According to Hanoi Police, there is currently an increasing trend of people using Zalo, Telegram, or Facebook applications to call and invite people to invest in virtual currencies to fraudulently appropriate property.
Recently, the project "HorusLayer" appeared, promoted and introduced the virtual currency "HRX". This project calls on people to participate in buying HRX coins and investing through the website https://app.horuslayer.com/, promising profits up to 10% per month. In addition, if participants introduce more people, they will receive direct commissions and from the interest of the following investors. This project is introduced as a foreign company, with no headquarters or legal representation in Vietnam.
According to Vietnamese law, virtual currency is not recognized as a legal asset or means of payment, therefore, investing in virtual currency like HRX has many potential risks for investors.
Be careful when investing in the virtual currency project “HorusLayer”
In recent times, Hanoi City Police have repeatedly warned about fraudulent tricks when participating in virtual currency investment. Fraudsters often advertise projects with high interest rates, initially investors will make a profit to encourage more deposits. After that, the subjects will entice the "prey" to deposit more money and not allow them to withdraw money for appropriation.
Specifically, at the end of April 2024, Hanoi Police received a report from a victim who had more than 2 billion VND appropriated when investing in Bitcoin virtual currency. The victim, through the introduction of an old friend, deposited money into the ACO dold system and won 226,000 USD within 2 days. When wanting to withdraw money, the subject asked the victim to deposit more money for the reason of "authentication", "upgrading VIP account", and "risk safety fee"... In total, the victim made 15 transactions and was appropriated more than 2 billion VND.
Previously, at the end of March 2024, Ba Vi District Police, Hanoi also investigated a fraud case of appropriating 750 million VND with similar tricks. Ms. H (born: 1986; resides: Ba Vi, Hanoi) searched for a job via Facebook and contacted an account posting "light job, high salary". After being instructed to register an account to invest in a virtual currency exchange, Ms. H deposited 100 million VND to place an order and her account reported receiving 3.2 billion VND but could not withdraw money due to a system error.
After that, the subjects asked Ms. H to pay taxes, insurance fees... to withdraw money. By March 17, 2024, Ms. H transferred more than 750 million VND but did not receive the money. She realized she had been deceived and reported it to the police.
To prevent and limit risks, the Department of Cyber Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention and Control, Hanoi City Police recommends that people be wary when investing in virtual currency projects, especially are high-profit advertising projects. When detecting signs of fraud, people need to contact the Police for timely handling according to regulations.
Source: https://tapchibitcoin.io/cong-an-ha-noi-canh-bao-thu-doan-lua-dao-tu-du-an-tien-ao-horuslayer.html