Zhengzhou police successfully cracked a Bitcoin investment telecommunications fraud case

Four suspects were arrested and 630,000 yuan in stolen money was recovered

Zhengzhou police successfully cracked a Bitcoin investment telecommunications fraud case

This newspaper (Corporate Observer reporter/Sai Xiaotao correspondent/Yan Yaping) A year ago, Zhengzhou citizen Li met two netizens through WeChat, QQ and other platforms. During the communication, Li revealed that he usually believed in Buddhism. After that, the two netizens talked about "Buddhism" with Li every day, and finally gained his trust. After that, the two people used the reason of investing in Bitcoin to make Li take the bait and transfer money to the platform account they provided. Within a year, Li transferred 1.45 million yuan to them. Unexpectedly, before seeing the generous returns, the two "friends" that Li believed in disappeared... Li, who woke up from a dream, reported the case to the public security organs. The police followed the line and successfully cracked this telecommunications fraud case supervised by the Provincial Public Security Department in less than a month.

On September 26, the Wenhua Road Branch of the Zhengzhou Police reported the investigation of the case and returned 630,000 yuan of stolen money to the victim. Currently, four suspects including Zheng Mouqiong have been arrested and the case is under further investigation.

With the help of Buddha, a woman invested a huge amount of money in Bitcoin under the guidance of a WeChat "friend"

On September 14, 2018, Zhengzhou resident Li accidentally added a friend on WeChat, and the two began chatting. During the conversation, Li mentioned that he believed in Buddhism, and the other party immediately responded that he was also a Buddhist. With a common topic, Li relaxed his vigilance.

"At that time, he said he was in his 40s, the same age as me, doing business, and liked to study Buddhism in his spare time. His experience was very similar to mine. He also sent me his own photos, and I felt that we were quite compatible, so we chatted more." Li said that later the netizen recommended to her that it was easy to make a lot of money by speculating in Bitcoin, and that he had already made a lot of money, and also introduced his teacher to her. In this way, Li began to chat about investment with these two new "friends" on WeChat and QQ. Unable to resist the temptation, Li transferred 270,000 yuan to the investment platform account designated by the "friend" at the end of last year.

"I didn't understand much, so they helped me operate it. In the beginning, I got some returns, which I thought was pretty good." Li said. Later, the other party told her that if she invested too little, she would earn little, so it would be better to invest big, which would give her a higher return and be more cost-effective.

In March this year, Li had just received a batch of project funds, and with the constant lobbying of two "friends", he transferred more than 1 million yuan to the platform provided by them. Afterwards, the other party kept telling Li to wait and there would definitely be a huge return.

It was not until August 25 this year that Li discovered that two of her WeChat "friends" had blocked her. Only then did she realize that she had been deceived, so she rushed to the Wenhua Road Branch of the Zhengzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau to report the case.

Tracing the flow of funds, the police uncovered the suspect's whereabouts

After receiving Li's report, the Provincial Public Security Department and Zhengzhou Public Security Bureau attached great importance to the case and listed it as a case supervised by the Provincial Department for investigation. The Anti-Fraud Center of Zhengzhou Public Security Bureau intervened immediately, and the Wenhua Road Branch quickly set up a special task force to crack the case.

"Based on the information provided by the victim, our task force immediately split into two groups and worked hard." Shao Feng, deputy director of the Wenhua Road Branch, introduced that one group of police officers checked the flow of funds based on the suspect's bank account number provided by the victim; the second group conducted an investigation based on the WeChat, QQ and other accounts used by the suspect provided by the victim.

In the process of investigating the flow of funds of the suspect, the special police checked more than 800 bank cards involved in the case and froze more than 70 bank cards involved in the case. Through meticulous work, Ding Zhenhua, a police officer from the Anti-Fraud Center, and investigators Wu Weili and Yang Yang accurately found in a large number of bank transaction details that the defrauded funds flowed back through a large number of accounts and finally concentrated in one card, whose account holder was named Zheng Mouqiong.

At the same time, another investigator discovered through investigation that the WeChat account involved in the case also belonged to Zheng Mouqiong. "Through a series of information analysis and comparison, we finally identified Zheng Mouqiong as a major suspect!" said Wang Ke, deputy captain of the case investigation team of Wenhua Road Branch.

