigation Corps of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau: For example, the construction of the blockchain is used to carry out corresponding frauds, please recognize the characteristics of such fraud:
High returns, taking advantage of people's greed for cheap and fantasizing about getting rich overnight.
In every case of national asset unfreezing fraud, the suspect will forge various deposit certificates, government documents, photos, etc.
With a low threshold to join, you can become a member by paying a few dozen yuan.
Although the amount of money defrauded per person is small, the total value of the case is staggering.
The thief shouted to catch the thief. In recent years, the suspects in such cases detected nationwide have often been thieves shouting and caught, claiming to be supported by the state and requiring secrecy.
So, there are four "what is" to keep in mind:
Anyone who collects money in the name of "unfreezing national assets" and asks you to pay money, no matter how much money is paid, is a fraud.
Anyone who claims to be a "leading cadre of the Party Central Committee and the State Council" and makes so-called "entrustment", "authorization" and "appointment" through telephone, WeChat, email, QQ, etc., is a fraud.
Any claim that you can make a profit of tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of yuan by paying tens or hundreds of yuan in membership dues is a fraud.
Any forwarding, agitation, and publicity of the so-called "unfreezing of national assets" related information, the formation of relevant WeChat groups, QQ groups, recruitment of members, and the collection of fees are suspected of violating the law and committing crimes, and the public security organs will strictly investigate and deal with them in accordance with the law.
Source: CCTV news client