The land of telecommunications fraud: Luxury cars are everywhere. When marrying, ask first if you are committing fraud.

This is a piece of news from 2016. After the Xu Yuyu case occurred, a piece of news appeared on the Internet. The article is long, please read it patiently...

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August 28, the case of Xu Yuyu, a female college student in Linyi, Shandong Province on 8-19 The last suspect, Zheng Xiancong, surrendered, and all suspects involved in the case were present. In this case, five of the six suspects were from Quanzhou, Fujian Province. Although Xiong Chao was originally from Chongqing, he grew up with his parents in Quanzhou since childhood.

According to a research paper in the "Journal of Fujian Police College", Quanzhou City is an area where telecommunications fraud cases occurred earlier and were the most serious. In 2004, the Quanzhou City Public Security Bureau accepted 1,852 telecom fraud cases involving more than 3.17 million yuan. In 2005, the city's police received 8,146 calls and letters from all over the country to report cases involving more than 10 million yuan. By 2006, the number of cases accepted and the amount involved increased by 4.4% and 200% year-on-year.

In addition, three of the five suspects from Quanzhou are from Anxi County. According to data on telecom fraud cases released by public security agencies across Fujian Province in 2011, among the 128 telecom fraud cases cracked by public security agencies in Fujian Province, the suspects were mainly from Fujian, Taiwan, Hubei and Chongqing. Among them, people from Fujian Province account for 72.75%. Moreover, among the 72.75% of Fujian suspects, the majority were from the southern Fujian area (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou), with 206 people, accounting for 82.12% of the total, and Anxi suspects accounted for 58.17% of them. A research paper titled "Research on Telecom Fraud Crime in Fujian Province" stated that suspects in one county alone can account for more than half of the criminal suspects in southern Fujian, which is very rare in other criminal cases.

There is a popular saying in Fujian, "Nine out of ten Anxi cheats and one is practicing." When people from other areas of Fujian Province talk about Anxi, they will say, "That place has been doing fraud for a long time." In their view, Anxi's fraud has become a regional label just like the sale of fake gold Buddhas. "I heard that Mark Six Lottery was started more than ten years ago. Pinghe didn't do it at first, but later I went to Anxi to learn it." said a villager from Qiling Township, Pinghe County.

When it comes to this, the people of Anxi are very angry. "There are more Changkeng Kuidou, but no one is doing this in other parts of Anxi." said a villager from Jiandou Town who makes bamboo utensils. . Hearing the news that a female college student suffered cardiac arrest and died suddenly due to a telecom fraud, he was first surprised, "Why do you want to deceive a poor kid who just entered school? In my opinion, these people should be sentenced to life. They are all senior citizens in Anxi." Is it a scam?" According to him, "Changkeng has been doing fraud for a long time, and they can't catch them all." When he was told that the suspects this time were not in Changkeng, but in places like Shirase Township and Hutou Town. He said, "It's all spread from Changkeng. There's a way to get in. Now the scams in Keyang have almost surpassed Changkeng." While muttering in the local dialect, he picked up the knife and split a piece of bamboo. .

The tea business is not easy to do? Millions of luxury cars are stuck in traffic during the Spring Festival

Speaking of their impressions of Changkeng, Anxi locals mentioned that one is tea production and the other is fraud . "When it comes to fraud, it's definitely Changkeng and Kuidou. Now that there are fewer Kuidou, it's Changkeng." said a villager in Guanqiao Town, Anxi County.

Changkeng Township, also known as Changkeng Tea Township, is located in the northwest of Anxi County. In the eyes of Anxi County residents, Changkeng Township is a "very mountainous and remote place." From Anxi County to Changkeng Township, it takes more than 70 minutes to go up the winding mountain road, passing through Kuidou Town, Baire Township, Hutou Town, Keyang Village and other places. Later, the tea industry developed. Changkeng Township is one of the main production areas of Tieguanyin in Anxi. In 2014, the GDP of Changkeng Township exceeded 18.8 billion yuan, accounting for about one-third of Anxi County’s GDP in 2014.

