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The picture shows the anti-fraud propaganda police of Foshan Anti-fraud Center carrying out anti-fraud knowledge training on the morning of September 26th. Our reporter Deng Junshe
□ Reporter Deng Jun
□ Correspondent Wei Wei
"I know very well that the chances of recovering the cheated money are very slim. But when I received a call from the police and learned that most of the money was stopped and frozen, I saw hope. " In August this year, Ms. Liao, a resident of Foshan City, Guangdong Province, was caught in a fraud routine of "pretending to be a public prosecution law" and transferred 1.459 million yuan to the liar. After 20 hours of continuous fighting by Foshan police, she successfully recovered the defrauded funds totaling 1.15 million yuan.
In recent years, with the rapid development of the information society, the criminal structure has undergone major changes, and a new type of cyber crime represented by telecommunication network fraud has become the mainstream crime. Focusing on the overall work goal of "suppressing cases and reducing police situation", Foshan police have promoted the work of cracking down on telecommunication network fraud and crimes in many dimensions, cultivated anti-fraud "kung fu", recovered losses for the people, and made them feel the speed and temperature of Foshan police.
The data shows that since 2022, Foshan’s power fraud alarm has decreased by 29% year-on-year, and the number of electric fraud cases has decreased by 24%. The number of telecommunication network fraud cases cracked in the city increased by 61% year-on-year, and the number of people arrested increased by 154% year-on-year; Stop paying and freeze funds of 410 million yuan; Accumulated more than 2.202 million pieces of early warning information were disposed of, and 515,000 meetings and 1.027 million telephone calls were completed to dissuade them, recovering 270 million yuan of direct economic losses and returning more than 43 million yuan of funds involved.
The main responsibility of the public security department
Improve the pattern of anti-fraud governance
Telecommunications network fraud crimes continue to occur frequently, criminals’ means of committing crimes are constantly being refurbished, and the black and gray industrial chain is intertwined, which has become one of the most urgent and difficult problems that the people have the strongest response and hate.
As early as 2014, Foshan established an anti-fraud center; In 2015, Foshan established a joint conference system for cracking down on telecommunication network fraud crimes with the participation of 20 units; In 2016, Foshan Anti-Fraud Center coordinated the presence of three communication operators and 46 banks in the city, becoming the first batch of entities operating in China, and seized the "seven inches" of electric fraud crimes — — The crime of "two cards" (bank card and calling card) has since begun to explore the early warning and payment stop in a race against time.
With the active promotion of the public security department, Foshan took the lead in building a new pattern of anti-fraud and anti-fraud governance for the whole people, which is "led by the Party Committee, led by the government, led by the department, supervised by the industry, managed by all parties concerned and widely participated by all sectors of society":
Foshan Central Sub-branch of the People’s Bank of China co-ordinates the city’s banks to carry out big data risk review of newly opened cards; Foshan Banking Insurance Supervision Branch carried out special supervision on freezing inspection efficiency; Foshan Telecom establishes a data model of pre-judgment downtime and carries out risk number monitoring; Foshan Mobile improves the punishment and accountability mechanism for channel violations; Foshan Unicom will incorporate the management of electric fraud into the cadre assessment and unit performance assessment; Foshan Education Bureau vigorously promotes the construction of "fraud-free campus" and actively builds a home-school collaborative anti-fraud publicity system … …
In recent years, the Foshan Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government has incorporated the effectiveness of telecommunication network fraud management into the supervision of the Municipal Party Committee, the construction of safe Foshan, the list of key tasks of the municipal government and the performance evaluation of the five districts in the city. The city’s anti-fraud operates at three levels: city, district and institute. The city and district anti-fraud centers are responsible for freezing funds, case investigation, early warning and dissuasion, comprehensive management, etc. The police stations are responsible for daily police reception, prevention, dissuasion and control of key personnel, etc., initially forming a "four-level" leading and integrated work system for combating and managing telecommunication network fraud crimes.
In order to effectively implement the division of responsibilities of functional departments, the office of Foshan Joint Conference on Combating and Governing Telecommunication Network Fraud Crime has issued a "national anti-fraud" work plan, formulated a list of ten major work measures and key tasks of member units, and the Municipal Public Security Bureau has issued a "Foan 2022" special work plan for electric fraud, which further condenses the joint efforts of relevant functional departments in combating and governing telecommunication network fraud crimes and forms a "public security-oriented, departmental-oriented" work model.
