On the night of February 2, 2021, Anhui businessman Zhang Penfu was “so excited that he couldn’t sleep at night”. According to him, the only thing he was looking forward to that night was the opening of the A-share market at 9:30 the next day.
This new stockholder was excited for a reason. Just a few days before that, he had invested a total of more than 1 million yuan in a stock market software “ammunition”, in order to “snipe” the new shares. And as the dust settles on the winning and payment, he is very sure that he can finally earn a lot of money “a good year”.
As expected, the next day, all the way to the red market, so that Zhang Benfu’s book wealth soared to more than 3 million. He has always been generous, and even once wanted to give the speculation group “assistant” package a 100,000 yuan of red envelopes to express their gratitude.
However, the joy was so short-lived. In the following two days, he has encountered APP can not withdraw cash, “assistant” pull black, was kicked out of the group chat …… once the wealth is like a dream, once the “stock friends” also disappeared without trace The “assistant” was kicked out of the group chat.
This is not an isolated case of Zhang Penfu’s encounter. The China Fund News reporter recently investigated and found that the victims of a stock speculation scam led by a company called “Chiron Private Equity Fund” were spread across many provinces in China. They were guided by the so-called “mentor”, downloading and registering the cottage speculation software, investing huge amounts of money to play the new, grabbing chips a word board, and eventually found a paper float is all a virtual disk of the numbers game, 2021 year spent extra bitter.
The reporter went through multiple interviews, trying to restore this speculation scam more details behind the scenes.
The “free course” hidden trap
A number of victims reflected that they were pulled to the “Giant Wave Private Equity” group around New Year’s Day this year by a speculative stock “assistant” they met online.
Although the stock age is only a year, but Zhang Benfu for the stock market terminology can also be as familiar. The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to its customers.
“The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the public. In her recommendation, Zhang Penfu was pulled into the WeChat group and QQ group opened in the name of this institution.
In the dozens of people in the Chiron private speculation group, Zhang Benfu found that the administrator will release live course links in the group several times a day, and each live broadcast has a special teacher to analyze the stock market and recommend stock targets.
Although the two lecturers did not show up in the “Chiron classroom” live, but Zhang Benfu listened to several days of class deeply convinced, according to his words, the live teachers “very high level, speaking very professional”.
And in addition to communication with the “assistant”, the group will also have stockholders with Zhang Benfu call interaction, the group atmosphere is very active. Zhang Penfu at this time did not think, this group in addition to a very few is “prey”, most of the other are “water army”.
“The actual loss will certainly help you earn back. Chiron private equity in a live class promised.
“The two teachers lectured quite well, really capable, I used other regular APP to buy their recommended stocks, earned tens of thousands.” Zhou Li, who had only bought funds before, said that the profit was so rapid that he had more trust in this institution. And Zhang Qi from Shandong, according to the guidance of speculation, also made a small profit of several thousand.
And in order to attract fans to participate in the live classroom of Chiron Private Equity, is also constantly handing out bonuses to classroom participants.
The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who have been in the business for a long time, and they’ve been in the business for a long time. The company’s main goal is to provide the best possible service to its customers. The company’s main goal is to provide a comprehensive range of products and services to its customers.
The actual “Miao Ruixue” also said to Wang Ren, “with the teacher’s ticket if there is a loss of screenshots to me to register, the teacher will give everyone to make up for the loss”.
The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to its customers. With the success of the red packet withdrawals, Wang Ren’s wariness gradually dispelled.
The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the public.
The “Chiron private equity” can not be traced to the address
This Chiron private equity fund, what exactly is the origin?
Wang Ren recalled to the reporter, “Miao Ruixue” introduced himself, Chiron private equity is a formal institution, but also once on television. Wang Ren himself did find the news of “Chiron private equity rebate for new and old users” on the Internet.
Through the search engine search, online so far can find an article called “Chiron private equity: two private equity teachers to give you a different market ideas”, about the “ambition” of this institution.