Immediately, the task force launched an investigation around Zheng Mouqiong. On August 30, through analysis and judgment, the task force finally determined that the suspect Zheng Mouqiong had settled in Xiamen. On September 3, Qu Zhikun, deputy captain of the case investigation team of Wenhua Road Branch, led police officers to Xiamen to carry out the arrest.

At around 5 a.m. on September 5, with the assistance of Xiamen police, the police of the special task force locked Zheng Mouqiong hiding in a foot massage parlor in Xiamen and arrested him on the spot. After a sudden interrogation, Zheng Mouqiong confessed to the crime of defrauding the victim Li Mou of 1.45 million yuan by claiming to invest in Bitcoin, together with Shangguan Moukun (who had been detained by Fujian police for other fraud cases in Fujian before the incident).

Two post-90s employees continued to commit fraud after leaving the company, and were arrested and brought out the former company boss

After Zheng and Shangguan were arrested, the police followed the clues and found that Shangguan's girlfriend Ye was suspected of helping the two to actively transfer the stolen money and hide the funds. On September 8, Ye was arrested by the police.

"After they were caught, we found out that they were all young people born in the 1990s. When they committed fraud, they disguised themselves as middle-aged people in their 40s and 50s, and their photos were also pieced together on the Internet." Wang Ke said. During further investigation, the special police learned that Zheng and Shangguan worked at Xiamen Zhongzhou Boyui Company in 2018 and were organized by the company to commit fraud. According to the confessions of the two, when they were working at the company, they attracted customers to invest in precious metals, stocks, Bitcoin, etc. according to the company's requirements, and deceived customers into investing their funds in their virtual platform and defrauding customers.

The 270,000 yuan that Li was defrauded of last year was a client that the two had recruited when they were working at the company. After they left, they kept in touch with Li and learned that Li still had some idle funds. They then continued to weave lies to attract him to continue investing in Bitcoin, and once again defrauded Li of more than 1 million yuan.

After investigation, the task force found that Li Moubin, the legal representative of Xiamen Zhongzhou Boyui Company, was a major suspect, but the company was located in Haikou City. So the task force members quickly rushed to Haikou for verification, but the company had been dissolved in August this year. During the visit, they learned that Li Moubin was very likely to return to his hometown in Fujian to hide. At 14:00 on the afternoon of September 12, with the cooperation of the Fujian police, through a large number of investigations and visits, the special police found that Li Moubin appeared in a community in Zhao'an County, Zhangzhou City at 11:00 on the same day.

The police quickly rushed to Zhao'an County, more than 300 kilometers away from Longyan, and went to the community to conduct an investigation, but only found Li Moubin's vehicle, and the person had disappeared. In this situation, the police searched for Li Moubin while working with the families of several suspects with the assistance of the local police. On September 13, Shao Feng, deputy director of the Wenhua Road Branch, went to Zheng Mouqiong's home to communicate with his family and eventually persuaded his family to actively return the stolen money. On the same day, his family refunded 550,000 yuan, and Ye's family returned 80,000 yuan. That night, Shao Feng rushed to Zhao'an County again to talk with Li Moubin's family, and finally Li Moubin surrendered to the task force in the early morning of the 15th.

After interrogation, Li Moubin confessed that the actual operator of the company was Guan Moumou. After verification, it was found that Guan Moumou had been arrested by Harbin police in August for suspected other fraud cases. At this point, the case was successfully solved.

In response to such cases, Hao Rui, director of the Anti-Fraud Center of the Criminal Investigation Bureau of the Zhengzhou Public Security Bureau, reminded everyone in an interview: There are common routines for deceiving people into investment and financial management. First, they look for targets through social software, self-media software, dating websites, etc. After adding you as a friend, they will take good care of you and open up their so-called circle of friends to you, but in fact, they are all fake. Then, they will tell you that they are usually keen on investing in securities, stocks, futures, and overseas high-yield sports lottery and underground gambling websites online, claiming to have insider information and operating connections. At the same time, they will tell you that investment is risky, and you should make a small investment first, and you will get a return on every investment. After you have full trust in him, he will encourage you to increase your investment. At this time, you find that your funds are rising wildly, but you can't withdraw them. He will use various excuses to make you further increase your investment until he takes away all your savings or loans, and finally blocks you.

Editor-in-charge: Tang Jing