Beware of the "decoder" eyeing your electric car Zhengzhou police for the first time cracked the "decoder" theft of electric vehicles

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□ Top News Dahe Newspaper reporter Guo Zhiyuan correspondent Li Dongya

Spend 5,000 yuan to buy a new electric car, just a day of riding, Mr. Yuan pulled out the car key remote control power outage, went to the supermarket for a few minutes to shop and came back, but found that the car was stolen. On April 16, the reporter learned from the Second Seventh Branch of the Zhengzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau that two suspects suspected of stealing trams were arrested and arrested, and after preliminary investigation, they were suspected of stealing 50 or 60 electric vehicles.

What the police handling the case did not expect was that the suspect used an electric vehicle "decoder" device to remotely control the forced connection of the power supply and start the car for theft. It is understood that this is the first time that the Zhengzhou police seized the "decoder" device of the stolen electric vehicle; its appearance, so that the majority of car owners how to prevent the theft of electric vehicles?

Crime

Five thousand dollars to buy a new car to ride a day was stolen

On April 3, the Synthetic Research and Judgment Center of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the Erqi Public Security Bureau received a police order saying that citizen Yuan Mou was shopping in a supermarket near Jingguang Road and Changjiang Road, turned around, and lost the electric car parked on the side of the road. Allegedly, he spent 5,000 yuan on the car and was stolen just after riding for a day.

Knowing the situation, the police quickly attacked, and through the video surveillance of the crime scene, a man walked to the scene of the crime. After Mr. Yuan stopped and left, he pulled out an "object the size of a game console", pounded a few times and rode away. Subsequently, the suspect traveled along Changjiang Road to the vicinity of Jingguang Road and disappeared without a trace.

It's not clear where the suspect went, so where did he come from?

Following this line of thinking, the police found that the suspect had ridden a white electric car before, and there was a man with him, and the two came to the vicinity of The entrance of University Road and Zhenghang Street. The suspect parked the electric car on the side of the road, locked the vehicle and handed the key to the man. The man picked up a woman on his bicycle, and she used the key to the car the suspect was riding to open the electric car parked on the side of the road. After that, drive north along University Road into the used car market.

The police investigation found that the owner of the white electric vehicle was named Liu Mou, who had called the police on April 2 and said that an electric vehicle was lost.

In view of the same modus operandi of the two cases, the police immediately investigated them together, and conclusive information soon came that the suspect's name was Li Mou, 46 years old this year, and had multiple theft records.

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Shunten touched the melon to end the theft of hidden and sold electric vehicle dens

After the identity of the suspect was determined, the police immediately launched an operation and waited for the opportunity to arrest. Through investigation, the police found that the suspect Li Mou wanted to go to Houzhuang Village, Longhu Town, Xinzheng City, after committing the crime.

The police tracked down the house and found a suspicious electric vehicle obscuring the number plate in the hall on the first floor. Contact the owner and learned that he reported to the police on March 31 that the car was stolen at the Taoyuan intersection of University Road. Retrieving the video comparison of the scene of the case, the suspect is still Li Mou.

Through continued investigation, the police found that two people, one old and one young, living here, were all former criminals of theft. The monitoring installed by the landlord can be seen that many people are suspected of hiding and transferring theft of electric vehicles. According to the 20-day monitoring, several people have to hide and transfer two to three different electric vehicles every day, and the preliminary analysis is fifty or sixty.

At this point in the investigation, while implementing the case, the police studied and analyzed the identities of all the members of the gang that stole and sold electric vehicles. Soon, in addition to determining the identity of Li, the identities of the other 2 suspects also surfaced, they were the people involved in the case, Song and Zhu.

On April 14, the Erqi Public Security Sub-Bureau organized more than 10 police forces to strike decisively and arrested 3 suspects in one fell swoop. After the preliminary trial, Li confessed that he and Zhu were fellow prisoners, and each of the electric vehicles he stole was sold to Zhu at a price ranging from five or six hundred yuan; Zhu was slightly modified, and then sold to Li and his wife, the urban recipients, at a price of more than 1,000 yuan.

doubt

How does the "decoder" start the power-off electric vehicle?

With the arrest of several suspects, the "game console-sized items" that made the police handling the case quite confused were gradually presented. So, what exactly is it?

The reporter noticed that this item is slightly larger than the BB machine that was popular in the 90s of the last century, and the inside of the black plastic shell is inlaid with an LCD screen. From the outside, it is "unassuming" and very similar to ordinary game consoles.

At the scene, during the demonstration of the suspect Li Mou, after the lock of an electric vehicle handle, the remote control car key was also activated. Only to see him press "this game console" a few times, the screen appeared a few lines of digital, three or four seconds of kung fu, the electric car screen suddenly displayed, the power to start the connection.

At this time, people sit on the car and pull the handlebars straight with both hands, and then they can ride on the car and leave directly.

According to Li mou and Zhu mou, who have a "decoder", they explained to the police that this "game machine" is actually a "decoder" on an electric car, and they spend six or seven hundred yuan to buy it from the Internet. With this "decoder", the main selection of high-grade, new-grade electric vehicles to carry out theft.

So, how does this "decoder" work? According to the police handling the case, they asked the relevant people and learned that the "decoder" of the electric vehicle they seized was very similar to the working principle of the car "jammer" that had appeared in previous years. That is, through this remote control device, the data information is artificially forcibly embedded, interfering with the "brain" of the driving, so that the original working state is static, and the invaded "hacker" information is worked on behalf of the driver.

Ideas

What can I do to block the "decoder"?

"Stealing an electric car with a decoder is the first time we've cracked a case like this." According to Li Qi, a police officer handling the case, in the past, in the process of handling the case, they found that many of the owners of the vehicles involved in the case that were seized from the suspects did not report the case. In this way, it is impossible to find the lost owner, and it is difficult to form a "closed loop" for the suspect to detect the whole case, which weakens the fight against criminal acts.

Once the car is found to be lost, you should choose to call the police at the first time and register the relevant information of the car with the police, so that it is possible to retrieve the car.

In addition, more importantly, the general public rides an electric car out to run errands, no matter at any time do not feel troublesome, only hastily press the remote control key or just lock the handlebar, and leave. At this time, the car should be added to the U-lock, an extra layer of security protection.

At this moment, even if the suspect uses the "decoder" to turn on the power supply of the electric vehicle, because there is a large lock, he needs to work hard to open the lock, otherwise, it is difficult to get the car away, Li Qi said: "Unlocking is moving, and it is more laborious and time-consuming." As a thief, he will feel that the risk of being perceived is great, and naturally choose to give up stealing. ”

At present, Li and Zhu have been criminally detained, and Song has been administratively detained, and the case is still under further investigation.

(Courtesy of the police)