By putting money into her account, she earned over a million yuan in five days. "Because she believed this sentence, she put all her years of savings into it and also owed a large debt. Recently, Xiaolan, an investor in Lijiang, Yunnan Province, downloaded a fake securities brokerage app for investment and was ultimately scammed for over 500000 yuan.
According to his guidance, the money in the account has only increased without falling, and has been increasing by four times all the way! "Xiaolan remembers very well. She started operating from 16:30 on January 3rd, and by 21:30 on January 7th, her account had achieved four times the profit. In just five days, the account amount exceeded 1.5 million yuan.
For many victims like Xiaolan, they thought their funds had been transferred into a trading platform, but in reality, the platform did not connect to the real securities market, and the funds did not enter a legitimate third-party depository bank account. Instead, they directly transferred them into the fraudster's private account.
The illegal elements mainly engage in gang crimes and meticulously set up a series of scams: from accurately obtaining investor information, to "Li Gui" impersonating securities firm employees and analysts to attract investors into the scam, and then to building fake investment platforms to harvest investors' hard-earned money.
Inducing the download of fake brokerage apps
He said he works at a securities firm and posted all his job numbers in the group. I checked with the official website of the China Securities Association and it was indeed that number. "The illegal elements who claimed to be employees of the securities firm used public information to gain Xiaolan's trust.
Under his guidance, Xiaolan scanned the QR code and downloaded a trading software. They said this is a software developed in cooperation with international platforms, and the registration process is very simple. Li Lan showed the interface of the app to the reporter, and the fake app imitated a legitimate securities firm on its icon.
Attracting the attention of retail investors through the identity of legitimate securities firm employees, and then introducing investors to the shanzhai APP platform, is only the first step. Subsequently, they released high-yield "bait" to guide investors to inject funds into the shanzhai app: 10000 to 50000 principal corresponds to twice the yield; 60000 to 200000 principal corresponds to three times the income; The principal amount of 210000 to 500000 corresponds to 4 times the return, and the higher the principal amount, the higher the return.
At first, Xiaolan was also skeptical about such high profits, but the criminals carefully prepared their words to persuade her: "There is only one quota in a region, and in order to prevent market regulation, they can only operate three times." Xiaolan, who was eager to make money due to losses in stock trading, was moved. Under the guidance of the other party, she invested 300000 yuan in spot trading and bought coking coal and coke. Little did they know that all real gold and silver had entered the false trading platform.
The 'Unable to Produce Gold' Chain Set
If you haven't received a penny, you won't be allowed to withdraw it for various reasons. "When Xiaolan was preparing to withdraw, the other party proposed to pay 15% income tax, with taxes reaching 190000 yuan. She chatted privately with group friends in the group, but they all said she had to pay her own taxes to get paid. Some people in the group kept showing screenshots of her successful withdrawal, making her continue to relax her vigilance.
I ran out of money and raised money everywhere. I raised 150000 yuan and asked my assistant to help me advance 30000 yuan before paying the tax. When Xiaolan applied for withdrawal again, the other party claimed that her bank card input was incorrect and could not be withdrawn, which caused a security system issue on the platform and required an additional 50000 yuan injection.
Under this chain, in just one week, she remitted nearly 200000 yuan back and forth. It wasn't until the account funds couldn't be raised, customer service disappeared, and the "big V" on Weibo lost contact that Xiaolan suddenly realized that she had encountered a scammer and not only didn't make any money, but also ran into high debts for it.
Ai Hui Cha Reminder
Ai Huijun reminds investors not to scan or download QR codes or links provided by strangers (including so-called customer service). If you have a download request, you can search and verify it in the "App Store" on your phone. If you find that this app does not exist, you need to be vigilant. Investors should download apps from legitimate application markets and remain vigilant about businesses that lack formal financial institution processes. If necessary, account opening and investment should be temporarily postponed. Instead, they should first call the corresponding official phone number to verify the channels for downloading the app and the products they expect to invest in.
