Hangzhou smashed a fake "Bitcoin" trading fraud gang: the capital involved reached 30 million yuan

Original title: Hangzhou smashed a fake "Bitcoin" transaction fraud gang: the capital involved reached 30 million yuan

The press conference. Photo by Zhang Bin

Hangzhou, October 23 (China News Service) (Zhang Bin) On the 23rd, the reporter learned from the Hangzhou Shangcheng police that the police recently cracked a criminal gang that committed fraud by deceiving others into speculating in "Bitcoin", smashed 3 gang dens, arrested more than 200 people involved in the case, and seized, frozen, and confiscated more than 30 million yuan of funds involved in the case.

In early April this year, Mr. Xu from Henan was pulled into a WeChat group for "Bitcoin" trading. From time to time, people in the group posted screenshots of profits, claiming that they made money under the guidance of "Teacher X." Mr. Xu was tempted and invested 6,500 yuan. After "guidance," he made more than 10,000 yuan in two days. Later, Mr. Xu made more investments under "guidance." By May 11, Mr. Xu had lost all the more than 200,000 yuan he had invested, and he called the police after discovering that he had been cheated.

Chat interface between criminals and victims. Photo provided by the police

After receiving the clues, the police learned that the gang that defrauded Mr. Xu might be operating in their jurisdiction. On June 11, the Shangcheng police organized police forces to round up the criminal gang.

The suspect Wang confessed that he and others forged a fake "Bitcoin" trading platform, recruited more than 200 employees, and started to carry out fraud at the end of February this year. According to the confession, he put the fake "Bitcoin" trading platform website in the Internet search engine. When netizens searched for keywords such as "Bitcoin trading", this fake platform would be displayed. In this way, criminals could obtain the phone numbers of customers who were interested in "Bitcoin" trading.

The arrest scene. Photo provided by the police

After that, the criminals will contact the clients, add the clients’ WeChat accounts, and pull them into the clients’ WeChat groups. Each group has only one or two victims, and the other “group members” are all impersonators. After the victims join the group, the criminals use multiple WeChat accounts to impersonate the instructors, assistants, and investment clients, and send fake profit screenshots to the group, making the victims mistakenly believe that the instructors’ opinions provided by the platform are accurate. After that, the criminals make profits by deceiving the victims into investing, until all the victims’ funds are lost.

The arrest scene. Photo provided by the police

At present, the police have brought the suspects back for investigation. The victims of this case are scattered all over the country. The police have contacted more than 200 victims to complete the evidence collection work. More than 100 members of the gang have been taken into criminal compulsory measures. At present, the case is being further handled. (End)