The Bottomless Trap: Scams Deep in China’s County Towns
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The story itself is compelling, but the scam roughly works like this: they package a project as a high-yield investment opportunity, pay out dividends on schedule for a few years to lull victims into a false sense of security, and then pressure them to pour more money into larger, longer-term projects with promises of bigger payouts—only to abscond with the funds once the cash pool is large enough.
In the story referenced, the fraudsters fabricated official documents and falsely claimed to be distributing government project dividends, then simply fled with the money.
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