Intensify crackdown on telecom frauds

THE LOCAL POLICE in East China's Shandong province and South China's Guangdong province have detained 28 suspects involved in three recent telecom fraud cases and in so doing exposed a nationwide network of telecom fraudsters and hackers. Beijing Youth Daily commented on Saturday:

It is reported that there is a giant underground telecom fraud network of more than one million people. A 19-year-old would-be freshman in Guangdong province was defrauded of 9,800 ($1,470) yuan in a telephone scam in July, while a freshman-to-be and a college student, both in Shandong province, died of heart attacks after they were defrauded of their money in August.

Within this criminal network are those who steal people's personal information and sell it to fraudsters and those that sell fraudsters SIM cards so they don't need to register their phones. They usually cooperate knowing little about one another.