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For those people,
they were also detestably hated.
Caught then released.
Released then caught again.
Due to the difficulty of gathering evidence,
it was hard to accuse these people of any major crimes.
Those making the phone calls would be released not long after being sentenced; fortunately, in the past two years, due to proper "publicity," many from within the cases had turned away from the dark and reported various fraud gangs via phone and internet.
From there,
hundreds of large fraud gangs were busted,
greatly deterring this type of illegal activity.
However,
because the cost was low,
and the difficulty small,
many of these people reverted to their old ways after being released.
What troubled them the most was
that some minor underlings, having no one to lead them and no real skills, and being used to making and spending fast money, were utterly uninterested in earning just two or three thousand a month.
Thus,
a shift in their minds,
and they established their own little gangs.
They began scamming people.
This left them quite helpless, much like the monsters in games that, once the big one is killed, quickly splits into smaller ones; previously, where one kill was enough, now ten were needed, and when you killed the smaller ones, they would divide even further.
It was simply unbearable.
Large targets are large,
easy to deal with.
But split into ten, dozens, dispersed across regions far and wide, it truly left them clueless about how to curb this perverse trend. Comparatively, it felt a bit easier to handle cases where an entire village was involved.
At the worst,
they could just cut off your internet.
And sever your phone lines.
Of course,
this move wasn’t feasible casually because without evidence that everyone was guilty, they couldn’t just cut off the village’s network en masse, for this would be "collective punishment" and didn’t comply with the existing legal system.
Moreover,
what they feared most was that after cutting off someone’s internet,
they would split into dozens, hundreds of waves; with over a billion people in Huaxia, even if you mixed a village in, it wouldn’t make a splash, and in the end, they realized that whatever method they used would result in uncomfortable consequences for them.
And if they were to follow the precedence of Myanmar Bank,
the difficulty was far too great.
Because this involved much stricter bank regulations, amendments to banking laws, new Central Bank departments, upgraded equipment and systems, and coordinating multi-department cooperation.
The Central Bank would need to take the lead.
It was incredibly troublesome.
Technically, there were also issues, starting with having to replace nationwide ATMs with those capable of recognizing banknote numbers; all Banknote Counters nationwide also needed to be changed and connected online to monitor the flow of currency.
Through two methods, they could control the circulation of money and facilitate evidence gathering.
Yet this,
would place a considerable burden on the banks.
Large sums of money would be inspected by banks, but what about small funds? If the banks had to recruit many people as they did there, wouldn’t that mean the banks were taking over most of the investigative work?
I just wanted to handle deposits and loans.
You push anti-fraud duties onto me.
Who would want that?
In short,
achieving the level of oversight seen in Myanmar Bank within a short time in Huaxia is impossible unless the banks developed an intelligent system to replace the analysis and investigation work.
Most crucially,
Myanmar had controlled the number of bank cards.
One person could only have two cards, which effectively made it difficult for others to obtain bank cards; with just one card for personal use and one for spare or hiding money, they simply no longer qualified for more cards.
What does this mean?
It means
that the total number of bank cards there wouldn’t exceed twice the population, at most about one hundred million.
Want to launder money?
Those gangs couldn’t even get accounts.
This was actually impossible on Huaxia’s side, with so many banks, if people were only allowed two cards each, the banks wouldn’t agree, unlike there, where Myanmar Bank had dominance, acting as the Central Bank, and could directly amend its own banking and regulatory laws.
Highly autocratic.
Corporate law becomes state law.
Irresistible, unlearnable.
Therefore,
Anti-fraud
in Huaxia had to come slowly, primarily by raising awareness about fraud. Without changing people’s mindset against being scammed and only seeking police help afterward, it honestly puts people in a tough spot.
This matter,
is extremely complicated.
...
Huaxia.
In a certain city,
within a neighborhood in the suburbs,
around ten people in their twenties were continuously making phone calls, a hectic scene, with the content of the calls largely the same, telling the families of leukemia patients the same thing that Mi Hao had said.
They had just "switched jobs" the day before yesterday.
Previously,
they primarily dealt with "winning" scams through text messages, emails, and other means, casting a wide net; most people didn’t believe it, but there were always some who thought they were "lucky," wanting the money.
Of course,
they were scammed.
This time, compared to the few hundred or thousands in service or notary fees for the "winning" scam, it seemed that selling this kind of drugs yielded a bit higher profit, so they decided to temporarily switch jobs to give it a try.
Trying their luck this month, and if it doesn’t work out, they would switch again.
Putting the previous operations on hold for now.
Their leader named Wu Song,
had just been released. Previously a sub-leader of another gang, after their boss was busted, he also ended up in prison for a few months; upon release, with no real skills, he gathered some previous underlings.
Ready to operate.
This time,
he decided he wouldn’t recruit outsiders at all.
Actually,
he was somewhat thankful for this stint in prison because previously, their large gang was busted because someone reported them, so this time, those who had done time were definitely not the informers.
