In recent years, due to the state's strong crackdown on fraud crimes, the vast majority of network telecom fraud gangs in China have transferred to Southeast Asia and other overseas areas, which makes the police's pursuit of fraudsters a huge obstacle, but also let the network fraud more and more rampant.

But network fraud needs a whole industry chain support, in addition to direct fraud scammers, there are many people for fraud services to stay in the country. In the case of difficult to arrest overseas fraud gangs, these service personnel have become the focus of the police to combat the object, so as to curb fraud activities from the upstream of the industrial chain.

Seven people were arrested for laundering money for a fraud ring

On March 21, Meihekou police cracked a case of helping information network criminal activities, arrested 7 people including the criminal suspect Li Mou, and seized bank cards, mobile phone cards and other criminal tools at the scene. Cut off a special "money laundering" channel for telecom fraud gangs to collect and transfer stolen money.

Since February 2021, seven people including the criminal suspect Li helped the fraud gang carry out "money laundering" work, involving millions of yuan. At present, Li and other 7 people are suspected of helping information network crimes, have been detained in accordance with the law, and the case is being further investigated.

The new network fraud will chase hot spots and change routines

With the continuous exposure of various fraud cases, crooks are also constantly updating fraud tricks, some fraudsters are very cunning, and even the use of the latest hot spots, stolen concepts and other means to let the victim put down their vigilance to cheat.

Recently, the regulatory authorities issued a notice "not to provide online loans to college students" caused national concern, but some crooks took advantage of the hot spot to implement a new scam, some consumers reported receiving fraudulent calls from crooks posing as Ant Group customer service, in order to "cancel campus loan accounts" or "modify identity information" on the ground, to deceive users' personal information. And even induce consumers to transfer money and pay.

In addition to confusing consumers with "hot spots", some professional scams also secretly change the concept. For example, in the "imprest fund refund" scam, the scammer obtains the express information of the consumer through the black industrial chain, and then contacts the consumer to say that the online shopping refund has been into the consumer's Alipay "imprest fund", misleading the consumer to understand the amount of the imprest fund as a "refund", and then induces the consumer to step by step say their account information or transfer money to the scammer.

Investment scams are also being updated

In fact, not only is the "consumer" network fraud introduced, but the "investment" fraud common in the circle and the currency circle is also being upgraded and renovated, and will also chase hot spots and steal concepts. For example, with the increased attention to the blockchain industry at the national level, online fraudsters "tuyere", in the name of "blockchain", "digital currency", "mining" to cheat, in essence is still a false platform "speculation currency pairs, gold."

But although the pattern is new, the essence is not new, in these financial frauds, fraudsters use high returns, high returns to induce victims. As long as the majority of investors are not greedy and blind, they can avoid becoming the fish to be caught in the eyes of crooks.