How did an electric scooter share the fraud of millions of dollars from the Americans?
LSSC Website and News bulletinsIn addition to Android and iPhone applications, they all have signals and communications to China. Sean O’Brien, founder of the Yale Privacy Lab Lab, who searches for digital threats, examined the LSSC Android app code and found it full of Chinese digital certificates and references to Chinese technical services such as QQ, Taobao and Alibaba. Apple requires all applications in its application store to include customized privacy policies, which LSSC seems to have been a late idea. The title is a Chinese “无标题文档” for “Document without an address”.
Apple did not respond to a comment request, but the LSSC app was removed from the store after I asked NBC News. Android applications can be downloaded directly, without passing through the Google’s Play Store.
In another call to China, LSSC is partner with a company in Shenzhen that sells rechargeable battery devices. One of the employees said that the company sold the shipping devices to LSSC, but it has no other relationship. The employee has not made a clear explanation about the reason for sharing the web field.
Patricia Livingstone, the group’s home manager from Philadelphia, who invested $ 11,000, joined LSSC in April to help her 75 -year -old mother retire. The LSSC director ordered her to teach her not only to the LSSC application, but also Excination Lightning, a relevant encryption investment platform, and a chat app defined by people who knew themselves as LSSC managers to communicate with investors. Through applications, the managers told her about logging in certain times to make specific deals. I started spending hours on applications, communicating with other members and attending online training sessions. It was exhausted.
“I felt I was in worship, like a coma. I was trading four times a day. I became my life, and I couldn’t sleep,” said Levingstone, 35.
Kumba Kenneth, Livingstone’s girlfriend and her colleague at the work she joined, said she felt “under control”.
“I go to work. I must trade. Then midnight. Look at the LSSC app to run your motorcycles,” said Kenneth, 44.
Tah-Ming Lee opened the LSSC office of $ 1,270 in two months in Sandy Springs, Georgia, to host meetings and training sessions. He was funded by a manager called Paul who met the chat application, but he said he had doubts about who was talking to him.
He told me: “We thought all of these managers are Amnesty International.” “They were writing this strange way. They did not look like an ordinary person.”
He told me that he could not get a direct answer on how to rent motorbikes, so he had a friend in Hong Kong to check if any LSSC motorcycle wandered. The friend said no.
In the previous months of the company last year, he told me that the money was flowing – and estimated that he got at least $ 40,000 from his initial investment of $ 35 – which makes the process seem legitimate.
But in recent weeks, investors trying to withdraw money from the application have received messages saying that withdrawals were “pending”. The money has never arrived. LSSC also asked people to pay the $ 75 verification fee for their money, but the members who spoke with NBC News said they refused.
Hoffman, the Arlington Provincial police officer who started the LSSC investigation in June, said the condition of verification appears to be “another effort” to pressure money from desperate members before the fraud collapsed.
It seeks recovery
Hoffman said he understands how people assume that the application of motorcycle sharing is real.
“We are in the era of” Be your own boss. “
The temptation of financial freedom, Mason, attracted a New Jersey man whose sister recruited him, to invest with LSSC. He joined lunch and parties and acknowledged at an interface in Oaklin, New Jersey, a suburb of Philadelphia, lined with motorcycles.
Oclane Greg Brandley attended a tape to cut the tape for this store, as he announced that he had not heard about LSSC before, but he said: “We just want to wish you a lot of success.”
Branley did not respond to the suspension requests. The store seemed to be closed recently, and the voice mail was “full”.
The Ocklin Police Administration said it was investigating reports of LSSC fraud.
Mayson, who said he and his wife, joined about $ 100,000, joined the WhatsApp group for victims looking for justice. Some members, many of whom, from West Africa immigrants, filed complaints with law enforcement.
Mason said he felt a special manipulation by Salagbi, who determines himself in videos as LSSC regional director. In one, Salagbi says he has more than 1500 members and announces that the work is “not a sales fraud.”