There is a word recently
Appears frequently on the network.
Seeing this word will make people feel very powerful
But I often don’t know exactly what it means.
This word is called
blockchain
Recently, a woman in Zhuhai, under the guidance of a "teacher" in a financial live broadcast room, invested in blockchain financial management and recharged nearly 140,000 yuan. As a result, she found out that she had strayed into a scam. What exactly is this routine?
What is a blockchain?
Blockchain is a new application mode of distributed data storage, point-to-point transmission, consensus mechanism, encryption algorithm and other computer technologies, and its essence is a decentralized database.
This explanation may not be understood by many people, so the detective makes a simple metaphor.
Hypothetical environment
If you have a ledger at home, let you keep it. In the past, it was mom and dad who gave you the salary and asked you to put it in the account book. In case you are greedy and want to buy something delicious, there may be a dozen less records in the account book. This is just an example. Xiao Zhen believes that when I was a child, everyone might want to take some money from my parents’ pockets to spend.
Blockchain technology
After using blockchain technology, it is equivalent to the way of family mobilization. You are bookkeeping, dad is bookkeeping, and mom is bookkeeping. They can all see the general ledger. You can’t change, and neither can mom and dad. So you can’t help the father who wants to buy cigarettes and the greedy one.
In other words, the blockchain, a distributed digital ledger, records all transactions that have occurred and have been unanimously recognized by the system. Each block is an ledger, which not only records transaction information, but also has more functions.
With the innovative application of blockchain technology in various fields, blockchain has once again become the focus of attention of the whole people after more than a year of silence:
On October 28, 112 blockchain concept stocks in the A-share market went up daily, and the market value soared by 160 billion a day. Many people cheered the spring of blockchain.
Blockchain technology is so popular, and for a time, both blockchain-related people and laymen have developed a strong interest in blockchain.
Among them, some lawless elements began to focus on this new concept and developed a new scam of virtual currency based on blockchain technology.
Mistaken into "blockchain scam"
Be cheated out of everything
Compared with traditional stocks and funds, virtual currency is more likely to be favored by investors under the aura of "blockchain".
It took professional investors a long time to understand the blockchain, and fraud gangs also followed the "spelling acting", playing fraud games with the help of investing in blockchain financial management, and creating a "plus WeChat+live lecture+platform investment" one-stop scam.
Stranger plus wechat
Pulled into the stock recommendation live room
Ms. Wang often listens to people around her to discuss stock trading, and she usually searches online for relevant financial information.
At the beginning of August this year, a WeChat nicknamed "Stock Recommendation Assistant-Xinxin" added her WeChat, and invited her to enter a webcast room to learn stock trading skills with professional teachers for free.
The temptation of shouting in the live broadcast room
Platform registered investment blockchain
At first, Ms. Wang was very hesitant, but when she saw the high-yield screenshots displayed by fans in the live broadcast room, she began to waver.
The "teacher" in the live broadcast room claimed that the stock market was not good. In order to repay the trust of fans and customers, she was recommended to switch platforms to invest in the blockchain 3.0 virtual digital currency market and ensure that she could turn over the money to make money.
With the mentality of trying, Ms. Wang opened an account on this platform and conducted one-on-one transactions according to their recommendation.
Small profit "teacher" shouted to raise.
After a large amount of recharge, the platform live broadcast room is closed.
Ms. Wang invested 30,000 yuan for the first time. After recharging, an operator of the platform contacted her and said that the start-up capital was too small to make much. I suggested that Ms. Wang invest tens of thousands more.
So, Ms. Wang transferred another 20,000 yuan.
Subsequently, the platform operator instructed Ms. Wang how to operate. Ms. Wang followed the instructions of the other party and operated for 8 times, earning 400,000 at once.
Under the advocacy of the "teacher" in the live broadcast room, Ms. Wang successively recharged nearly 140,000 yuan on the platform.
Until recent days, Ms. Wang found that the website of the platform could not be opened and the live broadcast room was shut down. Only then did she find herself cheated.
Blockchain and Bitcoin
Became a new cover for liars
With the soaring prices of blockchain assets such as Bitcoin, ordinary investors are more and more interested in blockchain and digital currency’s investment, and criminals also aim at this and commit fraud under the banner of "blockchain" and "virtual currency".
Under the pretext of "short investment cycle, high return and low risk", criminals cheat users’ trust and induce them to transfer money for investment.
Their deception routines are often:
Judging from these cases, the deception used by criminals is an "old routine".
It’s just that the previous "stock trading, gold speculation and futures crude oil speculation" has been replaced by the most cutting-edge concept, "bitcoin speculation, Litecoin speculation and blockchain speculation".
Although most of the victims didn’t fully understand these new concepts, they didn’t want to miss this "get rich express" under the advocacy of "mentors".
I didn’t catch the express train of sharing economy in those years, but I can only ride a yellow car every day today; I didn’t catch the express train of Bitcoin in those years, but today I can only flip coins every day.
This anxiety of "missing the wind every year" has been brainwashed again and again by the "mentor", which has strengthened the dream of "one coin and one villa" for many people.
Deceptions are similar, the concept is refurbished every year, and the wonderful combination of virtual currency, blockchain and fraud is easy to fall into the trap of scammers if you are not careful.
Xiao Zhen reminds investors here that they must be wary of super-high-yield investments. When they meet strangers on the online platform, the so-called "god of stock trading" and other services and channels must be polished and screened, so as not to be tempted by the huge interests in front of them and avoid falling into the trap of online investment and financial fraud.
(Source: Zhuhai Criminal Investigation)
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