According to the article, Chiron Private Equity Fund Management Co., Ltd. has been dedicated to private customization services for ultra-high-net-worth clients since its inception in 2018 …… was intended to be a “learning fund” at its inception, and all its manipulation skills are open to investors, believing that only by opening its heart to investors without reservation can it truly form an unbreakable offensive and defensive alliance with them.
The article also says that 3 public classes have been held from time to time, “with the strong support of shareholders in 3 consecutive periods, Chiron Private Equity has earned a total of 150 million in revenue”, and the fourth class is under preparation. Chiron private equity out of funds 100 million, to two special guests live operation, plans to achieve three months to double the capital, and earnings in 50 million returned to the full amount of new and old shareholder households to listen to the class. Chiron Private Equity Fund Management Co., Ltd. is going to offer “Chiron 1” fine fund on the occasion of its 3rd anniversary in May 2021.
The commitment given by Chiron Private Equity is very attractive – “customers do not need to follow the teacher to manipulate the stock, only need to pay attention to the teacher’s live room and WeChat group, pay attention to the teacher’s operation, to reach 20% profit that is when the money.”
In addition, the article highlights the bright resume of “Li Ying Huy” and “Wang Jing Rong”.
The description of “Li Yinghou” is, born in 1979, Cornell University, Master of Financial Engineering, “has a wealth of experience in the operation of large funds”, is the company’s main trader hired to helm the “giant wave 1”.
Wang Jingrong”, described as a master of finance from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1980, joined Chiron Private Asset Management Co.
Although “Li Yinghou” and “Wang Jingrong” had claimed in the program that Chiron Private Equity was located in mainland China, they could not find any company information of the same name of the so-called “Chiron Private Equity Fund Management Ltd.” either by searching the National Enterprise Credit Information Public Notice System, Tianwei Search and other tools, or by logging into the website of the China Securities Investment Fund Association.
Induced to register “institutional account”
The road of “harvesting” begins
In fact, the red envelope is only to induce fans to “open an account” as soon as possible, the opening of institutional accounts means the official start of the scam.
The so-called teacher “assistant”, and the victim to maintain close interaction. In the third day of the group, “Miao Ruixue” recommended to Wang Ren to book institutional managers to participate in “playing new” and “playing board”. In the “new” mode, you need at least 20,000 yuan of capital. The so-called “playing board” is to buy the stock that has been stopped.
Wang Ren has some experience in stock trading, he questioned how a retailer could buy a stopped stock.
The “Miao Ruixue” explained that the “playing board” is bought through the institutional account, “this is the difference between retail investors and private equity, lobbying team, large private equity and lobbying are trading through the institutional account”.
The group management further said that the opening of institutional accounts can be opened after the meltdown is also an opportunity to make money.
The other speculation group “diving” for a long time Zhang Benfu, also apparently feel, to the mid-January 2020 or so, the atmosphere in the group suddenly some abnormal.
Zhang Penfu recalled that in the live course of Chiron Private Equity, the “teacher” began to hint, intentionally or unintentionally, to be able to grab the “one-word board” through the institutional account. Some people in the group began to coax, the “teacher” first expressed difficulty, and then after softly and hardly, finally agreed to “borrow institutional accounts for everyone to use”, claiming that “to take the students to get back the money lost in the stock market. “
Until then, Zhang Penfu was still skeptical. Until he consulted with the local securities company and learned that there is indeed an “institutional account”, eligible institutions can apply to open, to see such a large scale of Chiron private equity, the group of such a large amount of money, determined that there can be no false, his nervous string also gradually loosened.
The reporter obtained a suspected Chiron private equity “teacher” recording shows that it claims that “we are a group, is a unified use of institutions, if not open our institutional channel account, then you certainly can not get our one-word board of stocks. A word board of stock is a trade secret, if not institutional VIP channel account, we leaked the secrets of the dealership will not be successful. If there is a VIP institutional channel account qualification, there is no problem, the next is the amount of money, the sooner you apply the better ……”
A brokerage practitioner Chang Jin told reporters that the market does exist “fast track”, generally by the “big customers” pay to buy to use. The brokerage firm, as a member of the exchange, will buy a number of trading channels (to transmit the commission) in the exchange. Each investor’s order is transmitted to the exchange through the channel of the brokerage firm where the account is opened, and then the exchange will consolidate the transaction. Usually retail investors, usually tens of thousands of accounts or even hundreds of thousands or hundreds of thousands of accounts, share one channel. Therefore, this transmission process requires a queue of about 0-1.5 seconds. The “fast lane” is a channel shared by a small number of accounts, and the transmission time of the commission will become shorter.
