Let’s take a look at a group of investment projects like this: central digital currency, digital economic pension... How about it? Doesn’t it look pretty high-end?

If someone tells you again, "The funds for this project mainly come from the state and are state secrets. Don't tell outsiders. As long as you invest, you will get hundreds or thousands of times in return in the future."

Would you believe this kind of national asset unfreezing scam?

In fact, this is an old trick that has been around since the early 1980s. Relevant authorities and media have repeatedly investigated and exposed it.

But why does the debris appear again and again?

What kind of vestments and rhetoric have been used in these so-called investment projects?

What are the new routines?

　　Master Lin from Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province received information from a friend a few years ago that there was a very good investment project with a very high rate of return.

Out of curiosity, Master Lin joined an investment group called "Prosperous China".

What the group is promoting is a digital currency project, which is very mysterious. Each ID number can only be purchased once. You can start with a minimum of 100 yuan, and the maximum investment is only 1,000 yuan. You can get a 50-fold return in half a year. .

Master Lin was moved and invested a total of 5,000 yuan using his and his family’s ID cards.

　　Master Lin: "(The recommender claimed) Chairman Zhang Jian invested in digital currency for the country. The investment scale was quite large and the returns were fast and high, so I invested several thousand yuan."

　　Chairman Zhang Jian mentioned here once engaged in illegal pyramid schemes, and the Five Elements Coin pyramid schemes he controlled involved a total amount of more than one billion.

Not long after Master Lin invested, Zhang Jian was sentenced to 12 years in prison for pyramid schemes.

However, Master Lin's recommender, Jiang Moulian, told Master Lin that the Prosperous China was a state secret project, and Zhang Jian's arrest and sentencing was actually a big game played by the state.

　　The country played a big game and pretended to arrest Chairman Zhang Jian - this kind of script is really full of imagination.

And Master Lin actually believed it.

After entering the project group, Jiang took the initiative to add Master Lin as a friend to answer his questions and became Master Lin's upline.

　　High returns and state protection made Master Lin full of expectations for this project.

But after waiting for more than half a year, the 5,000 yuan invested has not seen any return.

When Master Lin went to inquire, Jiang Moulian said that this project was carried out in secret and would not be repaid until it was listed on the market. He also asked Master Lin to continue to contribute to the country and continue to invest.

So Master Lin successively invested more than 20,000 yuan.

But three or four years later, not only was there no return, but not a penny of the capital was returned. In the end, Master Lin chose to report the crime.

　　After police investigation, it was found that the organizers of this fraud case were Xing Mouzhong and three other people, all of whom were once the backbone of Zhang Jian's pyramid scheme organization.

They found that talk of a national secret investment project could easily deceive the trust of the elderly and was a way to make quick money, so the three of them started anew and fabricated the national digital currency project to commit fraud.

I wasn't very sure at first, but I didn't expect that many people would be deceived.

　　According to the police, the "Prosperous China" project is a national asset unfreezing fraud.

This fraud technique began in the 1980s. Scammers usually use the banner of the country and the nation to commit fraud by forging official documents, certificates, and seals of state agencies, fabricating relevant national policies, and other means to create fictitious projects and commit fraud.

　　In recent years, this type of national asset unfreezing fraud has taken on many new tricks and presented new characteristics.

Scammers also know how to keep up with social hot topics, make up project names involving charity, poverty alleviation, elderly care, technological innovation and other fields, and use new online social tools to attract people.

However, changing the soup without changing the medicine has only one purpose, which is to defraud money.

　　Chen Shiqu, deputy director of the Criminal Investigation Bureau and first-level inspector of the Ministry of Public Security: "In the context of Internet +, national asset unfreezing fraud continues to escalate, incorporating some criminal methods of telecommunications network fraud. First, the money behind the scenes hides abroad and remotely controls the domestic Agents promote and implement fraud projects. The gangs and dens behind the recent emerging fraud projects such as Cloud Digital Trade, Zhitian Finance, Intelligent Manufacturing, Made in China, etc., and new national asset unfreezing projects are all hidden abroad; second, through WeChat groups, QQ groups, etc. The development of online groups or channels such as Tencent meetings and DingTalk meetings has gone offline. The promotion of project training and brainwashing is like a virus, forming a fission-like spread in a short period of time. The third is the development of fake project APPs, using artificial intelligence face-changing and audio and video editing and other technologies. , forging pictures of photos taken with national leaders or audio and video of speeches, to package and build momentum for fraudulent projects."

　　In May 2023, the Zhangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau closed down the fraud case of the "Prosperous China" project and arrested 17 key members. The total amount involved in the case exceeded 200 million, and the victims involved many places across the country, with a total of more than 10,000 people.

The investigation shows that this fraud gang is well-organized and has five levels of agents. They recruit people online through the introduction of acquaintances and receive corresponding rewards.

Agents at all levels can receive a total of 20% of the commission, and can also receive corresponding rewards based on performance, but most of the funds have been obtained by the three behind-the-scenes organizers.

　　This new type of national asset fraud also has some common characteristics, such as a large number of participants. The number of participants in a single project ranges from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands.

The amount involved in the case was large, and although each investment was small, the financial backers behind the scenes made huge profits.

