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Chapter 147 A Typical Ponzi Scheme
In Wang Guoqiang's office, in addition to the desk and sofa, there are bookcases on both walls.

But what is stored in his bookcase is not books, but stamps of various sizes.

Miniature sheets, small banknotes, small sheets, large sheets, small sheets, stamps of different formats and sizes fill the bookcases, creating a dazzling array of items.

Unless you are blind, you will be attracted by the various stamps when you come in.

However, to Gao Qi, who knew nothing about stamps, these colorful pieces of paper had no meaning and she didn't recognize any of them.

However, Lu Feng came to the bookcase with a smile and admired the various stamps in the bookcase with great interest.

"I don't have much of anything here, except stamps."

Wang Guoqiang raised his hand and pointed to the full cabinet, with a hint of pride in his tone.

Lu Feng looked at the stamps in the bookcase one by one, nodded and praised with a smile: "Mr. Wang is indeed the number one collector in the stamp market. He has all kinds of stamps, both old and new!
Lao Ji Te, text, full set of numbers, JT, I have seen the Gengshen Monkey, is this year's Renchen Dragon?
The collection in Mr. Wang’s office alone must be worth millions, right?”

"Haha! Mr. Lu really understands!"

Wang Guoqiang laughed, then waved his hand modestly and said, "This is just a part of it, it's not worth much money.

Most of my collection is in warehouses and bank safes. I have to spend a lot of money every year to rent bank safes alone. "

"That's right, good things can't be left here casually, right?"

As Lu Feng spoke, he looked around several bookcases carefully before sitting down on the sofa in front of the desk.

Wang Guoqiang's men had already prepared several cups of tea and brought them over.

After inviting Lu Feng to drink a few sips, Wang Guoqiang exchanged a few pleasantries and then got back to the main topic.

"Mr. Lu wants to invest in stocks?"

He explained with a smile: "If it's about ticket speculation, I suggest that Mr. Lu should study hard for a while. The stamp market is full of mixed people, and there are many people who make fake tickets. Many people have suffered losses in this regard."

His words were half true and half false. If someone didn't know the details, they would definitely think that he was giving good advice.

But Lu Feng knew what he meant.

The stamp collection market is indeed very complicated, and counterfeiting is common. Jialin Wang Guoqiang himself has suffered losses in this regard.

He was the one who encountered the first case of stamp counterfeiting in the country.

Sure enough, Wang Guoqiang himself recounted the incident: "It was August 97, 8, someone brought a package of 9 sets of TP100 Mei Lanfang special postage postcards, offering 2 yuan per set, and wanted to sell them to me.

He could tell at a glance that the stamps were fake, so he reported the case to the police station.

The police followed the clues and found a counterfeiting gang in Lanzhou and arrested them all.

As a result, in November, the Beijing Youth Daily published a contribution titled "Undercurrents in the Hot Stamp Market - A Record of the First Case of Counterfeit Special Postage Postcards in the Country", in which I was listed as an accomplice suspected of selling counterfeit goods.

Oh no! My customers got anxious when they saw the article, and all came to me to return the goods and cancel the orders, causing me to lose tens of millions directly.

In a fit of anger, I filed a lawsuit against the Beijing Youth Daily. The lawsuit lasted for two years and I finally won.

But I only have a few million left.”

At this point, Wang Guoqiang paused, then smiled and spread his hands, looking at the bookcases filled with stamps on both sides: "But I got up again, and did bigger than before, because I know one thing, that is, as long as a person is not afraid of difficulties, then no difficulties can knock him down!"

He spoke these words passionately, as if he had rehearsed them countless times.

In fact, he has told this to every client who comes to the office, countless times.

After listening to his inspiring experience, most customers would express sincere admiration, excitement, or emotion.

However, after listening to this, Lu Feng just drank a sip of tea with a calm expression.

By drinking tea, Lu Feng concealed the sarcasm in his eyes.

Is this really the case?

The content published in newspapers has to go through several rounds of review. Is it possible that it is just written randomly?

Others may not know, but Lu Feng knows very well that what happened back then was not as simple as Wang Guoqiang said.

