Purchasing phone cards from 11 year old children and hiring 15-year-old teenagers to make fraudulent phone calls... Among the seven typical cases of telecommunications network fraud and related crimes recently announced by the Supreme People's Court, the fraud cases of Xiao Moucheng and two others have attracted particular attention and highlighted the urgency of protecting minors. In recent years, telecommunications fraud crimes have continued to be high, and minors are gradually becoming the target of fraudsters' covetousness. In this typical case, criminals used means such as enticement and persuasion to push minors to the forefront of electronic fraud: they not only purchased minors' phone cards to evade real name supervision, but also used minors to make phone calls to evade voice recognition. This criminal pattern of treating minors as "tools" not only increases the concealment of electronic fraud crimes, increases the difficulty of case investigation, but also puts minors in a dual dilemma of being both victims and perpetrators. It is the sacred duty of the law to protect minors who are inexperienced in the world and have weak discernment abilities from the harm of electronic fraud. In this case, although the court found Xiao Moucheng and others as accomplices in the entire fraud case, they were still punished severely according to law for their use of minors to commit crimes, reflecting the special protection of minors by the judicial authorities. This also serves as a warning to criminals: do not attempt to use minors as "criminal shields", otherwise they will eventually be severely punished by the law. Of course, protecting minors has never been a one-man show for any one department. This case also reflects the lack of family education and insufficient legal education in schools. In the face of the severe reality that the "black hands" of electronic fraud continue to reach minors, it is not only necessary for the judicial organs to make efforts at the "end", but also for the whole society to cooperate in "front-end governance": parents should be vigilant about their children's abnormal consumption and social dynamics; Schools need to incorporate anti fraud education into the rule of law classroom and expose the trap of "making quick money easily"; Telecom operators should also strengthen technical control over underage card applications and abnormal calls. Only by weaving the rigidity of the rule of law, the warmth of education, and the empowerment of technology into a three-dimensional protective net can we effectively block the "black hands" of electronic fraud targeting minors and fight this battle to protect the "future". (New Society)