Two years time
The software company has developed more than 50 apps
Profit of 5 million yuan
Instead, the police showed up
Nine programmers were arrested
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Recently, Ping An Times platform released such a “programmer crime” incident. Below with sow girl explore the cause of the incident together, whenever take warning.
The incident began in late September when a friend named Xiao He (pseudonym) went to the police station to report that He had been cheated of nearly 200,000 yuan (us $34,800) by someone who had traded stocks online. ** In the process of case investigation, the police found that a gambling software downloaded in xiao he’s mobile phone is also fraud software.
Then, they followed suit and found the company that makes and maintains this software — be located in shenzhen some culture science and technology limited company, and the criminal gang that establishes this company is entrenched in Shenzhen for a long time to be engaged in developing gambling software business.
In the course of more than a month after investigation, on December 3, the police in one fell swoop will be Li and other 9 criminal suspects arrested.
After examination, the gang confessed that In March 2018, Li summoned Han, Luo and other people to set up the company, and then engaged in the development of gambling software for a long time, serving a number of gambling groups.
In just two years, they created more than 50 gambling apps. The gambling apps sold for 80,000 yuan each, making them illegal profits of 5 million yuan.
The software is designed to win money at first, then keep losing it, and not be able to withdraw cash. It is precisely because of these characteristics that the buyers of these gambling software, some of whom buy the software for gambling, others use the software for fraud.
In addition to making the software, the company also provides a one-stop service from its selling gambling APP. If there are problems with the operation, the seller can come back to them for maintenance, which is to provide after-sales service.
Knowing that others use software to commit crimes, but still provide technical assistance to the crime, the company’s behavior has constituted the crime of aiding information network crime.
At present, all the nine suspects have been taken criminal compulsory measures, the company’s funds have been frozen, the case is still under further investigation. (Case content and pictures from Ping an Times)
In recent years, the case of programmer illegal crime has been increased than before, relevant news can often be seen.
In some cases, we know that the programmer is even unconscious, and does not know whether his actions are illegal or not. Whether intentional or not, it is a lack of legal awareness among programmers.
As a programmer, don’t think of yourself as just writing code, and catching people is not catching yourself. To have a “minefield” awareness, do not involve pornography, gambling, drug related, or related development projects, even if you are only responsible for one of them.
The following broadcast girl for you to share a programmer can not touch the professional red line, I hope you programmer friends no matter when to tighten the law this string.
A professional red line that programmers can’t touch
1. Crime of making and selling online game plug-in program design;
2. Using the Internet to commit crimes against citizens’ personal information;
3. Crimes of online fraud;
4. Illegal production, sale and use of “fake base station” may constitute a crime;
5 Crimes that may be committed by stealing network virtual property;
6. Crimes committed by distributed denial of service attacks;
7. Delete crimes involved in traffic violation information behavior;
8. Crimes that may be involved in copying and selling pornographic electronic information through mobile phones.
Don’t take any chances
Technology is innocent, stick to the straight and narrow