With the popularity of short videos around the world, watching short videos has become one of the essential entertainment ways for the majority of netizens, and some netizens even make friends and fall in love through short video platforms. However, darkness lurks behind the light, and many fraudsters have also targeted short video platforms with huge traffic, lurking among them to lure target victims. Recently, Mr. Lin, a Chinese man from New York, fell into the "pig killing plate" trap carefully arranged by scammers on the BiHui platform, and eventually was cheated of $80,000.

Chinese man brushes short video encounter "killing pig plate" on BiHui platform

In July this year, Mr. Lin met a scammer while surfing short videos, and then switched to WhatsApp chat at the request of the other person, who made his own clothing design, sent a photo to prove that he was a beautiful woman, and sent a Washington state driver's license.

So Mr. Lin began to like each other, from the beginning of a simple greeting, to slowly build trust and love. Subsequently, the scammer said that he was doing digital currency investment, and encouraged Mr. Lin to invest to make money. Out of trust, Mr. Lin followed the scammer's instructions and downloaded the software called BiHui, investing $20,000 at first and soon showing that he had earned thousands of dollars.

On September 1, a friend of Mr. Lin put 60,000 US dollars of house purchase money in Mr. Lin there, the scammer encouraged Mr. Lin to increase investment, and Mr. Lin, who had been dizzy, transferred the 60,000 US dollars of cash to the bank account given by the other party according to the instructions of the scammer, and put the money into BiHui software.

No way to withdraw cash, defrauded $80,000 and hurt friends and relatives

The scammer continued to encourage Mr. Lin to increase investment, and said that he was willing to help Mr. Lin add $100,000 to the investment fund, Mr. Lin actually saw $190,000 in the BiHui platform, and then the scammer helped add $200,000. But when Mr. Lin planned to withdraw cash from the platform to return friends, the platform showed that it needed to pay $90,000 in taxes and part of the management fee to withdraw cash, Mr. Lin realized that he had been cheated.

Mr. Lin not only lost his own $20,000 deposit, but also was unable to repay his friend's $60,000. His friend also thought that Mr. Lin and his cousin Mr. Yang, who ran the company, had cheated him of his house purchase deposit and exposed the matter through the media. After seeing the relevant articles, Mr. Yang immediately contacted his cousin to ask, only to know that Mr. Lin was cheated out of a large amount of money because he fell into the "killing pig plate".

Mr. Yang said that his cousin was too busy in the store to help distribute leaflets or run the bank, and he did not know that he was cheated and somehow became the object of community condemnation, and his business was seriously affected.

Online dating must be careful, online love needs to be more careful, in the case of not seeing real people and long-term relationship, do not trust each other wholeheartedly, not to believe the other party recommended unknown investment and financial projects, to avoid being cheated. In addition, do not borrow or privately embezzle your friends' funds for investment, otherwise even if you are not cheated, once the loss is difficult to explain to your friends, and harm others.

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