Warning about financial investment, securities, and virtual currency scams online

The Ministry of Public Security has just issued a warning about many sophisticated methods and tricks to commit fraud and appropriation of people's property that criminals continue to use in recent times. Among them, the most prominent method is: criminals approach people who have participated, post news and articles on groups and websites for buying, selling and renting real estate, then entice them to participate in financial investment, stock exchanges, and virtual currency on cyberspace to defraud and appropriate property.

Warning about fraudulent scenarios luring financial investment and virtual currency online

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Specifically, individuals and organizations use fake accounts (using images of individuals with good looks) to participate in websites, groups (groups, fanpages) on social networking sites (mainly Facebook) about buying, selling, and renting real estate... then interact and pay attention to posts by individuals (mostly women, with good economic conditions) with content about renting and selling real estate and send friend requests to ask for more information.

Every day, the subjects will focus on discussing the content of the articles posted by the victims on the group. After a while, they will proactively talk about other topics such as family circumstances, work... Along with that, these individuals begin to share about themselves and their lives to create sympathy and closeness with the victims: talking about their poor life in the past, trying to study successfully and currently working with a stable job abroad, having a good income, currently moving their family abroad to settle down but their married life is not happy or because their wife died early so they are single...

After winning the sympathy of the victim, the individuals will begin to invite them to invest in financial investment platforms, stocks, and virtual currencies created by them in cyberspace. When the victim hesitates to join the investment, the subject will use the excuse of giving information about an account and say that it is the account of a relative (father, mother) who is using it and let the victim log in to the account and try playing. The victim sees that the orders all win from 5 - 50%, and the subject shares that it can be analyzed to win up to 100% and will begin to trust. At that time, the subject will instruct the victim to open an account on these systems.

Every day, the victim will be guided to place orders with a high winning rate; when they want to withdraw money, it is quite easy, the money will be transferred to an electronic wallet, virtual wallet or received in a bank account. After that, the player is encouraged to continue to deposit large amounts of money to increase profits. Even, to create trust for the victim, the subject will also deposit more money into the account of his relatives equal to the amount the victim deposited.

When the amount of money deposited into the system is large enough, up to hundreds of millions or billions of dong, they will burn or lock the account because they detect signs of abnormality in the account or when the victim requests to withdraw money from the system, they cannot withdraw because they have to pay personal income tax, and at the same time, they ask the victim to deposit more money (usually 30 - 40%) to be able to withdraw money. However, when the victim deposits more money, they will use different reasons to not let the victim withdraw money. When the victim no longer has the financial capacity, they will delete the contact, crash the website and take the victim's money.

The Ministry of Public Security warns people to be vigilant when communicating with strangers on social networks. Be wary of invitations to invest in stocks, multi-level marketing, virtual currency... on online trading floors with unclear information or information that shows signs of being fake. At the same time, it is necessary to carefully research information about the trading floor before investing, especially investment floors that post virtual, unreal, or fake addresses of legitimate investment floors. In particular, only invest in legitimate trading floors that have been licensed to operate by state management agencies...

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/canh-bao-kich-ban-lua-dao-dau-tu-tai-chinh-chung-khoan-tien-ao-tren-mang-185250504094236789.htm