The reporter personally experienced the stock speculation group routine: group friends were removed from the group chat if they exposed the account income every day

  China-Singapore Jingwei Client, September 27th (Luo Kun) In real life, teachers are responsible for preaching and teaching karma to solve puzzles, but on the Internet, if someone calls themselves "teacher", you have to be careful!

Recently, Dan Bin, a well-known private equity fund manager with 13 million Weibo fans, issued a rumor-defying statement on Weibo that he had recently encountered criminals posing and embezzling Dan Bin’s personal WeChat picture in his name and registered on the WeChat official account and released it. Information such as the latest stock market views, or create a WeChat account (group) to recommend stocks, guide operations, etc. to induce investors to seek illegal benefits.

Li Daxiao, chief economist of Yingda Securities, reposted the above Weibo saying: Support Dan Bin!

Because the imitation of Li Daxiao is even more serious!

  According to the Sino-Singapore Jingwei client, such criminals usually call themselves "teachers", claiming that they can recommend stocks or other investment products that are not losing money to investors.

What is the truth?

Experience the stock trading group routine: get out of the group chat if you don’t get the bait

  Recently, a reporter from China-Singapore Jingwei was pulled into a WeChat group chat by a netizen who claimed to be "Mr. Lin".

In this group chat, "Mr. Lin" was honored as "Stock God" by other group friends.

  After joining the group chat, every day group friends posted their account earnings in the group, and expressed their gratitude to "Mr. Lin": Today is really cool, following the big guys is to eat meat. It's so amazing. I admire it.

Other group friends will echo, "Fortunately, I heard Teacher Lin's words before and changed the position for stock exchange. Otherwise, I still have it, how can I make money."

  "Mr. Lin​" will often recommend some stocks in the group and send some trading notes.

If the stock goes up, a group of friends will publish their own delivery orders in the group, and they will tout "Mr. Lin​": It's great, buy it and make money.

Screenshot source: WeChat group chat

  Ms. Zhang, an investor who was deceived by tens of thousands of yuan by stock trading routines, told reporters that in this stock trading group, except for investors, everyone else is trusting.

"There is a person who plays the role of a stock god, someone is responsible for flattering, someone is responsible for the revenue, and the role division is clear, alleviating investors' concerns. If you observe carefully, you will find that those who often express gratitude to teachers in the group are that Several identical avatars."

  Why did the stocks recommended by the "teacher" actually rise?

Ms. Zhang said that this is a question of probability.

"They have built countless groups of this kind, and each group recommends different tickets. If there are votes, they will rise. The ones that rise will stay. Those that fall can be dissolved in place. So when you see it, I thought the stocks recommended by the teacher went up."

  Ms. Zhang recalled that it was exactly this kind of routine that made her believe in the "teacher"'s recommendation strength step by step. In the end, she believed the "teacher" and put tens of thousands of yuan into the designated trading platform. The excess income declared by the "teacher" cannot even be recovered, and the "teacher" disappears without a trace.

  In addition to group chats, "Mr. Lin" also sent reporters several WeChat messages, asking reporters to take screenshots of the stocks he held. He could provide guidance for payment. He also said that as long as he followed him, the rate of return could reach at least 50%.

After learning that the reporter did not intend to pay or follow him to build a position, "Mr. Lin" soon blocked the reporter, and the group manager also removed the reporter from the group chat.

Frequent stock scams

  In recent years, stock market scams have occurred frequently everywhere, and the seemingly simple routine has caused many investors to suffer property losses.

China-Singapore Jingwei reporters searched the Chinese Judgment Documents website with keywords such as "stock speculation group" and found more than 90 relevant documents, most of which are criminal fraud cases.

Local police often issue reminders to remind investors of the risks of illegally recommending stocks.

  A criminal verdict published on September 10 this year shows that from September 2018 to March 2019, Ren Shuai and others used QQ and WeChat software to publish false advertisements to unspecified people. "Tickets" and other false information, looking for prospective stock trading customers.

  After gaining the trust of the customers, the above-mentioned defendants pushed the WeChat account of the "teacher" to the customers, and then the defendants Tu Xianchen, Cai Xiao, and Ren Shuai pretended to be "teachers" to instruct the customers to conduct stock trading operations. The above-mentioned salespersons immediately established the stock trading WeChat account. The group acts as a "water army", enticing customers to log in to the company's investment software platforms such as "Ann" and "Smart Strategy" for stock trading operations.

  It is worth noting that the funds invested by the customer did not enter the real securities trading market after entering the above-mentioned software platform. The above-mentioned defendant then used to induce customers to increase investment, increase leverage, and require customers to trade frequently in order to charge high handling fees. Such methods enable customers to lose money quickly in the above-mentioned investment software platform, and the customer’s loss of investment is divided into accounts by the above-mentioned software platform and "Sunflower Investment Co., Ltd." in proportion.

