Two phone calls from "bank staff" and "public security officers" completely plunged Luo Yang (pseudonym) from Hongya County, Meishan, Sichuan into a scam, and almost all of his personal savings for many years were lost. Got in. In just 5 days since receiving the fraud call, Luo Yang transferred huge amounts of money to the "safety account" provided by "public security officers" eight times, totaling more than 6 million. This case has also become the telecommunications fraud case with the highest single amount involved in Meishan and even Sichuan this year.
After police investigation, it was discovered that the fraudulent call Luo Yang received came from an overseas base in Indonesia, and the investigators then rushed to Indonesia for investigation. After more than 30 days of overseas case handling, Meishan police, with the support and help of local Indonesian police, successfully destroyed two fraud dens in Bali and Surabaya and arrested 58 suspects. On August 3, the 58 overseas persons involved in the case were escorted back to the country.
On May 21 this year, Luo Yang, who lives in Hongya County, Meishan City, received a mysterious phone call. During the phone call, Luo Yang was told that many of his credit cards had large overdrafts and were all in "overdue" status. The caller claimed to be a bank staff member. This surprised Luo Yang, "How is that possible?" Then, the "bank employee" said, "If you have any questions, you can check with the public security agency", which made Luo Yang doubtful.
According to the "public security agency" phone number provided by the "bank employee", Luo Yang made the call. The reply given by the "public security officer" made her break out in a cold sweat. On the phone, a "public security officer" said that the "bank" had indeed reported the case, and that Luo Yang was also suspected of online money laundering and fraud, and the prosecutor's office had issued an arrest warrant. At the same time, a website address of the procuratorate was provided for Luo Yang to conduct verification.
In a hurry, Luo Yang logged into the webpage provided by the other party. The interface of the web page is indeed that of a prosecutor's office, and his arrest warrant is indeed found on the page. After some "verification", Luo Yang, who originally "didn't believe it", completely fell into the other party's trap and "admitted" that he had indeed "committed a serious crime".
At this time, Luo Yang was already panicking. She originally planned to tell her family the news, but the "public security officer" said on the phone that "no one else should know" made her give up the idea. She felt that she should cooperate with the "police" investigation at this time. Therefore, Luo Yang did not tell anyone about his experience, but kept in contact with the "public security officers" and acted alone according to the tips of the "public security officers".
Luo Yang fell completely into the trap of the fraud gang.
Due to the huge amount of money involved, the case received great attention from the Ministry of Public Security and the Sichuan Provincial Public Security Department, and was listed as a major telecommunications fraud case supervised by the Ministry of Public Security. Through the investigation of key chains and links such as case information flow, communication flow, and capital flow. The police discovered that the funds transferred from the "safe account" that Luo Yang transferred were eventually withdrawn in Xiamen, Fujian and other places. At the same time, a domestic gang involved in the production and trafficking of credit cards and phone cards that provided telecommunications network fraud was locked.
On June 23, the police arrested seven criminal suspects in Chengdu and Xiamen, destroyed credit card and phone card manufacturing and trading dens, and successfully stopped the payment of more than 1.3 million yuan of funds involved in the case. The police handling the case also discovered through technical investigation methods that the person who called Luo Yang was an overseas gang in Indonesia. The domestic credit card and phone card manufacturing and selling den was only a branch line of the entire fraud gang.
On June 27, four early case investigators began to go to Indonesia to conduct preliminary investigation, and then eight support team members arrived. Under the coordination of the Ministry of Public Security and through communication and cooperation with the local police in Indonesia, two fraud dens in Bali and Surabaya were successfully identified. On July 29, the police forces from both sides cooperated with each other and began to arrest 58 suspects.
"We have technically determined the location of the den in the early stage, but the suspect basically stays in each place for two or three days and may change places, which brings difficulties to our investigation work." The policeman handling the case According to the introduction, at the same time, the location of the dens is often relatively remote, the door outside the house is locked, the surroundings are quite closed, and surveillance cameras are even installed. “The last arrest was made by drilling into the den through a half-meter hole where garbage was thrown.
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The police introduced that during the fraud in Luoyang, the fraud gang was divided into two lines. The domestic gang was responsible for issuing bank cards and phone cards and sending them abroad, and was also responsible for withdrawing money domestically. Foreign gangs are responsible for making phone calls, and are also divided into "public", "procuratorial" and "legal" teams for corporate operations.
"In this case, the suspect's method of impersonating the public prosecutor has actually been publicized. Many times, the trick is simple, but the victim is still deceived. "Zeng Youquan, executive deputy director of the Hongya County Public Security Bureau of Meishan City, who investigated the case, said that the current fraud methods have new changes. For example, the public security landline number given by the suspect is indeed this number when 114 is used to query, but in fact The above is a virtual number that has been tampered with and intercepted, making it difficult for the victim to identify it. However, when receiving a similar call, it is best for the person involved to verify it through 110 or the local public security agency to avoid being deceived.