Yesterday, the Qiantang Public Security issued an announcement on the return of the funds involved in the case.
The announcement involves a telecommunications network fraud case, and the announcement shows: "The case of Zhu being defrauded handled by the Qiantang District Branch of the Hangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau of Zhejiang Province, after investigation and verification by our bureau, the funds in the account 62313101010××××5680 of Li Jinfeng of the Bank of Jilin involved in the case contain the funds involved in the Zhu fraud case, and the account is currently frozen by the Qiantang District Branch of the Hangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau of Zhejiang Province in accordance with the law, and the frozen funds are RMB 711,093.00 yuan." ”
There are 14 accounts involved in the case mentioned in the announcement, and the total amount of returned funds involved is nearly 400,000 yuan.
On the way to drink wine, I received a FaceTime call
It is understood that the fraud occurred on March 1. At around 6:30 p.m., the Xinwan Police Station in Qiantang District received a call from Mr. Zhu.
Mr. Zhu is a native of Haiyan, Jiaxing, doing clothing business, and came to Hangzhou with his wife to drink happy wine that day.
At about 4 o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, on the way, he received a FaceTime call, the other party claimed to be "Douyin customer service", saying that Mr. Zhu had opened the million guarantee function, and if he did not close it, he would have to deduct more than 10,000 yuan per month.
Mr. Zhu hurriedly said that he wanted to close. The "customer service" asked him to download a Yunxin conference software, asked him to turn on screen sharing, and said that he would guide him to operate synchronously.
Mr. Zhu did so, and the "customer service" asked Mr. Zhu to open various mobile banking apps and said that he wanted to check Mr. Zhu's credit, and Mr. Zhu did so again.
The "customer service" also asked Mr. Zhu if he had any other mobile phones, and Mr. Zhu borrowed his wife's mobile phone, and the "customer service" reported a website address with voice, and asked Mr. Zhu to open it after entering, and after Mr. Zhu opened the website, the "customer service" said that he wanted to verify the capital, "This is the capital verification, you can rest assured, the money will be returned to you." The "customer service" reported two strings of numbers for him to enter: 4987 ××××; 2123××××。 After Mr. Zhu typed it, the mobile banking prompted that face recognition was required, so Mr. Zhu scanned the face......
After Mr. Zhu entered two strings of numbers, 710,000 yuan was transferred out. When the transfer was successful, the other party went offline, and Mr. Zhu couldn't be contacted, and he didn't wait for the funds to be returned. He realized that he had been deceived, and he couldn't care about drinking it, so he quickly called the police.
Nearly 400,000 yuan was stopped urgently
After receiving the police, the Xinwan Police Station immediately took emergency measures to freeze and stop payment. The police handling the case said that they found that Mr. Zhu's defrauded money was transferred to an account, and the money in this account was then transferred to multiple accounts, because emergency measures were taken, and the remaining money in the account was saved. Following the flow of funds, they traced other accounts and froze and stopped payments. Within half an hour, nearly 400,000 yuan of funds were frozen.
With the investigation, they also found that the money in these accounts involved in the case, not only Mr. Zhu's, but also the deceived people in other places, was all defrauded by the fraud gang, and the fraud gang laundered money through layers of transfers.
In this case, because Mr. Zhu reported to the police in time, the police took emergency measures in a timely manner, and were able to successfully stop the payment of nearly 60% of the defrauded money.
It is understood that the reason for issuing the return announcement is that there are other local victims' defrauded funds on the accounts involved, and it also involves fraud cases handled by other local public security organs.
In addition, the cardholder of the account involved in the case is also suspected of aiding the crime of information network criminal activities and will be punished accordingly.
Scams carried out using the FaceTime instant video calling feature
The police said that this was a scam carried out by scammers using the FaceTime instant video call function of the Apple phone.
Previously, the police in many places issued reminders, and the national anti-fraud has also been reminded. Mr. Zhu said that he had seen it, but he thought that he would not be deceived, so he didn't look carefully.
It is understood that scams that utilize FaceTime tend to be of the following types:
One is to impersonate customer service personnel such as charging companies, banks, or social platforms, and ask victims to download screen sharing software and transfer money to designated accounts on the grounds of canceling the million guarantee function, making false loans, closing financial accounts, adjusting loan interest rates, etcThe website that Mr. Zhu entered was a temporary transfer website created by a fraud gang, and the two strings of numbers reported to Mr. Zhu were actually the amount of money transferred.
There are also impersonation scams: Scammers obtain the personal information of the deceived person through illegal means, impersonate relatives and friends of the deceived person, initiate a FaceTime call, and during the call, the scammer will also ask for sensitive information such as bank card passwords for various reasons to commit fraud.
Fake investment scams: Scammers use FaceTime to show fake investment projects and lure the victims to invest with high returns.
Impersonation of public security fraud: Scammers also impersonate staff of public security and law enforcement agencies, and ask to open FaceTime calls on the grounds of investigating cases and verifying identities, and then obtain personal information to carry out other frauds
Again, if you don't need to make a FaceTime call, please turn it off in time
If you want to adjust the privacy permission of this feature, it is recommended to set "Allow contacts from contacts" to be turned on in the settings of the iPhone to restrict FaceTime requests from strangers. When receiving a FaceTime request from someone you don't know, it's important to be vigilant and don't start the call lightly.
Source: Orange Persimmon Interactive