This approach is exactly the same as that described by Ms. Zhang earlier.

  The above-mentioned documents show that as of the time of the case, the defendant Ren Shuai and others have defrauded victims totaling more than 900,000 yuan by the above methods.

  In another case, Liao, an internal employee of a company who used stock speculation groups to induce investors to speculate in crude oil futures, revealed that his company makes profits like this: If the company is a market maker, it is a customer gambling, and the money the customer loses is the company. If the company does not do business, the company makes a profit with transaction fees and warehouse interest.

Simply put, this type of platform aims to make customers lose money. The more customers lose, the more they earn.

  Sino-Singapore Jingwei noticed that in the above case, as of the incident, the customer had deposited 17.825 million yuan, withdrew 7,761,200 yuan from the illegal e-commerce platform, paid 2.663 million yuan in handling fees, and paid 1.0131 million yuan in interest. Illegal revenue is nearly 10 million yuan.

In other words, in addition to handling fees and interest, the platform also swallowed most of the client's principal.

How to prevent the "stock group" scam

  It is worth noting that criminals are also updating their own language skills recently.

Some investors told the Sino-Singapore Jingwei client that they had been drawn into the recommended stock group by people posing as courier brothers.

This approach is also very simple: the scammer first replaces the avatar with the logo of the express company, and then adds friends by searching the mobile phone number. The remarks say that the express delivery but the phone cannot be connected. After a period of time, the user will be pulled into the recommendation stock. group.

Data map: China Securities Regulatory Commission.

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  Previously, the official website of the China Securities Regulatory Commission published an article titled "Beware of the Internet's'Illegal Recommendation of Stocks' Risk", which summarized in detail the routine of "illegal recommendation of stocks":

  One is that criminals use WeChat (public account, Moments, add friends), Weibo, forums, stock bars, QQ, etc. to use "big data diagnosis stocks", "recommend dark horses", "one-to-one guidance from experts", and "no income, no fees" "" and other exaggerated publicity terms, or advocating the "performance" of past stocks, soliciting members or customers.

  The second is that after investors join WeChat groups, QQ groups, and live webcast rooms, there are people who claim to be "teachers", "experts", "stock gods" and "old masters". In the name of imparting stock trading experience and training stock trading skills, they actually tell investors Illegal recommendation of stocks in order to obtain "reward fees", "training fees" or collect revenue sharing and other methods for profit. Some criminals first recommend stocks for free, and then take the opportunity to invite investors to join the "internal VIP group" or "VIP live room" , Claiming that there are more professional "teachers" that provide higher-end services and charge high service fees under various names.

  Third, some criminals actually engage in other illegal and criminal activities in the name of "recommending stocks", such as using WeChat groups, QQ groups, and webcasting rooms to make real-time orders to direct investors to buy and sell stocks at the same time, suspected of manipulating the market, or deceiving Investors participate in spot transactions (precious metals, artworks, postal currency cards, etc.) or overseas futures transactions to seek illegal benefits.

These illegal activities are diverse and highly deceptive. Criminals often have no fixed business premises, commit crimes on the fly, and some even hide abroad, seriously damaging the interests of investors and the normal order of the securities market.

  The China Securities Regulatory Commission reminded investors to choose legal securities and futures business institutions to obtain relevant investment consulting services, to maintain a high level of vigilance against all kinds of "recommending stocks" activities, and to stay away from "illegal stock recommendation" activities to avoid property losses.

The list of legal securities and futures business institutions can be found on the websites of China Securities Regulatory Commission, China Securities Industry Association, and China Futures Association.

  In fact, according to the "Securities Law" and other laws and regulations, to engage in securities and futures investment consulting business, you must obtain the business license of the China Securities Regulatory Commission in accordance with the law; without the permission of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, no unit or individual is allowed to engage in securities and futures investment consulting business business.

  According to the provisions of the Criminal Law, those who illegally operate securities, futures, or insurance businesses without the approval of the relevant competent authorities of the state, or illegally engage in fund payment and settlement businesses, disrupt market order, and the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention, and either A single penalty shall be more than one time but not more than five times the illegal income; if the circumstances are particularly serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years, and shall be fined not less than one and not more than five times the illegal income or confiscated property.

  Experts reminded that the current similar fake trading platforms usually do not require investors to open a securities account, nor do they need to conduct video authentication. The platform does not have the corresponding financial business qualifications and lacks a third-party depository mechanism for funds.

Investors should be highly vigilant on similar platforms and must report to the police in time after encountering similar scams by stock groups.

(Zhongxin Jingwei APP)

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