Low-Cost Phone Recharge Turns into Money Laundering Ministry of Justice Decrypts the Routine

TapTechNews May 26th news, recently, the official public account of the Ministry of Justice posted an article to decrypt the routine of low-cost phone recharge turning into money laundering.

It is known that Ms. Li, a netizen, was selling goods on a certain second-hand shopping platform and happened to see a preferential phone recharge activity, which stated that 180 yuan can recharge 200 yuan worth of phone credit and will arrive within three days, and can be refunded if it doesn't arrive within six days. Ms. Li directly purchased and submitted the mobile phone account information. Three days later, the merchant contacted Ms. Li, saying that the phone recharge had arrived, and asked Ms. Li to click confirm receipt. Ms. Li checked her own account and it had indeed arrived, but when clicking to receive, a security prompt popped up.

At this time, the second-hand platform merchant was banned by the platform due to being reported by others many times, and the platform sent a fraud security reminder pop-up to Ms. Li. And because the money arrived, Ms. Li did not log in to the platform again and did not notice the platform's many pop-up reminders.

Until the system automatically received the goods two days later, and after another week, she received a text message notification from the operator that due to the mobile phone account being involved in a fraud case, it was sealed and the communication function was suspended.

Another netizen, Mr. Zhang, also encountered a similar situation. He logged in to a third-party e-commerce platform on March 29th this year and saw that there were many sellers who recharged phone credit at a low discount, with a discount of about 85%. Mr. Zhang said: On April 15th, I received two consecutive calls from the local communication operator. The customer service said that my mobile phone number was suspected of fraud, and the defrauded party had already reported to the police, and the mobile phone would be shut down according to the relevant regulations.

Ministry of Justice reveals the relevant routine, everyone beware of being cheated:

Step 1: Advertising attracts victims

The fraudsters will post various preferential recharge services such as phone recharge, oil card recharge, electricity recharge and so on through second-hand trading platforms, social platforms, short-video platforms, etc.

Due to the small preferential phone credit力度 recently, a discount of 80%, or even a very low discount of only saving 5 yuan, it will not arouse the victim's vigilance and can also attract potential customers who want to save a little money to buy the low-cost recharge service.

Step 2: Use fraud to recharge dirty money

After the victim A buys the recharge product, the fraudster usually promises arrive within a week, and this buffer time is used in overseas fraud crimes.

After the overseas fraudster receives the clean funds, through various fraud means such as gambling, pig-butchering dishes, and order brushing, it will defraud other objects and make the defrauded victim B recharge to the mobile phone account of the victim A through methods such as scan code payment and direct phone recharge. In short, it is that the fraudster completes the washing of the fraud stolen money through the process of phone recharge.

Step 3: Mobile phone account is banned due to the involved case

The defrauded victim B finds that he has been cheated, so he chooses to report and deal with it and submits the transferred mobile phone number.

Under the current high-intensity anti-fraud prevention and control system, after the police file a case and trace it, they will ban the involved mobile phone number of the victim A.