Jilin Telecom responds to rumors of selling 8000 million mobile phone numbers as false information and will protect the company's rights and interests in accordance with the law.

CTOnews.com, August 23, due to the recent attention to telecom fraud-related events, some self-media said that domestic operator mole provided more than 80 million mobile phone numbers for fraud groups.

In response, @ Jilin Telecom said in a post today that "Jilin Telecom provided more than 80 million mobile phone numbers to the Northern Burma Fraud Group" as false information. Some self-media accounts take advantage of the recent public attention to fraud in northern Myanmar to create the above false information and spread malicious hype, seriously damaging the image of our company. Our company will protect the company's rights and interests in accordance with the law.

CTOnews.com inquiry found that CCTV Today said in its program last week that public security organs have so far arrested 23 mole operators, each making profits ranging from hundreds of thousands of yuan to millions of yuan, or even nearly 10 million yuan, while the data recovered from computers seized by the police include more than 80 million pieces of mobile phone number data.

In its program, CCTV mentioned two related personnel. one is Ma Xiaobo (a pseudonym), a middle manager of a provincial company of an operator in Jiangsu Province. in conjunction with others to take advantage of the management loopholes within the operators to build an illegal channel for criminal gangs that register WeChat accounts in bulk.

In addition, CCTV also mentioned that the suspects arrested by the police included a professor from a university in Jilin, and many of his students worked in Jilin's operators.

But in fact, CCTV never mentioned that Jilin Telecom leaked more than 80 million mobile phone numbers of similar content, the relevant public opinion belongs to the media grandstanding, deliberately guided.

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