The scam gang spent 200 million yuan for advertising for nearly 500 million?Police introduced the case

When many citizens encounter problems, they are used to opening the search engine for help. In order to find a wife who could not be connected, Mr. Zhang, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, also searched on the Internet how to locate. As a result, people did not find it and were deceived by more than 30,000 yuan. After an investigation, the Zhenjiang Police found that these fraud advertising links were "drained" by the professional team to the fraud gang, and the "drainage" promotion cost used for fraud was as high as more than 200 million yuan. Recently, Zhenjiang Police announced the details of the case.

In March last year, Mr. Zhang's wife left home because of family chores. During the two months when his wife left, Mr. Zhang was looking for no results. Suddenly thought that in the TV series, some who had watched the mobile phone number to find someone through the mobile phone number. Essence Mr. Zhang, who was looking for his wife, downloaded the client on the advertisement and added strange WeChat signals based on the instructions. Shen Chen, the captain of the Net Security Brigade of the Danyang City Public Security Bureau of Zhenjiang, said, "Registration requires 2,000 yuan, but Mr. Zhang cannot use the positioning function immediately after registration. The other party also claims to pay another confidential fee."

After tossing for a long time, Mr. Zhang had no progress in finding his wife, but was spent 30,000 yuan. Mr. Zhang found something wrong and reported to the police station to report to the police. Police found the breakthrough clue of the case through technical means. Shen Chen introduced, "We sorted out related funds and found a criminal gang all over the country. They specifically helped the fraud gangs engaged in positioning and chat records for advertising promotion. There were 6 criminal gangs."

From May last year to July this year, it took more than a year. Danyang police went to 20 cities in 8 provinces, destroyed 6 "drainage" fraud gangs, and seized more than 20 million yuan in funds involved. Shen Chen introduced, "There are about 200 victims across the country, and the amount of victims of such cases should reach about 500 million yuan. According to the advertising flow funds we have verified, about 200 million yuan, that is, the scammers are deceiving After the money, the at least one -third of the amount is used on advertising promotion. "

Li (pseudonym), 30 years old this year, is one of the advertising business promoters. Before the incident, his company has repeatedly connected the drainage and promotion business of the fraud gang. In just one year, the company made more than 600,000 yuan. Someone also received about 200,000 compensation. Li said, "When we first started promoting, we would do some conventional content, such as tourism, food, etc., but the conventional one made only dozens of dollars. Later You can earn a hundred or two hundred. "Shen Chen introduced." The keywords set by the scammers are relatively accurate. Many of them are to query her husband's chat history, query his wife chat history, check her husband's position, and check the position of his wife. "

Driven by huge profits, these advertising companies madly put drainage advertisements on major search platforms to introduce victims into fraud traps. At present, 67 suspects such as Li Mou have been criminally compulsory measures by the police for suspected help of helping information network crimes. Sun Jieyuan, the deputy team of the Danyang City Public Security Bureau of Zhenjiang Public Security Bureau, introduced, "Inquiring on WeChat chat records and positioning information about others, it is illegal. Some citizens dare not call the police after infringing privacy. The class situation is not operating. Most of this advertisement is also the emptiness that scammers use people's fluke psychological drilling. "

Source: CCTV Finance

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