What are the virtual currencies of pyramid selling and fraud
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
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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
CCTV has just exposed a list of currencies suspected of pyramid selling and fraud, as well as more than 1000 digital currencies that had been declared dead
The 60 kinds of pyramid selling virtual currencies broadcast by CCTV news include MBI, m3, Diablo, Asian currency, star currency, Jinyuan shopping alliance e-currency, Changjiang international virtual currency, qileba, micro TV media e-currency, bonus point currency, virtual gold coin, HGC, COA, LFG, Sri, bismall, ahkcap, CPF, Yifen, K currency, R currency, Baichuan currency, K Bao, Zhongfu Tongbao, Hongtong currency, etc Raines e-money
Global BlackRock No.1, Glasberg, BCI, m, wing, EV, performance, FIS, u, ES, zangbao performance, huiai e-money, jianyipan e-money, subsidy, hftag, Kaixin compound interest, kuailinian virtual currency, Shihua currency, ente currency, CPM, Kara currency and supreme currency
there are at least 65 kinds of "virtual currency" with different names, such as Wuhua union virtual currency, Meisheng e, Zhonghua currency, Mimi virtual currency, FIS, world Yunlian cloud currency, Liwu currency, Vicat currency, mark currency, Shanxin currency, Wuji currency, ATC, IPC, central currency, Wuxing currency, huiai currency and nautical currency
in the 141 cases of virtual currency pyramid selling found on China's judicial documents, the number of such criminal cases is increasing year by year. In 2014, the court ruled 5 cases, and then increased by multiple, to 62 cases in 2017. According to the judgment documents, among the above-mentioned virtual currency pyramid schemes, "Vicat" has the highest amount of money involved, with a total of 7 billion, and its global membership number is 10770000, with the largest number
in terms of the development scale of MLM organizations in China, "cloud coin" (also known as world UnionPay and world cloud Alliance Network MLM platform) has the largest number of MLM organizations (4391449); Second, the "dark money" pyramid marketing organization has developed more than 3.4 million members
source of reference: phoenix.com - virtual money pyramid scheme: 65 kinds of pyramid schemes cheat 10 million people, over 10 billion
The 60 kinds of illegal virtual currencies are as follows (ranking in no particular order):
1 ~ 10: MBI, m3, Diablo, Asian currency, star currency, Jinyuan shopping alliance e-currency, Changjiang international virtual currency, five element currency, micro media e-currency, bonus point currency
11 ~ 20: virtual gold coin, HGC, central coin, LFG, Sri, huiai coin, nautical coin, CPF, Yifen, K coin
21 ~ 30: R coin, Baichuan coin, kbao, Zhongfu Tongbao, Hongtong coin, Raines electronic currency, global BlackRock No.1 financial currency, Glasberg, BCI, m coin
31 ~ 40: Wing coin, ev coin, performance coin, FIS, u coin, ES, zangbao net performance coin, huiai e-coin, Jianye disk e-coin and subsidy coin
41 ~ 50: hftag, Kaixin compound currency, kuailine virtual currency, Shihua currency, ente currency, CPM, carat currency, supreme currency, Wuhua union virtual currency, Meisheng E
51 ~ 60: Chinese currency, Mimi virtual currency, FIS, world Yunlian cloud currency, Liwu currency, Vicat currency, mark currency, kindness currency, Wuji currency, ATC
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well known virtual currencies, such as network currency of network company, Q currency of Tencent company, Q point and voucher of Shanda company, micro currency launched by Sina (used for micro game, Sina reading, etc.), chivalrous Yuanbao (used for chivalrous road game), and Wenyin (used for bixue Qingtian game)
the popular digital currencies in 2013 are bitcoin, Leyte coin, infinite coin, quark coin, zeta coin, BBQ coin, pennies (Internet), invisible gold bar, red coin and prime currency
At present, there are more than 100 kinds of digital currency in the world. Popular in the circle & quot; The legend of "bitcoin, Wright silver, infinite copper, pennies aluminum"according to the notice and announcement issued by the people's Bank of China and other departments, virtual currency is not issued by the monetary authority, does not have legal compensation and mandatory monetary attributes, is not a real currency, does not have the same legal status as currency, cannot and should not be used as currency in the market circulation, and citizens' investment and transaction of virtual currency are not protected by law
