Is 315 Tuition Refund a Scam?

It’s a scam.

Thousands of yuan in tuition fees were not refunded, but instead, a new trick was used to create an education refund scam with a loan of nearly 100,000 yuan. Recently, on the Black Cat complaint platform, securities companies such as "Huatai Securities" and "Zhongyuan Securities" have been complained by consumers because of "difficulty in refunding securities subscription fees." After in-depth investigation, Jiemian News reporters found that these so-called "securities companies" were actually faked by scammers, and the so-called "Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission" certification during the fraud was also fake. Students seeking refunds fell into a new type of scam. In the beginning, small-amount "securities subscriptions" can indeed refund tuition fees, but when students subscribe for large-amount securities, "securities companies" begin to deceive students by claiming that students have made operational mistakes and their accounts have been frozen, which in turn affects credit reporting and causes heavy losses. Throw more money into the scam.

We have seen many scams that pretend to be customer service to provide refunds, but on March 15, International Consumer Rights Day, scammers followed the hot topics and upgraded their fraud routines. Scammers will pretend to be customer service staff and claim to give you a refund on the grounds that there is a problem with the product and they are worried about your rights. Then they will ask you to click on a link or enable screen sharing, steal your Alipay password and bank card payment password, and then transfer your money. Therefore, whether it is rights protection or customer service refund, you must look for the official platform, and do not add strangers as friends easily, let alone "share the screen" with strangers easily. Calls from customer service are almost always scammed.