In the process of delving into the dark and terrifying events of Myawaddy, a highly explosive piece of news emerged: Wang Shuiming, known as the "ancestor" of telecom fraud, was captured by local police upon entering the Republic of Montenegro.
This person is extremely mysterious, who exactly is he to be called the "ancestor of telecom fraud"?
According to my speculation, this person's influence on Myawaddy should not be underestimated. From the current publicly available information online, there are two particularly key figures in the Myawaddy telecom fraud park—She Zhijiang and Xiong Shijia. Those interested in more details about these two can refer to my previous articles.
On the surface a philanthropist, behind the scenes a spine-chilling demon! — Deeply uncovering the sinful life of Myawaddy "godfather" She Zhijiang!
From casino lackey to the behind-the-scenes mastermind of the "murder park": Exposing the bloody rise of Myawaddy "telecom fraud demon" Xiong Shijia!
She Zhijiang, the infamous boss of Asia Pacific New Town and KK Park from Hunan. It is said that in 2011, he met a Fujianese proficient in online gambling operations (whose identity remains a mystery), and then moved to the Philippines in 2012, and ventured into illegal lottery business by 2024. At that time, Wang Shuiming was making a big name for himself in the Philippines, making it hard not to suspect some connection between the two.
Xiong Shijia, the boss of Jin Xin Park, known for his brutality. In Myawaddy, he ranks just below She Zhijiang, being the second most important Chinese figure, originally from Anxi, Fujian, and a fellow townsman of Wang Shuiming.
Although there is currently no concrete evidence to show that Wang Shuiming has direct contact with Myawaddy, his influence on Myawaddy may exist in an intangible way.
Today, let us unveil the true face of this mysterious telecom fraud "ancestor".
1 "Business Genius" Gone Astray
Time rewinds to 1983, Wang Shuiming was born in Anxi County, Fujian. This place is famous for its Tieguanyin tea, but under the undercurrents of the era, it quietly bred the cancer of fraud. In the late 1990s, some local youths realized the hidden profit potential in mass texting of lottery special numbers, where sending a hundred thousand messages cost merely a couple hundred yuan, but could potentially scam tens of thousands of yuan in remittances.
Wang Shuiming was indeed a business genius.
Having dropped out of junior high, Wang Shuiming displayed astonishing "talent" on this illegal path. His meticulously designed three-step script significantly increased the fraud conversion rate to 3%, far exceeding the industry average of 1%, plunging him deep into the abyss of telecom fraud and onto a point of no return.
In 2010, at the age of 27, Wang Shuiming entered the Philippines on a tourist visa. In a dilapidated office building in Pasay City, Manila, he set up his first fraud team, consisting of twenty members, mainly operating so-called lottery prediction software. They illegally purchased databases of personal information of citizens, precisely targeting mainland China users with fake winning notifications, using the bait of paying a security deposit to claim the prize, committing fraud. Among them, a case where a retired teacher from Beijing was scammed out of 870,000 yuan in one transaction, brought the gang tens of millions in illegal profits that month, rapidly accumulating ill-gotten wealth.
In 2012, Wang Shuiming's setup of the Hengbo International online gambling platform pushed his criminal career to the so-called "peak". At an internal training session in 2014, he boldly claimed, "We are not a mafia, we are a tech company." How utterly absurd!
He broke down telecom fraud into three major modules: information gathering, script design, and fund transfer, and set up independent outsourcing teams for each step, building a vast and complex criminal network.
The information department, through hacking attacks and colluding with insiders, obtained up to 230 million citizen records, establishing a portrait database that included occupation, assets, family members, and other multidimensional information, exposing countless people's privacy under the shadow of crime.
The operations department developed an AI voice synthesis system that could realistically imitate the accents of various local police, courts, and bank customer services, with recordings that could even deceive the director of a provincial anti-fraud center, reaching a chilling level of deception.
The finance department constructed a 4G money laundering network, using virtual currency, jewelry auctions, cross-border trade, and other covert channels, able to offshore funds in as little as eighteen minutes, laundering the illicit gains and giving the dirty money a seemingly legal facade.
By 2016, Wang Shuiming's criminal group had reached a pinnacle state. In the Clark Freeport Zone in the Philippines, he owned four office buildings, with over 12,000 employees under his command, with an organizational structure as "perfect" as that of a listed company. From trainee customer service to regional director, a nine-level job grading system was set up, with a starting salary of 10,000 yuan per month for newcomers, a 10% annual salary adjustment, and a "271" last-place elimination system, where teams with monthly fraud amounts less than 500,000 yuan would be collectively laid off.
