Second, a variety of criminal acts are intertwined. Criminals interweave illegal fund-raising with economic crimes such as pyramid schemes and contract fraud. They use pyramid schemes to brainwash fund-raisers, promise various preferential conditions and profit models, and then lure fund-raisers to set up sets at different levels.
Third, illegal fund-raising propaganda at all costs, using the media to create momentum. For example, celebrity endorsements are hired, exclusive articles are published in some media, and reports are used to publicize the "performance" of illegal enterprises.
_ 1. What are the common illegal fund-raising methods?
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. Illegal fund-raising through membership cards, membership cards, seat cards, discount cards, consumer cards, etc. ;
5. Illegal fund-raising by means of commodity sales and leaseback, repurchase and transfer, membership development, business joining, and "quick integral method";
6, the use of private "societies", "societies" and other organizations or underground banks for illegal fund-raising;
7. Use virtual goods such as "electronic stores" and "electronic department stores" to promote investment and return illegal fund-raising;
8. Divide property, 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;
10, illegally raising funds in the form of pyramid schemes or secret series;
1 1, illegal fund-raising in the form of investment funds through the Internet;
12, illegally raising funds in the form of "electronic gold investment".
2. What are the common means of illegal fund-raising?
1, promising high returns
In order to attract the broad masses to be deceived, criminals often fabricate the myth of "pie falling from the sky" and "getting rich overnight" and promise investors high returns by profiteering. In order to defraud more people to participate in fund-raising, illegal fund-raisers often promise to pay the principal and interest in full and on time at the initial stage of fund-raising, and then secretly transfer funds or abscond with money after the fund-raising reaches a certain scale, causing economic losses to fund-raising participants.
2. Fabricate false items
By registering legitimate companies or enterprises, criminals mostly fabricate false projects under the banner of responding to national industrial policies, supporting new rural construction and practicing "economic theory", promise high fixed income, and defraud public investment through registration contracts. Under the guise of entrusted financial management, some lawless elements deliberately confuse the concept of investment and financial management, confuse the public with new terms such as electronic gold, investment fund, online speculation and e-commerce, promise to stabilize high returns and deceive public investment.
3. Create momentum with false propaganda.
In order to cheat the public's trust, criminals often spend a lot of money on publicity, by hiring celebrities to speak for them, publishing exclusive articles in famous newspapers, hiring people to distribute leaflets widely, and making social donations. , in order to increase publicity, create false momentum, cheat the public investment. Some lawless elements use cyberspace to build websites in different places or rent overseas servers to build websites. Some also spread false information through websites, blogs, forums and other online platforms and instant messaging tools such as QQ and MSN to defraud public investment. Once checked, the website will be closed quickly, and the following lines will abscond with money in the name of not operating according to the rules.
4. Use emotions to cheat
Criminals often use relatives, friends, fellow villagers and other relationships to lure the public to participate in investment with high returns. Some people involved in pyramid schemes, under the mental brainwashing or personal coercion of pyramid schemes, do not hesitate to use their family and geographical relations to attract relatives, friends, classmates or neighbors to join, so that participants spread rapidly and the scale of fund-raising continues to expand.
Legal basis:
Criminal law of the people's Republic of China
Article 192 Crime of fund-raising fraud: whoever illegally raises funds by fraudulent means for the purpose of illegal possession, if the amount is relatively large, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention, and shall also be fined not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan; If the amount is huge or there are other serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than ten years, and shall also be fined not less than 50,000 yuan but not more than 500,000 yuan;
If the amount is especially huge or there are other especially serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years or life imprisonment, and shall also be fined not less than 50,000 yuan but not more than 500,000 yuan or confiscated property.