Investment fraud in the first 7 months soars to 725 cases involving 2.5 billion 23-year-old female piano tutors who have lost 9.05 million online dating

The "epidemic city" scams are rampant. There were 725 investment scams in the first 7 months of this year, far exceeding the total number of last year, and it also nearly doubled the number of cases in the same period last year. The loss amounted to 2.52 billion yuan, which was the same period last year. 19 times.

The most fraud cases use virtual currency as a guise, with 443 cases involving 330 million yuan, followed by the use of financial products to defraud 380 million yuan.

The police investigation found that the scammers first "steal the heart" and then "steal the gold", first used online dating offensives to gain the victim's heart, and then used fake web pages and apps to deceive investment tools to defraud them.

The victim ranged from 17 to 70 years old, with the highest loss. A 23-year-old female piano tutor was defrauded of 9.05 million yuan in three months, damaging the pensions of retired parents.

Virtual currency fraud involving 330 million yuan

According to the police, a total of 725 investment fraud cases were received in the first seven months of this year, far exceeding the 510 cases in the whole year of last year. Compared with the 198 cases in the same period last year, the number is nearly doubled.

The loss of investment fraud in the first seven months of this year was as high as 2.52 billion yuan, 19 times that of the 128 million yuan involved in the same period last year.

At most, 443 cases involving virtual currencies involved 330 million yuan; followed by 107 cases involving financial products involving 380 million yuan.

The victim's age ranged from 17 to 70 years old.

Online dating investment fraud involving 180 million yuan

The deception was unscrupulous. Among them, 345 cases used online dating tactics to "steal the heart and steal money," involving a loss of 180 million yuan.

The Chief Inspector of the Commercial Crime Investigation Bureau Yan Kaixin said that the scammers used social media such as fb, IG, Xiaohongshu, LinkedIn and other social media to "bury themselves" with the avatars of handsome men and beautiful women. Website or mobile application as an investment tool.

374 cases of using fake web pages or mobile apps

The Chief Inspector of the Cyber ​​Security and Technology Crime Investigation Bureau, Ip Cheuk Yuk, stated that there were 374 cases of fraud using fake web pages or mobile apps, which could only be downloaded through links or QR codes, packaged into investment tools, and provided information such as fake stock prices. "Withdraw password", "Stamp Duty", and arrange customer service to instruct the victim to deposit into a designated personal bank account. After the initial small investment, the fake App account will show that it is making money, but after being coaxed to refill, it will lose money and continue to request top-up. The method is similar to the London Gold scam.

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23-year-old woman was tricked into buying gold and lost 9.05 million yuan

The highest loss case, a 23-year-old female piano teacher contacted a netizen through IG in October last year. After being contacted by WhatsApp, she became an online lover. After knowing one week, she was introduced to invest in precious metals through the mobile app provided by the other party. Trading "guarantee to make money".

As of the end of last year, women had transferred funds to 20 different personal bank accounts in 27 times as instructed, involving a total of 9.05 million yuan.

Until the beginning of January this year, the woman wanted to withdraw money and was asked by customer service to recharge 650,000 US dollars before she realized she was cheated.

The victim reported that his monthly salary was only a few thousand yuan, and the "investment capital" came from the retirement savings of his parents living with him.

The youngest case is a 17-year-old female student who met a scammer on the anonymous dating program. She was also deceived into using a fake app for foreign exchange investment. It was shown that she made $9,000 after injecting 3,600 yuan in capital, but she was required to pay 1 if she wanted to withdraw money. Female students suffered a total loss of 13,600 Hong Kong dollars in stamp duty.

In addition, a 70-year-old housewife was defrauded of 133,000 yuan by a fake believer who claimed to be from Sichuan in a religious dating program.

From left: Director of the Securities Regulatory Commission (Regulations Enforcement Department) Tang Hanhui, Chief Inspector of Cyber ​​Security and Technology Crime Investigation Division Ye Zhuoyu, Chief Inspector of Commercial Crime Investigation Division Yan Kaixin.

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The Director of the Securities Regulatory Commission (Regulation Enforcement Department) Tang Hanhui shared that he noticed two types of online investment scams, including "WeChat female" chanting bulk goods, and self-proclaimed pension fund managers "want to do good deeds", arranged in social groups The accomplices agreed to induce netizens to remit and invest.

The Securities Regulatory Commission sang high bulk cargo fraud last year. From January last year to August this year, a total of 1.1 billion yuan of assets were frozen.

Ye Zhuoyu said that because this type of fraud platform uses overseas servers, the relevant links can be removed at any time, and the domain name is changeable, making it difficult to pre-warning or investigating and tracking.

He reminded the public not to download apps and access websites from unofficial channels. You can use the web search engine Maple to check the links, whether they have been established in the near future, etc.

In addition, the recent popularity of NFT (non-homogeneous tokens) has caused the police to receive two related thefts.

After a 30-year-old company director suspected that he browsed the fake NFT lottery website, the original collection of nine digital paintings worth 980,000 yuan was stolen.

After another 40-year-old company director suspected that he had used free public wifi to log in to his virtual platform account, his 12 digital paintings worth only 2.8 million yuan and 640,000 yuan of encrypted currency were transferred by hackers.

The police reminded that when investing in virtual assets, you must pay attention to information security, and be especially careful about phishing attacks.

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