To make his employees more "efficient" at committing fraud, he also provided so-called "employee benefits", setting up an anti-investigation training center, teaching illegal skills such as forging IP addresses and using dark web communications, and even providing psychological counselors, trying to help employees overcome the guilt brought by fraud, his actions being extremely vile, breaking the bottom line of humanity, and utterly appalling.
2 The Frightened Flight
In March 2022, the Monetary Authority of Singapore, in an anti-money laundering operation, successfully froze eleven luxury apartment units. Upon further investigation, it was discovered that these properties, registered under shell companies in the British Virgin Islands, all traced back to Wang Shuiming. Originally, he laundered up to 16 billion yuan in dirty money through fictitious jewelry import and export trade within just two years.
Although the Singapore court only sentenced him to thirteen months in prison, this arrest unexpectedly tore open a corner of his core financial chain, providing key clues for subsequent global crackdowns, like a ray of light in the darkness, illuminating the path to tracking his criminal activities.
In June 2023, after being released from prison, Wang Shuiming used a backup identity "Kenichi Yamamoto" to flee to Japan. He rented three safe houses in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo, changing SIM cards daily, using prepaid phones to contact the remaining five confidants, acting extremely cautiously.
However, every time he used hotel WiFi to log into his dark web email, Interpol, with advanced traffic analysis technology, successfully locked onto his MAC address.
When Montenegrin police carried out the arrest, a series of key evidence was seized at the scene, including a Swiss bank UBS containing 920 million USD in cryptocurrency assets, a document listing 217 umbrella names, titanium core chips involving politicians from six countries, the yet-to-be-activated "Blue Whale Plan" document, and materials related to real-time targeted fraud against corporate executives using deep fake videos.
It is worth mentioning that Wang Shuiming's anti-investigation methods are considered "professional", with a complexity akin to a textbook. He traveled to South Korea annually for facial bone reshaping and fingerprint epidermal transplantation, changing his biological characteristics, trying to disappear from police pursuit; in terms of communication, he used Beidou satellite and quantum key dual-channel transmission encryption, strictly controlling each call duration to no more than seventeen seconds, attempting to evade detection; he even pre-set three complete sets of identities and escape routes in Liechtenstein, Ecuador, and Manuatu, thinking he was foolproof.
But in this Montenegro operation, he never expected that his private plane's pilot would be successfully turned, who reported the flight information to Interpol in advance, causing all his meticulously prepared plans to instantly collapse like a house of cards.
3 The Ultimate Capture
At 3 a.m. on February 9, 2025, the tranquil atmosphere at Podgorica International Airport in the Republic of Montenegro was disrupted by a Gulfstream G650 private jet, its tail painted with a golden dragon pattern. It slowly slid into the parking apron, inside the cabin, Wang Shuiming, dressed in a dark gray custom suit, was resting with his eyes closed, the remaining ice in the whiskey glass at the bottom seemingly still telling of the comfort moments before.
Having just ended a secret meeting with a local casino tycoon in Albania, he originally planned to rest briefly in Montenegro before heading to Germany to expand his new business territory, but his plans were abruptly halted at this moment.
Suddenly, the glaring searchlight outside the window sliced through the night like a blade, and dozens of fully armed Montenegrin special police quickly surrounded from all directions. The moment the cabin door was blown open, Wang Shuiming instinctively reached for his waist for the satellite phone—this key device connected to twelve backup identities worldwide, considered his criminal career's "lifeline". But under the swift capture moves of the special police, the phone was instantly shattered. Following that, the stern proclamation, "Interpol red notice, you are suspected of organizing transnational telecom fraud, money laundering, and illegal gambling", fully awakened this Fujian man known as the "ancestor of telecom fraud",
His more than twenty-year-long illegal criminal "game" had finally come to an end.
As the escort flight took off from Podgorica, Wang Shuiming looked out the porthole at the icy gray Adriatic Sea, the sea area he once attempted to purchase a private island in, now seemingly turned into his "prison". Perhaps, images of selling tea on the streets of Anxi in 2008, the young man smilingly handing out business cards to tourists, contrasted absurdly and ironically with the current globally wanted telecom fraud giant, in the long river of time.
Behind him, the special case team was opening a 31T capacity electronic evidence database. These data, every byte recording the tears and pain of millions of victims, will act like a tight net, a sturdy noose, mercilessly tightening around the throats of all telecom fraud criminals, demonstrating the majesty of the law and the power of justice.
Now, awaiting him is extradition, once escorted back to China, what awaits him will definitely not be the 13 months of imprisonment in Singapore, but a life behind bars!
