Dongli police uncovered a high-yield Bitcoin investment scam

Recently, Ms. Zhang, who lives in Dongli District, met an online friend and followed him to invest in Bitcoin, but fell into a scam and transferred 1.41 million yuan to the scammer. After discovering that she was cheated, Ms. Zhang asked the police for help. The Dongli police quickly took action and arrested 6 suspects from Yunnan and Hunan.
At the beginning of this year, Ms. Zhang received a WeChat friend request. After accepting it, Ms. Zhang always saw the other party mentioning "Bitcoin trading" in the circle of friends and sending screenshots of customers making money. Ms. Zhang was somewhat tempted and took the initiative to consult. The other party told her that she only needed to download a mobile APP to trade Bitcoin and she could make money by following him. Ms. Zhang downloaded a mobile APP according to the link provided by the other party. After getting familiar with the software, Ms. Zhang invested 2,000 yuan to test the waters. Under the guidance of the other party, she made more than 10,000 yuan. Ms. Zhang began to increase her investment amount, and even recharged the hard-earned house purchase money into the APP account without telling her family. After a few days, the platform account made a profit of tens of millions of yuan. However, when withdrawing cash, the other party said that Ms. Zhang had to pay 1 million yuan in personal income tax first. Ms. Zhang contacted the other party and said that personal income tax could be deducted from the balance. What Ms. Zhang didn't expect was that the other party blocked her. The next day, Ms. Zhang found that she could not log in to her account and could not withdraw money. So Ms. Zhang chose to call the police.
After receiving the alarm, the criminal case handling team of Huaming Police Station of Dongli Public Security Bureau set up a special team to sort out the flow of funds step by step. Finally, the accurate judgment locked two investigation directions. The police worked hard and divided into two groups to carry out investigation and evidence collection. In the Yunnan direction, the participating police successfully arrested 5 criminal suspects on October 21 after many days and nights of hard work; in the Hunan direction, 1 criminal suspect was successfully arrested on October 22. At present, 6 criminal suspects have been detained by Dongli police in accordance with the law on suspicion of fraud, and the case is under further investigation.
Source: Tianjin Daily