“Because the principle of trading provides that ‘price first, time first’ to aggregate transactions. When everyone is to stop the price of the commission, that is ‘time priority’. And when everyone is commissioned in the first second, it is only ‘who channel fast who priority’. Do super short, hit the board people and so on, will need this second in particular. And most people don’t actually use it.” Chang Jin said.
The famous stock analysis software was “copycat”
The victim described the opening of the so-called “institutional account”, will be pulled separately to a small group of WeChat, by the so-called “institutional account specialist” is responsible for guidance. The commissioner had told Wang Ren that the institutional account only has more advantages than the ordinary account authority, except for the advantages of operation, the rest is the same as the ordinary account.
This institutional account, surprisingly, is the famous stock analysis software “Tongdaxin” cottage version, LOGO and the genuine “Tongdaxin” exactly the same.
The genuine “Tongdaxin” belongs to Shenzhen Fortune Trend (151.73+1.95%, consulting shares) Technology Co. Since its entry into the online trading field, Tongdaxin has successfully completed the construction and maintenance of online trading systems at the headquarters level of many brokerage firms. It is a leading software provider of online trading system business innovation and technical performance indicators.
The reporter consulted the genuine “Access” official customer service, its staff said that if you want to trade through the software need to open an account at a regular brokerage firm, the software has never been with the so-called “Chiron Private Equity” has any ” The software has never had any “institutional account” cooperation with the so-called “Chiron Private Equity”.
“I’ve never used the company myself, but there is indeed a search online. The staff sent me a QR code, through the WeChat scan code to place an order, you can download this software.” Wang Ren recalls.
In fact, the genuine “Access” APP, in the cell phone store can be downloaded. In order to confuse the victims, “Chiron Private Equity” deliberately put forward the concept of institutional accounts, so that their own QR codes come in handy.
Wang Ren downloaded the so-called “institutional account”, registered according to the instructions, entered the institutional invitation code, completed the real name authentication, and bound the bank card. He found that his previous 288 yuan red packet was really in the account, and successfully completed the withdrawal.
According to the victim’s feedback, the cottage “Tongdaxin” institutional account is quite realistic. It shows the market and the A-share real-time market synchronization, victims can directly place orders to buy stocks, but also smoothly withdraw cash.
Zhang Penfu initially deposited 80,000, after contacting the “assistant”, also smoothly put forward 60,000 yuan. Since then, he is more comfortable with this software, think can invest.
Screenshot of the fake “Tomodachi” APP / provided by the interviewee
The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the market.
“The money inside is the number, how much you want to adjust how much, the retailer to the account (deposit), in fact, is transferred to the virtual disk designer set bank account, and then the designer in the retailer’s virtual account to change a corresponding number.” He said.
How can investment money flow into such companies?
With the opening of the “institutional account”, “Chiron Private Equity” has long been sharpening its knife.
“The company’s main goal is to provide the best possible service to its customers. It needs a lot of money to be invested, not less than 300,000 for each stock. ‘Miao Rui Xue’ also told me that many of the group feedback with her to keep up with Mr. Li this sitting, ready to change the house for a car.” Wang Ren said.
Wang Ren was not able to “get on” because of the small amount of money. On the other hand, Zhang Benfu is eager to try.
“The teacher said in the classroom, institutions and securities companies applied for a number of new shares to play the new, play the new can basically double, let the students seize the opportunity.” Zhang Penfu said he was keen to seize the moment, do a handful of work before the New Year and call it a day. “Because the institutional account can not always be given to you, and the teacher did speak too much bull.”
“In fact, at this time, after brainwashing, my IQ has basically fallen off the line.” Zhang Penfu said with a bitter smile.
