November 2016, Hunan Province, Changsha City, Wangcheng District Urban Management Bureau employee Shi Guangming because of speculation "spot" failure owes more than 1.4 million yuan of external debt can not be repaid, in the car suicide. The man was caught in an illegal futures trading scam with high-yield spot investment as the bait.

In the suicide note Shi Guangming wrote, "I owe the debt Zhou Huimin (Shi Guangming's wife) all unclear, and did not use for household chores, but speculative silver losses, specific disk ask He Hongmei".

He Hongmei, is Shi Guangming in 2013 in social software inadvertently added a strange beauty, this claim to take Shi Guangming investment spot to make a lot of money in the beauty of Shi Guangming suicide has been nowhere to be found.

The spot investment that killed Shi Guangming is not a qualified financial product, but a scam led by the exchange or its market makers. Because of the investment in spot wealth management is cheated by a large number of people, huge losses, many people even for the death of their families.

Regulators have noticed the rampant spot investment scams that have robbed the nation of its wealth. on January 9, the Securities and Futures Commission took the lead in convening an inter-ministerial meeting to clean up and rectify all types of trading venues, and asked for six months to focus on remediation and to effectively address the illegal and irregular problems that exist in trading venues, and to guard against and defuse financial risks.