A large number of fraud cases show that telecom network fraud has already started to the hot virtual currency. In the name of "investing in virtual coins to make a lot of money", fraudsters create a fictitious platform background story, package the technology and concept of the trading platform, manipulate the price, and create a rising trend... The thought of "speculation to make money", the virtual currency was cheated away. Recently, Mr. Ma, a citizen of Suzhou, fell into the trap of scammers because he invested in virtual currency and was cheated of more than 290,000 yuan.

Get to know the "currency expert" online and visit the teacher

It is understood that Mr. Ma has some spare money and some interest in virtual currency, so in late August, he joined a so-called investment virtual currency wechat group through the network, and met the "investment master" book in the group.

Book claimed to have invested in virtual currency for many years, and posted a screenshot of its online assets, screenshots show that Mr. Book holds virtual currency worth about 10 million yuan. Seeing such figures, Mr. Ma was thrilled and soon convinced that he was his master and let him guide him to invest in virtual currency.

First taste of the sweet, non-stop investment

However, the "master" book said that following him to speculate in currency needs to first in the designated platform customers, that is, to invest in virtual currency on A trading platform A to make money, first in another trading platform B to recharge RMB and exchange into another virtual currency. So, according to the recommendation of the book, Mr. Ma downloaded the APP of the B platform and reloaded 1,000 yuan for the first time, and then followed the instructions of the book to operate, and soon earned his first bucket of gold - a total value of about 9,200 yuan of virtual currency, and successfully withdrew.

As a result, Mr. Ma more believe in the book, and even some worship, no doubt with the book to continue to invest, has topped up 193,800 yuan, 105,000 yuan.

Stunned! To withdraw cash, you must first complete the top-up task

After a period of time, the transaction went very smoothly, and Mr. Ma soon had more than 60,000 virtual currencies on his account, which was converted to nearly 400,000 yuan. On the afternoon of August 27, Mr. Ma was happy to withdraw cash, but was told by the platform that he could not withdraw cash, Mr. Ma immediately asked the platform customer service, customer service said that because Mr. Ma participated in an activity before, now need to complete a top-up task as required, otherwise not only can not withdraw cash, but also pay liquidated damages to the platform.

See this scene, Mr. Ma also do not know how to do, so he went to the book for help, ask how to operate. In the face of Mr. Ma's questions, the book said that he had also encountered the same situation, no problem, and let Mr. Ma continue to invest after the loan to earn more virtual currency. At this time, Mr. Ma hesitated, and under the reminder of his family, he realized that he was in a fraud and immediately called the police. At this time, Mr. Ma has recharged a total of 299,800 yuan, of which only 9200 yuan was successfully withdrawn, and the remaining 290,600 yuan could not be withdrawn.

Special reminder

Network investment needs to be careful, many virtual currency investment fraud is through false financial investment platform to implement fraud, do not download unverified APP or register in strange websites under the guidance of strangers, let alone recharge in these strange platforms. The end result is that the platform can not withdraw money or the website can not open, resulting in the investment of money lost.