Beijing Liaoning police teamed up to destroy a huge telecommunications network fraud gang, smashed four live-streaming fraud dens in Dalian, and detained 4 suspects

Forge the illusion of the same city The anchor deceives the "big brother on the list"

Modify the positioning address, forge the false image of the IP of the same city, and constantly deceive netizens to give tips on the grounds of private chats of beautiful anchors and offline meetings in the same city, and lure high-value members to recharge. The Beijing News reporter learned that on August 8, after careful investigation in the early stage, the police in Fengtai, Beijing and Dalian, Liaoning Province joined hands to destroy a large telecommunications network fraud gang, smashed four live broadcast fraud dens in Dalian, and 17 criminal suspects were criminally detained according to law.

Scammed

After tipping the beautiful anchor, the "big brother on the list" was banned and blocked

On April 2023, 4, Mr. Zhang came to the Majiapu Police Station in Fengtai, Beijing, to report that he was defrauded by a beautiful anchor on a short video platform for more than 8,20000 yuan.

It is understood that Mr. Zhang paid attention to a beautiful anchor on a short video platform, and because of his frequent rewards, his ranking in the live broadcast room gradually improved, and he unknowingly became the so-called "big brother", and the beautiful anchor also began to pay attention to himself, and interacted with himself in the live broadcast room from time to time.

One day, Mr. Zhang opened his mobile phone and entered the live broadcast room, and received a private message from the beautiful anchor saying that he knew that he lived in Beijing like Mr. Zhang by looking at the IP address of the message, thanks to such a long time of tip support, you can contact each other on WeChat, and you have the opportunity to meet offline. In addition to some provocative words, Mr. Zhang also received several photos of the life of the beautiful anchor.

Mr. Zhang thought that he had won the favor of beautiful women, and the amount of tips after that was larger, the number of recharges was more frequent, and he also fantasized about the upcoming offline meeting.

But what Mr. Zhang didn't expect was that he gave more than 20000,<> yuan to the beautiful anchor, and every time he asked for a date, the beauty always pushed back for various reasons, and finally Mr. Zhang was banned by the anchor in the live broadcast room, and WeChat was also blocked.

Mr. Zhang, who calmed down, thought carefully that he had been deceived, and the meeting was a pretense, so he came to the police station and called the police.

survey

By modifying the location address, forge the illusion of the same city IP address

The police at the police station accepted the case and launched an investigation, and found that the offline address of the anchor provided by Mr. Zhang did not exist at all, and the live broadcast account could not be searched. The police judged that this was a premeditated fraud case, and it was likely to be committed by a gang, and Mr. Zhang was not the only person who was deceived, and the police station sent the case to the Fengtai Criminal Investigation Detachment for further investigation.

The investigators of the Fengtai Criminal Investigation Detachment launched an investigation around the anchor's account and found that there was an abnormality in the location of the account login. Mr. Zhang saw that the anchor's IP address was located in Beijing, and the actual address of the account found by the police was located in Dalian, Liaoning Province; There is also more than one account user, one of the account users, Shen, is a woman, and the other two account users are men.

In August, through the coordination of the Criminal Investigation Corps of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau, the Fengtai Criminal Investigation Detachment established contact with the Dalian police in Liaoning Province. With the cooperation of the local police, an organized webcast fraud gang entered the police's sight.

"This is a fraud gang that tricks netizens into recharging by modifying the positioning address, forging the illusion of IP in the same city, and deceiving netizens into giving tips on the grounds of private chats and offline meetings in the same city." Officer Xu, an investigator of the Fengtai Criminal Investigation Detachment, said.

According to Officer Xu, through the visit, he and his colleagues found the actual location of the live broadcast account in Dalian, a two-story building on the edge of the city. The small building is almost empty during the day, and it is lit at night, and the curtains are closed in each room, and inside is the Internet live broadcast room. The so-called beautiful anchors face mobile phones in these small rooms, open their beauty for live broadcasts, look for objects, and cheat the "big brother" tips.

"The anchor can see the IP address of the fans in the live broadcast room, and the fans have to reach a certain level to see the IP address of the anchor, using this mechanism, the anchor can filter the deceived objects. Often tips in the live broadcast room, fans with a lot of recharge are definitely interested in the anchor, next, the anchor will modify their IP through third-party software, want to deceive which fan will change to the fan's address in the same city, and then is a private message contact, on the grounds of offline meeting in the same city to cheat more tips and recharge, but can never meet, is a fraud. Officer Xu said.

Catch

Four dens were destroyed and 4 criminal suspects were arrested

After more than 10 days of investigation and visits, the investigators found that in addition to the two-story small building on the edge of the urban area, there were three centralized live broadcast venues, and the members and organizational structure of the fraud gang were also fully mastered.

With a large amount of evidence of the gang's crime, the Beijing Fengtai police dispatched capable police forces to Dalian. At about 8 o'clock on August 17, Beijing Fengtai police, together with the local police in Dalian, carried out a centralized network collection operation on the four fraud dens that they had mastered. During the operation, the police arrested 21 suspects, of which 4 key gang members were all brought to justice. The police seized more than 91 mobile phones and more than 9 computers for live broadcasts at the scene, and dozens of beautiful anchors who were committing fraud were ordered to broadcast them.

It is understood that the leader of the fraud gang, Wang, ran a media company and recruited anchors to enter a short video platform for live broadcasting. In order to "make quick money", Wang has been looking for objects in the live broadcast room through anchors since June 2022, using software to modify IPs, and using offline meetings in the same city as bait to commit fraud.

Through police investigation, the company's live broadcast account and WeChat group contained a large number of nude and pornographic photos, as well as suggestive text and voice. There are a large number of seductive tactics in the company's internal groups, such as "those who lied last night, come in and ban speech". For fans who are not fooled, there is also a special so-called tackling team to take over. In addition to handing over the money to the company, the money after the fraud is successfully distributed to the anchor in proportion.

According to preliminary combing, the fraud gang controls more than 280 accounts on the short video platform. If you are banned by a complaint, you will immediately change your account or even re-register the company to continue to carry out live streaming fraud, and change your name without changing people. "This scam gang entered the short video platform under the guise of a media company, in fact, to defraud fans, and there were also reports from fans during this period, but the platform's account ban had little impact on them." Officer Xu introduced.

The reporter learned from the Fengtai Branch of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau that at present, 91 gang members have been criminally detained in accordance with the law on suspicion of fraud, and the case is being further tried.

Beijing News reporter Wu Mengzhen