In October 2020, the Ministry of Public Security launched a nationwide "card-breaking" campaign to curb the high incidence of telecommunication network fraud crimes by severely cracking down on and rectifying illegal crimes of selling telephone cards and bank cards. Foshan compacts the responsibility of safety precautions of member units and urges industry units to implement the responsibility of "two cards" governance. The three major communication operators shut down 675,000 numbers, interviewed 210 illegal stores and shut down 668 illegal work numbers. Informed criticism was made to 56 banking institutions through the Foshan Central Sub-branch of the People’s Bank of China, and the heads of 45 banking institutions were interviewed, effectively plugging the loopholes in the industry.
In terms of cracking down on punishment, Foshan Public Security has taken severe and high-pressure measures against the illegal personnel of the "two cards". Since the beginning of this year, 92 dens of fraud-related "two cards" have been destroyed, 71 insiders of fraud-related industries have been arrested, and 2,637 illegal personnel involved in the "two cards" have been punished.
Link up and down to play fast.
Improve the overall level of solving crimes
On April 10, 2022, the victim Cao reported that he was defrauded of 1.07 million yuan in da li, Nanhai, Foshan. After the incident, Foshan police quickly set up a task force to investigate the case, and after tracking the case, they locked a money laundering gang in Hainan Province suspected of buying, selling, renting and lending bank cards. From April 16th to 17th, the task force arrested 9 gang members headed by Weng Moujiao in Wanning City, Hainan Province, and seized 7 mobile phones and more than 20 bank cards involved. After interrogation, the suspect confessed to the illegal fact that he bought a bank card to provide money laundering for overseas fraud groups.
Foshan police cracked the case on the 7th, which was inseparable from the efficiency brought by its "up and down linkage and horizontal integration" mode. It is understood that Foshan Public Security makes full use of the resources of the four-level anti-fraud center of "Ministry, province, city and district" to link up and down, mobilize the horizontal integration of professional police types within public security organs and the members of the municipal anti-fraud joint conference, and cooperate with social resources such as police-enterprise cooperation and police-people cooperation to set up a professional anti-fraud center strike team, and strengthen the efforts to solve the case of electric fraud involving more than one million yuan by "focusing on expertise and fighting quickly", and strive to At the same time, by tackling this kind of fraud cases, we can achieve the effect of "from point to area, from big to small" and promote the overall detection rate of all kinds of telecommunication network fraud cases.
"We emphasize vertical linkage and horizontal integration, fully mobilize all resources that can be mobilized, strengthen cooperation with party and government organs, functional departments, public security organs, police types and social institutions, strive to build an integrated anti-governance system, and improve the overall effectiveness of combating telecommunication network fraud." According to the relevant person in charge of Foshan Anti-Fraud Center, Foshan Public Security has comprehensively promoted the implementation of "all-police anti-fraud" and "all-people anti-fraud". In cracking down on electric fraud cases involving more than one million yuan, the anti-fraud center strike team has strengthened the coordinated operations of various police types in public security organs, and achieved "five synchronizations" working mechanisms such as "online and offline synchronous verification, simultaneous development of loss warning, and simultaneous development of arrest and evidence collection" to improve the efficiency of case investigation and the detection rate of major cases.
The relevant person in charge of the Foshan Anti-Fraud Center told the reporter of the Rule of Law Daily that after receiving the fraud alarm, the city anti-fraud center immediately called back to the police to confirm the information, and the police at the police station made a transcript at the first time, recording in detail the important information such as the phone number and bank card involved, and uploading it to the working group within 5 minutes to realize resource sharing. After receiving the relevant information, the anti-fraud center immediately organized the interception of funds to stop payment and tried its best to recover the economic losses of the victim; On the other hand, immediately organize verification, quickly extract relevant information involved in the case, issue a comprehensive analysis report within one week, achieve landing arrest within two weeks, and strive to quickly investigate and break major cases. By the end of September 2022, the detection rate of commercial fraud cases in Foshan remained above 40%, and the detection rate of electric fraud cases involving more than one million yuan reached 94.4%, leading the province in cracking down.
It is understood that since 2022, Foshan public security has actively participated in the cluster battles in the province, arresting more than 1,300 people and detaining more than 300 people. In the "two cards" battle, more than 3,000 suspects who received and sold "two cards" were arrested, more than 90 dens were destroyed, and more than 1,500 bank cards and 400 telephone cards were seized. The number of people arrested for fraud increased by 154% year-on-year, and all kinds of crackdown data ranked in the forefront of the province.
Technology helps to prevent accurately.
Improve the effectiveness of early warning interception
"The masses love to be handsome when they solve the case quickly" and "People’s public security is warm for the people’s one million losses". At Luocun Police Station of Nanhai Branch of Foshan Public Security Bureau, these two playful and warm pennants tell the story of Ms. Wang’s quick response to the police to save her losses.
