What is telecom fraud? What are the types of telecom fraud?

Telecom fraud refers to the criminal act of fabricating false information and setting up a scam by telephone, internet, SMS, etc., to induce the victim to make money or transfer money in a long-distance and non-contact way. Usually, the purpose of cheating is achieved by impersonating others and forging various legal coats and forms, such as impersonating public security law, commercial company manufacturers, state organ staff, bank staff and other institutions, forging and impersonating recruitment, billing, loans, mobile phones and so on.

Main means:

(1) posing as social security, medical insurance, banking, telecommunications and other staff. In the name of social security card, medical insurance card, bank card consumption, annual fee deduction, password leakage, cable TV arrears, telephone arrears, etc., others use their own information to commit crimes, and provide so-called safe accounts on the grounds of bank card upgrade and verification of innocence, so as to induce victims to remit money to accounts designated by criminal suspects.

(2) pretending to be a public security law and postal staff. Threatening by summoning, arresting, freezing deposits in the victim's name, etc., in order to prove innocence and provide a safe capital verification account, and induce the victim to remit funds to the account designated by the criminal suspect.

(3) Cheating by selling cheap air tickets, train tickets and prohibited items. By selling cheap smuggled cars, plane tickets, train tickets, guns and ammunition, ecstasy, eavesdropping equipment and other prohibited items, the criminal suspect used people's greed and curiosity to induce the victim to call for advice, and then committed fraud by paying a deposit and consignment fees.

Extended data

Numerous fraud cases uncovered by public security organs have the same rule. When a fraudster spits out a flower, no matter what rhetoric he uses, no matter how the technique is refurbished, it will eventually come down to one point, that is, the criminals want the victim's bank card, password and account number. No matter what fraud means, it will eventually fall to this point, because he just wants money.

Therefore, we should also remind netizens and the masses that in their daily work and life, we should never trust phone calls and text messages of unknown origin, and we should never easily disclose our identity and bank card information. If you have any questions, you should call the public security organs in time, even if you ask, understand and verify them with your relatives, friends, journalists and people who know better.

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