中国警方破获“民族资产解冻”骗局

Chinese police said they have dismantled a nationwide scam that tricked 93,000 people into investing capital to unfreeze assets taken overseas by the Nationalist government in 1949.

中国警方表示他们破获了一桩全国性骗局，9.3万人被骗投入资本以解冻1949年被国民党政府带走的资产。

The latest reported scam in China used Tencent-owned messaging and social media platform WeChat and events to invite people to invest Rmb10 ($1.46) with a promise of as much as a Rmb50,000 return once the assets were unfrozen.

中国最新报道的这桩骗局利用腾讯(Tencent)旗下信息和社交媒体平台微信(WeChat)和活动，邀请人们投资10元人民币（合1.46美元），承诺一旦这笔海外资产解冻，最高将有5万元人民币回报。

The Ministry of Public Security said it has arrested 44 people for their involvement in the scheme. The ministry said 405 people from 15 criminal gangs had been arrested since October last year for their involvement in the scam, which has brought in more than Rmb950m ($138.5m).

中国公安部表示已逮捕44名犯罪嫌疑人。该部表示，自去年10月以来，已有来自15个犯罪团伙的405人因涉嫌该骗局被逮捕，涉案金额超过9.5亿元人民币（合1.385亿美元）。

False government documents as well as multi-level marketing and brainwashing techniques were used to target the victims, the ministry said. The gang encouraged its victims to transmit funds through the WeChat red envelope function – a tool designed to gives friends gifts of cash – and online banking to transfer money on the promise of a high return.

据公安部表示，骗子利用伪造政府文件以及多层次营销和洗脑技术来对付受害者。犯罪团伙以高回报的承诺，鼓励受害者通过微信红包——用来给朋友赠送现金礼物的工具——缴纳款项，以及网上银行转账。