Traffic diversion: Fraudsters use various channels such as online social tools, text messages, and web pages to publish and promote information about investment and financial management such as stocks, foreign exchange, futures, and virtual currencies, claiming to have inside information and investment channels, thereby recruiting targets, finding victim groups, and establishing connections.
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A while ago, my friend was speculating in stocks. I went to his house for tea by chance and saw that he had made 20,000 yuan in arbitrage on a stock investment platform! So he asked me to invest in A-shares. I didn't know much about stocks, but I couldn't resist my friend's enthusiasm and invested hundreds of thousands of yuan.
I have been a stock investor for many years, but I always lost money. One day I saw an advertisement on Facebook for a top-secret stock plan. I followed the plan and did make some money at the beginning, but not much. Later, when I invested another 50,000 yuan, they said I would be given an internal disciple position and follow the IPO. I had to invest 100,000 yuan. I knew I was cheated.
Criminals usually attract the attention of victims through Facebook, Instagram, phone numbers, emails, etc. When victims are interested, they have already fallen into the gentle trap of fraudsters. Fraudsters usually use some tall, rich and handsome, fair, rich and beautiful characters to package themselves in a certain place, and use AI technology and victim videos. When they get the victim's attention! The fraud has just begun.
In July, someone contacted me via text message, saying he was contacting his daughter's music teacher. In the end, I was not the one. However, I saw that he was polite and well-mannered, so I added his WhatsApp contact information. He was very concerned about me. I was single and could not stand such greetings from a man. I thought I was in love. I was afraid that he was a liar, so I asked him to have a video call with my family. Later, he said that he was on a business trip to Singapore and asked me to help him manage his investment platform account.
Three months ago, a girl paid attention to me. I fell in love with her online and she told me to invest and make money. I didn’t expect that this was an elaborate scam, which made me lose my business that I had run for many years and broke my family. I was very depressed, but I accidentally browsed and clicked on the rights protection team and met God. Through your suggestions and careful guidance throughout the process, I was able to recover most of the defrauded funds. Thank you all for your guidance throughout the process. It is you who gave me a new life. Thank you!
Post part-time order brushing information on the Internet to find victims. Scammers post part-time order brushing information through social software such as WhatsApp, Facebook, and text messages to attract people who want to make money part-time to communicate with them.
I received a text message from an unknown number with a download link saying that I could get a commission for placing orders. I clicked on the link to download the two apps "Kami" and "Longyuetong" to accept the task. At the beginning of the order-placing task, each order had a commission. After a period of time, I needed to place 4 orders in a row to get the commission back. In order to withdraw cash, I contacted the other party to transfer more than 80,000 yuan, but I found out that I was cheated when I couldn't withdraw cash.
Mr. Zhao received a strange text message with provocative content at home. Feeling lonely at home, Mr. Zhao clicked on the download link in the text message and downloaded a dating app called "Wanlihui". As soon as he entered the page of the app, several "beauties" greeted him and sent him several pictures of beauties with prices for him to choose from.
Regardless of the method used to produce Virtual Investment, everyone must be prepared for the risk of being deceived or losing money before investing. It is necessary to strictly check the endorsement of the investment platform, the source of funds of the investment platform, and the cycle required by the investment platform. There are many cases where individual lawless elements use illegal platforms with cloned brands to defraud investors.
Fraudulent rebate scams are still the most varied and fastest-changing type of fraud, mainly recruiting part-time order brushing, online pornography-induced order brushing and other complex frauds. After gaining the trust of the victim, the fraudsters lure the victim into doing tasks by saying "the more you top up, the more rebates you get", and then use excuses such as "consecutive orders" and "card orders" to lure the victim into continuous transfers. This type of fraud ranks first in both the number of cases and the amount of losses caused, and the victims are mostly students, low-income groups and unemployed people.
Fraudsters mainly use online platforms, text messages and other channels to release and promote investment and financial information such as stocks, foreign exchange, futures, and virtual currencies, attracting target groups to join group chats, and gaining the trust of victims through various means such as exchanging investment experiences, being pulled into internal "investment" group chats, and listening to live classes from "investment experts" and "mentors". On this basis, fraudsters, under the guise of having inside information, knowing loopholes, and high returns, induce victims to make small investments on specific fake websites and apps to make profits, and then induce them to continuously increase their investments.
Scammers post fake advertisements such as low-price discounts, overseas purchasing, and free shopping on WeChat groups, Moments, online shopping platforms, or other websites, as well as advertisements that provide special services such as ghostwriting, private detectives, and tracking and positioning. After getting in touch with the victim, the scammers induce him to add friends through WeChat, QQ, or other social software to negotiate, and then ask for private transfers on the grounds that private transactions can save handling fees or are more convenient. After the victim pays, the scammers then trick him into continuing to transfer money on the grounds of paying customs duties, deposits, transaction taxes, handling fees, etc., and finally block him.
After obtaining the victim's shopping information through illegal means, the fraudsters impersonate e-commerce platforms or logistics courier customer service, falsely claiming that the victim's online shopping goods have quality problems, the courier is lost and needs to be compensated, or the goods have been removed from the shelves due to violations and need to be reactivated, etc. They induce the victim to provide information such as bank card and mobile phone verification codes, and evade formal platform supervision by sharing screens or downloading apps, thereby tricking the victim into transferring money.
Scammers post information such as "low-interest loans" and "quick payment" through websites, phone calls, text messages, social platforms and other channels to lure victims to consult.
The fraudsters pretend to be workers from public security, judicial and government agencies, etc., and contact the victims through phone calls, WhatsApp, etc., claiming that the victims are suspected of money laundering, illegal entry and exit, drugs hidden in express delivery, or passport problems.
