"Crack down on foreign scams!" Posing as Indian women to "chat and make friends," defrauding 66,800 Indians! The amount involved exceeds 500 million rupees, and 9 people were sentenced.

"Killing the foreign plate" is a common term, have you heard of "killing the foreign plate"? "Killing the foreign plate," as the name suggests, is to gain trust through translation software and chat software to chat and make friends with foreigners, and then lure them to invest, thereby defrauding money.

According to the Legal Daily report, recently, the People's Court of the Economic Development Zone in Heze City, Shandong Province, tried a case of "killing the foreign plate" telecommunications network fraud crime targeting Indians, involving an amount of 517 million Indian rupees (about 40 million yuan), involving 66,800 victims, and 9 fraudsters were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from five years to fourteen years and nine months, and fined.

He Mou Tian is the primary criminal in this "killing the foreign plate" scam. In May 2023, He Mou Tian rented a venue in the Luxi New District of Heze as an office location, contacted Wang Mou, Wu Mou Hua, Jiang Mou Mou, Sun Mou, Jin Mou Meng and others to form a fraud gang, recruited troops, and purchased overseas servers. He Mou Tian was responsible for liaising with Indian companies, coordinating fund supervision, and fund diversion; Wang Mou, Yang Mou Fei, Zhang Mou, and Chen Mou Xu were responsible for business training and employee management, and Wu Mou Hua, who had "experience" in fraud, was responsible for employee training and planning scripts; Chen Mou was responsible for building the platform and maintaining the payment channels of the investment platform.

"I met an Indian on a chat software and learned about the SENEE online investment platform. Through the chat software, I communicated with customers, using the high return of 8% to 15% per month on an investment of 1000 rupees as bait to attract Indians to invest money on the platform," He Mou Tian confessed, "When the customer's investment amount exceeds the rebate amount, the platform will be closed or converted into equity, the funds will be locked up, and then the invested funds will be used to purchase 'USDT' virtual currency through a third-party payment platform, and the virtual currency will be exchanged for renminbi or US dollars, from which we extract 15% profit."

"My persona is an Indian woman who has successfully gained wealth through investment funds. Through social software, I chat with Indians to cultivate feelings and lure Indian men to invest in SENEE funds," co-defendant Li Mou Wang confessed.

To increase credibility and attractiveness, the gang members posted fake life photos, fitness photos, and travel photos on the social software they opened, creating an image of a successful Indian woman with emotional setbacks, and set the software location to a certain city in India, adding Indians to chat and make friends. At the same time, to make the fake company platform look more real, the gang compiled a listed company framework, and posted PS trademark registration certificates, Indian non-bank financial licenses, business licenses, and other qualification documents on the company website to gain customer trust.

The court found that from June 1, 2023, to January 13, 2024, in just over seven months, 66,800 Indians were defrauded, with a fraud amount of 517 million Indian rupees. The nine defendants, in order to gain illegal benefits, used false identities, used information networks to defraud others of property, and formed a fraud crime group with a detailed and professional crime chain, strong criminal collaboration, and clear division of labor, forming a division of labor, mutual dependence, and shared benefits. According to the status and role of each defendant in the crime group, they were legally sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from five years to fourteen years and nine months, and fined.

The presiding judge, Liu Xi Lei, stated that although this case is a case of domestic fraudsters targeting foreigners for telecommunications fraud, the current cases of network fraud targeting domestic people are still high. Impersonating "white, rich, and beautiful" or "tall, rich, and handsome" to induce victims to invest in financial management is also a common method of telecommunications fraud targeting domestic people. The public is reminded to be vigilant, not to be greedy for small advantages, those who claim to brush orders for rebates, can easily make money, have inside information, have website vulnerabilities, or claim to be professional investment advisors, securities managers, etc., inducing investment on their provided fake websites, Apps are all scams. At the same time, the state's efforts to crack down on telecommunications network fraud are increasing, and those fraudsters are advised to immediately stop criminal activities, voluntarily surrender, and strive for lenient treatment.

Previously, the media had reported cases of "killing the foreign plate."

According to Hongwang report, in March 2024, Yan Mou, Liu Mou, and others discussed establishing a certain electronic commerce limited company, specifically targeting men from Turkey and other countries for order brushing fraud.

After the company was established, Yan Mou, Liu Mou, and others gradually recruited more than ten people to use the Internet to build a virtual shopping platform, create a "white, rich, and beautiful" persona of Malaysian nationality through registered social software, and then add Turkish middle-aged men as friends through chat software and translation software, using the company's prepared fixed scripts to gain the trust of the victims.

To correspond to the daytime in Turkey, the company's employees worked from 3 pm to 1 am the next day.

"My role is Lisa, a 31-year-old Malaysian Chinese woman, divorced, sweet-looking, long-haired, about 1.7 meters tall, a fashion designer, owning a clothing store in Malaysia, and also having a shop on the Amazon platform, owning a house and a car," said company "salesperson" Xiao A.

When chatting with the victims, the company's salespeople all claimed to be divorced women with a good economic foundation, around 30 years old. The company provided chat reference scripts for the salespeople, with the process divided into four days. On the first day, they introduced their personal information to each other, on the second day, they shared landscape photos, fitness photos, and talked about their daily routines, and on the third and fourth days, they began to build closer relationships, making friends, and talking about dating, thus completely gaining the trust of the other party.

After successfully gaining the trust of the victims, this group finally "showed their true colors," using "dating" as a pretext, guiding the victims to recharge and brush orders on the company's fake online shopping platform. The first order would often be cashed back to the victims, and the "sweet taste" led the victims to be induced to make larger orders step by step until the victims had no intention to continue brushing orders, then restricting withdrawals, thus completing the fraud process.