Two young women in Taiwan were scammed online. This year, they remitted a total of 150,000 USDT because they believed in a fake boyfriend who was “good at virtual currency investment”.
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towerTaiwan statistics show that in 2022, the amount of losses due to fraud will be as high as NT$7 billion. Among them, examples of using investment reasons to win the trust of victims and compounding feelings to make friends are even more common among young people who are accustomed to using the Internet to make friends. The Taiwan Criminal Police Bureau pointed out that this year, two young women were defrauded to remit a large amount of USDT because they fell into an online relationship by mistake.
Encrypted investment scams through resume platforms
The Criminal Bureau pointed out that in December last year, a woman surnamed Lin in Taiwan met a man who claimed to be a Hong Kong investment consultant through the resume platform LinkedIn. The two exchanged Line accounts through private messages on the platform. Promise to become an online dating couple under the air teaser.
Later, the Hong Kong investment man kept persuading Lin Nv, falsely claiming that he had the inside information on the rise and fall of certain virtual currencies, and could teach Lin Nv Gao how to make profits without losing money, and asked Lin Nv to borrow money to invest by herself.
Under the guidance of a very enthusiastic professor from Hong Kong, Mr. Lin first used the Binance Exchange to buy USDT, and then transferred the USDT to a centralized exchange that claimed to have a higher rate of return than Binance. The customer service of the fake exchange even privately used Line Contact Lin Nv and instruct Lin Nv to transfer USDT to an unknown wallet address.
From January to March this year, Ms. Lin transferred a total of NT$2.7 million, or about 90,000 USDT, until she wanted to get back the USDT, but was asked by the customer service of the fake exchange to remit the tax, and she was surprised to be cheated.
Facebook strikes up a conversation, but it’s a scam wolf
The Criminal Bureau cited another case of emotional fraud involving a woman this year. A Taiwanese female netizen was approached by an unknown man on Facebook in February. emotional basis.
The unidentified man’s statement in the above case guaranteed that he had a way to invest in virtual currency to make a steady profit without losing money, and encouraged the victim woman to remit the original ETH and USDT to the fake exchange “PLUBIT EX Investment Platform” for one month. Inside, the woman invested a total of 1.8 million Taiwan dollars, which was exchanged for about 60,000 USDT, and did not call the police until she could not withdraw the money.
Criminal Bureau Rarely Responds to “DYOR”
The Criminal Bureau cited two Taiwanese girls who were involved in virtual currency investment fraud due to emotional factors, and reminded the public again that fraudulent groups often steal photos of handsome men and beautiful women on the Internet, and use various online channels such as social platforms and dating software to meet victims , Using sweet words to form a fake relationship without meeting each other without knowing the details, and then winning the trust of the victim to invest in virtual currency and remit it to a fake exchange or platform.
In particular, it is easy to get started in the virtual currency market, but the amount of knowledge involved is quite deep. You must not just follow the guidance of others and invest money. The Criminal Bureau stated:
The famous saying in the currency circle, DYOR, is Do Your Own Research, which means that you should do your homework when investing and managing money, and don’t invest blindly after listening to other people’s recommendations.
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