What to do if China etc Online Certification Center commits fraud?

If you have been defrauded, you should report the case to the public security organs, People's Procuratorate, and People's Court. The specific methods are:

1. Receive "ETC certification invalid" or "ETC card frozen." or "ETC is expired" or other similar text messages from unknown sources, do not rush to operate; neither banks nor ETC partners will send text messages containing links to ETC users, let alone "expired certification" and "invalid activation" Do not trust any text messages from unknown sources, and do not click on links in text messages at will.

2. If you have any questions about handling ETC, you can directly call the bank's official hotline and ask if there is any relevant business, and ask the bank to help handle it, or go directly to the bank counter to handle it.

3. Be careful when entering important personal information and bank card information, especially when you are required to fill in bank card passwords and verification codes. Once you discover that you have been defrauded, you must promptly contact the bank to report the loss and change your password, and dial 110 immediately to call the police.

"ETC fraud" is mainly divided into the following steps:

1. Fake the official platform and send group text messages.

Scammers send text messages to car owners in the name of official organizations such as ETC centers and highway management centers, asking car owners to perform so-called certification operations on the grounds that "ETC has expired and cannot be used", and at the same time attaches a pre-prepared The fake link guides the victim to click on the operation. These links are usually phishing websites that extract information, and sometimes contain Trojan viruses.

2. Steal information through phishing websites.

After clicking the link in the text message, you will enter an official-looking phishing website carefully prepared by the scammer. No matter where the victim clicks, he needs to fill in his bank card number, payment password, and identity before entering the secondary page. Important personal information such as ID number and mobile phone verification code. At this point, the scammer has completed the steps of information theft.

3. Once the information is available, transfer the money.

When the victim discloses the verification code, the fraudsters obtain all the information required for the transfer, and then easily transfer all the victim's money. When the bank card account number, password and verification code are all firmly grasped by the scammer, the victim is left with only transfer text messages and an "empty" account.

Legal Basis

Article 266 of the Criminal Law

Whoever defrauds public or private property, if the amount is relatively large, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention or control, and shall be concurrently or solely fined; if the amount is huge or there are other serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years, and shall also be fined; if the amount is particularly huge or there are other particularly serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years and shall also be fined; if the amount is particularly huge or there are other particularly serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than ten years but not more or life imprisonment, and a fine or confiscation of property. If this law provides otherwise, the provisions shall prevail.