Dated back around Aug 2019, there was this Chinese Cryptocurrency Coin known as World Of Internet Coin (WOIC), NOT to be confused with EPIC Cash.
Obviously by now, the official website (http://woic.net/) and sham crypto exchange platform (http://beuex.io/) had been taken down.
But thanks to http://web.archive.org/, managed to retrieve a snapshot of the website on 24 Aug 2019 for reference and record:
http://web.archive.org/web/20190824053358/http://woic.net/
Surprisingly, Yahoo! Finance published a press release on this cryptocurrency, wonder if they have done their due diligence to verify the authenticity of this coin.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/world-internet-coin-helps-china-030500001.html
Modus operandi?
Reach out via WeChat, added into a WOIC Group Chat, where are "exclusive" members are included and received updates on the upcoming WOIC grand launch in Shanghai. Sales exec reached out to members to transfer funds into the Beuex platform. 1-2 weeks before the launch, the WeChat Group Chat was disbanded, claiming that the founder/professor of WOIC would be busy focusing for the launch. 1 month later after the promised launch date, the Beuex platform goes offline and the invested funds was gone!
Here were some of the WeChat accounts involved in this scam:
Please be careful, do research before you invest your funds or trust anyone that reach out to you online or any social channels.
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