Looking for business opportunities in the examination of down-and-out candidates, Zhejiang police cracked the case of selling national-level examination questions
Zhoushan, China, March 15th (Reporter Lin Bo correspondent Chen Weifang Hu Xiao) The national professional and technical personnel qualification examination is commonly known as the "title examination". Obtaining the title certification can not only promote the salary increase, but also affect the career prospects, and even bring convenience to the settlement in some cities. Therefore, some people stay up all night reading, while others rack their brains to take shortcuts, which makes some lawless elements see "business opportunities".
In 2018, the network police brigade of Dinghai Branch of Zhoushan Public Security Bureau in Zhejiang Province found that someone publicly peddled the answers to the title examination online in their daily work. After nearly half a year of investigation and evidence collection, tracking and arrest, they successfully cracked the first online sale of national-level examination questions in Zhoushan recently, and arrested 2 suspects, involving more than 15,000 yuan.
Looking for "business opportunities" in the examination of down-and-out candidates
Wang, a 25-year-old man from Weishi, Henan Province, worked as an ordinary skilled worker in a construction company in Changbai Township, Dinghai District. In order to get into a management position as soon as possible, in May 2018, Wang signed up for the national second-level constructor examination (hereinafter referred to as "Second Construction").
During the preparation period, he joined a number of QQ groups for exams, so he made friends with a netizen named "King" who was selling answers to exam questions. At first, Wang didn’t believe the truth of the answer and didn’t buy it. Until the end of the exam, another netizen told him that the answer of "Dawang" was true, and he also sent questions and answers. Wang was shocked after checking it. Only then did he believe that "Dawang" did have channels to get the answer.
In September 2018, the national first-class constructor exam (hereinafter referred to as "Yijian") was just around the corner, and the QQ group became lively again, and all kinds of information about buying answers to exam questions at high prices came in an endless stream, which made Wang, whose family was poor, have the idea of reselling exam questions.
In order to improve the income, Wang only bought the answer of the last of the four subjects from the "King" place at the price of 500 yuan, and then copied and pieced together the answers of the first three subjects from other online channels at will, trying to sell them by the way of genuine imitation. At the same time, in order to further convince people of the authenticity of the examination questions, Wang adopted the sales strategy of giving the first answer for free and paying for the last three, with the price ranging from 50 to 1000 yuan.
Sure enough, as soon as the news of selling the questions hung out in the QQ group, many candidates contacted Wang one after another, and it didn’t take long for him to easily earn more than 5,000 yuan. Then he formed a group of netizens who had paid money separately. In order not to give away the clues, he only sent the last three answers on the day of the exam.
Although, after the exam, many netizens told him that the questions were wrong and asked for a refund, Wang didn’t care and dissolved the QQ group.
However, what Wang couldn’t think of was that his business had been targeted by the police as soon as it opened. On September 17, 2018, the police arrested Wang in his dormitory and seized one computer and two mobile phones involved.
A thousand miles to track down the thief and catch the king first
According to Wang’s account and the results of electronic data exploration, the police found that criminals bought and sold answers to test questions through the Internet, and generally settled money with WeChat and Alipay. The people involved were all over the country, and the real identity of the other party was not clear between the upper and lower families. These factors caused great trouble to the case handling work.
How to find the last "king" in the vast network has become the primary problem that the police must overcome.
After online tracing, the police initially locked the suspect’s location in Liupanshui City, Guizhou Province. In order to determine the identity of the suspect, the police rushed to the local area non-stop, and finally found out the true identity of the "King" through a lot of investigation, field investigation and clue analysis — — Yang, male, 32 years old, from Zhengzhou, Henan.
On December 5, 2018, the police successfully captured it in a construction site in Liupanshui.
In the face of the trial, Yang thought that the transactions were all done online through virtual identities, and the relevant data had already been deleted, so there was no way to prove it. At first, the performance did not cooperate.
However, in the end, in the face of the wisdom and evidence of the police, Yang confessed to the facts of the crime and explained more than 10 people who bought the answers.
Yang confessed that on the eve of the exam, he bought the answers to four subjects at one time from a netizen named Spongebob on QQ at a price of 2,700 yuan, and then the sales method was basically similar to that of Wang. Yang said that he earned a total of more than 10,000 yuan by reselling test questions.
The content of the test questions is highly consistent.
The authenticity of a criminal suspect’s selling test questions is directly related to the determination of the crime of fraud or illegal selling, providing test questions and answers.
The police reported the test materials seized from Wang and Yang for identification. Appraised by relevant departments: the contents of the first and second test questions can all correspond to the corresponding subject test papers of the first-level constructor in 2018; Nearly 70% of the content of the third test question corresponds to the corresponding subject test paper of the first-level constructor in 2018, and another 15% can correspond to the corresponding subject test paper of the first-level constructor in 2017.
On February 27th, 2019, the criminal suspects Wang and Yang were transferred to Dinghai police for examination and prosecution according to law because they violated the provisions of the third paragraph of Article 284-1 of the Criminal Law of People’s Republic of China (PRC) and were suspected of illegally selling and providing test questions and answers. The suspect "Spongebob" and the source of the leaked answers to the test questions are being fully investigated by the police.