I encountered a scammer on WeChat and refused to refund my money. How can I get my money back? Please help me.

1. If the amount is small, treat it as a lesson.

2. If the amount is large, collect evidence and go to the Public Security Bureau to call the police or call 12321 (Report and Acceptance Center for Bad Network and Spam Information) to make a report.

The specific measures of the 12321 Internet Bad and Spam Reporting and Acceptance Center:

(1) WeChat: Follow the 12321 WeChat public account "12321 Reporting Center", click "I want to report" or directly Send text, voice, and screenshot reports;

(2)? Weibo: Please follow "12321 Report Center" and send private messages or @12321 Report Center to report;

(3) SMS: You can send SMS to the five-digit short number "12321" to report spam SMS. Manually enter the reported number (i.e. the spam sender's number, this is very important) in front of the text message you want to report, add "*" to separate the following text message content, and then send it to the five-digit number "12321" digit short number;

Internet fraud

Internet fraud usually refers to fraud methods that defraud others of money in various forms on the Internet to achieve a certain purpose. The main act and link of the crime occurs on the Internet, and the act of defrauding relatively large amounts of public or private property by fabricating facts or concealing the truth.

Common types

1. False consultation information

An industry that is greatly negatively affected by fake online consultation information is the securities industry. Stock market mafia or securities company insiders disclose false information online to drive up stock prices. After deceived investors raise the stock price, they start dumping the stocks. According to the BBC, the stock price of the British company Coberg Group, which operates a coffee roasting business, has soared recently. The company's investigation found that this was mainly caused by an anonymous person spreading news online that the company may be about to transform. cause. The Koberg Group had to issue a statement to clarify this. In addition, some British companies discovered that in some online chat rooms, some investors tried to manipulate stock prices by providing false information in order to make profits.

Those who publish fake consultation information have only two intentions: one is to make profits, and the other is to prank, but the losses caused to the victims are not small, and it has a negative impact on the Internet environment. It's also huge. Netizens must treat information on the Internet differently and cannot accept everything as true. After all, the Internet is virtual.

2. Online auctions

Online auctions and online shopping are undoubtedly hot spots for online consumption. While they provide shopping convenience for consumers, they also cause many related complaints. Among them, the most common complaint is that after buyers successfully pay at the auction, they either do not receive the goods at all, or the goods they receive are completely different from what they saw online.

3. Scams related to Internet services

Consumers see some online advertisements saying that as long as they register for free on a certain website, the website will provide free Internet services. When registering. The site asks for your credit card information, but promises never to charge you. After registration, they will ask you to download the software you need to access the Internet, saying it is for you to access the Internet. Don't you know that this software contains a virus? Once installed in the computer, every time you click on the Internet access device, the computer will freeze and you will not be able to access the Internet at all. Meanwhile, your credit card has been used multiple times. Providing Internet services is fake, and obtaining your credit card information is the real purpose of this scam.

4. Information/adult service scams

Websites with "adult content" often have many patrons. Some people pay to download photos from these sites. Some scams target such consumers, offering free downloads of "adult content" photos as bait. As a result, when customers download photos, they also unknowingly download a dial-up software. After that, their computer was automatically dialed an international call by the dialing software without anyone noticing. Customers didn't know they had been cheated until they received a huge phone bill.

5. Computer software purchase scam

When you buy a computer software online that is much cheaper than other stores, when you download the software, the scammer will Viruses are downloaded to you, steal information from your computer, and then use this information to commit crimes online.

6. Work from home plan

Many American women hope to find a balance between family and career. Working from home is of course the perfect solution. This type of scam is carefully designed to target this mentality. The most common form is to receive an email from a headhunting company, saying that it can help you find a job to work from home. Not only is the work easy, but you can earn more than $1,000 a week. Just pay them about $100 for the materials and they will provide you with a variety of work options for working from home. Once you send the money, you will either get no news or you will receive a pile of waste paper asking you to participate in a pyramid scheme.

7. Loan application fee

Some people online offer house or car loans with very low interest rates, and the application conditions are also quite loose. They say that as long as you pay a loan application fee, you are guaranteed to be approved. You take out a loan. As a result, after the application fee was collected, there was no further news. This type of scam uses low-interest loans as bait in order to defraud application fees.

8. Credit card application

Some people have difficulty applying for a credit card because of their poor credit history. This type of scam is aimed at this consumer, claiming to provide them with a "credit check-free" credit card. As long as the applicant pays an application fee, the credit card is guaranteed to be issued to him. As a result, the applicant still could not get the credit card after paying the application fee. This is a scam designed to defraud credit card application fees.

Reference materials Baidu Encyclopedia: Internet fraud