Editors Note: This article comes fromHoneycomb Finance News (ID: fengchao-caijing), Author: Kyle, Editor: Wen Dao, reproduced by Odaily with authorization.
Editors Note: This article comes from
Honeycomb Finance News (ID: fengchao-caijing)
, Author: Kyle, Editor: Wen Dao, reproduced by Odaily with authorization.
On September 8, the Weibo blogger Kebi Ge revealed that a fan was cheated of 300,000 yuan by an exchange called Bi Ang, and the teacher who brought the order and the group of the exchange disappeared. The deceived are not new leeks who have just entered the currency circle. Many users in the currency circle reported that they have also planted the same pitfalls on platforms such as Baida and IOAEX.
Why on earth do these old leeks let down their vigilance and are willing to transfer money to a pheasant platform that they have never heard of?
The Honeycomb Finance survey found that since the first half of this year, a phone bombing targeting the currency community has continued to appear. A large number of users in the currency circle reported that they received calls claiming to be the customer service of major exchanges such as Huobi, OKEx, Binance, etc., and the other party invited users to watch in the group on the grounds that the exchange will hold a live event.
After joining the group, there will be live lectures by teachers every day. The content will be to analyze market trends, explain Fibonacci techniques, etc., and then the teacher will bring orders to do contract or leveraged transactions, allowing you to make a small profit.
The result is the scene at the beginning. The transferred coins never returned, and the teacher and the platform all disappeared. From customer service to pull people, to teachers giving lectures, bringing orders, and then disappearing after the pheasant platform is harvested, the whole process does not exceed 2 months at most.
Who the hell is calling? Where do you get user information? The unsolved mysteries behind the scam are terrifying to ponder.A key issue is the precise positioning of these pheasant platforms to the people in the currency circle. A person in the blockchain industry revealed that in his company of more than 10 people, all colleagues who have traded on large platforms have received similar calls.
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Teacher brings orders to put bait, users make small profits and big losses
Hi, Im the customer service of Huobi.com. We will soon hold a large-scale live broadcast with OK.com and Binance.com, and invite you to watch it in the group.
On July 24, Lu Yu received a call from Huobi’s customer service. He was indeed a Huobi user. He thought that the platform would hold some event, so he agreed to the other party’s WeChat addition request. The person who added him was named “Assistant - Li Jian.
At first, Lu Yu ignored the other party, and Li Jian didnt talk to him. The next day, Li Jian privately sent a message, Today the teachers top-secret policy came out, reply 666 and ask me for it.
Lu Yu was curious, where did Huobi’s customer service have such a top-secret policy? After he replied as required, the other party quickly sent a Word document, which contained some hot news in the currency circle, as well as a technical analysis of the market trend, and finally operation suggestions on BTC, ETH and other currencies.
Later, Li Jian appeared at the right time, There is good news. We have been notified that a famous teacher will come to our program group to explain everyones currency holding issues. You can come and find out.
Lu Yu clicked on the invitation link of Bi You Live Exchange Group sent by Li Jian. Many users in the group are actively discussing, and many people reported that they followed the teachers operation in the past few days and made back the money they lost before. This makes Lu Yu, who has lost a lot recently, eager to try.
Almost every day, Li Jian announced in this group that a famous teacher would come to do a live broadcast of the Big V Show, and invited users to enter the live broadcast room to watch the explanation. Lu Yu also watched the live broadcast. There is no real body of the teacher on the page, only the screen recording of the computer page. The teacher opens Huobi’s market page from time to time to explain, and marks and draws lines on the screen to analyze the market trend.
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Screenshot of Biyou Live Exchange Group
Listening to the professional vocabulary such as Fibonacci and Classic Wave Theory in the teachers mouth, Lu Yu felt that the teacher was very professional. I simply followed a few waves of operations and made money several times.
The live broadcast lasted for 1 month. Lu Yu told Honeycomb Finance that the main pushers in the group are three famous teachers, all of whom are named Li Qingfeng, Su Qin, and Song Zhenghao. They also organized a team competition. Users can choose a teacher to join the team, and Other teams compete for income.
At the beginning of September, Li Jian posted a message in the group saying that the one-month public beta period of the big V show is coming to an end. In the next week, the teachers will lead the team to start the profit doubling plan, and the group will be disbanded soon. I want to continue working with the teacher. Yes, you can chat with me privately.
Lu Yu found Li Jian, and the other party said that the teachers have settled in the Biang exchange, and only when trading on the Biang (Bitonex) can they participate in the profit doubling plan. The threshold for participation is to recharge 10,000 USDT.
Lu Yu has never heard of the platform Biang, and many people in the group have mentioned Biang and posted screenshots of transaction orders from time to time. When Li Jian mentioned recharging, Lu Yu asked cautiously, Arent you Huobi customer service? Why do you let me go to Binang to trade.
With the mentality of giving it a try, Lu Yu recharged 10,000 USDT to Biang, but all his positions were liquidated. Because of the doubling plan, the teacher asked us to use high leverage, but the direction was completely different. 10,000 USDT U quickly cleared.
