PANews reported on November 24th that the Shenzhen Municipal Special Task Force Office for Preventing and Combating Illegal Financial Activities issued a "Risk Warning on Beware of Illegal Financial Activities in the Gold Trading Sector." The warning stated that recently, with fluctuations in gold prices, some criminals and unscrupulous companies have been using the guise of physical gold trading to illegally conduct "gold entrustment," "gold leasing," and "gold investment" businesses. These activities are suspected of illegal fundraising, fraud, gambling, and other illegal business operations, disrupting economic and financial order and seriously endangering the safety of public property. The public is urged to be vigilant, choose legitimate investment channels, and consciously resist rhetoric such as "guaranteed principal and returns," "high interest rates on gold leasing," "insider information, guaranteed profits," and "low threshold, low investment, high returns" to avoid falling into the trap of illegal financial activities in the gold investment sector.