Former executives and salespeople of e-commerce enterprises "cooperate inside and outside" to promote app software by pretending to be agents of communication companies, resulting in the enterprise spending 50million yuan on promotion to obtain only 70000 pieces of real data, and the actual cost is 280000 yuan * the reporter learned from Yichang Public Security Bureau of Hubei Province on May 18 that the Bureau destroyed a large cross provincial fraud gang and arrested 51 suspect, of which 8 principal criminals have been transferred by the procuratorial organ for prosecution.
Author ｜ all media reporter of rule of law daily ｜ correspondent he Zhengxin ｜ editor Xu Junfu ｜ Wang Fang and Zhang boluoqi
The picture shows that the police are studying and analyzing the case
Organize personnel to continuously brush the machine and install the specified software
In March 2021, when Yichang police carried out "building sweeping" inventory in a entrepreneurship Park, a technology company in the park aroused the vigilance of the police.
This enterprise has more than 20 employees. Each employee has two computers on his desk and four to eight mobile phones on his desk. Moreover, the enterprise has no substantive business, but the lights are bright every night.
Police analysis and judgment found that Duan, the main person in charge of the enterprise, had close contact with Chen of a company in Hangzhou, and Chen's daily capital flow was obviously abnormal. Subsequently, the task force organized the police to collect the network, arrested 26 suspects such as Chen, and seized more than 50 computers and more than 200 mobile phones.
The picture shows the mobile phone involved seized by the police
After investigation, Chen instructed Duan to buy several software online, and organized personnel to brush, install and use three app software of a well-known e-commerce enterprise through the developed script program.
Defraud app promotion expenses with false installation data
Why repeatedly brush the machine and install three software? What is the reason why Chen's daily capital flow is obviously abnormal?
With the deepening of the investigation, Wei, the legal representative of an Internet company in Guangdong, and Liu, a former executive of an e-commerce enterprise, surfaced.
The police learned that Wei company is the agent of the cooperation between the e-commerce enterprise and a communication company. It is responsible for promoting the three app software of e-commerce enterprises on the application platform of the communication company, and the latter pays fees according to the promotion effect of the software.
At the time of police investigation, the e-commerce enterprise had paid 30 million yuan of promotion expenses to Wei's company, another 20 million yuan had been audited and was planning to pay, and 10 million yuan of expenses were still under accounting.
The police immediately stopped the payment behavior of e-commerce enterprises and judged that the fraud Gang headed by Liu was suspected of defrauding the promotion expenses of enterprises with false installation data, and Li, who is responsible for docking this business, was suspected of committing a major crime.
Soon, suspect Li and Liu were arrested one after another, and Wei surrendered himself.
There are only 70000 real data of 50 million promotion expenses
The police found that in May 2020, Liu discussed with Li, Chen and Wei to defraud the app software promotion expenses of e-commerce enterprises. Liu and Li, as former executives and promotion business counterparts of the e-commerce enterprise involved in the case, are more familiar with the business process of the enterprise. Under the cooperation of several people, Wei impersonated the staff of the communication company and successfully cheated the cooperation contract of e-commerce enterprises with fake business cards and fake power of attorney. After that, the gang used the information obtained by Li from the e-commerce enterprise, and Chen set up a special brush installation software team to create false data to defraud promotion expenses.
According to the police handling the case, in order to increase the credibility of the data, the gang not only formed false data by organizing personnel to brush and install software, but also paid for real promotion on the application platform of a communication company agreed by e-commerce enterprises.
In addition, the Gang also made a special query platform to upload half true and half false data to the platform for the query of injured e-commerce enterprises, which makes it difficult to find abnormalities.
As of the crime, the 50 million promotion expenses calculated by the injured e-commerce enterprises include more than 27 million pieces of data, while the real data is only 70000 pieces, and the cost is only 280000 yuan.
At present, the follow-up work of the case is in progress.