As the saying goes, "If you don't listen to the old people, you will suffer in front of you", which means that the old people are well-informed and have rich experience and insights for many things. However, in recent years, the elderly have become the main target of many scams, the main reason is that with the rapid development of modern society, the knowledge and information structure of the elderly can not keep up with the speed of development, and the trick of daily renovation is impossible to protect against.

Recently, in the Dragon TV broadcast "Big city no small things city true hero" column, it said such a case: an illegal fund-raising company under the banner of foreign exchange hid in the community, resulting in 82 elderly people cheated more than 13 million yuan.

What happened

In mid-December 2020, when the police of Tianping Road of Shanghai Xuhui Branch were patrolling, the small talk of two elderly people caught their attention, and they only knew after asking that they wanted to find an investment and financing company in the community. Think that things are unusual police accompanied the old man to the investment financial company, and then the company staff saw the police has been wrong and for the inquiry are secretive, but also lied to the police that these old people are just friends.

Abnormal sense of the police immediately notified the Xuhui branch of the criminal investigation detachment, after the investigation, the original hidden in the residential area of the company is a trading company, mainly to foreign exchange and other businesses to attract customer investment. And on the scene to search a number of investment contracts, these customers are actually the elderly.

Originally, although this company is nominally an investment consulting, business information consulting business scope, but secretly carried out illegal foreign exchange fund-raising activities, promising high interest returns to attract customers, and the target customers are almost 60 years old.

When the police summoned Ding, the boss behind the company, they found that the mobile phone on the other side had been turned off, and they went to the place where they lived. It can be seen that they may have absconded. Before long, after a thorough search by the police, Ding was soon arrested.

After trial, Ding admitted to the use of high interest as bait, promise to guarantee the form of interest, to lure the older elderly people, and eventually a total of 82 elderly people were deceived, to Ding's company more than 13 million yuan, of which the largest amount of one, invested 2.89 million, Ding only paid more than 70,000, the remaining more than 2.8 million are missing.

Finally, Ding was arrested by the Xuhui District People's Procuratorate on June 21, 2021 on suspicion of illegally absorbing public deposits.

Illegal foreign exchange financing

Illegal fund-raising, as the name suggests, is the act of raising funds through illegal means, which is officially explained through an encyclopedia: Illegal fund-raising is a kind of criminal activities, refers to the units or individuals without the approval of the relevant departments in accordance with legal procedures, to raise funds from the public in the form of stocks, bonds, lotteries, investment fund securities or other debt vouchers, and promise to repay the principal, interest or return to the investors in currency, in kind or in other ways within a certain period of time.

Illegal foreign exchange financing is naturally under the banner of "foreign exchange investment" illegal fund-raising activities, with the recent foreign exchange investment boom hit, more and more scam began to use foreign exchange gimmicks to attract investors, this is a relatively new investment, many investors do not understand the secret, often easy to be led by the nose of the scam.

The old people in this scam is the main object of this scam, the old people have little knowledge of foreign exchange investment, it sounds that they can guarantee high interest, coupled with the collective deception of the company's employees, it is easy to take out all their own belongings.

Sum up

Therefore, learning the identification knowledge of illegal foreign exchange platforms is not only for foreign exchange investors, but also for entry-level investors without foreign exchange investment experience. For a long time, foreign exchange Tianye has been the leader in the illegal platform investment exposure media platform in the foreign exchange circle, but after in-depth understanding of the facts of the domestic foreign exchange circle, it is found that there are simply too many traders who do not really understand foreign exchange investment, and it is because they do not understand it that they will be taken advantage of by crooks, so that everyone can understand foreign exchange investment and distinguish between real and fake foreign exchange platforms. It not only helps forex traders stay away from illegal platforms, but also helps ordinary people who have no investment experience to avoid being cheated.