2 Chinese nationals, arrested for alleged involvement in crypto scam

• Two Chinese nationals were arrested in Pasay for their roles in online scam schemes

• Authorities seized computers, scam scripts, and liquid ecst@sy during the raids

• The suspects were linked to a cryptocurrency scam that tricked victims with fake earnings

• Both were found overstaying in the Philippines and are now held in a detention facility

Authorities arrested two Chinese nationals in separate operations in Pasay City for their alleged involvement in online scamming activities.

Members of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, the Department of Justice, and the Bureau of Immigration – Fugitive Search Unit served a mission order at a condominium.

When the door opened, officers went inside and found one suspect in the middle of a crypto-scam operation on his computer.

Drug paraphernalia containing suspected liquid ecst@sy was also recovered from his table.

In another operation, the Bureau of Immigration, the National Bureau of Investigation – Organized and Transnational Crime Division, and the Department of Information and Communications Technology arrested another Chinese national linked to the same scam network.

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Their computers contained scripts and software used to trick victims into investing in fraudulent cryptocurrency platforms.

According to BI-FSU Chief Rendel Sy, scammers pretend to train victims to invest. They show fake profits to make the victims believe they are earning.

However, the platforms shown to victims are not real, and the money goes to the scam group. Both Chinese suspects were also found to be overstaying in the country.

The NBI and DICT confiscated the devices for digital forensic checks and to identify the victims. Some of the people scammed include foreigners and Filipinos.

The two suspects have not given any statement and are currently detained at the Bureau of Immigration facility in Bicutan.

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Source: KAMI.com.gh