68 companies fraud in three months 340,000 "domain name fee"

Webmaster reported on October 21: "Hello, this is the Internet renewal center China Network Customer Service Department, your company's network domain name is about to expire, please renew, or you will not be able to continue to use." In more than three Months, there are countless companies across the country received similar fraud calls, these calls are played from Xiamen, of which 68 companies after receiving the phone obediently to each other a total of more than 342,000 yuan of the "domain name fee" .

Recently, Siming District Court of First Instance of the fraud case verdict, 17 fraudsters were sentenced, of which 24-year-old principal Wu was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment and fined 100,000 yuan.

Three companies fooled 68 companies in three months

One day in July 2007, a company in Hangzhou suddenly received a phone call of "Renewal of Domain Names". The other party claimed to be a registered renewal service provider accredited by Internet Information Center. It said that the Hangzhou company submitted an Internet Information Center supporting English Domain Name Chinese domain name, the current domain name expires soon, only to renew the fee can continue to use, the Hangzhou company undoubted fraud, then will be remitted to the other 2,500 yuan designated account. Soon after, the company found it deceived, the so-called Chinese domain name is fake.

Two days later, a Shishi company also received the same phone and remitted 2,500 yuan to each other's account. In more than three months, a total of 68 companies were deceived and handed over "domain name fees" ranging from 2,500 yuan to 10,000 yuan. These companies are distributed in Zhejiang, Sichuan, Shanghai, Hunan, Jiangsu, Beijing, Heilongjiang, Fujian, Hubei and other provinces and cities.

Fraud work "three-step"

On November 21, 2007, police officers attacked Xiamen Liwang Network Technology Co., Ltd. after receiving the alarm and arrested 16 people involved. Most of the people involved are young people who are under the age of the world, of whom 5 are under 18 years old. They Some just graduated from the network in Xiamen Science and Technology Co., Ltd. legislation is the first job, and some just the company's intern. Soon, police officers and police arrested in front of the police station went to inquire about the news of Wu.

According to Wu's confession, on June 27, 2007, he incorporated "Xiamen Liwang Network Technology Co., Ltd.", renting a house in Lu Ling Road, and recruiting and training 16 employees to make telephone fraud. Its staff randomly looks up the contact information of all the companies in the country from the internet and pretends to be the registered renewal service agency certified by the Internet Information Center. They will contact each company by phone to conduct the "domain renewal" telephone fraud.

All employees are required to receive business training prior to appointment, and fraud "work" is based on "online contact information --- --- phone conversation by outline --- guiding remittance" three-step. Staff done three steps, the work is over, leaving the registration of fake domain name by Wu himself to do.