In recent years, the situation of telecom network fraud crime is severe, and the telecom network fraud crime has become the most prominent crime with the highest case, the biggest loss and the most strong response from the masses.

Today (December 1, 2022), the People's Republic of China's Anti-Telecom Fraud Law officially came into effect, which is China's first law specifically focused on combating telecom fraud.

The booming development of the Internet and the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic in recent years have made online fraud emerge one after another. Criminals use new telecommunications network technology means to carry out precision fraud through illegal access to personal information, network black and gray industry transactions, and steal people's property security. The Anti-Telecom and Internet Fraud Law has strengthened the protection of citizens' personal information, cracked down on overseas telecom and Internet fraud, adopted measures to restrict exit from the country, increased penalties, specified in detail the responsibilities of different agencies for violating the law, and investigated the relevant personnel for criminal liability according to law, or imposed administrative penalties such as fines and detention.

It is reported that the Anti-Telecom Network Fraud Law of the People's Republic of China has been adopted by the 36th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China on September 2, 2022, with a total of seven chapters and 50 articles. Including general provisions, telecommunications governance, financial governance, Internet governance, comprehensive measures, legal liability, supplementary provisions, etc., based on all links and the whole chain to prevent and manage telecommunications network fraud, precise force, to provide strong legal support for anti-telecommunications network fraud work.

Criminals engaged in telecom network fraud activities can not be separated from financial, communication, Internet and other industry channels.

Some experts said that "the introduction of this law emphasizes the concept of the system, preventing telecommunications network fraud from the source, strengthening the management of phone cards, bank cards, Internet accounts, and focusing on the whole-chain governance from the personnel chain, information chain, technology chain, and capital chain."

Source: FX110