Use your phone information to steal your bank card! Sichuan's first "sniffing case" was heard, and couples were tried in the same room

"As soon as the eyes are closed and open, the money is gone!"

I didn't lose my phone or my bank card, and when I woke up, the money was gone. You may think that this kind of "probing for things" is just the plot of martial arts novels, but such a "nightmare" has become a reality.

On November 7 last year, the Shifang Municipal Public Security Bureau cracked the province's first gang case of using "sniffing" technology to steal funds. On December 17, the case of credit card fraud using network sniffing was tried in a public trial in the Shifang court, and Wu and Zhang were tried in the same court, but the court did not pronounce a verdict in court.

The couple went on trial in the same room

Case replay

There was no interaction with the suspect, and the money was gone when he woke up

Since August and September 2018, the Shifang Public Security Bureau has successively received reports from "E Bao" customers of the Chinese Shou Shifang Branch, whose mobile phone number registered Chinese Shou "E Bao" APP received some text messages containing digital verification codes for no reason in the early morning, and the next day found that the money in the bank card bound to the E Bao "APP" was transferred to third-party payment such as Alipay, JD.com, and Tenpay, and all of them were consumed or transferred away by way of transfer.

"When I woke up in the morning, I found that the more than 20,000 yuan on my bank card was gone." According to the victim, Ms. Chen, she got up on the morning of July 27, 2018 and found an inexplicable transfer of money. She found that at 3 a.m., when she was sleeping, she received a number of text messages, the content is mainly verification codes, transfer consumption information and the like, the money on the card was transferred away for a total of more than 20,000 yuan, and she rushed to the police for help.

Another victim, Mr. Wang, not only transferred more than 3,000 yuan on the card, but also used his information to borrow 12,000 yuan.

Ms. Qiao is an "E Treasure" customer. She introduced that in late August of that year, she received verification codes one after another, but she did not care at that time. On August 26, 36,000 yuan in her bank card was transferred one after another. Only then did she discover that someone had borrowed money from an insurance company with her policy and was inexplicably transferred. One of the victims was transferred more than 65,000 yuan at a time.

"The minimum is 18 yuan, the maximum is 65,000 yuan." According to the police handling the case, after the incident, the Shifang City Public Security Bureau quickly dispatched elite police forces to form a special team to find clues to solve the case. Through combing, the police handling the case found that since February 2018, more than 50 similar cases have occurred in Shifang City, involving an amount of nearly hundreds of thousands of yuan.

The police found that in addition to the time of the crime in the early morning, the crime area was also concentrated in the area of Dongmen Bridge in Shifang City, centered on the Dongmen Bridge, within a radius of 500 meters. Another of the biggest features of the case is that the suspect does not need to have any interaction with the victim. The victim does not have any cooperation, but passively receives text messages, the money in the unclear bank card is gone, and even a few more online loans are issued.

On November 7 of that year, under the organization and command of the Deyang Municipal Public Security Bureau, the Shifang Municipal Police successfully detected the first gang case in the province that used "sniffing" technology to steal funds, and seized a sniffing device, 7 mobile phones and more than 30 bank cards.

After investigation, the criminal suspect Wu Mou and others used the "GSM hijacking + SMS sniffing" technology to intercept the victim's mobile phone number and text messages and then carry out bank card funds theft, which is the newest type of crime method in the current cybercrime.

The couple was put on trial

The girlfriend said that she did not know that this was a crime at first, and the court did not pronounce the verdict in court

On the 17th, Wu and Zhang used network sniffing technology to carry out credit card fraud in a public trial in the Shifang court.

According to the indictment of the public prosecution organ, at the end of 2017, Wu began to use network sniffing to commit crimes, and in April 2018, Zhang moumou participated in the network sniffing fraud case. After the public security organs found that Wu and Zhang had committed 39 joint crimes, and Wu had committed 19 separate crimes; Wu had defrauded more than 490,000 yuan; since April 2018, Zhang X had participated in the fraud case, and the amount of fraud exceeded 260,000.

The two were involved in credit card fraud, violating the relevant provisions of China's criminal law, the public prosecution organ accused the two of committing credit card fraud, in the face of the facts and charges of the crime charged by the public prosecution organ, Wu X and Zhang X did not refute it, and expressed their approval in court.

In the court investigation stage, Wu said that in 2017, without income, he found a technique that defrauded money quickly on the Internet - "sniffing", and after full preparation, Wu used the "sniffing" device to illegally obtain citizens' personal mobile phone information, and used the obtained information to steal other people's bank cards and cash. Since April 2018, his girlfriend has helped him record information, distribute text messages, and commit scams. Zhang Moumou said that at first he did not know it, but later learned that this was a criminal act.

The two said the money obtained from the fraud using cyber-sniffing technology was used for the two people to open a room, take drugs, recharge games and other living expenses. The court did not pronounce a verdict in the case, and Red Star News will continue to pay attention to the matter.

Red Star News reporter Wang Mingping

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