Jiang Hao and Zhou Xinyan met with the captain of the anti-fraud center. After seeing the information Jiang Hao had provided, he immediately ordered the investigation team to get to work. As for what came next, they could only wait for the results.
After returning to the Zhou residence, the family had dinner together that evening. His sister-in-law had calmed down considerably. Zhou Xinyan stayed with her for the night, then she and Jiang Hao returned to Binhai the next day.
In the car, thinking of her sister-in-law's situation, Zhou Xinyan was still furious. "The government should crack down hard and drag all those scammers out to face justice."
"It's not that simple," Jiang Hao said. "I just looked into it. Those telecom scammers are tightly organized and divided into teams. Some make fraudulent calls, some handle online technology, some conduct financial operations, and some withdraw money offline. Besides, most of the money they swindle ends up overseas, so tracking it down is genuinely difficult."
"They're professionals. They spend all day figuring out how to deceive people. What ordinary person spends every day thinking about how to avoid being scammed? Most people don't have that kind of anti-fraud awareness. There's another serious problem too. This is an age of open information, and most people's personal information is transparent. Scammers can use other illegal channels to gather even more information. They can open their mouths and recite your basic details, then make up a lie to lure you in. Sometimes, it really is impossible to guard against."
Sometimes, it was simply that helpless.
Did the government not investigate? No, the government was cracking down heavily on telecom fraud. Yet the number of cases that could actually be solved was still very small.
Fortunately, a few days later, Zhou Xinyan received a