“But in recent years, there have been far fewer people making tea, and the price of tea is not good.” said Huang, a villager in Shange Village, Changkeng Township. "Nowadays, young people no longer grow tea. The price is not good, money comes slowly, and the tea makers are all old people at home." said a villager in Shirase Township. Because tea production and cultivation are monotonous and boring, and money comes slowly, young people can't stand it and have gone out to work one after another. According to a village cadre in Shanping Village, Changkeng Township, in an interview with the media, due to the environment and tea-making technology, the quality of tea here is not particularly good, and the price is not high.

The average person in the village has more than 1 mu of tea garden. In normal years, one acre of tea garden can earn 5,000 to 6,000 yuan, but based on per capita net income, it is estimated to be only 4,000 to 5,000 yuan. Today, tea-making workshops can still be seen in every household in Shirase Township, but they are basically run by old people and women. In recent years, when men earn money outside, they send it home to build new buildings. Like Changkeng Township, Shirase Township is also undergoing large-scale construction projects everywhere, and the laborers are all gray-haired old people, with few men.

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The newly built road in Changkeng Township, with new buildings built on both sides

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Different from Baize Township and Jiandou Town along the way, Changkeng Township, which is further away from the county seat, has wide cement roads, villas, mansions, and million-dollar sports cars. number. The contrast between the narrow asphalt road and the open concrete avenue in Changkeng Township; the rows of high-rise mansions and the dilapidated and low-rise brick houses in other rural areas are particularly abrupt. "We have the most BMWs here, as well as Mercedes-Benz and Porsche." Huang is very proud of this. "No, this road was built in recent years. There are good houses on both sides. There were no such things before." In the village You can often see women driving BMWs and taking their children to nearby grocery stores to buy snacks. "They are all doing business outside. Well, they are in the tea business." Huang paused, "But it doesn't mean that the tea business is getting more and more popular." Is it bad?" the reporter asked, "There are some who do well, and the foundation is good." Huang replied. When the reporter asked about the situation of local telecommunications fraud, Huang turned to admire his newly built three-story villa with another old man.

Huang said that the reason why you can see many luxury cars in Changkeng these days is because the summer vacation is coming to an end and everyone has to come back to take their children to school. Indeed, on the way to Changkeng, the reporters were driving down the mountain in luxury cars with children on board.

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The entrance to Changkeng Township

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"If you come here during the Spring Festival, you will see that there are traffic jams all the way from Keyang to Changkeng. They are all million-dollar luxury cars. It is very spectacular." He Xingmao, a driver soliciting customers in the county town ( (pseudonym) said that after these people drive back, if close relatives like it, they give away the luxury cars. Keyang is a village near Changkeng and is under the jurisdiction of Shangqing Township. There are very few tea farmers in Keyang Village and they mainly focus on iron-making. Last year, the township government of Shangqing Township was afraid of the negative impact and did not allow people doing business from out of town to bring back luxury cars. This situation has eased slightly.

Telecom fraud has become a family business? Mobile dens are set up on the highway

There are many overseas Chinese in Changkeng Township, with more than 60,000 overseas Chinese, Hong Kong and Taiwan compatriots. “Because we were too poor in the past, we smuggled out to do business and work.” More than ten years ago, Changkeng Township was famous for smoking white powder and robbing people. “When we were driving, we were asked to drive from the county seat to Changkeng City at 8 o’clock in the morning. Don't dare to go, you will be robbed," He Xingmao said. "Several motorcycles surround you, and the car windows have been broken." Later, people in Changkeng began to engage in telecommunications fraud, and fewer people robbed people on the roadside. "I used to do it at home. Sometimes the whole family would do it, with brothers doing it together, or men and women doing it together. Some young people do it outside, while their parents do it at home." A local grocery store owner said, "But now it's less. It used to be a lot," he added. At that time, there was a lot of noise in Changkeng. As long as a car drove in from outside and did not honk its horn when entering the village, the villagers would suspect that the police were here to arrest the person.

