Xining police cracked down on virtual currency-related telecom fraud and arrested 12 suspects

Xining Public Security Bureau strikes hard at telecom network fraud routines of "pretending to be a grandson". Anti-fraud police found that in this type of telecom network fraud, the fraudsters pretended to be "grandsons" and "grandsons' classmates" and used the excuses of "grandsons driving and encountering a car accident", "grandsons drinking and getting into trouble", "needing emergency treatment", etc. to call the elderly at home, and asked the elderly to keep it secret from their family members and remit money on the grounds that "grandsons' parents are busy and cannot answer the phone" and "fear of parents scolding and worrying". After that, they arranged for "grandsons' classmates" to come to the door to collect the money. The police found in-depth investigation that the fraud gang committed fraud in the identity of "grandsons" and "grandsons' classmates", and arranged door-to-door cash withdrawal, money transfer, no coupons and no card transfers, etc., with multiple levels and multiple suspects involved, and finally exchanged the fraudulent money into virtual currency online to illegally transfer. At present, the Chengxi Public Security Bureau of Xining Public Security Bureau has successively arrested 12 criminal suspects in many places inside and outside the province, and the case is being further handled.