In June this year, Ms. Wang joined a stock trading group, and a news of internal subscription of new shares was released in the group one day. Ms. Wang, who did not meet the requirements, privately asked the group owner "Teacher Zhang" how to operate. "Teacher Zhang" quickly sent Ms. Wang a bank account and told her that she could subscribe through this company account. Subsequently, Ms. Wang transferred RMB 980,000 to the bank account provided by Teacher Zhang. However, on the scheduled day, Ms. Wang found that the new shares had not been released and wanted a refund. "Teacher Zhang" said that the company account was frozen and could not be unfrozen until the next day. Ms. Wang woke up and was defrauded, so she called the police for help.
After receiving the report, the police applied for emergency seizure and freezing of the account involved through the anti-fraud center, and promptly sealed Ms. Wang’s defrauded funds in the account. Due to the timely disposal, Ms. Wang’s "investment" money was fully recovered without causing losses.
"Foshan Anti-Fraud Center puts the stop of payment and early warning and dissuasion at the core of anti-fraud work. No matter the value of the cheated case, it will be treated equally and checked to the end." The relevant person in charge of the Foshan Anti-fraud Center said, "After receiving the report of the fraud alarm, the first thing for the city and district anti-fraud centers is to immediately start freezing and stop paying, and do their best to recover the economic losses of the people."
In May, 2021, Foshan Public Security Bureau set up anti-fraud joint logistics operation centers at the city and district levels. By increasing police force and equipment, it coordinated the stationing of banks and communication operators with manpower and resources, and implemented 7×24-hour full-time operation to carry out fraud-related information inquiry and quick freezing of funds to stop payment. Since 2022, the municipal and district anti-fraud joint operations centers have handled more than 17,000 cases of electric fraud, quickly stopped paying 21,000 bank accounts involved in fraud, stopped paying 410 million yuan, handled 416 cases of fund return, and returned more than 43 million yuan.
"At the same time as stopping the payment of the accounts involved, the anti-fraud center will also quickly screen high-risk gullible people, quickly intercept early warning and carry out dissuasion work." The relevant person in charge of the Foshan Anti-Fraud Center said, "It is impossible for a criminal gang to commit fraud only against one victim. When we receive a fraud alert, we must be prepared to recover the loss of this victim and intercept and dissuade many potential deceived victims."
Anti-fraud early warning and interception work is a useful exploration for Foshan Anti-fraud Center to achieve accurate prevention through the cooperation between police and enterprises. After receiving a fraud alarm, the municipal anti-fraud center quickly stopped the payment freeze and recovered the economic losses in time; On the other hand, through the relevant information of fraud-related apps and fraud-related websites, the key gullible people will be screened immediately, and then Internet companies will carry out accurate publicity and interception countermeasures for gullible people, intercept incoming high-risk fraudulent calls around the clock, and provide 24-hour uninterrupted early warning reminders to meet high-risk victims in time to discourage them.
At present, the municipal anti-fraud center has sent 250 million anti-fraud early warning propaganda through three major operators, banking institutions, short video platforms and social platforms. Since 2022, more than 2.202 million pieces of early warning information have been handled, and 515,000 people have been dissuaded from meeting, 14 cases of electric fraud involving funds of more than one million yuan have been avoided, and direct economic losses of 270 million yuan have been recovered.
Accurate drip irrigation and efficient publicity
Enhance the anti-fraud awareness of the whole people
In March of this year, there were many cases in Foshan that pretended to be leaders to "order food" by telephone, asking catering enterprises to advance money to book drinks at their designated personnel to commit fraud. Foshan Public Security quickly issued an emergency warning, carried out targeted and accurate publicity on the catering industry in its jurisdiction online and offline simultaneously, and organized propaganda forces to complete offline and opposite publicity on 2,985 large and medium-sized catering industries in the city within one week. This kind of fraud immediately disappeared in Foshan.
Huang Shaofei, the propaganda policeman of Foshan Anti-fraud Center, has a deep understanding of anti-fraud propaganda. In 2014, Foshan Anti-Fraud Center was established. He was transferred to the Anti-Fraud Center by the criminal investigation department and became a full-time police officer for anti-fraud propaganda.
According to Huang Shaofei, the germination of the pattern of "national anti-fraud" in Foshan dates back to 2018. At that time, Foshan police set up an "anti-fraud volunteer publicity service team", mobilized thousands of volunteers to carry out thousands of publicity activities and built an anti-fraud firewall. In 2020, with the help of epidemic prevention grid management, Foshan "national anti-fraud" explored embedding anti-fraud propaganda in epidemic prevention propaganda. In 2021, Foshan police broke through the traditional offline propaganda mode in combination with local cases, and used the new media technology "every policeman must announce" to gradually explore the accurate propaganda and prevention mode.
