A man named Zhou sneaked into an online fraud gang as a Canon and assisted the gang in "money laundering". When he met with members of the gang, he colluded with others to commit robbery and made an illegal profit of more than 400,000 yuan.
In the overseas fraud dens, there are many people who use computers and mobile phones to commit fraud, and the fraudsters are responsible for defrauding the money. In China, to use an analogy, the fraud funds are like a river, and the running gangs are equivalent to many people carrying water. In the process, they need to use a scoop to fetch water. The tool used by the running gangs is the Canon card.
After getting the money, the gang may use a card to withdraw cash, then buy easy-to-sell goods, or directly buy virtual currency.
【1】“Electronic fraud and robbery occur at the same time. This type of ‘case within a case’ is quite common.”
On March 3, Zhou, who played the role of Canon, contacted the fraud gang through an overseas chat software. After the fraudulent funds were transferred to his bank card, the two parties agreed to meet in a hotel room in Qiaokou District at night.
After Zhou arrived at the hotel in advance, he provided the location information and room number to other gang members, and Ling and others immediately came to the vicinity of the hotel to "set an ambush."
After the members of the online fraud gang entered the room, Zhou immediately gave a signal and cooperated with Ling and others to rob the members of the online fraud gang through control, coercion, and beatings.
"When we caught Zhou, he was very scared. But when we revealed our identity as police officers, he was relieved." Zhou admitted to Officer Zhang that he had "stolen" the boss's money. He and some others specialized in this "business" because those who were sure that they had been robbed did not dare to call the police.
[2] “Don’t break the law to make quick money”
After obtaining important clues, the Qingshan police conducted research and analysis, took swift action, and continued to fight, track and arrest for four days and three nights, successfully destroying a robbery gang that specifically targeted the fraud gang. Eight members of the robbery gang were arrested in Wuhan, Huanggang and Qichun, and three members of the fraud gang were arrested in Nanjing.
Officer Zhang told reporters that the robbery gang members were young and wanted to make "quick money". They also confessed that they had committed crimes several times in the same way from the end of December to now.
At present, eight robbery gang suspects including Chen, Ling and Zhou and three cyber fraud suspects have been criminally detained by the police in accordance with the law, and the case is under further investigation.