Three fugitives on the list of China's 10 most-wanted telecom and internet fraud suspects turned themselves in on Tuesday, media reports.

File photos of Huang Yexiong (L) and Deng Zhenchuan (R). [Photo: ifeng.com]

This happened within ten hours of China's Ministry of Public Security releasing a Class A warrant. The warrant encourages the public to provide known details of the fraud suspects and report potential telecom fraud cases.

One of the detained criminals, Huang Yexiong, scammed over 2.9 million yuan (435,000 USD) off people by pretending to be a corporate director on the internet.

He turned himself in after noticing he was listed on the Class A warrant.

Deng Zhenchuan is another criminal who gave himself up to the police. He has been charged with money laundering and transfer in telecom fraud rings. The fraud reaches up to 110 million yuan.

He is also the major suspect of a reported telecom fraud in Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province, estimated to have stolen around 5 million yuan in economic losses.

The third suspect, Deng Chunping is suspected of organizing others in telecom fraud schemes that involved 14 million yuan.

Last week Chinese authorities issued a multi-department circular on fighting telecom and internet fraud. A major goal was to tighten preventive measures and making it obligatory for telephone accounts to be registered with verified identification.

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