With the development of our country’s economy, the economic level of citizens is also constantly improving. At this stage, with the development of online investment platforms, more and more citizens will be involved in the investment field. When illegal After elements use deceptive means to illegally raise funds, will the economic investigation team accept the case? According to relevant regulations, the crime of illegal fund-raising is managed by the economic investigation brigade of the local public security bureau. 1. Illegal fund-raising acceptance department Illegal fund-raising is managed by the economic investigation brigade of the public security bureaus at the county level and above. The Economic Investigation Brigade of the Public Security Bureau is mainly engaged in the investigation of economic crimes. It is a general term for the special investigative measures and coercive measures taken in accordance with the law to obtain relevant evidence to prove whether there are criminal facts, the severity of the crime, and to capture criminal suspects. 2. Specific means of illegal fund-raising affect increasingly wide areas. Cases occur from time to time in traditional fields such as commodity marketing, resource development, planting and breeding, and investment guarantees. Emerging fields such as lending and financial management, private equity, virtual currency, and consumer rebates have gradually become illegal fund-raising. A crime hotspot. In particular, illegal fund-raising crimes have become a common pattern on the Internet, with more prominent cross-border features and faster accumulation of infection. It is worth noting that many low-income people, farmers, and retired people participated. In some cases, more than half of the participants were elderly. Many people invested their "pension money" and "life-saving money" in the fund-raising, and almost lost everything. . (1) Promise high returns and fabricate the myth of "pie in the sky" and "becoming rich overnight". The lure of huge profits is the only way for all fraud criminals to deceive the public. In order to attract more people, criminals often promise investors high returns in the form of rewards, points rebates, etc. In order to defraud more people to participate in fund-raising, illegal fund-raisers first cash in the principal and interest of early investors in full and on time, and then use the funds of later fund-raisers to cash in the previous principal and interest. After reaching a certain scale, He transferred the funds secretly and absconded with the money. (2) Fabricate false projects or enter into trap contracts to trick the masses into the quagmire step by step. Criminals defraud people's funds in the name of planting cactus, spirulina, aloe, dragon fruit, cordyceps, breeding ants, black guinea pigs, sika deer, poultry recycling, etc. Some use the name of developing so-called high-tech products to absorb public deposits; They fabricate false projects such as afforestation and fund-raising for building houses to deceive the masses into "investing in shares"; some promise high fixed incomes to absorb public deposits by renting back shops. (3) Confusing the concept of investment and financial management, causing the public to lose judgment in front of dazzling new terms. Some criminals use new terms such as electronic gold, investment funds, and online foreign exchange speculation to confuse the public, pretending to be new investment tools or financial products; some use new business operations such as monopoly, agency, franchise chain, consumer value-added rebate, and e-commerce. way to deceive the public into investing. (4) Dress up the appearance and use the appearance of legality or celebrity effect to deceive the trust of the public. In order to give their criminal activities a legal appearance, criminals often set up companies and go through complete industrial and commercial licenses, tax registration and other procedures to conceal their illegal purposes without having actual operations or investment projects. These companies rent office space in luxury office buildings, hire celebrities for advertisements, and increase publicity to deceive the public's trust. (5) Use the Internet to commit crimes and evade attack through virtual space. Criminals rent overseas servers to set up websites or locate them in other places. They usually use code names or screen names to attract people. Some also use online platforms such as websites, blogs, forums, and instant messaging tools such as QQ and MSN to spread false information and deceive the public. Once they are investigated, they will quickly close the website and abscond with the money in the name of offline operations not following the rules. Before absconding, he also issued a so-called notice, asking offline personnel to remember their performance and promising to return rebates in the future, in order to stabilize the defrauded people. (6) Use mental, physical coercion or family deception to continuously expand the number of victims. Many illegal fund-raising participants are persuaded by relatives and friends to participate in low-risk, high-reward activities. Criminals often use relationships with relatives, friends, fellow villagers, etc. to lure them with high interest rates to illegally obtain funds. Some MLM personnel who have already joined, under the mental brainwashing or physical coercion of the MLM organization, in order to complete or increase their performance, do not hesitate to use family and geographical connections to win over relatives, friends, classmates or neighbors to join. Some even involve their parents, spouses and children. They don't let go, causing family estrangement and human tragedy. In recent years, due to the rapid development of the Internet and the high yields of online investment platforms, many people will invest through online platforms. Here we also remind citizens that they must go through legal and formal procedures after making investments. After encountering illegal fund-raising, the victimized citizens should also keep relevant evidence and report the case to the relevant departments in a timely manner.