In addition, the project time is short. From the beginning of promotion to the final closure, it usually only takes 2 to 3 months. After the original project ends, the fraud gang will start a new project.

　　In Jilin Province, another national asset fraud involved a single fraud amount of less than 30 yuan, but as many as 50,000 people were defrauded within a few months.

In September 2023, the Public Security Bureau of Panshi City, Jilin Province received clues that local resident Dong Mouyu and his family members were suspected of participating in national asset unfreezing fraud.

　　Kang Liang, instructor of the Criminal Police Brigade of Panshi City Public Security Bureau in Jilin Province: "People who purchased the equity certificate learned that this is a project that can get a return of 1.1 million yuan with an investment of 29.9 yuan."

　　This equity document sounds really bluffing. It declares that this is one of the national "14th Five-Year Plan" projects, called the digital economy pension enterprise strategy.

Investors only need to spend 29.9 yuan to buy this equity document, and they can get a high return of 1.1 million within one year.

Investing 29.9 yuan can turn it into 1.1 million within one year, a full increase of 36,000 times. This pie in the sky is really too big.

But even though it is absurd, there are still many people who are willing to believe it.

　　Panshi police investigation found that the equity documents sold by Dong Mouyu’s online store were actually shipped from Yantai City, Shandong Province, and the police immediately rushed to Yantai.

Dong Mouyu, Wu Moulong and another gang participant Liu Mouxiang also discovered that such a scam could make money quickly, so they jointly fabricated this "14th Five-Year Plan Digital Economy Pension" project to commit fraud.

However, why do people always believe in such myths about making money and spend money to buy them?

Behind this, fraudsters also put a lot of thought into it.

　　Criminal suspect Dong Mouyu: "We need to have a basis to make more people believe that this thing is true and attract more people to buy contracts, so we picked up some red-headed documents on the Internet, spliced ​​them together and made some virtual ones. fact."

　　This so-called red-headed document from the General Office of the State Council is a fake document synthesized by this fraud gang.

Even the name of the file was an obviously wrong statement, but it still deceived many people.

The fraudsters also created a fictitious department such as the Central Decision-making Department of the Digital Economy in the document. Liu Mouxiang gave herself the title of Minister of the Central Decision-making Department of the Digital Economy of the State Council, and also forged a photo of herself with national leaders. Promote it through WeChat groups, QQ groups, video pages, etc.

　　In order to make investors more immersed in this false context, the fraud organizers require everyone to comply with various strict regulations.

　　Feng Zhihe, captain of the Third Squadron of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the Panshi City Public Security Bureau in Jilin: "The reality is that they carefully designed their words to be more misleading and appear more real. They played the country's emotional card and asked participants not to buy foreign products. , you can only buy domestic products, which will confuse a large number of elderly people."

　　Ms. Chen, 52, was confused by this statement and bought an equity book for 29.9 yuan on the recommendation of a friend.

However, after the expiration of the contract period, the promised 1.1 million yuan was not seen. Ms. Chen asked several times and was told to wait until the police intervened. Ms. Chen, like many defrauded people, did not know It was a scam, but she didn't call the police.

The investment amount of 29.9 yuan was set by the fraudsters after careful consideration.

　　Lu Shaobin, a police officer from the Criminal Police Brigade of Panshi City Public Security Bureau in Jilin: "Because many victims think that the amount of 29.9 is relatively small, they will not choose to call the police even if they are defrauded. In addition, the criminal suspects believe that the individual amount of their fraud is only 29.9, and the public security organs may not pursue this case in depth. thing."

　　In order to prevent the victims from reporting the crime, the fraudsters also made up the rhetoric of "strictly keeping secrets for the country". However, many victims actually believed it and were unwilling to admit that they had participated in the investment even when the police came to them. .

　　According to the police, in such fraud cases, middle-aged and elderly people, especially those over 60 years old, are mainly deceived.

Their information is relatively closed and they crave social activities, so they are more likely to be tricked and deceived.

　　Since 2023, the Ministry of Public Security has deployed public security agencies across the country to strike hard and successfully eliminated a number of national asset unfreezing fraud gangs. A total of more than 260 cases were uncovered, more than 180 criminal gangs were eliminated, and the amount involved was 1.5 billion yuan. Significant achievements were made. Effectiveness.

At the same time, special operations throughout the year 2024 have been deployed to resolutely crack down on national asset fraud crimes.

The public security organs also reminded the public, especially middle-aged and elderly people, to increase their awareness of fraud prevention.

　　National projects, state secrets, and red-headed documents of the State Council, criminals have no bottom line and use all possible means to falsify, but it is ever-changing. No matter how these people change their vests, make up words, and create concepts, one thing will not change. , just asking you to pay.

Another feature of the cases in the show is that the amount of money invested at one time is relatively small, which makes many people lose their vigilance and think that even if they are cheated, they will not be able to get a lot of money.

But it is precisely this mentality that allows criminals to succeed every time.

Regarding this type of crime, on the one hand, relevant departments, platforms, and enterprises must increase their efforts to combat and prevent crimes. On the other hand, the public themselves must also improve their identification capabilities and not take chances.

As the old saying goes, pie will not fall in the sky, but there may be traps on the ground.