1. What are the means of illegal fund-raising? 1, illegally raising funds in the name of planting, breeding, project development, manor development, ecological and environmental protection investment, etc. 2. Illegal fund-raising in the name of issuing or disguised shares, bonds, lottery tickets, investment funds and other rights certificates or futures trading or pawn. 3. Illegal fund-raising by claiming shares and participating in dividends. 4. Illegally raise funds through membership cards, membership cards, seat cards, discount cards and consumer cards. 5. Illegal fund-raising by means of commodity sales and leaseback, repurchase and transfer, membership development, business alliance and "quick points method". 6, the use of "social" and "social" and other non-governmental organizations or underground banks for illegal fund-raising. 7. "Virtual" products such as "electronic stores" and "electronic department stores" built by modern electronic network technology are entrusted for investment, and they are repurchased for illegal fund-raising. 8. Divide real estate, real estate and other assets equally, and illegally raise funds by selling their share disposal rights. 9. Illegal fund-raising in the form of signing commodity distribution contracts. 2. What are the main features of illegal fund-raising? 1, without the approval of relevant departments according to law, including fund-raising without the approval of departments with approval authority; The department with the power of examination and approval ultra vires to approve fund-raising, that is, the fund-raiser does not have the qualification of fund-raising subject. 2. Promise to repay the principal and interest to investors within a certain period of time. Debt service is mainly in the form of money, but there are also physical and other forms. 3. Raise funds from unspecified social objects. The "unspecified object" here refers to the public, not a specific minority. 4. Cover up the essence of illegal fund-raising in a legal form. In order to cover up their illegal purposes, criminals often sign contracts with investors (victims) and pretend to be normal production and business activities in order to maximize their ultimate goal of defrauding funds. 3. What are the penalties for fund-raising fraud? Whoever commits the crime of fund-raising fraud shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention and fined not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years and fined not less than 50,000 yuan but not more than 500,000 yuan; Whoever commits the crime of fund-raising fraud, if the circumstances are particularly serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10, life imprisonment, and a fine of not less than 50,000 yuan but not more than 500,000 yuan or confiscation of property; Whoever commits the crime of fund-raising fraud, the amount of which is especially huge, causing particularly heavy losses to the interests of the state and the people, shall be sentenced to life imprisonment and confiscation of property. To sum up, the number of victims of illegal fund-raising cases is large and the amount is large, which poses a threat to the economic order and the property safety of ordinary people. With the development of the Internet, there are more and more means of illegal fund-raising, and there are also many cases of issuing virtual wealth management products through peer-to-peer lending platforms to raise funds. For investors, we must keep our eyes open and effectively identify illegal fund-raising.