KUALA LUMPUR, July 10 (Bernama) - Li Weiqiang, founder of Specter Currency Trading Company Specter, called on people to carefully check and confirm sellers' information when buying virtual currency mining machines online to avoid scams.
Fraudulent groups eyeing the bitcoin boom cradled nearly RM100 million in just a month using the pre-booking sparse high-performance mining machine as a guise.
The victim's Facebook post revealed
In a Facebook post claiming to be a Michelle Lee hostess, she said she bought 14 Bitcoin mining machines and paid 60% of the deposit through the 'Berjaya Mining Supplier' Facebook page, amounting to 280,000 RM9800 to each other.
She pointed out that she had personally paid the other party's office in Seri Kembangan and saw that the other company appeared to be very large in size and backed up the transaction agreement and therefore did not cast any doubt on the transaction.
However, when the payment was made, it failed to contact the seller later and went to the company to conduct an inquiry and found that the other party had been removed and was deceived.
It is understood that 'Berjaya Mining Supplier' opened the first page of the page on the 11th of last month and later claimed that the page was attacked on the same day and must be closed. The next day, another page of Facebook with the same name, And only uploaded a few posts, including the model of mining machine sold, 2 Chinese and English related reports on bitcoin, and bitcoin transactions on the same day, there is no more information.
29 people were fooled in just 1 month
In spite of this, 29 victims were allegedly deceived within a matter of a month, amounting to as much as hundreds of millions of ringgit.
Li Weiqiang: check the company before the transaction background
In an interview with Sin Chew Daily via WhatsApp, Mr Li said the current virtual currency mining scenario is very similar to that of the gold rush and everyone wants to make money in this golden age.
He suggested that people should conduct a background check on the companies concerned through the Malaysian Corporate Council (SSM) or other publicly available information when conducting online transactions.
He said the general public could ask the seller to provide details of the company and the registration number, check whether the company's owner is the founder, rather than using the name of others to fraud.
In addition, if people contact the seller through social media like LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter, they must first verify that they have sufficient publicity information.
Not only that, the public must also be aware of the information they purchase, and go to the official website of the goods to check whether the information provided by the seller matches.
He said the public can also view other buyers' comments and feedback on the sellers as one of the guidelines for buying.
At the same time, the buyer should also ask the seller to provide payment invoices and receipts in accordance with the registered company number.