Shanghai police cracked a major cross-provincial telecommunications fraud case More than 4,300 Taobao shopkeepers in 21 provinces were cheated

　　The Shanghai police successfully destroyed a large cross-provincial fraud gang that committed fraud by "improving the ranking of Taobao store treasures" as bait. The case involved more than 4,300 victims in 21 provinces and cities across the country, with an amount involved in more than 4 million yuan.

　　According to the Shanghai Public Security Bureau’s report this morning, recently, the Shanghai police successfully destroyed a large cross-provincial fraud gang that committed fraud by “improving the ranking of Taobao store treasures”. The case involved more than 4,300 victims in 21 provinces and cities across the country, with an amount involved in more than 4 million yuan.

　　According to Song Zhenwei, deputy captain of the Financial Infringement Team of the Criminal Investigation Detachment of the Huangpu Branch of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau, in November 2016, the Huangpu Branch of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau received a fraud case. The victim Liu Moumou reported that he received a service push information on the Taobao online store product ranking to the homepage. After getting in touch, the other party said that he used the "in-depth ranking" software they provided. After opening the software to enter the links and keywords of the baby that needs to be improved, the software can improve the baby ranking to the homepage. The victim then transferred a total of RMB 4,800 to the Alipay account provided by the other party in two orders, and downloaded the "In-depth Ranking" software provided by the other party according to the other party's requirements. Afterwards, he found that the software was invalid and felt that he was cheated, so he reported the case.

　　After receiving the report, Huangpu Branch set up a special task force to investigate the company involved, and contacted Alibaba's security department to investigate and collect evidence on the Taobao Chengxintong account involved, and comprehensively collected clues and victim information.

　　By visiting the victim, the police found out the fraudulent methods of the criminal gang: After the suspect pushed information to the victim and contacted the victim, he gained the trust of the victim through false promises, creating false transfer screenshots of other customers purchasing services, sending software, remote computer control, etc., and defrauded the victim of the so-called "improving Taobao products to the ranking homepage in the short term" service. After purchasing services and using the software provided by the other party, the victim did not find that the Taobao products they sold could be upgraded to the Taobao homepage. When some victims asked for a refund, the other party ignored them and even blocked the victim.

　　After several months of investigation, the Huangpu Branch found out that the criminal gang is located in Guilin, Guangxi. The gang pushed false fraud information to a large number of Taobao store owners through Taobao integrity accounts, and made up that they could rank the store and the treasures in the store to the Taobao homepage through network technology or other means, bringing greater click-through rate and exposure to the store owners, thereby increasing store sales.

　　Through further review by the Shanghai Anti-Telecom Network Fraud Center, the police found that the case involved more than 4,300 victims across the country, with the amount of fraud ranging from 200 yuan to 4,800 yuan, and the total amount involved was about 4 million yuan.

　　During the investigation of the case, the task force analyzed that the key to the case lies in whether the "in-depth ranking" software has the actual role that the company claims. Therefore, the task force used the software appraisal department to appraise the retrieved software in advance. The identification conclusion is: the "Deep Ranking" software has the function of automatically obtaining instructions and submitting keywords in the form search instructions to Taobao, and accessing product links in the instructions, but it is not detected that the "Deep Ranking" software has the function of improving the search ranking of designated Taobao products.

　　The investigator learned through Taobao that there is a clear description in Taobao service center: According to the human-computer recognition module on Taobao's homepage, it can distinguish the normal search behavior of searching through keyboard input and then clicking through mouse, and the false search behavior of directly accessing the baby link after submitting form search through the machine. In Taobao's comprehensive sorting, the number of visits formed by such false search behavior constructed through software is not included in Taobao's comprehensive sorting. From this we can conclude that the "deep ranking" software has no practical effect and cannot improve Taobao product ranking.

　　After further investigation by the task force, a criminal gang led by Zhao Moucheng (male, born in September 1988, from Lingchuan, Guangxi) and Zhao Mouhong (female, born in March 1986, from Lingchuan, Guangxi) emerged.

　　Between January and February this year, while conducting an investigation in Shanghai, the task force went to Guilin, Guangxi to investigate the "Deep Blue Company" many times to find out the company's scale structure and operating conditions, and to investigate its main members. After investigation, it was found that the main members of the gang were the company's general manager Zhao Moucheng, financial director Zhao Mouhong, etc. The technical department was established to be responsible for computer network technology issues, and the three customer service departments were responsible for luring victims to transfer money and pay online. Most of the money defrauded by the gang was used by Zhao Moucheng, Zhao Mouhong and others to squander, purchase real estate, securities, and transfer it to friends.

　　In early March 2017, the task force prepared to close the network and arrest the gang on the premise of mastering the composition, division of labor, and activities of the gang members. At around 13:00 on March 14, the task force arrested all 44 criminal suspects involved in the case at "Guangxi Guilin Shenlan Software Development Co., Ltd." on the 3rd floor of the East Second Ring Road, Qixing District, Guilin City, Guangxi. At present, the case is under further investigation.

　　Wei Jian, captain of the Ninth Detachment of the Criminal Investigation Corps of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau, pointed out that the fraud involving Taobao online transactions has shown a trend of frequent occurrence. One is online shopping return fraud, the other is part-time reputation fraud, and the other is fraud to improve the ranking of online stores.

　　He gave an example that a victim, Li, bought a skirt online while the price was reduced during the holidays. A few days later, he received a call from "customer service" saying that the skirt was detected to have formaldehyde exceeding the standard and now it is to be recycled and destroyed. He suggested that Li return the product and said that he would give him some compensation. The other party also said that if Alipay Sesame credit is increased, it will receive double compensation. While lamenting that the store owner is honest and responsible, Li added the other party’s QQ and activated Alipay installment according to the other party’s prompts, checked his credit limit, and used Alipay to scan the QR code sent by the other party to "activate the refund process." Unexpectedly, not only did Li not receive a refund or compensation, but Alipay also sent a message saying that he had a purchase of 1,600 yuan. Only then did Li realize that he had been deceived.

　　Another victim, Zhang, saw a part-time job that made a fortune online, with words such as "Each task only takes 5 minutes", "2 hours a day, easy to earn hundreds of dollars a day", etc. Zhang contacted the other party according to the number above, and the other party sent him a job application form and a work flow introduction. The job is to buy a game recharge card to win reputation. The other party said that the price of the product is 2% per commission within 300 yuan, and the commission is 3% per commission of 300-999 yuan. The higher the price, the higher the commission. Zhang bought a recharge card worth 100 yuan with a try-out mentality and immediately received a commission of 2 yuan. Zhang believed it and then bought a 3,000 yuan item, but the commission and payment of goods never came again.

　　The victim Yang runs an online store. After opening the store, he found that the online competition was fierce and the business was not easy to do. When he was frowning, someone communicated with him through a chat software, saying that he specialized in "optimizing" the online store, which can improve the credibility and search ranking of the newly opened online store, and provided relevant screenshots of the "successful cases". After seeing it, Yang was moved. He transferred 3,000 yuan to the other party through Alipay, asking him to help optimize the "online store", but after the transfer, the other party could no longer contact him.

　　Shanghai police remind that when citizens are shopping online, they must choose a formal website. When there are any problems such as returns, they must call the official hotline for verification and consultation, and do not scan the QR code of unknown origin or provide verification codes. Don’t trust all kinds of online part-time jobs that are “high returns” and “pay first”. Online store owners must remember to do business with integrity. Any behavior of scamming rankings online is a fraud.

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