the earliest appearance of the former was in 2015. In the two years from 2015 to 2017, the personnel of Vicat MLM organizations, through false propaganda, selling Vicat, holding various propaganda meetings and establishing class system, led to more than 200 countries and more than 3 million people being cheated. Although in 2017, Vicat coins have been cracked, a total of 119 backbone were arrested. However, e to the large number of people involved in Vicat, even if the backbone is captured, some offline people are still using Vicat to continue to commit fraud. In the first half of 2018, many people found signs of recovery of Vicat
top 2: mchain (M-chain or MCC)
mchain, formerly known as M-chain or MCC, appeared in the second half of 2017. Through the Ethereum blockchain, the personnel of MCC pyramid marketing organization generated token MCC for free. Through careful packaging (for example, putting token MCC online to some unknown Shanzhai exchanges, inventing Galaxy online entertainment platform and cloud mining machine), they attracted investors to invest and promised high returns to investors. After investors take the t, MCC MLM organizations will ince investors to develop offline through other means< At present, MCC has not been detected by the police and is still active. However, Yuhang Public Security Bureau and Zhejiang Economic Investigation Bureau have already issued a warning, hoping that you will not easily get on the stolen ship that has lost your property
Top 3 of MLM: radar coin (ADAR)
radar coin appeared in 2014 and was exposed as a pyramid scheme by CCTV and public security in many places. It was once known as the largest online MLM project in China, but up to now, radar coin is still active
radar coin mainly relies on the Internet and community for promotion. As few people knew the concept of mining in the early years, radar coin was introced to store or promote the concept of mining, and it has continued to this day. As early as 2016, radar coin was stripped out, formerly known as VPAL (also pyramid scheme), because the source code of radar coin and VPAL is consistent, and radar coin uses the domain name of VPAL<
Top 4 of MLM coin: LCC (light cone)
LCC is a MLM coin scam that appeared around November 2017. MLM organization staff incited investors to take the initiative to invest and develop offline by manipulating prices and drawing big cakes. In just a few months, it expanded the scope of fraud to more than 10 provinces and cities in China, resulting in 50000-80000 people being cheated, The amount involved reached 4.9 billion yuan. At present, the top management of LCC pyramid marketing organization has been arrested by the police
Top 5 of MLM coin: Xinghan chain (SGC)
Xinghan chain was launched in September 2017. Like all MLM coins, Xinghan chain often holds various conferences at home and abroad to attract members and publicize Xinghan chain. Although the people of Xinghan chain pyramid scheme deliberately designed a complex algorithm in an attempt to cover up the fact of incing investors to go offline, it is just like mmm, the world's largest Ponzi scheme, and static income sold them out
in December last year, Xinghan chain was singled out as MLM. Five days later, it was suspected of MLM by Changsha crackdown office. In April this year, it was reported as MLM by many media platforms< Top 6: electric energy chain (EEC)
there is no official website, no white paper, nor shangshanzhai exchange. The only white paper with a little technical content is completely copied. The transaction is purely by manual transfer. If you transfer 1000 yuan, you will be charged 500, and if you transfer 2000 yuan, you will be charged 1000. At first glance, I thought it was charging QQ card. Buy 1000 coins a year, only 12 coins of income, to profit completely depends on the development of offline. It was exposed in May this year that it is a pyramid scheme< Top 7: popular money (TPC)
popular money appeared around may 2017 and was exposed as MLM by Hong Kong East weekly on February 4 this year. TPC has white papers, official websites, wallets, exchanges, points websites, game applications, and formal business licenses. It has a clear division of labor and strict discipline. No one would have thought that it would be a pyramid selling coin if it did not need to pay a threshold fee of 40000 yuan for one person and get a rebate for joining the army< In late March of this year, Datang launched illegal pyramid selling in the name of blockchain all over the country, and in just 18 days, it expanded its registered members to more than 13000, involving 31 provinces, cities and autonomous regions. Xi'an police set up a special team to destroy the case after receiving the report. According to the statistics after the incident, the amount of money involved in the case exceeded 80 million yuan, and this case has become the first "blockchain" mega network pyramid selling case in China
Top 9: Hero chain (HEC)
hero chain was listed on January 13 this year. Investors hesitated and repeatedly decided to report the case when people on the platform were cheated, the currency price plummeted and the market value evaporated by 90%. On March 14, 2018, the hero chain was put on file for investigation, and the relevant person in charge disappeared immediately after putting on file
