1. What are the common forms of illegal fund-raising? There are five common forms of illegal fund-raising, namely, illegal fund-raising in the name of private fake funds; Illegal fund-raising in the name of P2P peer-to-peer lending; Illegal fund-raising in the name of purchasing goods under the guise of consumption; Illegal fund-raising in the name of increasing the listing value of the company; Illegal fund-raising under the guise of pension investment projects. (1) Illegal fund-raising in the name of private equity funds In recent years, illegal fund-raisers disguised as private equity funds, or the fund-raising operation of private equity funds was not standardized, which evolved into illegal fund-raising in the name of private equity funds. The actor lied that he was running a private equity fund, had high-return investment projects and excellent operation team, attracted investors with high annualized rate of return, and publicized and promoted it to unspecified objects through public media or lectures, reports, SMS messages, WeChat and other public means, and even promised investors to protect their capital and interest in an express or implied way, and absorbed funds from the public, regardless of whether the investor is a qualified investor or not, or his risk identification ability and risk-taking ability. Expanded regulations: According to Article 12 of the Interim Measures for the Supervision and Administration of Private Equity Funds, qualified investors of private equity funds refer to units and individuals with corresponding risk identification ability and risk-taking ability, and the investment amount of a single private equity fund is not less than 6,543,800 yuan and meets the following relevant standards: (1) Units with net assets of not less than 6,543,800 yuan; (2) Individuals whose financial assets are not less than 3 million yuan or whose average annual income in the last three years is not less than 500,000 yuan. (2) Illegal fund-raising in the name of P2P peer-to-peer lending. At present, some institutions build intermediary platforms in peer-to-peer lending under the banner of P2P, and adopt false propaganda means. On the one hand, they emphasize that the borrower's project has large scale, good prospects, high returns, low risks and quick results. On the other hand, it weakens the defects of project approval, unstable guarantee and illegal mode, and fictionalizes borrowers, loan targets and fund uses, which is extremely deceptive. In fact, many P2P online lending platforms objectively broke through the independent attribute of P2P platform as a "financial information intermediary", directly participated in fund raising, and even set up shell companies to raise funds for personal funds in the name of these companies. Some P2P platforms raise funds by false projects, control, use and squander funds at will, which can't guarantee the safety of investors' funds, and can't guarantee sufficient capital to deal with investors' redemption. Regulation Expansion According to the Interim Measures for the Management of Business Activities of Information Intermediaries in Peer-to-Peer Lending jointly issued by China Banking Regulatory Commission, Ministry of Public Security, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and Internet Information Office, Peer-to-Peer Lending Information Intermediary refers to a financial information intermediary company established according to law and specializing in information intermediary business activities in peer-to-peer lending. Such institutions take the Internet as the main channel to provide information collection, information release, credit evaluation, information exchange, loan matching and other services for borrowers and lenders, so as to realize direct lending. Peer-to-peer lending information intermediaries may not provide credit enhancement services, directly or indirectly collect funds, engage in or accept entrustment to engage in self-operated or disguised financing, directly or in disguised form provide guarantees to lenders or promise to protect capital and interest, and may not entrust or authorize third parties to publicize or promote financing projects in physical places other than the Internet, fixed telephones, mobile phones and other electronic channels. (3) illegal fund-raising in the name of purchasing goods and under the guise of consumption. At present, some companies are wearing the "legal cloak" of commodity sales, and the types of commodities sold are mostly commodities whose market prices cannot be recognized by investors, "own products" that have not flowed into the open market, or cheap commodities that are shoddy and overpriced. Fund-raisers use such goods and investors' investment funds as "consideration" or give them to investors as extra income. Most of them agree with investors to buy back goods at a regular premium, or to return or rebate the purchased money after a certain period of time, so as to realize the promise of capital preservation and interest payment and attract investors. Since such commodities are often unable to circulate in the market at the same value, once the capital chain of the company involved is broken, the principal and interest invested by investors are often unable to be returned. (4) Companies that participate in illegal fund-raising under the guise of increasing the value of the company's listing often publish information about selling original shares, listing overseas and developing high-tech online in the name of false or fictitious companies, fictitious the prospect of increasing the value of equity listing or promise high expected returns, trick investors into investing, remit funds to designated personal accounts, and then close the website and abscond with the money. (5) Illegal gathering under the guise of investment projects for the elderly. First, in the name of investing in old-age apartments and sharing care in different places, by distributing leaflets, WeChat, blogs, emails, etc., with high returns and providing old-age services as bait, elderly investors are induced to "participate in investment" in old-age projects without relevant licensing qualifications. Second, by holding health talks, banquet recommendation meetings, project visits and other activities, we will attract elderly investors by means of free physical examination, free dinner, free travel, free gifts, etc., and package some wealth management products issued by informal financial institutions, promise high returns, and induce elderly groups who do not understand investment and wealth management projects to invest. In today's society ruled by law, there are still many people who have legal blind spots. What are the common forms of illegal fund raising? I don't know anything. The above article lists five common forms of illegal fund-raising. Illegal fund-raising is an illegal act. Once discovered, it will be severely punished by law. Therefore, people should learn more legal knowledge, so as not to step into misunderstanding.