"Foshan’s anti-fraud propaganda also had a period of confusion." Huang Shaofei said that at that time, a large number of anti-fraud propaganda was put into use, forming a wide-ranging propaganda offensive, but even so, the cases were still high. After observation and judgment, it was discovered that the propaganda of "a glance at the corner" was invalid.
So, what is effective publicity? Foshan police found a way to exert their strength from the channels through which the masses obtained information.
"You are targeted by a liar!" Nerve-stimulating text messages are exciting. This is the anti-fraud propaganda that Foshan police recently put on new media for financial personnel.
"Now, you will brush different categories and targeted anti-fraud short videos in different streets and towns in Foshan." Huang Shaofei told reporters that Foshan Public Security conducted research and analysis from multiple dimensions, such as the situation of the case, the reasons for being deceived, key groups and key areas, and made characteristic portraits of key groups targeted by high-incidence fraud types, and used short video platforms to push the target groups, thus improving the accuracy of publicity.
The reporter learned that Foshan focuses on the anti-fraud information of the current high-incidence fraud methods for the towns and streets with the top five monthly fraud incidence rates. According to different groups of people, we will push fraud videos related to occupations, such as videos of financial prevention that are easy for company financial personnel, videos of false enrollment fraud that students’ parents will receive, and videos of "killing pigs" that are easy for divorced people.
Some time ago, cases of fraudulent investment and financial management amounted to one million yuan, with 89 cases in a month during the peak period. Combined with the characteristics of high amount of people being defrauded, Foshan Anti-Fraud Center cooperated with banks to push the SMS of false investment and financial management in the whole city. Since then, such cases have been greatly reduced.
In addition to being more accurate, Foshan Public Security also requires that anti-fraud propaganda must be announced by new means, successfully dissuaded, returned funds, major cases and high-incidence types, so as to ensure full coverage of anti-fraud propaganda and no dead ends. Since 2022, Foshan Public Security has used various new media platforms to release more than 1,300 pieces of "anti-fraud every day" series information.
For the elderly who obtain information through traditional channels, Foshan Public Security focuses on preaching through banking institutions, enterprise industry associations and other channels, and organizes propaganda forces in the jurisdiction to conduct face-to-face and peer-to-peer publicity and prevention. Since 2022, a total of 13 waves of concentrated and accurate publicity have been launched, and 140 million pieces of information have been publicized and delivered in towns and streets with high incidence of electric fraud and police in the city. Five live broadcasts of "card-breaking" warning education for employees of "two cards" have been conducted, with a total of more than 500,000 people watching and studying.
Foshan Public Security is also based on the positioning of Foshan as the "Kung Fu City", integrating local Kung Fu culture, and focusing on creating a publicity brand with local characteristics, "Anti-fraud and shadowless kicking scam". Through the construction of public security propaganda positions, joint conference propaganda camps, social enterprise anti-fraud front, anti-fraud volunteer team, and "police-school-home" propaganda and prevention network, we will organize and carry out activities to create "fraud-free communities", study vulnerable groups and tailor targeted anti-fraud propaganda programs for them, and fully protect key groups from infringement.
At present, Foshan has mobilized the masses to participate in the national anti-fraud by building the anti-fraud front of social enterprises, the anti-fraud volunteer team, the "police-school-home" publicity and prevention network and the promotion and installation of the "National Anti-fraud Center" App. The grass-roots teams of public security work together with village (neighborhood) committees, comprehensive management, flow management, security and other departments to implement anti-fraud responsibilities in sections and points, train anti-fraud propaganda liaison officers, carry out the construction of a nationwide anti-fraud protection network, and promote the formation of a socialized anti-fraud governance system. Up to now, there are more than 6,900 anti-fraud volunteers in the city, and 25 anti-fraud propaganda gold medal lecturers have been trained. Distribute "a letter to parents" to 1.6 million teachers, students and parents in more than 1,700 schools in the city to popularize anti-fraud knowledge; Promote the installation of the "National Anti-Fraud Center" APP with 5.927 million people, and implement the "one household, one notification" to complete the door-to-door notification to 1.03 million households.
In order to further create an atmosphere of "anti-fraud by the whole people", Foshan Public Security has also created a series of promotional products such as short videos, animations, MVs, reality shows and live broadcasts in Tik Tok. Since 2022, more than 30 excellent new media works with local characteristics in Foshan have been produced, among which the early warning and dissuasion video "Women were almost cheated by 300,000, but fortunately the police dissuaded them in time", the anti-fraud special propaganda film "Guarding" and the short video "Reflection" have been popular among netizens and achieved good publicity results.
