China’s top prosecutors detail cross-border resume trafficking case settled entirely in crypto
China’s Supreme People’s Procuratorate on Nov. 2 disclosed a major personal information case involving fake recruitment, insider theft at companies, and crypto-based settlement. According to the official case release, Lin Moufeng and 20 others illegally obtained and sold more than 870,000 job seekers’ resumes to overseas buyers. The case involved more than 7.46 million yuan, with all payments completed through virtual currency and later converted into renminbi through underground OTC channels. Prosecutors said the group first tried to collect resumes by registering fake employers on online recruitment platforms, but repeated account bans pushed it to a different method. The network then split into front-end and back-end teams, with some members posing as job seekers to approach legitimate corporate HR staff and bribe them on a per-record basis. Those insiders used authorized company accounts to pull applicant data from internal systems, while another team standardized and processed the stolen information for resale. Authorities said they traced both on-chain transfers and off-chain cash-out activity, identifying transaction timestamps and the final fiat destinations of the funds. The case was presented as a full-chain crackdown covering data theft, overseas resale, and crypto-based laundering.
