Your flight was cancelled due to a breakdown. What happened when the SMS cheated him out of 430,000 yuan?

When I was about to travel by plane, I suddenly received a short message from the "airline" that "the plane broke down and the trip was cancelled". Many people's first reaction was how to refund or change the ticket so as not to affect the trip. However, such a short message may also hide a trap. If you don't verify the authenticity, call the so-called "customer service phone" in the text message directly, and you are likely to fall into the trap of a liar. Recently, Guangzhou Haizhu police arrested 14 telecom fraud suspects in Danzhou, Hainan, Zhongshan, Guangdong and other places after careful investigation by multi-police synthetic operations, and destroyed a gang that committed fraud under the guise of "ticket change". At present, 34 fraud cases have been detected, involving a million yuan.

"Your flight was cancelled due to a malfunction."

On the morning of1October 30th last year, 165438+ Mr. Feng, who was going to take the same flight to Urumqi, suddenly received a short message. The text message sent by this number "852699 1 ××××" made him break out in a cold sweat. The text message said that his flight GS75 ××× had been cancelled due to landing gear failure, and he needed to call customer service to change it or refund the ticket. The short message also specifically stated "Flight cancellation, compensation for each passenger's flight delay fee 300 yuan".

As the name and flight information were accurately indicated in the short message, Mr. Feng was in a hurry to fly, so he immediately called the customer service number 010-5703 ×××××××× in the short message, and went through the formalities of "returning and changing the visa" according to the telephone prompts. On the phone, a man who claimed to be a customer service staff asked Mr. Feng to go to the bank's self-service teller machine to handle the refund and change the visa in order to get the "change order". 10 minutes later, Mr. Feng rushed to the nearby bank and completed the "refund procedure" on the ATM according to the other party's telephone prompt.

After completing the formalities, Mr. Feng was surprised to find that the original balance of 40,000 yuan in his bank card was less 1 1,000 yuan, of which 43,000 yuan was transferred to a strange account. Mr. Feng, who found that he had been cheated, immediately reported to the police.

The police seized 14 suspects across provinces.

After receiving the alarm, Haizhu police immediately arranged for the police to conduct an investigation and found that the money that Mr. Feng was cheated was taken away by a man Liang (male, 33 years old, from Danzhou, Hainan) through a POS machine.

With the support of relevant departments of Guangzhou Public Security Bureau and Hainan police, the task force found out the main foothold of Liang and other suspects in several local towns and villages. As the leader of the gang, Liang is also the leader of the evacuation team; The traffic group that implements telephone fraud is composed of suspects such as Wang; These two groups are active in Danzhou. In addition, the card supply group responsible for providing bank cards and other transfer tools in the gang is composed of criminal suspects such as Zhou, and this card supply group is basically active in Zhongshan City.

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Police tips

Airlines will never let passengers change their tickets at ATMs.

According to the police investigating the case, the common routine of this kind of "ticket change" deception is that the liar lied that he was an airline customer service and defrauded the victim's operation through self-service teller machines or online banking on the grounds of refund or change. In the process of operation, the so-called "verification code" that they let the victim input is often the transfer amount. After defrauding the first money, some fraudsters sometimes find various reasons to commit serial fraud until all the money in the victim's bank card is turned out.

The police reminded that during the Spring Festival, many citizens will fly home to visit relatives and travel abroad. Beware of the scam of "ticket change". Airlines will never let passengers return and change their tickets at the bank ATM. In case of abnormal flight information with strange numbers, you should log in to the airline official website or call the official customer service number for verification to avoid being cheated.