List of domestic virtual currency Scams
Digital money is legal
digital currency itself is legal in China. Digital currency is defined as Internet goods in China, but the relevant supervision is still blank, and digital currency is still in the gray area in China. Well known digital currencies include bitcoin, Leyte coin, Ruitai coin, thousand gold card, dog coin, etc
however, there are also some non developers who use the cover of digital currency to carry out pyramid schemes, such as the Vicat scheme, treasure scheme, Porter scheme and so on
development materials:
digital currency is different from the virtual currency in the virtual world, because it can be used for real goods and services transactions, not limited to online games. The early digital currency (digital gold currency) is a form of electronic currency named after the weight of gold. Today's digital currency, such as bitcoin, lightcoin and ppcoin, is an electronic currency created, issued and circulated by check sum cryptography. It is characterized by the use of P2P peer-to-peer network technology to issue, manage and circulate currency. In theory, it avoids bureaucratic examination and approval, so that everyone has the right to issue currency
Virtual currency fraud calls 110 directly
many departments, such as the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, the central office of information technology, the Ministry of public security and so on, issued risk tips, saying that some criminals, under the banner of "financial innovation" and "blockchain", absorbed funds by issuing the so-called "virtual currency", "virtual assets" and "digital assets", thus infringing the legitimate rights and interests of the public
this kind of activity is not really based on blockchain technology, but on the hype of blockchain concept, illegal fund-raising, pyramid selling and fraud. In essence, it is a Ponzi scheme of "repaying the old by borrowing the new", which is difficult to maintain the long-term operation of funds
the public should treat the blockchain rationally, not blindly believe the promises, establish a correct monetary concept and investment concept, and effectively improve the risk awareness. Report to the public security organ in time after being cheated
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the first is the obvious networking and cross-border of virtual currency. Relying on the Internet and chat tools for transactions, and using online payment tools to balance funds, the risks spread widely and spread quickly. Some lawless elements set up websites by renting overseas servers to carry out activities for domestic residents and control illegal activities remotely
some indivials claim that they have obtained the investment quota of overseas high-quality blockchain projects in the chat tool group and can invest on their behalf, which is most likely fraud. Most of these illegal funds flow overseas, which makes it very difficult to supervise and trace
followed by deception, temptation and concealment. They use hot concepts to hype, fabricate various "tall and tall" theories, and some also use celebrity "big V" platforms to publicize. They use airdrop "candy" as temptation to claim that "currency value only rises but not falls", "investment cycle is short, income is high, and risk is low", which has strong bewitching
in practice, criminals illegally make huge profits by manipulating the price trend of the so-called virtual currency, setting profit and withdrawal threshold. In addition, some criminals also issue tokens under the guise of ICO, IFO, IEO, etc., or hype virtual currency in the way of IMO under the banner of sharing economy, which has strong concealment and confusion
finally, there are many kinds of illegal risks in this kind of behavior. Through public publicity, the illegal elements attract the public to invest funds, lure investors and development personnel to join, and constantly expand the fund pool with the t of currency appreciation and development offline profits, which has the characteristics of illegal fund-raising, pyramid selling, fraud and other illegal acts
1. Cultural and entertainment chain: the cultural and entertainment chain takes advantage of the characteristics of blockchain, such as decentralization, openness, information tampering, and so on. It claims to build an "IP asset exchange", issue its own token for a high-quality IP, solve the problems of realization, protection, and management of the cultural and creative IP instry, and build a weakly centralized, traceable, digital, and capitalized cultural and creative instry ecosystem. But in fact, when they enter their community, the nature of the swindler will be exposed. They promise to go to the major exchanges such as Shanghuo coin, promise that the opening price will not be less than 2 times of earnings, promise that they will only go up but not go down, promise that they will not break, promise that they will not attract funds, promise to carry out pull propaganda, and hope to raise the vigilance
2. Ant chain (antc): ant chain is antc. It claims to be the token of decentralized digital asset trading system, and publicizes a of antc white paper in various wechat and QQ groups. Many people mistakenly believe that antc is raising money for fraud, There is no investment value at all
the "genuine" ant chain, which has been replaced by an impostor, is a company committed to building an intelligent transportation network through digital assets and blockchain ecosystem. It is located in Boston, USA. however, the company has only launched the ant bike
3. Sharing chain Mall: sharing chain is known as an intelligent, credible, open and decentralized credit data value platform based on sharing economy. It is the underlying structure based on sharing economy built by blockchain technology. As long as consumers shop in the mall, they can get the special benefits of the mall
4. Posevo (POF): posevo environmental protection token, which has been publicized since January 2018, is called POF for short. It has issued 700 million pieces in constant volume and will never be added. The issuing period is 4 years. The development source code is Ethereum erc-20, and the original issuing unit price is 1 RMB / piece. Take static income as an example: angel investment of 1000-20000 yuan. Return 3% of the investment amount every day, ending with a total of 3 times of the investment amount. For example, if the investment is 1000 yuan, return 3% of the investment amount every day = 30 yuan, return 100 days in total, and return 3000 yuan to the investor. It is the pyramid selling mode. After investigation, mesworth token did not use any blockchain technology, nor did it log on to any exchange as mentioned in the publicity
Ponzi scheme is a kind of fraulent investment operation. It uses investors' own money to pay investors in return, or new investors' money to pay old investors, rather than the company's own money. When there are not enough new investors to join, the Ponzi scheme will collapse, and the final investors will suffer
bitcoin is a free software project without a central management organization, so no one can make a false statement about the return on investment. Just like other major currencies, such as gold, US dollar, euro, Japanese yen, etc., bitcoin can not guarantee purchasing power and the exchange rate is free floating. The resulting volatility makes it impossible for bitcoin holders to predict profits or losses. The fact is that bitcoin is being used by thousands of users and businesses because of its useful and competitive features.
cryptocurrency: bitcoin, lightcoin, gold card, Ruitai coin, dogcoin, bitstock, Ruibo coin, etc
website currency: network currency, Q currency, etc
game currency: mainly refers to the gold coin in the game.
virtual currency itself is not a pyramid scheme, it is just used by some criminals. Since 2013, the popular virtual currencies include bitcoin, Wright coin, Fuyuan coin, doggy coin, reborn coin and so on.