So, according to the instruction, Zhang Penfu chose to entrust the institution to subscribe to the new shares, and indeed came the news of winning, he was excited to get money everywhere and anxiously waiting for the opening. “I was very excited, at that time in the group said, tomorrow will eat meat, I do not require high, can double is very good.”
Shandong’s Zhang Qi is eyeing two new stocks, when told that it is best to prepare at least 130,000 yuan each, he borrowed 300,000 yuan through online loans, all put into the “institutional account”.
“The next day, he said he had won 16 more sticks and deposited a total of 700,000. Zhou Li said he did not have that much money on hand, he sold his car, and borrowed 300,000 from friends and relatives.
Everyone was longing for the joy of making a profit and was glad to have seized the opportunity.
And with the benefit of hindsight, the victims’ money was commonly paid into other small company accounts provided by Chiron Private Equity.
“At that time asked Chiron Private Equity, the response received was that it was a sub-account of the branch below the company.” Zhang Penfu said.
According to incomplete statistics, these receipts of the company is located in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, Jining, Shandong, Ningbo, Zhejiang, Leshan, Sichuan, Hebei Cangzhou and many other places, most of them are small companies established in a relatively short period of time, the sky eye search shows that many companies have 0 participants, and even a new company just established in December 2020.
The China Fund reporter called each of the four companies according to the phone number left, only Jining a network technology limited company’s phone was answered, but after saying that the company has stopped operating, it immediately hung up the phone.
Withdrawal of cash when the institution suddenly “missing”
The funds entered, is the time to harvest.
The stock hit the new profit, the account has soared to more than 3 million, Zhang Benfu decided to immediately close, withdraw money to withdraw.
When Zhang Penfu withdrew the money, it showed the software system maintenance. At this time he did not realize the danger, but also told the “assistant”, this time also hard work, willing to provide 100,000 yuan as a hard payment. But the assistant thanked Zhang Benfu and replied that he also had a commission.
When Zhang Penfu contacted the assistant again the next day, he found that he had been blacked out.
The first thing you need to do is to try your luck in the group, but after you say a word, you are kicked out and your QQ is also blacked out. And previously been in contact with their own speculation group of friends, never again moved.
Zhou Li bought the new shares up not small, but withdrawals repeatedly failed. He contacted the assistant he had been in contact with before and asked to bring up the principal. But the assistant casually flung a WeChat receipt code and asked Zhou Li to send a red packet. After Zhou Li refused, the other party directly flipped out and pulled Zhou Li black.
Zhou Li then looked at the account that had been sending audio chats with herself but never sent video chats, feeling “as if the machine was controlling her WeChat”.
On Sina Weibo, a user posted that his father had been cheated out of 219,000 yuan of his retirement money.
Unable to withdraw cash, the assistant disappeared, and no way to claim compensation are the common status quo for all victims. Many victims have chosen to report the case, but are still waiting for the progress of the case.
Victims’ losses may exceed 20 million
According to the victims interviewed by China Fund News, in January this year, the victims special QQ group for preliminary statistics, found that the group encountered Chiron private placement fraud loss amounted to more than 20 million yuan. “And the country may still have a large number of victims who failed to show up and speak out.”
And on the Zhihu platform, a question about “is the Chiron private equity fund real or a scam?” A reply to the question received 192 comments, with a large number of users exposing themselves as having been scammed by Chiron private equity funds this year.
“I suspected many times that it was fake, but convinced myself.” Zhang Penfu said afterwards, at that time, the daily live broadcast showed that there were 30,000 to 40,000 people watching, while the live broadcast spoke only a few dozen people. However, with the group of “groupies” will call their own voice calls, as stockholders to communicate, his wariness and slowly down.
The encounter of Ms. Zhao Li, Jiangsu, is even more bizarre.
The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to its customers. “They said they had to get 320,000 together, or even if it was a violation, 50,000 yuan could not be taken out.”
Zhao Li said she did not have so much money, the assistant let her go inside the group to borrow from the group. The result is that some people in the group help her subscribe, “this 5 hands that 5 hands, but ultimately 8 hands short, equivalent to I have to pay several tens of thousands.” At this point, Zhao Li really can not afford to pay these payments, the assistant began to yell at her dishonesty.
