Falling for a Scam

Late at night, college student He Jianhong bought an iPhone 12 for 200 yuan on Xianyu. The seller received rave reviews, and the packaging video was shot through to the end, and even "transfer half of the deposit first" seemed to be for his benefit. The moment the transfer was successful, a red exclamation mark popped up - he was blocked. Everyone advised him to admit defeat. For one hundred yuan, the police couldn't establish a case, so the scammer changed his vest and moved on to the next one. But he didn't. An exposure post detonated the entire Internet within 24 hours, and 156 victims came from all over the country. Operations and maintenance engineers used IP positioning to locate fraud dens, certified public accountants traced hundreds of capital flows back to the same shell company, and law students searched through legal cases to find a breakthrough in merging cases. A group of ordinary people who were harvested by the same set of words created a fraud industry map covering the whole country. From online traceability to offline undercover, from 156 people calling the police together to jointly closing the network across provinces - this war started by a college student who was defrauded of 100 yuan eventually tore apart a fraud empire with an annual revenue of tens of millions. Scammers take advantage of luck in human nature. Counterattack exploits the unwillingness in human nature.