Main Phishing Tricks

Method one is to send emails to lure users into a trap with false information. Criminals send a large number of fraudulent emails. The emails often lure users to fill in their financial account numbers and passwords with content such as winning prizes, consultants, and reconciliations, or they use various pressing reasons to require recipients to log in to a webpage and submit their usernames. , passwords, ID numbers, credit card numbers and other information, and then steal user funds.

Method 2: Create a fake website to defraud users’ account passwords and commit theft. Criminals set up websites with domain names and web content that are very similar to real online banking systems and online securities trading platforms to lure deceivers into entering information such as account numbers and passwords, and then steal user funds.

Method three is to use fake e-commerce to commit fraud. Criminals publish false information on well-known e-commerce websites, selling goods in the names of so-called "ultra-low prices," "tax-free," "smuggled goods," and "charity sales," etc., and require the deceived to pay for the goods in advance to achieve the purpose of fraud.

Method 4: Use "Trojan horse" and "hacker" technology to steal user information. Criminals hide "Trojan horse" programs in emails sent or on websites. When conducting online transactions on a computer infected with "Trojan horse", the "Trojan horse" program obtains user accounts and passwords through keylogging.

Tip 5, website fraud. The URLs of fraudulent websites designed by criminals are very similar to the URLs of legitimate websites. There is often only one letter difference, which is difficult to detect without careful identification. When users log into fake websites to perform financial operations, their financial information will be leaked.

Method 6: Cracking the user’s “weak password” to steal funds. Criminals take advantage of the loophole in which some users set "weak passwords" in online banking for convenience. They search for bank debit card numbers online and then log in to the bank's online banking website to crack the "weak passwords."

Tip 7: SMS fraud. Mobile phone text message "bulk senders" controlled by computers that store mobile phone numbers send out a large number of false messages, tricking victims into carrying out remittances, transfers and other operations in the name of "winning prizes", "tax refunds" and "investment consulting".