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Since the issue of electronic fraud has become a hot topic of national concern and a new social hazard, the central government attaches great importance to it and has held special meetings continuously to study ways to solve the problem.

On August 8, Wang Hongtao received a notice to go to Beijing to attend a meeting and make a special report.

On August 8, the National Leading Group for Combating Electronic Fraud was established with very high standards. Its members include the Political and Legal Affairs Commission, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Cyberspace Administration of China, the People's Bank of China and other relevant units.

But the first deputy team leader turned out to be Wang Hongtao! Responsible for coordinating related matters, because Dian Province is the main battlefield in combating electronic fraud and the front line of prevention and control.

The new position made many people, especially senior officials, aware of the unusual taste. Wang Hongtao began to participate in national affairs and was able to lead this work. As we all know, under normal circumstances, the team leader only works in name only to improve the standards of a special class and does not participate in the specific work.

However, Guo Mingxiong, deputy secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee, is only the second deputy team leader, ranking behind Wang Hongtao.

It can be said that Wang Hongtao is the actual person in charge of this work!

On August 8, Deputy Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission Guo Mingxiong went to Yunnan Province in person, because today’s reopening of the border between China and Myanmar was the first day for “persuading return” fraudsters to return to the country.

Wang Hongtao personally went to the airport to greet him. After the meeting, the two were quite enthusiastic. Wang Hongtao smiled particularly brightly and said: "Welcome Secretary Guo to come to Yunnan Province to inspect the work!"

Guo Mingxiong smiled and said: "I am here to accept your leadership, you are the first deputy team leader!"

"Old leader, stop making fun of me, how dare I lead you!"

"Are you still young enough to lead me? You started leading me in Qin Province!"

"I am just a nominal member of the leadership team this time. You are not required to do the actual work."

"Hong Tao, then you are wrong. Yunnan Province is the main battlefield to combat electronic fraud. Special work must be focused on Yunnan Province. We don't need to be polite. Let's discuss anything. I don't know you? Are you so bold? , with this identity as a cover, I can justifiably do something if I want to do something.”

Wang Hongtao smiled and said: "Old leader, let's go back to the hotel to rest first? Or go directly to the port? Today the country's gate reopens. It is the first day of the 'Encouragement to Return' program to accept stranded people. We have already received many applications to return to the country."

"How can we not be so valuable? Let's just go to the scene and see."

This is an ordinary day in August 2020, but it is an extremely difficult day for electronic fraudsters.

Wang Hongtao brought Guo Mingxiong to the port. The scene had already been occupied by reporters from all walks of life. At the port of return from northern Myanmar, there was a long queue as far as the eye could see. They were "persuading returners" who had completed the nucleic acid test and were preparing to return to the country!

In order to come back early, many electronic fraudsters had to find scalpers to jump in the queue. "Whoever pays more money will come back first." Because there were so many people, they even had to queue up to "cut the queue."

In order to "reduce the burden" on Yunnan Province, provinces with more telecom fraudsters leaving the province have sent personnel to the borders of Yunnan Province to provide support. For example, Hunan Province has established four workstations, led by the public security bureaus of four cities with serious cases of electricity fraud.

A grassroots "persuasion to return" staff said that they will force returnees to report and collect information at the local police station. If you go abroad again, the police will know immediately. In addition, they will have to "study at home" for a period of time after returning, and they need to report when they go out.

A village cadre in Hubei Province said that there was a "North Burma den" in the village who had been out of contact. They did a lot of work for the family and later issued an announcement to cancel their household registration. After about two days, the person reported Prepare to return home.

An unprecedented "big campaign to encourage people to return" is being launched in Yunnan Province. The targets of the operation are more than 100,000 Chinese people in northern Myanmar. They are mostly engaged in telecommunications fraud and related industries, and the targets of the fraud are mainly Chinese people. However, due to being outside the country, it is difficult for the judicial authorities to effectively crack down on them. In order to curb the high incidence of telecom fraud crimes, Dian Province took the lead in taking strong measures such as "cancellation of household registration" to persuade returnees to return to the country and surrender.

At 6 o'clock in the morning, the country's gate officially opened. The first batch of more than young people who came back lined up in six rows and shouted in unison: "I was doing fraud in northern Myanmar. Now I am back in the arms of my mother, accept transformation, and be a new person. I They are Chinese, and Chinese people do not lie to Chinese people." This scene was recorded by reporters, and many media people broadcast live broadcasts. This was approved by Wang Hongtao, and the purpose was to feed back the true scene to the people across the country.

The person in charge of combating telecom fraud at a provincial public security bureau said in an interview that this is the first time in history that Yunnan Province has launched the first shot to "persuade telecom fraudsters to return." I had known before that there were Chinese people committing telecom fraud in northern Myanmar, but I didn't expect there to be such a large number.

According to on-site interviews with "persuading people to return", telecom fraud in northern Myanmar includes various categories of telecom fraud, and currently the main ones are "pig killing plate", "naked chat" and "fake orders for rebates".

According to the policy requirements of Yunnan Province, if these people return to the country before September 9, they will be treated leniently, otherwise, they will be subject to a series of severe penalties.