Top 10: PMD (pyramid)
PMD was launched in June 2018, which completely imitated MCC's pyramid selling routine. After careful packaging, virtual cloud miner carried out fraud and hierarchical pyramid selling. Because PMD imitates MCC too much, it was discovered by the people of MCC MLM organization and exposed
top 11: WSC
WSC appeared around February this year. There is no white paper. The so-called official website is also composed of some scattered words and pictures. The staff of the pyramid marketing organization of Wenshang chain invented the cloud miner and launched the "welfare" of sending miner after registration to attract members. After the investors took the t, the staff of the pyramid marketing organization of Wenshang chain would pull the investors to the "business school" for centralized brainwashing training and development offline
Top 12: DK appeared at the end of 2015, which completely imitated the operation mode of MMM and learned from the experience of MMM crash, changed the realization time, promised 1% income and cheated investors. If investors think that the return of static income is slow, the people of the tic money pyramid marketing organization will encourage investors to develop offline, and set up a 20 layer pyramid hierarchical system, so that the leeks that have been locked up can trick new leeks into the pit. As the operation mode of tic is constantly changing, and its behavior is relatively low-key, so TIC has not been able to attract the attention of relevant departments and is still active
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China does not have the first legal virtual currency. At the end of 2013, the central bank and other five ministries and commissions issued the bitcoin risk notice, which clearly defined bitcoin as a special Internet commodity, and the public can buy and sell it freely on the premise of taking their own risks
other digital confidential currencies are also suitable, such as Laite coin, the ancestor of Shanzhai coin, Fuyuan coin for business points in jewelry instry, dog coin for small reward, etc. But although virtual currency exists legally in our country, it is illegal to cheat under the guise of virtual currency
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as the proct of e-commerce, virtual currency has begun to play an increasingly important role, and it is more and more connected with the real world. However, with the growth of virtual currency, the relevant laws and regulations are lagging behind, which has laid many hidden dangers
fraud
the private transactions of online virtual currency have realized the two-way circulation between virtual currency and RMB to a certain extent. The activity of these traders is to buy all kinds of virtual currencies and procts at a low price, and then sell them at a high price to earn profits. With the increase of such transactions, there are even virtual mints
in addition to the virtual currency provided by the main company, there are also some people who specialize in "virtual coin making" to obtain virtual currency by playing games and then resell it to other players. Take Wenzhou as an example, there are about seven or eight such "virtual mints" with four or five hundred practitioners. This not only creates a bubble for the price of the virtual currency itself, but also causes trouble for the normal sale of the issuing company. It also provides a platform for selling and collecting money and money laundering for various cyber crimes. p>
impact system
in modern financial system, the issuers of money are generally central banks, which are responsible for the management and supervision of money operation. As the equivalent exchange goods used to replace the real currency circulation on the Internet, the virtual currency on the Internet is essentially the same as the real currency. The difference is that the issuers are no longer central banks, but Internet companies
if the development of virtual currency makes it form a unified market, each company can exchange with each other, or virtual currency is integrated and unified, and all of them are based on the same standard and price, then in a sense, virtual currency is currency, which is likely to form a threat impact on the traditional financial system or economic operation
network problems
in addition to direct cash, virtual currency can also be purchased by SMS, internet transfer and fixed telephone recharge. These ways of purchase not only provide convenience for users, but also have many risks
