Recently, the Lanzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau and the Lanzhou Municipal People's Procuratorate jointly issued a notice to publicly solicit clues on the "8.17" film and television investment fraud case, hoping that the people who were deceived in the case would bring relevant evidence materials to the public security organs to report the case on February 29, 2024.
More than 3,000 people were defrauded, and the amount involved was more than 600 million, a "rich woman" was deceived of 1.98 million, and an 85-year-old man was deceived of 1.1 million ......From this set of figures, we can see the great harm of the "8.17" film and television fraud case. According to the notice, the case involved 4 film and television media companies and 12 films, of which 3 films, "Wheat Passerby", "Ruffian Lover" and "Poet", have been released.
Why are individuals being deceived when they invest in movies? This routine is actually very simple: the fraud gang claims to be the co-producer of a certain movie, and has a certain "share of the movie's revenue" in its hands, as long as the investor buys some shares, and can get high returns after the movie is hot. Many people believe in such a statement, thinking that they can get double the income by investing some money, but the result is either that the movie fails at the box office and the investment is lost, or the film and television company announces the failure of the investment on the grounds that the capital chain is broken and the film cannot be released on schedule, and the investment is still lost.
Of course, if the above belongs to open robbery, then the following gameplay belongs to "hidden robbery". For example, if a film invests 50 million yuan, and 10% of the share is obtained by a fraud gang by legal means, but when they sign an agreement with individual investors, the total cost of the film becomes 200 million yuan, and the premium is as high as 4 times. And individual investors don't know what the actual investment amount of the film is, and can only watch the company that gave them the transfer share write as much as they want in the contract. In this case, even if the box office of the movie reaches 200 million yuan, they can completely say that the box office of the movie does not make money and does not give dividends. The truth of the matter is that film investment companies make a lot of money, but in the case of individual investors, it can only be "investment failure".
Do you understand, the viciousness of this operation is that the fraudsters do a good job of concealment, because they do pay money from the producer, legally "buy" a part of the film by signing a contract, and also resell it to individual investors through an agreement, the contract is not illegal, the agreement is not illegal, but the personal investor's money is gone, and this routine is actually a trap.
It can be said that the criminal group took advantage of the institutional gap in the film market and the chaotic soil in the transfer of film shares, used the purchase of film shares as a criminal tool, concealed the purpose of illegal possession, and used telecommunications fraud to attract fans online to lure victims. You must know that although the film and television industry is glamorous on the surface, it actually has a fairly high "cognitive threshold" and "industry threshold". For example, a movie, from investment, operation, shooting, publicity and release to release, has a complete set of business operation models, ordinary people can't get in touch with it at all, and they can't understand the rules and means.
In my opinion, in order to fundamentally eradicate such cases, one is to improve the system of the film market, especially to strictly regulate the sale of film shares, so as to prevent them from being used by fraudsters. But the more important thing is that individuals should be vigilant, as ** suggests: "All formal film investment, it is aimed at the company, almost not for the individual". Therefore, when others use the profits to **, we must restrain the greed in our hearts.
Finally, share a paragraph: "You can never make more money than you know, unless you rely on luck, but the money earned by luck often loses by strength in the end, which is an inevitability." I think so, and I end today's article.