{"id":19478,"date":"2012-03-28T20:27:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T12:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahearsay.com\/?p=12503"},"modified":"2012-03-28T20:27:08","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T12:27:08","slug":"theres-a-special-place-in-internet-hell-reserved-for-these-fraudsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2012\/03\/28\/theres-a-special-place-in-internet-hell-reserved-for-these-fraudsters\/","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a Special Place in Internet Hell Reserved for These Fraudsters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Imagine you’re a victim of online fraud and desperate to get some help. Then you find a police web site dedicated to stopping online fraudsters. You’d be quite relieved, I’m sure, and if you’re particularly gullible, you might be persuaded to part with a small sum of money required as an enforcement fee.<\/p>\n

You can see where this is going:<\/p>\n

Chinese police said in a statement Tuesday they had shut down a fake police service website and arrested four suspects.<\/p>\n

The website was named “China Internet supervision and investigation authority” and had the address www.wangjing110.com – a combination of the Chinese pronunciation of cyber police and the number of the well recognized police hotline.<\/p>\n

It pledged to help consumers who had “fallen victim to online fraud” recover their losses, but required them to pay service fees or deposits, according to the Ministry of Public Security(MPS) statement.<\/p>\n

Chinese law prohibits police to charge any fee for performing their duty in accepting or investigating cases.<\/p>\n

The police said the fake website simulated a real police service portal operated by the Shanghai municipal police bureau.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sonofabitch. First these poor folks are defrauded, and then they get virtually raped again by these guys posing as Net cops. Amazing. I don’t know about you, but the next time I see \u7f51 and \u5bdf in the same URL, I’m going to be on full alert. Even more than usual, if that\u2019s possible.<\/p>\n

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Imagine you're a victim of online fraud and desperate to get some help. Then you find a police web site dedicated to stopping online fraudsters. You'd be quite relieved, I'm sure, and if you're particularly gullible, you might be persuaded to part with a small sum of money required as an enforcement fee. You can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1170,137,4,194],"tags":[7905,7781,7758,3542],"class_list":["post-19478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal-law","category-fraud","category-internet","category-news-chinese-law","tag-criminal-law","tag-fraud","tag-internet","tag-short-takes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}