CCTV: 20 Tianqian pits 70 million! Counterfeit digital currencies are worse than scams

Investors suffer heavy losses from digital currency investments

Ms. Wang from Jinhua, Zhejiang, likes to speculate in stocks. Not long ago, she invested hundreds of thousands of yuan in a digital currency called PCE. What Ms. Wang didn't expect was that half a month later, the digital currency PCE she invested in suddenly plummeted from 5 yuan per unit to less than 40 cents. This cliff-like plunge caused Ms. Wang to lose more than 350,000 yuan in an instant .

Victim Ms. Wang: It fell down at around 2 o'clock that night, and I discovered it immediately.

After receiving Ms. Wang's report, the Jinhua police in Zhejiang Province linked the cases together and found that three stockholders in Jinhua had invested in PCE digital currency, with a loss of 1.2 million yuan. The investigators found that it was very difficult to find out the true origin of the PCE digital currency trading platform.

Policeman Chen Liang: If there is no evidence to prove that this platform is fake, we dare not touch it. Even if we know they are there, we cannot touch it. Now the trial is the focus and we need to talk about evidence.

Police officer Zhou Zhenlei: The digital currency bought by the victim plummeted by 90% within two minutes. In addition, the police simply searched for the so-called digital currency and found that it was only available on this platform and could not be found on other platforms.

Various signs indicate that this so-called digital currency is likely just a symbol used by criminals to defraud money and is essentially just a copycat coin .

Police officer Zhou Zhenlei: All these apps and websites are located overseas, and the police have no idea where to start.

Policeman Chen Liang: The money has basically been laundered and there is no way to check it. Every step has gone into the funding pool.

Under the guidance of the Jinhua Anti-Fraud Center, the investigators changed their thinking and started looking for clues from the developers of the digital currency operating platform. A few days later, they found a suspicious object.

Policeman Wang Xia: We quickly found one of the targets, a man named Wang.

Policeman Zhou Zhenlei: It was discovered that Wang was a shareholder of a technology company in Xi'an.

Policeman Chen Liang: He was still working outside two years ago. Over the past two years, we found that his entire living standard, the houses and cars he owned, and his consumption level have changed a lot. This is not normal. It is impossible for him to become rich in two years.

After half a month of in-depth investigation, the case officers had a comprehensive understanding of this technology company located in downtown Xi'an. The legal representative was Yang, and Wang was one of the shareholders. They had a huge and complex structure.

Police officer Wang Xia: There are operating fraud links, a teaching team, a trading team, and many business dens. After sorting out the relationships and thoroughly studying the gang, we can fight against it. Because if there is a link that cannot be successfully eliminated, it may be very difficult to form a chain of evidence.

The police arrested 12 suspects in advance

According to the previous pace of combating telecommunications and Internet fraud, it usually takes about two months from the beginning of investigation to the final closure. Jinhua police discovered that the fraud gang was preparing to apply for passports and move their den abroad. The task force decided that they must close the net in advance.

With the cooperation of public security organs in Xi'an, Shaanxi, Wuhan, Hubei, Guangzhou, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Inner Mongolia and other places, multiple arrest teams of Jinhua police launched precise attacks, smashed 6 fraud dens, arrested more than 60 main criminal members headed by Wang and Yang, and froze more than 50 million yuan in funds. A new type of online fraud case that was carefully planned and used the concept of blockchain technology to deceive victims into buying fake digital currencies and madly sucked more than 70 million yuan in more than 20 days has surfaced.

Criminal suspect Qiu: Whether it is the lecturer or the so-called business manager, they just recommend a stock, and when this stock goes up, they just take advantage of the situation and let customers participate in digital currency . This node opportunity is relatively critical.

Policeman Wang Xia: By manipulating a large number of chips on hand to buy and sell currencies, the currency will rise or fall. In fact, it is all controlled by the dealer. The dealer takes the form of a dealer to kill the fall and implement the process of fraud.

At present, the 12 suspects involved in the case have been approved for arrest. The police reminded that compared with traditional spot and futures fraud, the fraud gangs disguised as blockchain are more concealed. In this case, more than 500 victims from all over the country were deceived in more than 20 days. If the net is not closed in time, the consequences will be disastrous.