I originally wanted to rent out a house online to supplement my family, but I didn't expect that it would cost millions... For Ms. Ma from Leshan, Sichuan, she can only describe her experience as "wanting to cry without tears".
In just 6 days, the "tenant" who claimed to be working in the stock exchange and wanted to rent a house lured Ms. Ma to invest with high returns and defrauded her of 1.03 million yuan.
At present, Ms. Ma has reported to the Lvxin Police Station of the Shizhong Sub-bureau of the Leshan Public Security Bureau, and the police have launched an investigation into the matter.
Ms Ma said
I used to think that fraud was very far away from me, and I never thought that I would be deceived. This time, the liar used the excuse of renting a house as an excuse to let me relax my vigilance. I hope to remind everyone through my experience, not to be led into the pit by the liar , High return means high risk, please be careful when it comes to money issues, don't give scammers an opportunity.
The "tenant" set up a bureau to let her help buy financial products, and she also saw the account balance rise.
Ms. Ma, 48, works in a restaurant and earns about 3,000 a month.
Seeing that her child is going to high school and the expenses will increase, she decided to rent out a house of her own to supplement her family.
After posting the rental information online, on July 4, a man who claimed to be working in Beijing called her and said he wanted to rent a house.
"He introduced himself to work in a securities company and was sent by the company to work in Leshan for three years. He wanted to rent a house immediately and felt that my house was suitable." The other party asked Ms. Ma to prepare a rental contract, and he would arrive in Leshan in 10 days. Come and sign the rental agreement.
In the communication with Ms. Ma, the man claimed that his work position was special. When he went to work, the company would manage the mobile phone uniformly. It was inconvenient to make calls. He asked her to download an APP to discuss renting a house.
A few days later, the man told Ms. Ma that he was a data monitor who could see back-office data and know the insider information of financial transactions. It was easy to make money, but according to the company’s regulations, he could not buy financial products and asked her if she could help. buy it.
The chat record provided by Ms. Ma shows that the other party "lobbied" her like this: "I didn't do data investigation on Nasdaq. In the past two days, I found that there is a set of data that is a bit abnormal, and it will change in a certain period of time. It is very stable, and I was thinking, if we buy during this time period, can we guarantee a stable income.”
Thinking of not having to spend her own money, Ms. Ma agreed.
On July 8, the man sent a link to Ms. Ma, asking Ms. Ma to use the account password he provided to purchase financial products on a platform.
Under the guidance of the man, Ms. Ma purchased financial products for several days in a row and made money with each transaction.
Ms. Ma saw that his account balance was rising, and the software displayed an amount of 800,000 yuan on the fifth day of purchase.
At this time, the man said to her with great sympathy: "Sister, you are too tired to earn two or three thousand yuan a month by working part-time, so you can follow me. Earning money is very easy." Because I bought it for him for so many days. She didn't even ask her to pay, so Ms. Ma believed it.
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Under the man's lobbying, on July 12, Ms. Ma registered her account on the platform.
Then I took out 30,000 yuan to try it out, and I didn't expect to earn 1,500 yuan soon.
Ms. Ma was very happy and thanked.
The man took the opportunity to persuade Ms. Ma to invest 1 million yuan to buy the product at one time, so that she would earn more.
"He said that he was going to leave Beijing and go to Leshan. In the end, he made a fortune and hoped that I would fight side by side with him."
Ms. Ma did not have 1 million yuan, so she went to the bank for a loan, plus her savings and loans from relatives and friends, she collected enough 1 million yuan.
At the same time, the man told her not to tell her relatives and friends about making money by investing, because this is a secret that cannot be made public.
On July 13, Ms. Ma bought the product for the second time and invested a total of 1 million yuan.
The trading software showed that she made another 150,000 this time.
"I want to withdraw the next day, but the customer service does not allow it. Either the account is at risk, or it is said that I must apply for withdrawal 24 hours in advance." Ms. Ma suddenly realized that it was a scam, "Why didn't you say these rules when entering the market? The 1 million yuan was divided into 10 transactions and transferred to multiple accounts." The customer service also told Ms. Ma that if you want to withdraw cash from the platform, you must first pay a withdrawal fee of 230,000 yuan.
On the morning of July 14, Ms. Ma hurried to the Luxin Police Station of the Shizhong Sub-bureau of the Leshan Public Security Bureau to call the police.
At present, Ms. Ma has been unable to contact the man, and the platform website has been unable to open, and the police have launched an investigation.
Chengdu Commercial Daily-Red Star News reporter Gu Aigang