"Since the police are going to arrest you, they told you in advance, isn't this a tip-off?" Fake official deception cases are constantly banned. In order to promote anti-scam awareness, the Hong Kong police invited the mainland police for the first time to dismantle the scammers' tactics. The commentary emphasized that it will not directly send personnel to cross-border to Hong Kong to enforce the law.
An interview with the Guangdong Provincial Public Security Department said that the fraudulent “impersonation of the Public Prosecution Law” by fake officials has occurred for more than 10 years. At present, the largest case in mainland China was a case in Guizhou Province in 2015, with an amount of 117 million yuan. The Guangdong police also participated in the detection at that time. .
In an interview with the media, Chen Zhiqing, deputy director of the New Crime Research Center of the Guangdong Provincial Public Security Department, pointed out that information leakage is the main reason for the prevalence of fake official fraud cases, because the fraud gangs obtained the victim's ID card, address, phone number and even some relatives through illegal means. Such specific information and circumstances led the victim to subconsciously think that it was the public security organ handling the case.
If the swindler mentions the identity, marriage, occupation and other specific information of the client himself or the client's relatives, it generally makes the victim more likely to believe and then be deceived.
In addition, he reminded that the scammers may use the epidemic inspection as an excuse recently, and the public should be vigilant.
The public security organs will not send personnel to Hong Kong to enforce the law, and the public security organs will not handle cases by telephone
Fraudsters use the public's credibility in state organs to create a tense atmosphere and commit fraud.
One of the features worth noting is that the phone is always on the phone from the time the victim's phone is connected until the transfer and remittance.
He emphasized that the mainland public security organs will not send personnel to Hong Kong to enforce the law, and the public security and judicial organs will not handle cases by telephone, let alone take notes by telephone.
The public security organs will not ask for the victim's bank card number, password, verification code and other information over the phone.
Telecommunications, medical insurance, public security, courts, and procuratorial departments will not transfer calls to each other.
The public security organs do not have security accounts or verification accounts, and they will not allow citizens to withdraw cash and transfer money.
When asked how to investigate the Hong Kong people involved in the case, Chen Zhi's investigation of the criminal suspect will not be like "remote evidence collection" like a fake official, and he will not ask to verify the source of funds to prove his innocence. Let me tell you in advance, isn't this a tip-off?" Therefore, the payment verification, investigation in Hong Kong, etc. are all tricks of fraudsters.
If citizens have any doubts about this, they can call the 110 police number in the mainland or the anti-fraud hotline 18222 in Hong Kong for consultation, or they can directly go to their police district for in-person consultation.
Even if the mainland public security organs want to investigate suspects in Hong Kong, they will be handled by the Hong Kong police through the cooperation channels between Guangdong and Hong Kong in accordance with legal procedures. Under normal circumstances, the mainland public security organs will not directly send police officers to Hong Kong to enforce the law.
Guangdong police and Hong Kong police have good cooperation in combating electronic fraud. For example, Foshan Anti-Fraud Center and Hong Kong East Kowloon Crime Squad successively smashed a fictitious kidnapping and fraud gang targeting Hong Kong people from 2017 to 2018. After the gang was broken up, there have been zero cases of such fraud in Hong Kong for a long time.
