About the phenomenon of Internet fraud

Internet fraud is a relatively common type of telecommunications fraud, and most successful frauds occur online. In this era of the Internet, while the Internet has brought us convenience, it has also given some criminals an opportunity to take advantage of it. What are the common methods of Internet fraud? Many people may not be aware of it. Next, let the editor of the Legal Network collect it for you. I hope this knowledge is helpful to you.

1. Pie in the sky style

"Pie in the sky style" is a form of fraud in the name of winning a lottery. For example, "free Q coins" is a form of online fraud. This method is that Internet scammers use social engineering and take advantage of people's greedy psychology to carry out online fraud. As a result, netizens not only did not obtain Q coins, but their own QQ passwords and Q coins were also stolen.

Regarding this fraud method, although many people clearly know that it may be an Internet trap, they still cannot resist the desire or curiosity for "free Q coins", so they also log in to the website to browse. They may think in their hearts that their QQ account and password will not be stolen if they do not log in, but they may be planted with a Trojan horse program hidden behind the website.

2. Solving Difficulties for You

"Demand Breakthrough" is a form of fraud that seizes certain needs of the victim. For example, in early 2007, due to the rupture of submarine optical cables caused by the earthquake in Taiwan, users using foreign anti-virus software were unable to upgrade and were unable to log in to US websites whose servers were located in North America. At this critical time, scammers immediately provided so-called proxy servers for fraud. As a result, many people's online accounts were stolen one after another.

At present, many online frauds have extended their black hands to online game accounts, especially the popular large-scale online games such as "World of Warcraft" and "Journey". Internet scammers can intercept the account information of game players through the program on the proxy server, which has changed from "stealing in secret" to "stealing openly". Being able to come up with such a method also shows the "good intentions" of Internet scammers.

At the same time, because most players lack security awareness in this area, and users use it without thinking and analysis, it is easy for online scammers to obtain game players’ accounts and then resell the illegally obtained game accounts. Make ill-gotten gains.

3. Emotional deception

"Emotional deception" is to use various online channels to say that something happened to your old friends or family members, and to ask the victim to send money, etc. For example, I received a message from a friend via QQ: "Are you there? Can you do me a favor? My friend asked me to remit 500 yuan for her (urgent). It's not convenient for me here. Can you remit it for me?" "Then there is the account number and user name that need to be remitted.

It is easy to deceive well-meaning people by leaving a message like this requesting money transfer and claiming that you don’t have a mobile phone with you. At the same time, this message only asked for a remittance of 500 yuan and said it was urgent. It is precisely because of the small amount that people are likely to be unaware; it also reminded others to bring their ID cards to remit money, which can be said to be very thoughtful.

In addition, he said that he did not bring a mobile phone to make people give up the idea of ??calling for verification. This is also a carefully planned trap. Some criminals who defraud money have also taken a fancy to the "QQ tail" method of communication. They are not trying to spread some kind of virus, but using Trojan viruses to defraud.

In fact, the phenomenon of using QQ to spread Trojan viruses on the Internet has been going on for some time. This kind of fraud that uses feelings and family ties is most likely to be fooled by some young people. Out of brotherly loyalty, they see their friends in trouble and immediately comply with the scammer's demands regardless of the situation.