In the dark world of telecommunications fraud, the name Wang Shuiming is known to all. Let us reveal the true face of his evil from his rise, expansion, escape to his final arrest.
Genesis: The Initial Blossom of Evil in Anxi Town
Born in 1983 in Anxi, Fujian, a place famous for its Tieguanyin tea, Wang Shuiming witnessed the undercurrents of the era breeding the cancer of fraud. By the late 1990s, the exorbitant profits from mass texting lottery special numbers caught the attention of local youths. Wang Shuiming, a middle school dropout, displayed his "natural talent" on this illegal path. He meticulously designed a three-step script, boosting the fraud conversion rate to 3%, far exceeding the industry average of 1%, and thus plunged deep into the abyss of telecom fraud.
Expansion: The Rise of a Sinful Empire in the Philippines
In 2010, at the age of 27, Wang Shuiming entered the Philippines on a tourist visa and set up a 20-person fraud team in a dilapidated office building in Manila, specializing in lottery prediction software scams. By illegally obtaining personal information of citizens and pushing fake winning messages, they scammed a retired teacher in Beijing out of 870,000 yuan, making tens of millions illegally in a month.
In 2012, the establishment of the Hengbo International online gambling platform pushed his criminal career to the "peak". He finely dissected telecom fraud into three modules: information collection, script design, and fund transfer, setting up independent outsourcing teams and building a vast criminal network. The information department illegally obtained 230 million citizen records to establish a profiling database; the operations department developed an AI voice synthesis system to create realistic deceptions; the finance department constructed a 4G money laundering network, completing offshore money laundering in just 18 minutes.
By 2016, Wang Shuiming's criminal group owned four office buildings in the Freeport Area of Clark, Philippines, with over 12,000 employees and a "perfect" organizational structure. They established a nine-level job ranking system, implemented a "271" last-place elimination system, and provided "employee benefits" such as anti-investigation training and psychological counseling, encouraging more "efficient" crimes.
Escape: Global Concealment and Struggle of Evil
In March 2022, the Monetary Authority of Singapore froze eleven luxury apartment units related to Wang Shuiming in an anti-money laundering operation, sentencing him to only 13 months in prison, but tearing a corner of his core financial chain.
After being released in June 2023, Wang Shuiming fled to Japan under the identity "Kenichi Yamamoto". He rented a safe house in Shinjuku, Tokyo, frequently changed SIM cards, and used prepaid phones to contact his confidants. However, each time he logged into the dark web email using hotel WiFi, Interpol locked his MAC address through traffic analysis. He also employed various anti-investigation measures, such as traveling to South Korea annually for facial bone reshaping and fingerprint epidermis transplantation, using Beidou satellite and quantum key dual-channel transmission encryption for communications, and preparing multiple sets of identities and escape routes.
Doom: The Sinful End at Montenegro Airport
On February 9, 2025, at 3 AM, Wang Shuiming's private plane landed at Podgorica International Airport in the Republic of Montenegro. Just after a meeting with an Albanian casino tycoon and planning to expand his business in Germany, he was surrounded by dozens of fully armed Montenegrin special police. The arrest scene uncovered a large amount of key evidence, including encrypted assets U Shield, umbrella list documents, chips involving politicians from six countries, and the "Blue Whale Plan" document. It turned out that his private pilot had been turned and had informed the flight route in advance, turning all his meticulously prepared plans into nothing.
Wang Shuiming, once a youth from a small town in Anxi, became a globally wanted telecom fraud magnate, whose actions are despicable. Awaiting him is extradition back to his country to face the most severe legal sanctions, and the vast telecom fraud industry chain behind him will also be uprooted along with his downfall, bringing clarity back to the world.
