Cases of vaccine fraud occurred in many places in COVID-19. How to prevent being cheated?

Originally, the development and promotion of vaccines in COVID-19 was a good thing, but behind this good news, many people cheated under the banner of vaccines. At present, there are many cases of COVID-19 vaccine fraud in China, which makes us realize that there are many people with ulterior motives who use the old methods to take advantage of people's concern about COVID-19 vaccine to commit fraud. Judging from the open fraud cases, there are two main forms of fraud.

The first is to pretend to be a teacher in the class group to deceive parents. Some scammers join various parent groups by searching for keywords, and then inform the schools in the group as teachers to let students get COVID-19 vaccine. Then let the parents pay the money on the grounds of charging the vaccine fee. The second is to send fraudulent text messages pretending to be CDC. There are usually some links in text messages. The euphemistic name is to let you click to register, and then arrange a free vaccination place and time for you. In fact, it is to take your personal information and then enter fraud activities. In fact, these two methods are both old bottles and new wine, which are similar to the previous fraud methods. But why can so many people be deceived? The root cause is that the victims don't know much about the latest information of the vaccine, which gives the liar an opportunity.

It can be seen that to prevent this kind of fraud, we must first think about everything and wait. Many swindlers take advantage of children's eagerness, especially the seemingly urgent thing of vaccines. The more you need to wait, check the relevant information for verification before making money transactions. To some extent, it can reduce the chance of being cheated. Secondly, don't trust the unknown information. No matter who sends you a link or what company calls you, you should be careful, especially the network link.

Last but not least, pay more attention to the latest political news. Although we can't pay attention to all the information in time in the information society, it is necessary to master some real-time news related to life and individuals in time. Because many fraudsters just take advantage of people's poor grasp of important information and often don't know what it is, after carefully describing it to you, it will make the deceived feel anxious, just like the COVID-19 vaccine fraud case, using people's asymmetric grasp of information to cheat. Generally speaking, whether it is the COVID-19 vaccine fraud case or other fraud cases in our life, as long as we are on high alert and don't trust unverified information, we can reduce the occurrence of such fraud.