Telecom fraud in Changkeng Township has formed an industry. Quanzhou Evening News once reported a case of telecommunications fraud. In this telecommunications fraud group, there are information group, phone group and money card group. Members of the information group will purchase the information of students, parents and car owners through the Internet, department personnel and other channels, or go to some shopping websites and admissions websites to purchase personal information. Members of the information group will even go back to shopping malls where they apply for cards to purchase personal information. The phone team is responsible for calling the target person according to the pre-scripted script. After the victim wires the money, members of the money card team will withdraw the money.

In order to avoid the risk of being traced by the police, bank cards are often opened under false names or acquired ID cards. "Withdrawing money is the most dangerous thing. Most people don't do it by themselves." The grocery store owner said.

Generally speaking, those who commit telecom fraud will find a stronghold in the mountains, but later in order to avoid being located by the police, they began to do it on the highway. Rent a taxi, hire a driver, and a few people are doing fraud there. They have a special machine that is responsible for receiving signals. "As soon as that machine is turned on, the signals from the surrounding cars will go to them. But I was caught later," said Wang Shun (pseudonym), a driver who drove a school bus in Anxi. This case spread among the Anxi driver circle. At that time, the shuttle bus owner wanted to hire someone to drive for 8,000 yuan a month, but found that he could not find the person. Later, he learned that he was called by the fraud gang to drive for them. "I can't join the gang," he said. He was caught after a month, and he didn’t do any serious work.”

These foremen who are good at fraud usually hire dozens or even hundreds of workers, “four to five thousand a month. Food and accommodation are included, and you get a commission from the money you get." The grocery store owner told reporters that locals are somewhat familiar with these prices.

From 2003 to 2004, Changkeng Township was designated by the county party committee and the county government as a key unit for cracking down on false information fraud criminal activities. The entire township captured 66 suspects of false text message crimes and destroyed criminal gangs. Three people were involved in the crime, and 78 mobile phones, 20 computers, 78 SIM cards, 71 debit cards, 64 bankbooks and 52 people were detained as criminal tools.

From telecom fraud to online gambling in the Philippines? Neighboring villages have become "rising stars"

As for whether telecom fraud is really rare, villagers in other villages do not think so. In 2012, the police in Quanzhou and Hui'an jointly broke up a large-scale telecommunications fraud gang and arrested 19 suspects, 17 of whom were from Changkeng, most of whom were born in the 1990s.

“Few? Still doing it! I used to do it at home, but now I don’t dare to do it at home and have gone abroad. So to say that there are fewer people doing this in Changkeng Township, it can be said that. Do it outside." He Xingmao said that he remembered that when he wanted to apply for a driver's license, the first thing the police station asked him was, "Do you need a passport?" According to him, Changkeng has the most people going abroad. Mainly in the Philippines, Singapore and Malaysia, "they all go to the big game ("big game" means online gambling). They used to do money transfers, but now aren't they strictly controlled? Gambling is not really caught, and many people go to the Philippines to do this. Nowadays, few people do this kind of long-term transaction. "Because it is faster to make money by doing large-scale transactions, more and more people are going abroad to handle this kind of "business." Usually when they see those people making a fortune abroad, many people want to follow suit, so relatives bring relatives, friends bring friends, and even outsiders come to Anxi to study. An Anxi County political and legal cadre also confirmed this statement in an interview with The Paper, “There are very few Changkeng people who actually engage in fraud locally. Most of them go out to other places, and many even go abroad to places such as the Philippines and Cambodia. Carrying out fraud. "They will also use pyramid schemes to attract people to participate in gambling.

According to the "Information Times" report, in March this year, Guangdong detected a telecommunications network fraud. The leader set up a fake gambling website server in Cambodia, recruited people from mainland China to enter the country, and rented them in Poipet City. Network technical maintenance and online stolen money transfer work. The shareholders of the gang usually communicate through WeChat and monitor the location of their associates in real time through computers. They install fake base stations in cars and send fraudulent text messages everywhere. After police verification, the 11 shareholders of the gang are all from Changkeng Township, Anxi.

