When shopping online, the sales volume and positive reviews of products are often important basis for consumers' decision-making. But there are actually hidden tricks behind many popular products. Merchants place orders in batches and prepare praise through the order-brushing team, and can package ordinary products into popular products that are "crazy and snatched by thousands of people" in just a few days.
This kind of data fraud will seriously mislead consumers and disrupt market order. Recently, the Cybersecurity Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security announced a "Internet Water Army" order brushing case successfully solved by the police in Yunhe County, Lishui City, Zhejiang Province. The criminal gang provided order brushing services to more than 5,000 e-commerce companies, and the funds involved were as high as more than 30 million yuan.
In April 2024, police from Yunhe County Public Security Bureau received a report from the public that there were e-commerce order brushing on an online shopping platform, which has constituted malicious competition for local e-commerce. After the case was accepted, after three months of careful investigation, the police quickly locked in a "Internet Water Army" gang headed by Fan Moumou and entrenched in Jiangsu.
Police of the Cyber Security Brigade of Yunhe County Public Security Bureau, Zhejiang Zhu Yizhe: The suspect Fan recruited a group of personnel for the purpose of illegal profits and developed this order-brushing software. At the same time, a group of order brushing personnel were recruited, and a order brushing studio was established, and an order brushing software was used to provide merchants with illegal order brushing services.
After grasping a large amount of criminal facts and evidence, Yunhe Public Security quickly organized police forces to rush to Jiangsu to carry out a unified network closing operation.
Zhao Ming, deputy captain of the Cyber Security Brigade of Yunhe County Public Security Bureau, Zhejiang: In August 2024, we organized police forces to close the network, arrested 15 criminal suspects, seized more than 60 mobile phones and computers and other crime tools. The amount involved in the case is as high as more than 30 million yuan.