Lu Yu thought about it, customer service, group friends, teachers, and Bi Ang are just different roles in a scam: customer service casts the net, teacher casts bait, group friends act as entrusted to create an atmosphere, and Bi Ang It is the sickle that finally closes the net, pointing at the coin speculators who have been lured into the scam step by step.After losing all the money, Lu Yu felt something was wrong. He asked Li Jian again, but the other party never heard back, and the once active communication group had also been disbanded. Only then did he realize that he couldnt contact anyone from Biang at all, whether it was the customer service or the group of friends who claimed to be trading in Biang, they all disappeared.
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Biangs twin platform has exploded
In the About Us column, Biang did not disclose team information, but generally stated that the core members of the company are composed of professionals with long-term experience in product development and operation in the Internet and financial fields and with an international perspective.
In the Contact Us section of the website, there is only an email address and a map of Singapore.
Honeycomb Finance tried to send an email as a user to inquire about the problem of unable to withdraw coins. The next day the other party replied that due to system maintenance, withdrawals need to be reviewed in order. It seems that long-term Internet professionals have not yet developed the automatic review and withdrawal function that mainstream exchanges basically implement.
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The USDT introduction appears in the Security of Binangs official website
If you search Bitonex’s domain name through the domain name query tool, “bitonex.app” is shown to have been created on July 20, 2019, exactly 4 days before Li Jian called Lu Yu. As of September 16, the age of the domain name is only 1 month and 17 days, and the expiration date is July 20, 2020.
Honeycomb Finance’s survey found that there have been many cases of calling users in the name of customer service of mainstream exchanges, pulling groups to give lectures, and finally diverting users to the “pheasant” platform to harvest coins.
As early as June this year, a Weibo user named flly broke the news that a platform called Hongtu Live cheated money by offering courses, They asked us to trade on the PATAOTC exchange, but they charged I can’t get the money out.” On Weibo, several users claimed that they were also deceived, and their experience of being deceived was exactly the same as that of Lu Yu.
On a lawyer consulting website, some netizens also posted that someone pretended to be an employee of Huobi.com and pulled him into the group to attend lectures. The live broadcast platform was Hongtu Live.
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Deceived Netizens Ask Questions on Lawyer Consulting Website
Honeycomb Finance landed on the website of Baida Exchange, and there was a deactivation announcement on the homepage: Due to external malicious attacks on the platform and malicious analysis of domain names, PATAOTC has potential security risks. terminated.
In the About Us column, there is also no team information, but there is a general introduction that is almost the same as that of Binang Exchange. Even the content in the Security column is exactly the same as the introduction of USDT. Its terms of service, users The agreement and other official website documents are also exactly the same as the related content of Biang.
Baida, which has already exploded, is very likely to be the predecessor of Biang, and the two trading platforms may be operated by the same group behind the scenes.Searching Baidas domain name through the tool shows that the domain name was created on March 20 this year and is also valid for one year. As of September 16, the domain age is 5 months and 27 days. In addition, the physical location of its domain name IP is the same as that of Binang Exchange, which is located in the Microsoft data center in Hong Kong.
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Scam copy user information widely leaked
Wang Haiyang (pseudonym), a practitioner in the currency circle, has long noticed such scams, but he is worried about another problem.
Wanting to see what kind of medicine the other party sells in the gourd, Wang Haiyang also agreed to let the other party join the group, There are also teachers who bring orders every day, but they are not very accurate. The customer service sends QR codes in the group every day, so that We registered an exchange called KBEX.
Seeing this, Wang Haiyang probably knew the other partys routine, Looking from the phone number of the phone call, they are not the customer service of Huobi and OK at all. The purpose is to gain trust and then divert them to the counterfeit platform to harvest.
He has long been concerned about the reminder announcements of Huobi, OKEx and other platforms that unknown persons pretended to be official customer service to defraud.
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Huobi has issued relevant risk warnings
The official website of KBEX is simpler than that of Biang. It only has a contract trading function, and even About Us and Contact Us are omitted. The website was created on July 29, less than two months so far, and the domain name IP is also located in Hong Kong.
In the interviews with many users, Honeycomb Finance found that there are many similar pheasant platforms that have appeared recently, including BYEX, IOAEX, UEX, etc., and the routines are similar.
At present, it is difficult to determine whether these pheasant platforms that have appeared together are operated by the same group or a rapid copy of the fraudulent model. What is clear is that this kind of deception of casting a wide net to catch fish has ravaged the currency circle.
Although Wang Haiyang was not fooled, he was shocked by the leakage of personal information. He revealed that there are a total of 10 people in the company, and colleagues who have traded on mainstream platforms have received similar customer service calls. They have precise positioning and a wide coverage. I dont know where the user information comes from.
He once asked the other party on the phone where he obtained his mobile phone information, and the answer he got was You have registered on many currency circle software, and we have cooperated with them, so we have your mobile phone number, and the other party comforted him Your No personal information was leaked.
If this is not a leak, then how can it be considered a leak? Wang Haiyang asked loudly, and there was a beep beep beep call from the opposite side and the answer was hung up.
Previously, the Dimensionality Reduction Security Lab had released news that user information in the currency circle had been leaked on a large scale. As for the source of the leak, Dimension Reduction did not track it down, and only mentioned that criminals illegally obtained the mobile phone numbers of registered users of the exchange through various channels.