Not only Changkeng, but also many people in Kuidou Town and Keyang Village are doing big business. "The money cheated by Keyang now exceeds Changkeng." He Xingmao said. In the past, these people would send money back to build buildings. "Look at these luxury villas. Many of them were built by fraudsters. How can working people afford them?" He Xingmao pointed to a row of newly built villas on the roadside in Changkeng Township. The three-story house said that when a reporter asked why he did not make his fortune in the tea business, He Xingmao glanced disdainfully, "The tea business is getting harder and harder to do. A pack of tea cores only costs one yuan per pound. Young people have no money." People do that." This was also confirmed by a government official in Changkeng Township. Since the tea business has been poor in recent years, they have also begun to guide the cultivation of Huaishan.

However, according to the grocery store owner, building new buildings is no longer popular. In recent years, it has become popular for people in Changkeng to buy houses in Xiamen, Quanzhou, Jinjiang and other places, and then send their children to study in places like Xiamen.

A while ago, a telecommunications fraud case was uncovered in Xiamen, and the “boss” was from Kuidou Town. "In a row of villas, there are two million-dollar luxury cars." He Xingmao said.

When a girl from Changkeng gets married, she first asks her husband if his family is engaged in market trading

In order to get rid of the label of "the hometown of electronic fraud", Anxi County has also carried out a series of corrective measures. Community corrections officers provide guidance on starting their own businesses and guide young people with criminal records to take the path of e-commerce. According to a report from Southeast Network, three college students from Changkeng Township were former members of a criminal gang involved in a telecommunications fraud case. Taiwan's deceived "cyclists" withdraw money. Now they open Taobao stores and start tea e-commerce businesses. Their annual personal income reaches more than 100,000 yuan. A government official also said that due to the rise of e-commerce, many young people have returned to their hometowns to do e-commerce in recent years, "someone can earn tens of thousands a month."

He Xingmao doesn’t think so whether this kind of “compassionate community correction” can affect everyone. "What's the use of arresting? Just release him and do it again." He Xingmao said, it would be easy to handle if the gangsters were caught, and the leader's money could be secured. However, it would be more difficult to handle if the leader was caught. After being locked up for a few years and released, he still returned to his old business. According to statistics on the number of telecom fraud cases accepted by the Quanzhou Public Security Bureau from 2004 to 2010, telecom fraud cases increased explosively from 2004 to 2006, reaching a peak of 8,500 cases. After two years of comprehensive management, they dropped to It started at 2050, but then started to rebound and rise again.

In May 2013, an information released by the Anxi County Legal Popularization Network showed that in order to comprehensively curb the crime of telecom fraud, Anxi County has long held various legal study classes to combat telecom fraud, and various township comprehensive management offices have also contacted key Control objects sign a contract to consciously learn laws and regulations on combating telecommunications fraud. Township judicial offices will also work with comprehensive management, public security, culture, and village workers to form legal publicity teams to go deep into the fields to publicize. However, according to the reporter's visits to Baize Township, Hutou Town and Changkeng Township, in addition to the anti-telecom fraud signs hung on telephone poles in Baise Township, the anti-telecom fraud banners were hung on the streets of Hutou Town. In addition, there are almost no relevant promotional slogans in Changkeng Township. However, the head of Shanping Village in Changkeng Township said in a previous interview with the media that they had done a lot of crackdown and prevention work. The words "Combating Telecom Fraud, Building a Safe Changkeng," were clearly printed on the pockets issued by the township. ***Enjoy a beautiful home" words.

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Anti-fraud propaganda on Shirase Township telephone poles

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Whether such propaganda is really effective, a restaurant waiter at the Hanting Hotel in Anxi County disagreed, "Many girls from Changkeng Township have to ask the man if he is doing it before they get married. "If you don't get married, you won't get married." According to her, many women are engaged in telecommunications fraud at home because their husbands are doing business outside. "Those women are good at spending money, drive BMWs, and wear gold chains around their hands and necks. They are more at ease when their husbands are caught.”

The reporter called the Anxi County Public Security Bureau to inquire about the situation of local telecommunications fraud, but they all refused to be interviewed. A police officer from the Public Security Bureau said that they had recently issued a notice prohibiting interviews from any media.