Many investors broke into the stock market alone, not only did they not make money in the stock market, but they were miserable under the collective offensive of various "stock recommendation schemes"! Recently, a woman in Quzhou, Zhejiang province, fell into a "stock recommendation scam" and was cheated of more than 1.5 million yuan in 10 days.

Be pulled into the "recommendation group" by strange wechat friends

As Ms. X recalled, in February this year, someone applied to add her account as a friend through wechat. She passed the application under the mistaken impression that it was someone she knew. After a few months, this wechat friend did not chat with her, and Ms. X did not pay much attention to it.

On June 17, the wechat friend suddenly pulled Ms. X into two wechat groups. After Ms. X entered the group, she found that someone in the group was giving a lecture, teaching the knowledge of making profits by investing in stocks. After listening to the lecture in the group for a period of time, Ms. X, who had no experience in stock trading, seemed to be brainwashed in general, and downloaded and installed a so-called stock trading software of securities companies in her mobile phone according to the guidance of the above wechat friends.

More than $1.5 million in 10 days

After registering an account in the software, Ms. X began her "investment road" on July 2, at the beginning, it was only a small amount of capital investment, and the profit was very good. Ms. X also tried to withdraw small amounts of funds, three times the cumulative withdrawal of more than 1300 yuan, are soon to the account. This operation put Ms. X's mind at ease.

In the next 10 days, Ms. X has invested more than 1.5 million funds in the stock market, and under the guidance of wechat friends, the account balance once soared to nearly 5 million yuan.

Faced with millions of "margin", withdrawal failed

Just as Ms. X was excited about this, wechat friends suddenly told them that they were found to have illegal operations, will be investigated and punished by the CSRC, and Ms. X needs to pay a huge "deposit".

The other party said the amount of this "margin" was 20 per cent of the account balance. At that time, Ms. X's account balance in the software showed that it had nearly 5 million yuan, so she needed to pay a "security deposit" of nearly 1 million yuan. Ms. X really could not borrow so much money to pay the "security deposit", so she wanted to withdraw nearly 5 million yuan in her software account, only to find that she could not withdraw it.

It was only at this point that Ms. X realized that she might have been cheated and reported the case to the police on July 18. After a preliminary investigation, the police confirmed that Ms. X suffered from a fake investment telecommunications network fraud.

Special reminder

This is a typical introduction of false investment network fraud by the "recommendation group", the criminal will successfully add friends after the victim will be pulled into the "recommendation group", once the victim is fooled, the early stage will let its small investment, this stage the victim can successfully get high returns, such as the victim taste the sweetness to increase investment, the criminal will begin to "harvest". It's not exactly clever, but it's a scam that happens over and over again.

Therefore, investors must strengthen the awareness of fraud prevention, do not easily add strangers' social accounts, especially the recommended investment platform, to verify the true or false platform first, which is the best way to prevent fraud by the hacked platform. If you encounter an unidentified currency investment platform, you can submit your consultation to the Q&A column of my Rights Defense Center.