In addition to the victims, the WeChat group is all water army! ＂Share recommendation＂ telecom network fraud case solved

　　　　　　 CCTV News:Recently, the reporter learned from the Sichuan Provincial Public Security Department that in June this year, Neijiang police in Sichuan cracked a telecom network fraud case under the banner of recommending stocks, involving more than 22 million yuan.

　　　　　　 Mr. Liu, who lives in Zizhong County, Neijiang City, Sichuan Province, is a stockholder. In April 2019, he was drawn into a stock trading WeChat group by stock friends he met on the Internet. There are many people in the group, and everyone has been talking. They have been talking about a teacher in the group who is very good at stock trading. They are all saying that this teacher has brought them a lot of money. At that time, Mr. Liu also briefly said it in the group. Finally, they told the teacher that the class was going to start and called Mr. Liu and them to attend classes.

　　　　　　 With the psychology of giving it a try, Mr. Liu clicked on the network connection of the lecture and entered a multi-person live broadcast room. There were many lecturers in the live broadcast room, and every day they talked about stock information. Teacher Liu found that most of the stocks recommended by the teacher rose. Not long after, the lecturer suggested in the live broadcast room that taking Mr. Liu to speculate on foreign indexes can be traded at any time, and there is no upper or lower limit for the daily limit.

　　　　　　 The lecturer recommended an APP called "Schroeder". He said that all transactions on the platform are conducted in US dollars, and RMB will be automatically converted into US dollars after being bought. Every purchase shall not be less than US$ 1,000, and a handling fee of US$ 40 will be charged for every purchase of US$ 1,000. Mr. Liu initially invested 40,000 yuan. Unexpectedly, he earned five or six thousand yuan in two or three days.

　　　　　　 Victim Mr. Liu: "I started to lose money soon after I earned some money. I just wanted to earn back the money I lost for the first time for the second time, and then I filled it with 500,000 yuan. After filling it with 500,000 yuan, it fell even faster this time. Then I put all my savings into the stock (index), and almost all of it was about 800,000 yuan."

　　　　　　 In this way, Mr. Liu lost all of his 800,000 yuan in less than a month. On May 13th this year, Mr. Liu, who felt cheated, reported to the police. After receiving the police, the police set up a task force to investigate and found that this was a case of telecommunication network fraud under the guise of recommending stocks.

　　　　　　 The police first investigated the APP named "Schroeder", and they found that this platform was really tricky.

　　　　　　 Li Wei, a policeman of the Criminal Police Brigade of Zizhong County Public Security Bureau in Neijiang City, Sichuan Province: "We found that its bank was flowing, and all its money entered the third-party company. We found that the third-party company was not a very formal company through the inquiry and verification of the third-party company."

　　　　　　 With the further development of the investigation, the police found that this was a fraud gang with a clear division of labor, which was composed of several members, such as early salesmen, "water army", lecturers and programmers. The "Schroeder" APP is designed and developed by fraud gangs. Once the funds enter this APP, it is equivalent to directly falling into the pockets of criminal gangs. The rise or fall of all indexes in the platform is actually controlled by criminal gangs.

　　　　　　 In the WeChat group where Mr. Liu is located, except for Mr. Liu, other group members are the water army of the gang, and the so-called lecturers in the live broadcast room are just fraudsters who know a little about stocks. According to the suspect’s account, the salesman mainly uses various stock recommendation forums to find investors to be friends. Each salesman has more than 10 mobile phone micro-signals, and they set up multiple groups to guide the victims into the trap step by step.

　　　　　　 Suspect: "First of all, as a shareholder, we act as a water army in the group and in the live broadcast room to set off the strength of the teacher. The purpose is to make the victim believe that the lecturer is very powerful and powerful in stocks, so that customers will trust this teacher more and have the strength to make them make money."

　　　　　　 Police investigation found that the gang’s criminal suspects were distributed in many provinces and cities across the country, reaching more than 100 people. In June 2019, with the cooperation of local police, the police were arrested and launched a network-closing operation, and 184 suspects were arrested in Hunan, Guangdong, Hebei, Henan, Hubei and Sichuan. More than 300 computers, more than 1,000 mobile phones and 4 vehicles were seized, involving more than 22 million yuan. At present, the case is still under investigation.