Shantou police smashed a large telecom fraud gang and seized 93 mobile phones involved.

　　Recently, Shantou police successfully smashed a telecommunication network fraud gang, arrested 10 suspects, and seized 93 mobile phones and 83 bank cards involved. Chen Qiren photo

　　Recently, Shantou police successfully smashed a telecommunication network fraud gang, arrested 10 suspects, and seized 93 mobile phones and 83 bank cards involved. Chen Qiren photo

　　Shantou, China, April 15 (Chen Qiren, Yao Xiaoli) Guangdong Shantou police reported on the 15th that Shantou police recently successfully smashed a telecommunication network fraud gang that frequently committed crimes, arrested 10 suspects, seized 93 mobile phones and 83 bank cards involved, involving 11 provinces and cities such as Guangdong, Fujian and Shandong, and initially identified 133 cases involved.

　　According to Shantou police, in recent years, with the rapid development of mobile Internet, criminals have used communication tools to commit online fraud from time to time, which has made many people deceived and lost their money.

　　Shantou police investigation found that a telecommunication network fraud gang hidden in Shantou surfaced. The gang bought a large number of bank cards, mobile phone cards, "Lacarra" credit card machines and other crime tools from the Internet, rented a number of houses in Shantou city as dens, published false information about "online car purchase" through public network platforms, and made false web links. The cases involved 11 provinces and cities such as Zhejiang, Henan and Hebei, and the amount involved was huge.

　　After careful investigation, the police grasped seven criminal dens of the gang in Shantou. On April 8, Shantou police concentrated more than 140 elite police officers to form seven arrest teams, and arrested seven dens of the fraud gang at the same time, successfully arresting 10 members of the criminal gang, including Wang Moufu, and smashed this mega-telecommunication network fraud criminal gang in one fell swoop.

　　Zhan Yihua, deputy director of Shantou Public Security Bureau, said that telecommunication network fraud is concealed, and many online fraud platforms set their backstage outside the country, which makes it difficult to handle cases and investigations. At the same time, criminal gangs transfer funds through third-party payment, which also brings troubles to police investigation and evidence collection.

　　"Telecommunication network fraud is often aimed at ordinary people. When a phone call comes, the citizens will be cheated of a lot of savings." Zhan Yuhua said.

　　The police reminded the public not to trust the commodity information on the Internet that is obviously lower than the market price; Online shopping should be carried out on a qualified and guaranteed online shopping platform; Don’t pay in advance without knowing the real situation of online shopping sales; If you find a crime of fraud, you should report it in time. (End)