In this Internet age, you can never predict how scammers will target you and approach you. Recently, Mr. Yang (pseudonym) from Shandong was defrauded of more than 170,000 yuan by investing in virtual currency on the pretext of "refunding tuition fees."
Just a taste of the benefits, “refund” is actually a matter of investing money to swipe orders
It is understood that Mr. Yang recently received a message on his QQ saying that "HiXue.com" wanted to refund the fee to him. Mr. Yang is a company employee. He did register and pay the fees on HiXue.com and prepared to take the vocational examination. When he saw this message, he believed it to be true. According to the contact information reserved in the message, he added the other party as a QQ friend, and then asked the other party how to refund the money? No response from the other party.
After a while, a stranger sent Mr. Yang an application to add QQ friends. Mr. Yang clicked through and found that the other person's online name was "Guide." The "guidance" told Mr. Yang that the refund issue should be handled by the specialist in the APP, and asked Mr. Yang to download the APP first. According to the link sent by the other party, Mr. Yang downloaded an APP called "Shouchuang Online". After registering an account, he contacted the "specialist" in the APP dialog box and asked how to refund the money.
The "specialist" quickly responded and gave him three options: first, transfer 1,000 yuan to the designated account and get a "refund" of 1,200 yuan; second, transfer 3,000 yuan to the designated account and get a "refund" of 3,600 yuan. "Refund"; third, transfer 5,000 yuan to the designated account to get a "refund" of 6,000 yuan.
Mr. Yang was a little confused. This was completely different from the "refund" he expected, but he immediately thought that this was an activity organized by "HiXue.com". He was immediately excited when he thought that he could get "rebates" by transferring money. I couldn't help it, so I transferred 5,000 yuan to the designated account given by the other party. After transferring the money, he received a text message and 6,000 yuan was credited to his bank card.
"Refund" is just a pretext! A man suffered a series of scams involving refunds, fraudulent orders, and virtual currency purchases.
"Refund" activities evolved into "investment" activities
Earning 1,000 yuan in seconds so easily made Mr. Yang very excited, so he took the initiative to ask the other party if there were any other refund activities? The other party did not respond to him directly, but pulled him into a group chat in the "First Online" APP. There are five people in this group, one of whom is the group leader, whose online name is "instructor", and the other four are "students". Mr. Yang found that the group members were exchanging "making money" experiences, and the students shared their "results" one after another. Some people made more than 20,000 yuan in investment and financial management, and some people made more than 100,000 yuan in a short period of time by speculating on futures...
"Currently, the rebate for purchasing virtual currency is the highest, and it can be operated through our APP. Everyone should seize the opportunity." At this time, the "instructor" spoke, and the group immediately cheered, and they all typed "Mighty teacher, thank you mentor" Class words. Mr. Yang was deeply affected, and immediately followed the guidance of the "instructor" and selected a project to purchase virtual currency in the APP to operate, transferring 20,000 yuan at a time.
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