Someone called and said it was from the Social Security Bureau. Is it a scam?

Calls to 12304 may be at risk of fraud, please answer with caution!

When the party receives a call from 12304, if it is a scam asking you to transfer money or asking for a verification code, you should hang up immediately and call the police. Secondly, because 12304 is the People’s Daily’s unified nationwide subscription phone number for mobile newspaper reading services, the parties concerned may receive sales calls. Finally, 12304 is not a special number in my country and does not have the authority to investigate.

According to Article 12 of the "Interim Measures for the Management of Telecommunications Network Code Number Resources", applications for code numbers used for national or inter-provincial telecommunications and information service businesses must be submitted to the Ministry of Information Industry. The Ministry of Information Industry may entrust a code number resource consultation and acceptance agency to undertake the acceptance of code number resources for national or inter-provincial telecommunications and information service businesses.

12304 is a special service number provided by the network platform of telecom operators. Currently, this special service number is the telephone number for People’s Daily’s unified subscription mobile newspaper reading service nationwide, and is not the telephone number of any department.

By actively dialing this number, you can subscribe to the People's Daily mobile newspaper reading service. However, this service is currently under construction. If you want to learn about the People's Daily, you can directly search for the People's Daily newspaper reading service. If this number is dialed voluntarily, it is a promotional number and there may be a risk of fraud, so please answer with caution!

Various methods and tricks of telecommunications fraud:

1. Tax refund fraud. After criminals learn the phone number of the car buyer through illegal channels, they pretend to be a staff member of the state taxation agency and call the car buyer, falsely claiming that they want a car purchase tax refund, and trick the car buyer into following their instructions at an automated teller machine (ATM, CRS, etc.). This defrauds car buyers of their bank card deposits.

2. Lottery fraud. Criminals pretend to be company staff or notary office staff, and lie to victims through text messages, phone calls, emails, QQ, MSN, etc. about winning big prizes, and ask victims to pay "income tax," "notarization fees," and "procedures." Fees" and "risk deposits" are deposited into his designated bank account, and he then cashes in and pays "bonus" to the victim, thus defrauding the victim of money.

Some criminal gangs hire people to sell lottery tickets or product leaflets with scratch-off prizes in urban and rural areas of our city. After scratching off the prizes, most of the victims will win huge prizes of more than 100,000 or 200,000 yuan. The criminals then They falsely claimed that the "big prize" would be cashed in full in the form of a "cheque", and asked the victim to deposit the "winning income tax", "notarization fee", "handling fee" and "risk deposit" into their designated bank account, thereby defrauding the victim. people's money.

3. Training fraud. Criminals impersonate state agencies such as fire protection, taxation, industry and commerce, customs, etc., forge official documents of state agencies, and send "training notices" to companies, enterprises and other units in the form of faxes, requiring them to send personnel to participate in training, and call the company and call their designated personnel. on bank card accounts to defraud money.