What do you do when you encounter a call from a strange phone number in the same city as you? Do you answer or hang up without hesitation? A woman in Xining City was defrauded of millions of assets after receiving a call from a mobile phone number that was also from Xining City. It was later discovered that the mobile phone number of the Xining place was sold to a fraudulent organization. Recently, two men who resold mobile phone numbers were indicted by the Xining Chengdong District People's Procuratorate to the Chengdong District People's Court of Xining City for helping with information network criminal activities.
One day in August 2020, Citizen Wang Ying received a call from a local unfamiliar number. During the call, the other party claimed to be a police officer of the Qinghai Provincial Public Security Department, because Wang Ying was suspected of telecommunications fraud and money laundering, and needed to investigate the assets under Wang Ying's name, so the scammers defrauded Wang Ying of more than 1.4 million yuan through network means.
The next day, Wang Ying, who noticed the abnormality, reported the case.
After investigation, except for the mobile phone number of the phone call to Wang Ying, all the information of the other party is a false account and cannot be traced. So the police found the owner of the mobile phone number who called Wang Ying to understand the situation, who knew but led to a case of inadvertently helping information network crimes because they wanted to earn extra money.
In August 2020, Xiao Gang saw someone in the group posting information on the acquisition of real-name calling cards in the local WeChat part-time group in Xining City. Xiao Gang, who wanted to make money, thought that there was no harm in selling mobile phone numbers, so he took the initiative to contact Li Ming, who released the acquisition information. According to Li Ming's arrangement, Xiao Gang registered 6 telephone cards in a real name in a communication business hall in the chengdong district of Xining City, and handed over the telephone cards to Zhao Si according to Li Ming's arrangement.
It turned out that Li Ming and Zhao Si were two migrant workers from other places in Ningbo, and the two learned that the acquisition of real-name mobile phone cards and then reselled to those who specialized in the acquisition of mobile phone cards could make a profit, so in early August 2020, after the two arrived in Xining City, Li Ming repeatedly published information on the acquisition of real-name telephone cards in the local WeChat part-time group. This is why Xiao Gang saw the information and sold real-name mobile phone cards to the two people. After receiving Xiao Gang's mobile phone cards, Li Ming and Zhao Si mailed these phone cards to other places according to the buyer's arrangement.
On September 11, 2020, the police of the Criminal Police Detachment of the Xining Municipal Public Security Bureau, with the cooperation of the police of the Criminal Investigation Detachment of the Yinchuan Municipal Public Security Bureau in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, arrested the criminal suspects Li Ming and Zhao Si in a hotel in Yinchuan City.
On January 14 this year, the Chengdong District Procuratorate indicted criminal suspects Li Ming and Zhao Si for helping information network crimes.
After several public hearings, the Chengdong District Court held that the defendants Li Ming and Zhao Si knew that others were using the information network to commit crimes, but still provided call transmission technical support for their crimes, and the circumstances were serious, all of which constituted the crime of helping information network criminal activities. On April 9, the verdict was publicly pronounced in the case: defendant Li Ming was convicted of assisting information network criminal activities and sentenced to 1 year in prison and fined 5,000 yuan; defendant Zhao Si was convicted of aiding information network criminal activities and sentenced to 10 months in prison and fined 5,000 yuan; the remaining real-name telephone cards purchased by Li and Zhao were confiscated according to law, and the illegal gains of the two people continued to be recovered. (The name of the person involved is a pseudonym)
Source: Qinghai Legal Daily
Edit: Sea Dragon