Why did the counterfeiting gang choose him?
Why was there no case of stamp counterfeiting in the country before he called the police?
And after he called the police, fake stamps began to be found everywhere?
The answer is self-evident.

But he did not expose Wang Guoqiang.

After taking a sip of tea, he put down the cup and asked Wang Guoqiang with a smile: "Mr. Wang also started to do stamp financial management from that time, right?"

Wang Guoqiang said so much just to scare him with market risks and make him choose the more "safe" stamp investment. This is also his usual method to attract customers.

Seeing Lu Feng being so understanding, Wang Guoqiang was very happy. He laughed and nodded in agreement: "That's about right! I have been dealing in stamps for decades. It is impossible for you to say that I have not made any money.

But the reason I've been doing this for so long is not just to make money, I really love stamps!
The people I deal with are all people who truly love stamps, and we are all comrades on the same front!

However, most people only have a vague understanding of stamps and don't really know much about them, so they are easily deceived.

So later some people said that they wanted me to help them buy and sell, and they could just invest and wait for the interest.

In the industry, I dare say there are few people who know more about stamps than me.

Those scammers can fool others but they can't fool me.

And I couldn’t bear to see so many people being cheated, so I started helping some friends with stamp finance.”

Listening to his nonsense, Lu Feng smiled, but there was a hint of imperceptible sarcasm in his smile.

Comrades on the same front?

Can’t bear to see others being cheated?

Sure enough, real liars will only call others liars.

In fact, Wang Guoqiang himself was the first leader in illegal fundraising in the stamp market.

The truth is, after the fake stamp lawsuit, Wang Guoqiang was out of money, and if he wanted to make a comeback, he had to find a way to raise funds.

So, he used the stamps in his hand as an anchor and mobilized stamp enthusiasts who came to his store to sign a contract to buy stamps and give him the money, which he would then manage on their behalf.

He promised that he would use the clients' funds to speculate in stocks in the stamp market and would give the clients high interest dividends at the end of the year.

However, the customers did not know that the money they transferred did not go into the account of Sida Stamp and Coin Agency, but went into Wang Guoqiang's personal pocket.

Wang Guoqiang did promise them high interest returns, but they were all verbal and they never saw any cash at all.

Before each contract expires, Wang Guoqiang would tell the client that he had made a lot of money in interest, but it would be too uneconomical to bring it up now.

As long as the client is willing to continue investing, he can count the interest as the principal of the next round of contracts and continue to make money, and the promised interest rate will be higher.

Most of the clients don’t understand the ins and outs of this and just think that they have really earned the interest. Under his sugar-coated bullet offensive, they renew their contracts and go home to continue dreaming of high dividends until the contract expires, and the cycle repeats itself.

Many people in later generations could see at a glance that this was a typical Ponzi scheme, a pure Ponzi scheme.

But there were more ignorant people, especially back then, and most customers couldn’t tell the difference at all.

This also includes Lu Feng’s father.

Lu Feng knew that his father had signed such a contract that year and invested all the money from selling the house and borrowing money in Wang Guoqiang.

After being tricked by Wang Guoqiang into renewing the contract for one year, Wang Guoqiang wanted to do the same thing the next year and continue to trick his father into signing the contract.

But his father wanted to withdraw the money to buy a house for Lu Feng in his hometown, so he insisted on withdrawing the money.

At this point, Wang Guoqiang couldn't continue acting, so he started to make excuses and find all kinds of reasons not to pay.

His father became anxious and went to court to sue him.

But when he invested, Wang Guoqiang signed a contract with him.

The contract stipulated that he bought the stamps from Wang Guoqiang at a high price.

Wang Guoqiang had already handed the stamps to him, which meant that the money and goods were settled, and the court ruled that his father lost the case.

My father was dissatisfied with the verdict and continued to appeal at the beginning of this year. After nearly half a year, he finally won the case.

However, when the court enforced the decision, it was discovered that Wang Guoqiang had long been a deadbeat and had no assets under his name, making it impossible to enforce the decision.

When Lu Feng was reborn, his father learned about this situation.

In my previous life, half of my father’s hair turned white in the next six months, and he looked a dozen years older.

But in this life, things are different.

Because Lu Feng is back.

(End of this chapter)