On February 26th, the Supreme People's Court held a press conference to introduce that for many years, fraud crimes have consistently ranked among the top five newly accepted criminal cases by the people's courts. From 2021 to 2025, the number of newly accepted fraud criminal cases in the first instance of the people's courts has fluctuated from a low of 52000 in 2022 to 94000 in 2024, and will also reach 93000 in 2025. The Supreme People's Court stated that while the number continues to grow and maintain a high level of operation, the diversification and intelligence of fraudulent criminal methods have become increasingly evident in recent years. On the one hand, fraudulent investment and financial management, false sales, and impersonating customer service are still prevalent. On the other hand, by adopting emerging technologies and transforming fraud methods and "language", new fraud methods emerge one after another and show an intelligent trend. Cutting edge technologies such as AI face swapping and deep forgery are applied in fraud scenarios. The trend of intelligence is also reflected in related upstream and downstream crimes. Criminals use black industry intelligent tools such as "drainage scripts" and "promotion tools" to spread fraudulent information through false advertising, interest temptations, emotional deception, etc., screening potential victims at low cost and high efficiency, resulting in stronger concealment and higher success rates of fraudulent crimes. On that day, the Supreme People's Court issued five typical cases of punishing property infringement crimes such as telecommunications and network fraud in accordance with the law. Among them, in the fraud case involving 14 defendants including Yu Moubo, Yu Moubo had committed the crime of telecommunications network fraud. In order to evade punishment, he fled overseas and returned to his old business without repentance. He also established a telecommunications network fraud den and gathered multiple people to continue committing fraud crimes. He was the first and foremost member of the criminal group and also a key target of the crackdown. Although he voluntarily returned more than 70 million yuan worth of property after his arrival, he caused nearly 300 million yuan in losses and posed a huge social threat. He was sentenced to life imprisonment according to the law. In the fraud case of the defendant Wu Moutao, the fraudster targeted an elderly person living alone and carried out AI voice swapping fraud by impersonating his grandson. Due to the inconvenience of elderly people transferring money, Wu Moutao cooperated with the fraudster to collect the stolen money from their doorstep. The people's court sentenced him to two years and one month in prison and imposed a fine for the crime of fraud, cutting off the "last mile" of realizing the stolen money through electronic fraud from the judicial level, and once again sending a strong signal that "fraud must be punished and crimes must be held accountable". The Supreme People's Court stated that in the next step, the people's courts will focus on cracking down on key and difficult points based on the actual trial work, and carry out more vigorous and practical measures to thoroughly combat and govern telecommunications network fraud crimes. (New Society)