Posting fake profit screenshots to lure investors, three men set up a Bitcoin scam and made a profit of 150,000

According to media reports, the victim was provided with profit orders through WeChat groups, pretending to be a mentor to provide guidance, and lured the victim to recharge and invest on the "BtcClub" platform, and defrauded money by setting the background bitcoin price increase and decrease. After the Ninghai County Procuratorate of Zhejiang Province filed a public prosecution, the Ninghai County Court recently sentenced the defendants Liu and Chen to three years and six months in prison for fraud and fined them 20,000 yuan; the defendant Mao was sentenced to three years and three months in prison for fraud and fined 15,000 yuan.
In early April 2018, Liu, Chen and Mao planned a "Bitcoin" trading business, with Chen acting as an instructor, Liu as a customer service representative, and Mao as an investor, and they shared the profits according to the investment ratio. After the division of labor was clear, Liu purchased the website source code, and asked someone to create the "BtcClub" platform online, set up a server, and provided his and Chen's Alipay as a channel for customers to recharge. At the same time, Liu was also responsible for making advertisements for the platform, and posted advertisements on WeChat public accounts and other self-media to promote and attract customers. At this point, a fraud gang was initially formed.
After everything was ready, Liu, Chen, and Mao immediately got busy. Liu recruited people to register on the "BtcClub" platform on WeChat, and then pulled them into the company's WeChat group. Chen played the role of a mentor and issued instructions to investment clients, guiding them to recharge and purchase Bitcoin on the platform. At the same time, he focused on the clients in the group who were not familiar with Bitcoin and did not dare to invest, answering their questions. In order to convince the clients, Mao used multiple small accounts to pretend to be an investor in the group, and posted false profit screenshots to show that he had made money. After the clients were tempted, they could enter the platform and invest money to trade.
On September 28, 2018, the victim, Ms. Cui, who lives in Ninghai, saw this advertisement on WeChat that can make money, and scanned the QR code to add Liu on WeChat. Ms. Cui downloaded the link sent by customer service Liu, registered on the "BtcClub" platform, and was pulled into the WeChat group. "The instructor provides profitable orders in the group every day, and issues instructions for us investors to follow him to buy up and down, and many people often post profit screenshots in the group." Ms. Cui couldn't resist the temptation and used Alipay to scan the code to recharge 200 to 2,000 yuan to buy Bitcoin on this platform, but she couldn't withdraw the money halfway, and the money she invested was wasted. After the incident, Ms. Cui suddenly realized that those who made money by posting orders were actually "shills"!
After discovering that she had been deceived, Ms. Cui immediately reported the case to the public security authorities. After investigation, it was found that from early April to the end of September 2018, the three people lured victims such as Cui, Ma, and Shao to recharge and purchase Bitcoin on the above-mentioned platform, and then the three people manipulated the price of Bitcoin in the background to defraud more than 150,000 yuan. On September 29 of the same year, the three were arrested by the public security authorities. (Justice Net)