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The 60 billion shocking scam has left hundreds of thousands of families with nothing to lose! Shandong Linyi "Shupai Digital Group" was empty overnight, and its headquarters door was locked. CCTV exposed it heavily. This was not a commercial failure, but a carefully planned capital market! Countless people’s hard-earned money and pensions evaporated instantly. Who will pay now?

The Founder's Character Game

Recently, the headquarters of a company called Shupai Digital Group in Linyi, Shandong was locked. CCTV exposed a shocking scam involving a total amount of up to 60 billion yuan, involving hundreds of thousands of families.

This company is dressed in the gorgeous guise of "e-commerce innovation" and "investment and financial management", allowing ordinary people to invest all their savings over the years, even the money they borrowed and mortgaged from real estate, into this false scam.

Wang Shaoqing, the founder of Shupai Digital Group, is a native of Linyi. In the early years, he accumulated his first pot of gold by working in engineering projects. He is well versed in the flow of funds and knows how to package himself.

In July 2020, Wang Shaoqing registered and established the "Shandong Shupai Digital Economy Industrial Park Operation Management Group Co., Ltd.". He served as the chairman and claimed that the registered capital was 30 million yuan. However, until the news broke, many investors realized that the money had never paid a penny. This was a shell company that had been unstable since its inception.

In order to gilt himself, Wang Shaoqing transformed himself into a visiting professor at Linyi University. He frequently went to and from campus and talked about "digital transformation", like an entrepreneur who kept up with the trend of the times.

He actively participated in the activities of the local chamber of commerce, made connections everywhere, and even started charitable donations, delivered supplies to the community, and gradually built a reliable and glamorous public image for himself and the company.

The preparations for the entire scam entered the fast lane in 2023. The company began to recruit programmers on a large scale and develop an app called "Shupai". Wang Shaoqing claimed that this was his gorgeous transformation from a traditional industry to an online business, which was completely "responsive to market demand."

The fatal temptation of "make a profit but not lose money"

In March 2024, Shupai App was officially launched, and a harvest game kicked off. The platform's banner is the so-called "S2C2M" new model. It sounds unfathomable, but in fact it is simple and crude: pay a deposit and participate in the product auction. The next day the platform will help you sell it, and you can easily earn a 1% difference. This promise of 1% daily interest rate is fatal to ordinary people.

In order to make the scam look more realistic, the platform has also set up a way to play points cashback. For example, a bag of rice that only costs 50 yuan in the supermarket is priced at 520 yuan on the Shupai App. After you buy it, the platform will refund you 55 yuan every day. This product that is ten times the market price, the only purpose is to digest the points in your account, making it more difficult for you to withdraw cash directly.

The most critical step is to build trust. At first, all small withdrawals were received in seconds. Apply today and money would be in your pocket tomorrow. This "words are done" style quickly disintegrated people's defense. Some people tentatively invested 10,000 yuan and found that they could really make money, so they added 110,000 yuan. Looking at the extra 550 yuan in the account every day, I felt that I had found a shortcut to wealth freedom.

The numbers in the platform's backend are even more dazzling. If you spend 1,000 yuan to buy the product, the system will show that it has helped you sell it for 1,050 yuan the next day. The profit is clear, but these are just fake digital games. The money has not really entered circulation at all, but it is just idle in the platform's capital pool.

The pyramid scheme for pulling people

When investors tasted the sweetness, the platform launched a pyramid-like distribution mechanism, which is what we often call "hitting people". If you directly recommend a new user, you can get a 15% commission. If the person you recommends, you can get an indirect commission of 3% to 5%.

This system has a sinister design: if you do not develop offline, your account permissions will be reduced, your traffic will be reduced, and your income will be greatly reduced. This is equivalent to forcing everyone to pull their relatives and friends into the water. In order to save their principal and even to earn more money, many victims have changed from victims to "accomplices".

A woman from Northeast China invested 200,000 yuan herself. Seeing that she had no hope of getting back, she made up her mind and convinced her relatives and friends to invest 900,000 yuan. Some even mortgaged the property for this, betting on the future of the whole family on this illusory platform. In a short period of time, the number of users has grown from thousands to hundreds of thousands like snowballs.

The last madness before the crash

Once subsequent funds cannot keep up, a collapse is inevitable. Starting from July 7 this year, Shupai platform suddenly revised the withdrawal rules, which became the first clear signal of the crisis.

Withdrawal is no longer as simple as a few clicks. You need to sign in for seven consecutive days, recommend at least three new users, and you have to save enough rebates in your account to apply. Even if you meet all the conditions, the review time will be delayed from one day to fifteen working days.

What's even more excessive is that many people find that the final amount of the account is often only 30% of the application amount, and users complain more and more, and "system maintenance" announcements have begun to appear frequently on the platform's page.

In order to stabilize the hearts of the people, Wang Shaoqing even held a "black screen live broadcast", and there was no one in the whole process. Only one voice was swearing to ensure that the government would coordinate capital injections soon and everything would be fine. Backstage data showed that this weird live broadcast had 1.4 million "viewers".

At the same time, various investment groups are constantly forwarding screenshots of early, small withdrawals to prove that "the platform is strong". However, the company headquarters at this time had long been covered by black cloth, and there were security guards at the door, and any investors were strictly prohibited from conducting on-site inspections. These abnormal actions were selected by people who were blinded by greed.

In the last moment before the collapse, the platform also launched the so-called "translation plan", such as spending 580 yuan to exchange for 30 eggs, or converting your money into a vain "data asset", but the premise of thawing is to attract more new people. This final madness completely angered everyone.

Warewell on the Ruins

On July 21, the trial day came. The withdrawal function of Shupai platform was completely paralyzed and the App could not be logged in. When people rushed to the company headquarters in Linyi from all over the country, they saw an empty building wrapped in black cloth and a police car parked at the door.

The police set up a cordon to dissuade the gathering people. Many investors held the contract and transfer records tightly in their hands, and their faces were full of disbelief. At first, they thought it was just a system upgrade, and they completely collapsed until the fact that the people were gone and the building was empty was in front of them.

The scene was in chaos. Some people held slogans "Repay my hard-earned money", and some people sat on the ground, crying in a hurry. What they lamented was not only the cold numbers in their accounts, but also the pension money, medical treatment money, and children's tuition fees that were highly anticipated. Many people have not only lost all their money due to loan investment, but also have heavy debts, and their families have broken down.

On August 10, the Luozhuang Branch of Linyi Municipal Public Security Bureau issued a notice, formally investigating Wang Shaoqing, Cui Moulong and others on suspicion of fundraising fraud, and took compulsory measures against many major suspects.

The notice confirmed that the gang has used Shupai App since March last year to illegally raise public funds with high returns as bait, with the purpose of illegal possession.

The police's intervention gave the desperate victims a glimmer of light, but everyone understood that recovering the losses would be an extremely long and difficult road. The amount involved in the case is too huge, and the funds have been transferred and squandered layer by layer.

The collapse of the tree snap sounded the alarm again. It nakedly revealed the blind spots of supervision and also exposed the desire for "get it for nothing". The scammers' methods may be constantly renovated, but their core is always inseparable from the use of greed.

When the promised returns of an investment project are far beyond common sense, it is often not an opportunity, but a trap. The law is vast and unlimited, and Wang Shaoqing and others will eventually be punished by law, but for those hundreds of thousands of destroyed families, there is only nightmare left.