Help？ An accomplice! -Behind the case of electric fraud, beware of the trap of ＂helping the letter＂
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, December 29th Question: Help? An accomplice! -Behind the case of electric fraud, beware of the trap of "helping the letter"
Xinhua News Agency reporter Lu Chang
At present, all kinds of telecommunication network fraud show the characteristics of complete chain and clear division of labor, which increases the confusion of fraud and the difficulty of preventing and cracking down. Among them, some people engage in false account registration, mobile phone and bank card opening, buying and selling or providing "services" such as "receiving codes" and "running points", some knowingly commit crimes, some covet small profits, and finally embark on the road of illegality or even crime. Since the beginning of this year, according to the deployment of the "Net Net 2021" special action of the Ministry of Public Security, Beijing police have cracked many cases suspected of helping information network criminal activities (hereinafter referred to as "helping the letter crime"). The reporter will take you to understand what "helping the letter crime" is and how to avoid falling into the trap.
Three types of "letter-helping" activities are on the rise.
According to the data of the main cases handled by the national procuratorial organs from January to September recently released by the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, the crime of helping the letter ranked fourth, with a total of 79,307 people, up 21.3 times year-on-year. Legal experts pointed out that this aspect reflects that telecommunication network fraud is still very rampant in the emerging stage; On the other hand, while cracking down on illegal crimes of telecommunication network fraud, the judicial organs have strengthened the crackdown on the related crime of helping the letter. With the investment of a large number of judicial resources, the number of public prosecutions of the crime of helping the letter has also increased significantly.
The full name of "helping the letter crime" is "helping the information network criminal activities", which is an additional crime in the criminal law based on the traditional theory of joint crime. The reporter combed the cases cracked by the Beijing police and found that the current three types of illegal crimes suspected of "helping the letter" are outstanding.
-helping overseas fraud gangs "run points" to launder money. From April to early September this year, the criminal suspect Chang hired many people to use overseas social software to receive the money transfer task list of upstream criminal suspects in a house in Shijingshan. After receiving the order, the gang members used two platforms with servers located overseas to transfer the stolen money to the next bank card, and the daily "running points" amounted to several million yuan. According to the introduction of Shijingshan Public Security Bureau, when the gang was destroyed, it was found that the gang had specially prepared a generator to prevent the unexpected power outage in the hidden dens from affecting the order. The gang members have been criminally detained according to law.
—— Illegally obtaining and providing batch social media accounts and "unsealing" banned accounts for fraud gangs. Among the gangs suspected of "helping the letter" destroyed by Haidian Public Security Bureau, many suspects have registered a dating App account in batches through illegal technical means since October last year, and sold it to overseas fraud gangs to implement "killing pig plates" fraud, with a total profit of more than 1.4 million yuan; In another case, criminal gangs provided the service of "unsealing" the social media accounts involved in the case and sending fraudulent information emails in groups. In various ways, they enabled downstream fraudsters to use the same number to commit crimes multiple times. Statistics show that the above two cases are related to more than 700 cases of electric fraud nationwide, involving a total amount of 53.2 million yuan.
-Provide "service" for sending and receiving SMS verification codes. In a case of criminal activities suspected of helping information network uncovered by Miyun Public Security Bureau, the suspect Wang took advantage of his position to purchase more than 2,000 real-name telephone cards from construction sites and other recruitment units at the price of one in 30 yuan all over the country, providing others with illegal acts of receiving verification codes. According to the reporter’s understanding, through "receiving code", a large number of social App accounts can be registered in a short time, and power supply fraud gangs can be used for scams such as "killing pig plates".
Some people are cheated for small profits, while others knowingly commit crimes.
The reporter learned that some lawless elements used profits as bait to induce some people to open cards, or claimed to handle bank cards and corporate accounts at high prices. Some people were greedy for "into the pit" for small profits, and after the criminals were arrested for "helping the letter", they also entered the disciplinary list.
Zhang Na (pseudonym), 25 years old, was told by the company that the bank card he provided as a salary card was frozen when he went through the entry formalities. According to Zhang Na’s memory, this card was tricked into "acting as an agent" when she was in college. At that time, a total of five cards were opened, and she got 300 yuan money herself. Judging from the bank flow they collected, the transaction funds of these bank cards were transferred away on the same day after entering. An experienced anti-fraud policeman told reporters that this situation was obviously used for telecommunication network fraud and became a "tool person". "Freezing the bank card is not the main problem. She is likely to be included in the disciplinary list, which will have a great impact on her life." The policeman said.
In the interview, the reporter found that some gangs used the qualification of value-added telecommunications services to "sell dog meat by hanging sheep’s heads" and engaged in electric fraud activities with their landline numbers. In the case detected by Haidian Public Security Bureau, a company connected lines and contracted more than 20,000 landline numbers on the grounds of setting up a call center. However, the company used the obtained landline number to sublet for profit, and did not stop the illegal behavior after the relevant units repeatedly warned. On November 10 this year, the police carried out the network-closing operation, and arrested 13 suspects including the legal representative of the company, Wang Moumou, and initially verified that the company’s landline number involved more than 200 telecom network fraud cases nationwide.
Strengthen warning propaganda and continue to strike accurately.
The public security police and legal practitioners interviewed believe that it is necessary to further strengthen the propaganda on typical cases of "helping the letter", profoundly reveal the harm of telecommunication network fraud, strengthen warning education, especially for school students and labor-intensive employment enterprises, improve the people’s awareness and ability to prevent telecommunication network fraud, and build a solid barrier to prevent and crack down on telecommunication network fraud.
In addition, the reporter combed a number of public judgment documents and found that the crime of "helping the letter" takes the unemployed as the main criminal group in the defendant’s occupation. These defendants received "card receiving" advertisements posted by social platforms or friends, and used their personal information to handle bank cards at prices ranging from 200 yuan to 2,000 yuan, and then sold them to others, who used them for telecommunication network fraud. Therefore, the Internet social platform needs to establish a security compliance system and a closed-loop risk management system for evaluation, prevention, audit and discovery, and governance, so as to provide early warning and pre-disposal of all kinds of illegal information at the first time.
Respondents said that the illegal operation of "two cards" has a very serious impact on the occurrence of telecommunication network fraud cases, and it is necessary to further promote the "broken card" action to curb the high incidence of telecommunication network fraud cases. At the same time, we will severely punish a number of institutions and industries with outstanding problems involved in the case, focusing on strengthening law enforcement inspection and urging rectification.
