Supreme People's Procuratorate Discloses Cross-Border Resume Trafficking Case: Over 870,000 Job-Seeking Records Leaked Overseas, wit

China's Supreme People's Procuratorate on November 2 disclosed a typical case involving 21 individuals led by Lin Moufeng who illegally obtained and sold over 870,000 job seeker resumes to overseas buyers, with the entire 7.46 million yuan (~$1.05 million) in proceeds settled in cryptocurrency. The ring used fake recruiter accounts on job platforms, then bribed corporate HR staff to mass-export resumes containing names, contact details, and education histories that flowed to overseas telecom fraud networks. To evade foreign exchange controls and anti-money-laundering monitoring, overseas buyers paid in crypto to Lin-controlled addresses, with a dedicated OTC intermediary surnamed Ning splitting funds across layered wallets before converting to RMB. Investigators traced on-chain timestamps and fiat endpoints to prosecute the full chain from data theft to offshore resale to OTC cash-out. The case signals zero tolerance for crypto-based laundering, with OTC intermediaries facing criminal liability for concealing criminal proceeds, and puts pressure on enterprises to tighten HR data controls and on exchanges and OTC desks to strengthen AML monitoring.