Gangs ‘ran telecom fraud’ from abroad
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TWENTY-SEVEN telecom fraud suspects in two gangs who operated from foreign countries and targeted residents on the Chinese mainland have been arrested, Shanghai police said yesterday.
Pudong police arrested 17 gang members from Fujian, Guangdong, Hunan and Hubei provinces who worked for Taiwan ringleaders on a West Pacific island. The gang had allegedly profited at least 1 million yuan (US$160,000).
They tricked victims by warning them about “anomalies” in their mobile phone or bank accounts and then put them in contact with fake law enforcers who persuaded them to pay up to settle problems that didn’t exist, according to police.
Officers said they got clues about the gang from a case at the end of last year where another gang, with 13 members based in Heilongjiang Province, allegedly produced and sold bank cards to the telecom scammers and helped with recruitment.
One of the suspects, a 23-year-old man surnamed Ma who is from Sichuan Province, told Shanghai Daily that he and his colleagues — who were in their 20s — made at least 100 calls every day from a warehouse-type building on Saipan Island to the Chinese mainland.
“Four or five people from Taiwan were our bosses, but we knew them only by their nicknames,” he said. The ringleaders are still being hunted.
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