Zhao Li said, “Is it a scam?” and was kicked out. The company’s main goal is to provide the best possible service to its customers.
“It was a nightmare for me, a stock market novice.” She recalls.
The real “Tomodachi” issued a statement
The “copycat” company Wealthy Trend has issued a statement on January 28 this year, saying that the Division’s software should be downloaded and used through the Division’s official website, please be wary of scanning various unidentified QR codes, fake website or software of the illegal trading method.
The statement said that the Division has recently received a number of feedback from lawless elements posing as the Company to provide illegal securities business services to users, including but not limited to posing as a customer service call to recommend stocks or invite customers to join the stock exchange group, forging the Division’s QR code, website, software, etc. to induce users to transfer funds and transactions, falsely claiming to speculate on stocks through the special channel for users of the Tongdaxin institution, posing as The company has also been promoting stock trading and recommending illegal software by posing as an analyst of the company.
For example, recently some unscrupulous elements claiming to be Chiron Private Equity Fund and falsely claiming to have joined hands with AccessChina to open institutional accounts, recommending the so-called institutional software “AccessChina Institutional” to investors to buy one-word shares and play new stocks, and transferring funds to a public account or private account provided by the other party (this is mostly an illegal activity fund transfer). After that, the funds cannot be transferred out.
Wealth Trend said that the company is mainly engaged in securities information technology services and securities information services, and has never provided any investment advisory services to investors, or provided any securities services and information intermediary services to investors, nor has it asked investors to pay the relevant money to any personal account or institutional account.
Lawyer’s view: there are obvious flaws in the scam
Guangdong Rongguan Law Firm full-time lawyer Chen Huifang said, from the available information, the behavior of the “giant wave of private equity” suspected of fraud. And in a similar stock recommendation scam, the usual method is that in addition to one or two victims are real investors, other personnel (including teachers, institutional personnel and investors claiming investment profits) are TO, the fraudulent group can control the trading system through the background, control the rise and fall, the implementation of fraud.
“In this kind of scam investors to defend their rights difficult: one is that the owner is using a virtual identity, or even online purchase of other people’s cell phone numbers, QQ accounts, etc., can not correspond with the identity of the subject of the implementation of the crime. Second, this kind of fraud gang may be transnational crime, the base, server, big brother in the foreign country, involving the problem of transnational crime. Thirdly, the fund receiving account may be the account of an unrelated subject outside the case purchased by the fraud gang, except for the bank account number which is real, all others are fake. Fourth, the fraudulent group will generally carry out short term operations, fraud for a period of time will destroy the evidence and virtual disk, vacate the cage to implement other new frauds. Fifth, investors are relatively scattered, it is difficult to report the case.” She said.
But Chen Huifang believes that, in fact, investors can see through the many irrational aspects of this scam as long as they remain rational.
First, it is the so-called private equity funds and cottage software do not have securities-related qualifications, and these so-called teachers do not have documented information that can be verified.
Secondly, the APPs involved are downloaded through links rather than through regular app stores, and may also suggest risks during the download process, so you should be wary at this point.
Once again, the transferred funds did not enter the regular institutional account, but transferred to a third-party company account.
For now many investors like to participate in live courses, so that the “teacher” to guide the speculation. Chen Huifang said, in the handling of similar cases found that many “teachers” are actually not familiar with finance, and even no experience in stock speculation, they are able to guide investors to speculate, one is a fixed teaching techniques, the second is a fraudulent group of internal division of labor cooperation, investors see others in the group have benefited, interest-driven and ignore the risk.
“For this kind of phenomenon, first of all, it is recommended to choose formal institutions and qualified personnel, followed by the need to choose genuine securities trading software for operation, once again or to make clear that investment has risks, market entry must be cautious, for the propaganda of stable earnings must be extra cautious.” She concluded.
(At the request of the interviewee, Zhang Penfu, Zhang Qi, Zhou Li, Wang Ren, Chang Jin and Zhao Li are all pseudonyms)
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