#Shanghai police crack down on virtual currency fraud case#

Shanghai police recently cracked a virtual currency contract trading fraud case, smashing a 16-member fraud gang and involving more than 300,000 yuan. The gang built a fake virtual currency trading platform, disguised as "investment masters" to infiltrate investment groups, used fake screenshots to attract victims to download the platform, and induced them to engage in high-frequency trading to earn high transaction fees. The fraud gang also used the fake trading platform to induce victims to increase the "profit and loss rate" of their investments, making them mistakenly believe that their own misjudgment of the market led to investment failure, thereby defrauding victims of their money. Currently, the criminal suspects have been taken criminal coercive measures by Yangpu police for suspected fraud, and the case is under further investigation. The cracking of this case once again reminds investors to be vigilant, not to trust "investment masters" and high-yield promises on the Internet, choose legitimate trading platforms for investment, and pay attention to protecting personal information security to avoid falling into fraud traps.