Under a series of propaganda and defense combination punches, Foshan’s daily average of electric fraud dropped from 52 last year to 37 this year.
I joined the "anti-fraud army" after experiencing telecommunication network fraud.
Ms Liao (a resident of Foshan City, Guangdong Province): At the end of August this year, I encountered a telecom network fraud. In the professional terms of fraudsters, it was an amazing coincidence to transfer 1.459 million yuan to the bank card account provided by the other party. Fortunately, after a 20-hour "race" with the suspects of electric fraud, the Foshan police found and frozen a total of 68 accounts at five levels, and stopped paying the 1.15 million yuan I was cheated in time.
At 10 o’clock on August 27th, I received a phone call. The other party claimed to be a police officer and said that my account was suspected of money laundering … … Under their words, I not only downloaded a "conference treasure" App according to their instructions, but also set up mobile phone call forwarding, so that the outside world could not contact me. After that, the other party also asked me to transfer all the money in my account to the designated bank card, saying that it was "to facilitate the police to investigate whether the money belongs to black money". From 12: 30 to 13: 57 that day, I transferred RMB 1.459 million to the bank card account provided by the other party in six times.
I am a post-90s online shop owner living in Foshan, Guangdong Province, and also a "online celebrity" whose short video platform has more than 3 million fans. As an Internet practitioner, I think I still know a lot about electronic fraud. Before I really encountered telecom fraud, I didn’t think I might be cheated at all, and I didn’t react until I transferred the money to the other party. At that time, I only felt cold all over, and I didn’t know what to do except cry.
Later, I learned that just when I felt something was wrong, the early warning of Foshan Chancheng Anti-fraud Sub-center had been triggered. It turned out that since I received a fraudulent phone call and talked with it for a long time, the police have been trying their best to contact me according to the early warning. However, because my mobile phone was in a call transfer state, the police couldn’t contact me all the time, so they tried their best to contact my family, and finally found the phone number of my sister-in-law who lived with me, which stopped me from continuing to transfer money in time. Subsequently, the police quickly came to my house, got all my account numbers, and started the payment suspension and freezing procedure.
When I blamed myself at home, from 14: 00 that day to 10: 00 the next day, after 20 hours of day and night fighting, the police tracked down and frozen multiple accounts along the capital flow, and successfully recovered the funds I was defrauded of totaling 1.15 million yuan.
Later, I didn’t know how difficult it was for the police to help me recover my losses until I saw the news report. After they get the transfer account provided by me, they make payment stop instructions to the relevant accounts through the provincial, municipal and district payment stop platforms. At that time, all the funds in the first-level account had been transferred and flowed into more than 10 second-level bank accounts, investment accounts and third-party funds channels.
Now I finally know why the police are working against time. Because it usually takes a minute or two for the defrauded funds to flow from the primary account to several secondary accounts, what the police have to do at this time is to fight with the fraud suspects. The investigators immediately shifted their focus to the secondary account. Through the flow analysis, they quickly found that 960,000 yuan that I was cheated had just been transferred into an investment account. The anti-fraud police did not slack off for a moment, and with the strong support of Foshan Anti-fraud Center, the money was frozen in time. I know that a minute or two later, the money will most likely flow into the next level account and be broken up, and it will be a needle in a haystack to get it back.
The anti-fraud center police later told me that they have been on duty in front of the computer, constantly verifying the massive data and analyzing the flow direction. Until 10 o’clock the next morning, they found and stopped paying a total of 68 accounts at five levels, and successively recovered the loss of 190,000 yuan for me. It is said that for 20 hours, the case handlers have been staring at the computer, and when their eyes are tired, they will drop eye drops.
I am really grateful to the Foshan police for recovering 1.15 million yuan for me, so that I can find the hope of living. Therefore, at the ceremony of returning the funds involved in the "100-day Action" to crack down on telecommunication network fraud crimes in Chancheng Branch of Foshan Public Security Bureau, Guangdong Province on September 5, I specially sent a banner of thanks to the police handling the case and thanked Foshan Anti-fraud Center for its quick response.
Not everyone can be as lucky as me. Maybe the police have tried everything to find the deceived person. Maybe the fraudsters’ methods have changed again, which makes people hard to prevent. Now, I have joined the "anti-fraud army" and popularized anti-fraud knowledge to fans in the live broadcast room. I hope more and more people will tighten the string of anti-fraud.
Reporter Deng Jun finishing