The scammers would continue to build rapport with the victims to convince them to invest in the “investment products”. Victims would then be invited to create a trading account by downloading applications (e.g., FPTUP, FPTEX, NOVIQ, FPCAP, SDXA, SJ NEXUS, WHG ROUP, GINKO PLUS) from Apple App Store or Google Play Store. These were shell investment applications that promoted fraudulent investment products such as fake cryptocurrency, forex, and stock-trading products. The victims’ purported trades shown in these applications were fake and the “profits” did not exist.