Since the concept of Bitcoin, Block Chain and Digital Currency has prevailed on the Internet, various "counterfeit coins" have come into the public eye in turn. The People's Bank of China has not issued Statutory Digital Currency, nor authorized any institution or enterprise to issue statutory digital currency; all kinds of "digital currency" on the market are illegal statutory digital currency, which is likely to involve multi-stakeholder crimes such as pyramid selling, illegal fund-raising and fraud. If citizens find that their legitimate rights and interests are damaged, or other people, institutions and enterprises participate in virtual currency fraud activities, We should actively report and reflect to the relevant departments.
Recently, the police in Wucheng, Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province issued a public security warning, reminding the general public to be careful when investing in the so-called virtual currency. Recently, some illegal elements, under the banner of "financial innovation" and "block chain", have absorbed funds by issuing so-called "virtual currency" and "digital assets", which are actually illegal fund-raising for the concept of speculative block chain.
At the beginning of this month, the police station in Chengbei District of Wucheng District received a report from Ms. Lu, a citizen, saying that she had been cheated to invest in dcrc currency and that the principal of 50000 yuan was only 6000 yuan. After understanding, Ms. Lu introduced the DCRC currency through her friends on May 30, and learned that the market was very good, so she downloaded the Singapore "coinearn" investment platform APP to test the water for 10,000 yuan. Seeing that the currency did rise every day, she invested another 40,000 yuan on June 5.
Who knows, since June 10, the currency has been falling, from the original 1.78 yuan to 0.2 yuan. Up to the time of reporting the case, Ms. Lu had only 6,000 yuan left in her account, which was withdrawn only after she falsely told the platform customer service that she would continue to invest.
The police learned that Ms. Lu was not familiar with DCRC currency, and she invested in it through the introduction of her friend Ms. Jia. Ms. Jia shares with an expert surnamed Liu in a group called "Golden Stock Heroes Club". Experts surnamed Liu say that the market is not good now. They recommend Ms. Jia to invest DCRC coins on the "coinearn" platform. So Ms. Jia also recommends Ms. Lu to join.
At present, the case is under further investigation. The police reminds the public to establish correct monetary and investment concepts and find out the relevant clues of illegal and criminal activities. Please report them to the public security department actively.
How should ordinary citizens identify "virtual currency" fraud? The staff of the People's Bank of China introduced that these high-level virtual currency fraud crimes have the following characteristics: firstly, they organize mysterious propaganda activities in closed places; secondly, they rely more on the Internet and chat tools to carry out capital transactions; thirdly, pyramid selling features are obvious, such as layers of returns, pulling people off the line and so on; fourthly, they use "digital currency" and "virtual goods". Currency, block chain and other "fashionable vocabulary" rub against the hot spot, the specific name of the investment target is "a certain currency", and may be tempted by high profits; Fifth, it is difficult to cash after investment, or "play away" after illegal accumulation of large amounts of funds.
Therefore, when purchasing virtual currency, first to non-trumpet, My Token currency information query, confirm that it is a reasonable digital currency, and then to the exchange for investment purchase.