Jianzhi telecom network fraud

Be greedy for quick money and willing to be an accomplice in telecom fraud

Sixteen employees of the boss were charged with the crime of illegally using information networks.

Called "Technology Company", it is actually an accomplice of telecom fraud. In a recent case handled by the Putuo District Procuratorate in Shanghai, programmer Wang recruited a team to set up a company to jointly develop a false gambling program, which was used by overseas gangs for telecom fraud. The Putuo District Procuratorate has successively prosecuted 16 people including Wang and his company employees. On November 8, Wang and 11 employees of his company (the other five have not yet been decided) were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from 11 months to two years and nine months by the court for illegally using information networks, and each was fined from 60,000 yuan to 700,000 yuan.

The temptation of part-time brushing

Bet principal has gone and never returned.

On October 6, 2020, Ms. Lu, who lives in Putuo District, Shanghai, was surfing the Internet at home. A netizen nicknamed "XX Express" requested to add her as a WeChat friend and noted that "the phone could not be reached". Ms. Lu thought that there might be a courier to deliver, and immediately passed the friend application. However, this netizen did not chat with her, but directly pulled Ms. Lu into a part-time WeChat group. Ms. Lu, who was originally interested in part-time jobs, observed in the group for a period of time and decided to add the QQ number published in the group to try it.

A few minutes later, Ms. Lu’s friend application was approved. The customer service said that this was an advance payment task. After paying the principal, she could earn a commission of 20% to 30% according to the teacher’s one-on-one guidance. At the same time, she sent an installation package of social apps. After that, under the guidance of the so-called teacher, Ms. Lu started her first brushing. She first registered an account on the App, bound a bank card, and then entered the exploration module "Gambling" page of the software to bet on 98 yuan. After the lottery, Ms. Lu’s account became 224 yuan, and the balance was successfully cashed out. The teacher told her that as long as she bets according to his requirements, she can still get the principal and commission back even if she loses.

In this way, Ms. Lu bet again and again under the guidance of the teacher, and the amount is getting bigger and bigger. After the sixth bet, she found that the balance in the account could not be withdrawn, while the teacher on the other side still asked her to continue to recharge the bet in the name of "withdrawing cash". After realizing that she was cheated, Ms. Lu reported the case to the public security organ. As of the time of the incident, Ms. Lu lost a total of more than 980,000 yuan.

Cross-border "cause"

Develop a fake gambling applet

After investigation, Ms. Lu entered a fake gambling applet, which was owned by overseas telecom fraud gangs, while the developer was a "technology company" with Wang as the head in China. What is the relationship between this technology company and overseas fraud gangs? How does this small program cheat?

It is understood that at the beginning of 2017, programmer Wang returned to his hometown from Shanghai. Because he was too old to find a job, he undertook the work of developing small programs at home. When helping a customer to do a beauty applet, Wang learned that an overseas company was looking for outsourcing to do small program development. Based on the principle of working, he contacted the docking person of the overseas company. During the conversation, he learned that the other party needs to develop a small program of gambling nature. After the evaluation, Wang felt that he could not do it alone, so he registered a company.

Recruit employees and lease office buildings.……The "second spring" of Wang’s career began. The legal representative of the company is Wang, who is responsible for contacting overseas and arranging work tasks. There are four departments, which are responsible for administration, development, testing and front-end.

According to the requirements of overseas companies, the gambling program developed by Wang’s company has the functions of betting and settlement, and also has the authority to manipulate the lottery results artificially. Customers can enter the gambling platform through the website, register their accounts and recharge, and then they can bet on a certain period. The betting results will be pushed to overseas companies, which will push the lottery results back to the gambling platform after the closing, and the gambling platform will calculate the players’ gains and losses according to this result.

Different from the "machine algorithm" used in normal gambling, the program developed by Wang uses a "false algorithm", that is, the program has the function of "predicting the lottery results in advance", and overseas companies can manually input the winning numbers and directly control the lottery results. In this way, players are bright and the platform is dark, and players’ money can continuously enter the pockets of overseas companies.

Illegal profits exceed 10 million

The boss and employees were prosecuted.

In order to avoid supervision, employees of the company are not allowed to use WeChat or QQ group to communicate. They all use overseas mobile phone flow cards and use VPN to log in to cross-platform instant messaging software for business contact. The employees of the company complete the development and testing of gambling programs in the form of home office.

This gambling program was later implanted into a variety of apps by overseas companies to implement telecom fraud. In January this year, 16 people, including Wang, were arrested by the public security organs. As of the time of the incident, Wang and his employees have obtained illegal income ranging from hundreds of thousands to more than one million yuan from overseas companies, and the gang has accumulated illegal income of more than 10 million yuan.

"I take risks in order to make money." After the case arrived, Wang confessed. Many employees of the company also admitted that there are obvious anomalies in the website’s operation mode, salary distribution way, work communication mode and specific content involved in development, and some website interface contents are clearly illegal and criminal. However, they are lucky enough to think that their work only involves front-end development, and they will not violate the law as long as they do not participate in specific fund settlement and follow-up operation and management of the website.

The prosecutor handling the case believes that the defendant Wang, knowing that the developed computer program is illegal, still profited by recruiting employees to jointly develop, operate and maintain the above computer program, and his behavior has been suspected of illegally using information networks. Wang’s employees know that the company is engaged in the development and operation of illegal gambling programs, and they continue to develop gambling programs, which is an accomplice. In June and July this year, the Putuo District Procuratorate successively prosecuted 16 people including Wang and his company employees.

(Reporter Zhang Wei)