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The fraud group uses public welfare activities as a cover to carry out a new type of Ponzi money-grabbing scam targeting retired people.
The fraud syndicate actually took advantage of people's kindness and advertised "calling for volunteers to clean up beaches and care for the elderly. If you volunteer and do good deeds, you can also receive a thousand yuan in travel expenses and meal boxes." They used them as bait, specifically targeting retired people and elders of the food basket family to commit fraud. After gaining trust, they then defrauded high-profit investment plans. Xingda estimates that at least 50 people have been defrauded in the high city, and the amount of money defrauded exceeds more than 65 million yuan.
Gao City Xingda filtered the 165 anti-fraud hotline and discovered that there have been many new Ponzi fraud cases in the name of overseas biotechnology companies that have broken out recently. After investigation, it was found that the victims were mostly mothers-in-law who were enthusiastic about public welfare and devoted themselves to volunteer services. The usual fraud techniques and techniques used were to first pretend to join public welfare volunteers such as beach cleansing, and then send meal boxes and even travel expenses to make the victims lose their alertness.
The scam group then pretends to "reward good fortune" and successively draws victims into carefully disguised investment groups to promote so-called "medical research and development projects". They claim to invest tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of yuan and receive excess dividends in just over ten days. They also provide gold jewelry, brand-name gifts, and even forged co-branded financial cards.
The victims were given a sweet taste of money at the initial stage, and after a small amount of dividends were distributed, they were then lured to part with their retirement capital, and even encouraged to borrow money against real estate. After increasing their investment, the fraud group suddenly closed the group, lost contact, and disappeared. The investment group was disbanded, and the victims were shocked to realize that they had lost all their money.
According to statistics from the Kaohsiung City Criminal Police Department, Kaohsiung City has received more than 50 reports since September this year, with the amount of fraud amounting to as much as 65 million. The police remind that if there is a self-proclaimed association group that wants to recruit volunteers with the slogan of "receiving high travel expenses and subsidies", and actively promotes investment and financial management at events, or pulls offline to earn commissions, be careful of fraud.

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