such as embezzlement of telephone recharge and purchase by minors. In addition, virtual currency does not have the anti-counterfeiting technology of real currency. Computer hackers may use its security loopholes to proce counterfeit currency. Relevant personnel of the State Administration for Instry and Commerce said that virtual currency transaction is a business behavior derived from the Internet era, and there are no clear legal provisions to regulate it, and there are no items related to virtual goods transaction in the scope of instrial and commercial registration
but when the virtual property transaction graally employs people, places are fixed, transaction profits are clear, and has the nature of operation, it may involve market order and tax issues. Even game operators have no ability to control. There are a large number of "counterfeit banknote makers" in the network. Take the winger who is mainly engaged in chess and card online games as an example, the purchasing power of his online currency has shrunk by nearly 40% in one year. Many people point out that such inflation will only damage netizens and make them lose confidence in the Internet
reference source : network virtual currency
in order to protect the right of privacy, the specific name will not be released, such as the case of "Wanfu coin of future city" organized and led pyramid selling activities cracked in Xuzhou, and the official name of its leader is Liu Mou Ben
reporters in some "Wan Fu" promotion website and official account, many of the title of Liu, including the president of the global future city group, former vice governor of California, etc., and many pictures of Liu and foreign dignitaries and celebrities. In order to develop more members, Mr. Liu also held a huge investment promotion conference in Bali, Indonesia, Hong Kong and other places, attracting thousands of people from China
Liu also claimed that "Wanfu coin" was approved by the US Securities Regulatory Commission and the China Banking Regulatory Commission and would soon apply for a direct sales license in China. According to police investigation, "Wanfu coin" as a virtual digital currency has no legal basis to apply for direct marketing license in China, which is purely fictitiousaccording to the relevant person in charge of Xuzhou public security bureau, "Wanfu coin" reflects the new characteristics of the current MLM
1. In the name of virtual currency, virtual currency is a new thing for pyramid selling. At the same time, it is attractive under the banner of e-commerce, personal finance and distance ecation, which is not understood by the general public and easy to be deceived
2. Development members on the Internet are all carried out on the Internet, and members can only join the MLM through the website, and the user names used are pseudonyms or code names, and they all have their own login passwords. They chat with each other mainly through wechat. This has changed the traditional mode of setting up a studio and a newspaper center to organize activities, and increased the concealment of MLM
3. Spread on the Internet
the Internet makes the pyramid selling break through the restrictions of regions and national boundaries. The backbone personnel of pyramid selling often set their headquarters abroad, hide abroad and issue orders. It is difficult to arrest, recover stolen goods and get rid of the roots when funds are transferred abroad
according to the police, there are 100 or 200 kinds of "virtual currency" publicized on the Internet, which is hard to distinguish between true and false. The use of virtual currency for illegal fund-raising, pyramid selling, fraud and other criminal activities are frequent, investors should carefully screen
has the final say:
virtual currency network platform features
1, hype "new concept"
virtual currency network platform has very flexible form, often make only superficial changes, many are just made some concepts, all "game rules" are all platform based, there is a very big black box operation space. p>
2. Advocate "zero risk"
"real zero risk, only make no loss financial project", "China's first FC virtual currency is born, will create countless millionaires again"... The reporter saw that on a flyer page of FC virtual currency, there is such a slogan. A "player" told reporters that other "players" also claimed that in the future, a coin can buy a house
In the case of Yiyang network platform, many participants are over 60 years old, and the oldest is close to 80 years old. They usually spend most of their time at home with their grandchildren. They don't understand the Internet, and they listen to others. The elderly have accumulated a certain amount of wealth, and they don't know much about new things, so it's difficult to identify false propaganda, so it's easy to become the target of these network platformsif you don't understand digital currency, you'd better not touch it. The water of digital currency is very deep. Digital currency is even more chaotic, deception is repeated. If you are interested, you can first learn about the crowdfunding project token on coin Ying China platform.