Gullible "investment master" in the live broadcast room, Guangzhou citizens were defrauded of nearly 5 million yuan in "coin speculation"
Recently, in special operations such as "hurricane" and "net net", the Guangzhou police destroyed a gang that used digital currency to help telecommunications fraud "money laundering", arrested gang member Chen Mou (male, 35 years old) and other 9 people, seized cash, Bank cards, mobile phones and other crime-related items were initially found to have involved nearly 5 million yuan.
"Investment master" strongly recommends "coin speculation" with low risk and high return
On the morning of January 22 this year, Mr. Huang, a citizen of Guangzhou, reported to the police that he had been defrauded by false investment and financial management methods on the Internet.
The police learned that in mid-December 2020, Mr. Huang received a call from a securities manager who claimed to be a certain securities manager. On the recommendation of the other party, he joined a WeChat group that invests in digital currency, and was informed by the group’s “project of investing in digital currency”. "Attracted.
A few days later, Mr. Huang was introduced by a group of friends and met Mr. Jiang, the “investor master” in the live broadcast room of a certain platform.
Teacher Jiang claims to have extensive investment experience and is a core member of a foreign digital currency investment company.
The company is currently launching a digital currency with low investment risk and an annual return of up to 10 times.
Then, "fans" successively posted screenshots of recent profits made by investing in digital currencies, and constantly confirmed the authenticity of investing in digital currencies, which convinced Mr. Huang.
Mr. Huang then followed the instructions of Mr. Jiang and scanned the code on his mobile phone to download and install a certain trading platform. After registering for membership, he began to recharge and purchase digital currency.
From January 12 to 21 this year, Mr. Huang transferred 22 funds via mobile phone to multiple bank accounts designated by the other party, with a total of nearly 5 million yuan.
In the early morning of January 22, Mr. Huang discovered that the platform had been closed, all relevant WeChat exchange groups had been disbanded, and his WeChat and mobile phone numbers had also been blocked by the other party.
At this point, Mr. Huang realized that he was cheated.
The "fake platform" tricks the victim into investing in the "real platform" and transfers funds for profit
The police interrogated Chen and others, combined with investigation and evidence collection, and initially restored the entire modus operandi and process.
First, the scammers used the huge profits from investing in digital currency as bait to induce the victim to invest in the illegally built "fake platform" and transfer the money to the bank account of the "money laundering" gang.
After the "money laundering" gang obtains the funds transferred from the victim, they will purchase the same amount of "virtual currency" on the "real platform" and transfer the "virtual currency" to the account preset by the fraudsters, withdrawing 0.25% of the total funds Up to 0.6% is used as a commission for profit, so as to achieve the purpose of providing funds transfer for telecommunication fraud, hiding the flow of illegal funds, and evading attacks by public security agencies.
After each transaction is completed, Chen, the main member of the gang, will pay 0.25% to 0.6% of the total transfer funds to the gang members in cash as a commission.
In addition, Chen can also charge an additional 0.1% of the total funds transferred by the entire gang as a handling fee.
At present, the police have arrested 9 criminal suspects including Chen, who were suspected of assisting in information network criminal activities, in accordance with the law.
The case is under further investigation.
Police remind
Digital currency transactions are not protected by our laws.
Most digital currency trading platforms use overseas servers, and the real situation of the transaction control agency is unknown, and it is extremely easy for criminals to use the name of investing in digital currency to commit fraud.
Investors should conduct investment transactions through formal and legal platforms, do not install online investment and financial management apps of unknown origin, do not click on unfamiliar links, and beware of fraud under the guise of "digital currency investment with low risk and high return".
If you find that you have been cheated, you must report to the public security organ in time.
(Headquarters reporter Jun Lin Huang Dongxu)