According to the current epidemic prevention and control situation, Yunnan Province has directly vacated several military camps to conduct centralized isolation, investigation, and review of personnel who have "returned to China".

Wang Hongtao received reports from the other three channels that the ports were full and tens of thousands of people were queuing up to surrender. The queue had already been a month or two. During the epidemic, strict prevention and control must be carried out.

The reporter interviewed that at the isolation point in a county in Yunnan Province where he is located, there are nearly a thousand people who are returning to China for fraud. According to him, e-mail fraudsters have begun to return intensively because there are too many people returning home, which has led to soaring prices in border areas: "A taxi costs 10 yuan per kilometer, a lunch box 50 yuan, a bottle of water 5 yuan, and Yuxi cigarettes originally priced at 23 yuan 60 yuan. piece……"

Reporters reported that telecom fraudsters who have returned to China are easy to identify: they are mostly young people with southern accents and speak very quietly to each other. Probably due to working at night for a long time and sitting in front of the computer for a long time, most of them are pale and have a tendency to lean forward when walking. The staff at the isolation point noticed the daily routine of these people. They often pushed carts in the corridors to sell late-night snacks at midnight or even early in the morning.

Some electronic fraudsters have still not repented. On the first night in the domestic isolation point, someone reported that they heard someone next door using mobile phones to continue engaging in electronic fraud activities - they carried three or four extra mobile phones.

Many reporters interviewed that these people's life in northern Myanmar was "worse than death" and "urgent need to return to the country." A 5-meter-high border wall was built between them, with electric shocks and border guards patrolling at all times."

A report revealed that there are hundreds of thousands of people engaged in telecommunications fraud in northern Myanmar. However, the report did not explain the source of the data. In fact, it is impossible to know the exact number of "people stranded in northern Myanmar" because most of them are smuggled out of the country.

Grassroots staff in Hunan Province told reporters that during this operation, more than 70 people came back from one local village. There are more than 800 people in the "North Burma den" in his city, which is not too many in the province.

According to interviews with reporters, the situation of electronic fraud crimes suddenly became serious starting in 2019. In the past few years, illegal crimes in northern Myanmar were mainly drug trafficking and gambling. Due to the low cost and low risk of telecommunications fraud, there have been more and more participants in recent years, many of whom have been transferred from other criminal industries.

According to the Ministry of Public Security, new crimes represented by telecommunications and network fraud continue to occur at a high rate and have become the fastest-growing prominent crime with the strongest public response.

Officials from the Dian Provincial Public Security Department told reporters that the unique geopolitics of northern Myanmar has made it the preferred location for cross-border telecom fraud criminal groups in recent years. Telecom fraud originated in Taiwan and later moved to Fujian, Guangdong and other places. After intensifying domestic crackdowns, the electronic fraud group targeted the northern Myanmar region, which is controlled by multiple ethnic groups and local armed forces and is not controlled by the central government of Myanmar. Since these regions have neither a real economy nor natural resources, the local authorities are motivated by Due to development needs, telecom fraud has even formed an industry, and it has not actively cooperated with our cross-border crackdown on telecom fraud.

Since the China-Myanmar border is more than 2,000 kilometers long, there are no natural barriers, and many places are only a stone's throw away, which makes entry and exit supervision difficult. China is "difficult to guard against when it has a border," and northern Myanmar is "unguardable when there is a border." It is very difficult. Put an end to illegal immigration. This is one of the reasons why criminals choose northern Myanmar as their habitat. However, this phenomenon is gone forever with the successful construction of the border wall advocated by Secretary Wang Hongtao. It is even more difficult to sneak into Yunnan Province!

Staff from the Public Security Department told reporters that although not all "people stranded in northern Myanmar" are engaged in illegal and criminal activities, no matter what they do in northern Myanmar, they are basically smuggling out of the country, and smuggling itself is an illegal act, so they will be Strike as a whole.

However, the Public Security Department also admitted that for some electronic fraudsters who were "persuaded to return", the police did not have evidence of their illegal crimes, so they could only punish them for their smuggling behavior. Usually a fine is imposed.

"Persuading people to return" to telecom scammers in northern Myanmar has risen to the level of "people's war". Yunnan Province has established the "Anti-Drug and Anti-Fraud People's War Headquarters" to attach equal importance to "anti-fraud" and anti-drugs. We must use the firm determination of a strong man to cut off his wrists and scrape his bones to cure the poison, to ensure that the work of persuading people to return is implemented effectively.

When cooperation channels with the police in northern Myanmar are not smooth and cross-border attacks are difficult to carry out, it is of great significance to give full play to the advantages of the system and take the initiative through "persuading return" measures to allow criminals to return to places under their jurisdiction, which is of great significance in combating cross-border fraud. big.

Everything should be told to others, and information should be made public so that the public can understand the truest situation. Because Wang Hongtao’s lenient policy allows such large-scale events to be publicly reported, today’s four port crossings in Yunnan Province became a carnival day for the media. Each reporter’s work received hundreds of thousands or millions of likes. Indeed, through personal testimony It made people across the country re-recognize electronic fraud. The scene was quite shocking!