Telecom fraud methods are constantly being updated, and many fraud gangs have moved their traps offline, using high-paying part-time jobs as bait to obtain citizens' personal information. You can easily earn one or two hundred yuan just by sitting down for one night. Would you be interested in such a part-time job?
Recently, advertisements for a part-time job called "game testing" have appeared on the Internet. However, when job seekers came to the site, they found that there were no computers or games, but they had to cooperate in face verification. What kind of black and gray industrial chain is hidden behind this seemingly attractive opportunity?
Cooperate with completing face verification to open an account
Make money without doing anything
Xiao Li: At that time, it was a part-time job group on WeChat. Someone posted a game test recruitment part-time job. There was a certain salary, and many people signed up.
The recruitment advertisement shows that the working hours for game testing are from 8 pm to 6 am the next morning. It also specifically states that "no practical operation is required, you can sleep and play on your mobile phone." In addition, the recruiter has also set up incentives for new recruits. If you successfully introduce one person to participate, you can get a commission of 10 yuan. The low threshold, high degree of freedom and the extra income of recruiting people made this part-time job look particularly attractive. Xiao Li was quickly attracted and invited two classmates to sign up together.
Xiao Li had participated in a formal game test before, and it was this past experience that made him lower his guard against this recruitment information. But when a group of people arrived at the scene, the environment in front of them was completely different from the game company they knew.
Xiao Li: Because I have participated in game testing before, there are many test rooms and the like. There was only one room when I went this time, and it was an inner and outer room. It was very small and shabby, and there were no computers or various equipment. It didn't look like a company that develops games.
That night, more than a dozen young people came here to work part-time through job advertisements posted online. In the face of everyone’s doubts after seeing that there was no testing equipment on site, the on-site staff explained to everyone that they did not need to play games on the computer that night, but that they needed to register a payment account to open a game account to complete the test. The people present were required to cooperate in completing the face verification. At the same time, they also warned not to log in privately and cancel the account in the middle, otherwise they would leave directly.
Xiao Li could not let go of his doubts, so he logged into the payment platform, and sure enough, there was a new registered account in his name.
Xiao Li: I found a large amount of 10,000 yuan in it, and then immediately transferred it out.
The short-term large-scale transaction made Xiao Li instantly alert, but before he could react further, the on-site staff noticed his attempt to log in to a new account.
Although they didn't know what the other party was doing, Xiao Li and his classmates had already noticed that the situation was abnormal. The best choice at the moment was to get away as soon as possible, so they left the scene and immediately canceled the new account they had just registered.
Also attracted by this part-time job was Xiao Chen. Unlike Xiao Li who obtained information from the part-time job group, Xiao Chen came into contact with this part-time job through an introduction from an acquaintance.
The various anomalies he saw at the scene made Xiao Chen also suspicious, but due to the introduction of an acquaintance, he decided to stay with the idea of "come here". The other party would ask someone to come in and scan his face every ten minutes. Xiao Chen completed the face verification three times that night and stayed there until 7 a.m. the next morning. He received a reward of 200 yuan before leaving.
Using high-paying part-time jobs as bait
Defrauding job seekers of their personal information
Whether it was Xiao Li who left the game decisively after noticing the abnormality, or Xiao Chen who persisted all night long because of luck, neither of the two young people expected that behind this seemingly ordinary offline part-time job, there was a complete network of dark and gray industry chains hidden. Criminal gangs use high-paying part-time jobs as bait to defraud job seekers of their original IDs and facial verification information, and engage in illegal and criminal activities.
After receiving relevant clues about the case, the Beijing police quickly launched an investigation, and a suspicious company emerged.
Li Zihan, a police officer from the Cyber Security Detachment of the Changping Branch of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau: It was discovered that this company was registered in the name of Cultural Media. In fact, the business content has nothing to do with Cultural Media. The legal person of the company, including the main business backbone, has a large influx of funds at night.
After in-depth research and analysis, the police found out that this company had no actual cultural media business. The real business was to obtain the identity information of part-time employees, register personal payment accounts and online stores, and transfer stolen money for overseas criminal gangs.
After figuring out the gang's organizational structure, crime patterns and rules, the Beijing police organized a unified operation to close the network, destroying 9 criminal dens and arresting 21 suspects.
Form a complete black and gray industry chain
Most of the victims are young people
After investigation, the criminal gang first placed advertisements in batches on major social platforms, using "game testing and daily wages" as gimmicks to attract job seekers. Then make an appointment with the interested young people to a designated location, ask for the original ID card, and induce the other party to cooperate in completing the facial verification. After obtaining the identity materials, the suspects registered personal payment accounts in batches, and then used these accounts to open online stores. They then provided the personal payment accounts, online stores, and supporting identity information to overseas criminal gangs for receiving and transferring stolen money, thus forming a complete black and gray industrial chain integrating "fraudulent information-registering accounts-maintaining stores-supplying channels."
According to the police handling the case, the victims of this case are distributed in many provinces and cities across the country. There are hundreds of people who have been verified, and most of them are young people.
Wang Zheng, a police officer from the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau’s Cyber Security Corps: It’s easy to make money with a daily salary, just by playing games, which is the most commonly used tactic for this type of scam. Accurately targeting job seekers who want easy part-time jobs and quick profits, packaging illegal traps into high-paying part-time jobs is extremely confusing. Many victims can only get about a hundred yuan in part-time remuneration, but their identity information has been repeatedly used by criminals. They have been involved in various illegal and criminal fund flows for a long time, and they will face great legal risks and information leakage risks.
Police reminder: You must be highly vigilant about any part-time job that requires ID card information and repeated facial recognition in the name of game testing and account activation. Do not provide original ID cards and facial recognition verification to others at will. If you find any clues about the illegal trading of citizen information, please report it to the public security organs in a timely manner.
