Recently, Hubei Yingshan police cracked the first large-scale fraud case in China that used Apple mobile phones to steal overseas credit cards. The suspects used illegally purchased stolen overseas credit cards and Apple mobile phone accounts to recharge and commit fraud on live video broadcasts, online games and other platforms, with the amount involved reaching tens of millions of yuan.
Cause of the incident:
In June last year, Douyu Network Technology Co., Ltd. reported that the recharge system of the company’s live broadcast platform was in settlement with the Apple payment platform in the United States. The funds were obviously inconsistent, the difference was huge, and Douyu suffered serious losses. The police investigation found that the problem centered on the recharge business "shark fin" of the Douyu live broadcast platform. Police screening found that there were abnormalities in the recharges of some users. The abnormal user recharged 100 yuan, maybe 10 times within 30 seconds or 1 minute, each time recharging 10 yuan, and all the payment terminals logged in were Apple Pay.
The police deactivated these stolen accounts and lowered their user levels. Since the accounts involved were all high-level accounts, the users took the initiative to contact Douyu after the accounts were restricted. The police immediately contacted a user who said that his account was recharged by a netizen he had never met, "Yi Wumu", because "Yi Wumu" claimed to have a channel to buy "shark fin" at a 20% discount. . The cumulative transaction amount between Zhou and "Yi Mingmei" reached hundreds of thousands of yuan.
The police said that the suspect used the pre-authorized limit of an overseas credit card to conduct fraudulent transactions in the Apple App Store. The overseas credit card information was purchased by the suspect Ding from an overseas website that illegally sells credit card information.
After investigation, the police found that "Unforgettable" was Peng, a college student in Jiangxi, and Peng's online contacts were Xiang and Jiang from Lichuan, Hubei. Xiang met a netizen named "Yu Er Xiang Ding Dang" on the Internet and learned that by binding overseas credit card information to an Apple account, he could use the official Apple store website to recharge money on entertainment platforms such as Douyu Live.
The suspect said that at first there was a problem here or there. In May last year, he found that Douyu was quite easy to do because sometimes the recharged shark fins could not be recharged, but later he suddenly discovered It was good to recharge, and it came in as soon as I recharged it. Then I started looking for Peng online to take orders. He took the order and sent me his account number and password, and they recharged it.
According to police investigation, Xiang and Jiang hired more than a dozen employees and purchased more than 4,000 overseas black credit cards and more than 6,000 Apple ID accounts to provide services for Douyu Live, YY Live, and Texas Hold'em. Users illegally recharged more than 10,000 times, with the case value reaching more than 10 million yuan. In just 8 months, they relied on this method to illegally make profits of more than 3 million yuan.
Currently, the police have seized 16 computers and 128 iPhones used in the crime. More than 20 people involved have all come to the case and recovered 920,000 yuan in losses from the Douyu live broadcast platform. The persons involved are currently on bail pending trial, and will be transferred to the procuratorate for prosecution on charges of fraud, illegal sales of credit cards, etc.