What are the forms of WeChat fraud?

1, pretending to be a WeChat friend to commit fraud

Criminals spread their networks widely by sending links with Trojan virus, especially password attacks against QQ and WeChat. Once the victim's mobile phone or computer is poisoned, criminals can invade the victim's QQ and WeChat.

Kick the victim out of a small group at home or a large group in an enterprise, and pull him into a group full of criminal accomplices but with the same avatar, nickname and status. After chatting in the group to gain the trust of the victim, the criminal gang finally asked the victim to transfer money to the designated account.

2. Online dating gambling fraud.

After searching the information of the victim through dating websites, criminals actively add the victim as a friend and associate with the victim in the name of making friends and falling in love. After gaining the trust of the victims, they asked the victims to help them improve their work performance.

The victim is required to register users on the website provided by him, and under the pretext of investment and financial management, the victim is guided to recharge the website, buy lottery tickets, guess the size, manage money and other products. In fact, criminals manipulated the background program of the website, operated a fake gambling sites, and cheated the victim's money into his bank account.

3, the network swipes fraud

Criminals post information on recruiting part-time employees through WeChat group. After the victim added them as friends, he asked the victim to buy the goods designated by him on the grounds of brushing the online shop, improving the reputation of the online shop and paying the commission to the victim. Some criminals directly send the QR code to the victim for payment after scanning the code.

Under normal circumstances, in order to gain the trust of the victim, criminals will pay the first principal and commission to the victim quickly, but from the second order, criminals will ask the victim to pay a large amount of money for many times on the grounds of multi-task, and at the same time, under the pretext of card slip and task activation, ask the victim to pay repeatedly until the victim finds out that he has been cheated.

4. Online solicitation of fraud

The criminals took the picture of a beautiful woman as their avatar and took the initiative to add WeChat "people nearby" as friends. During the chat between the two sides, information such as providing young ladies and pornographic services was revealed, and explicit photos were sent. After luring the lecherous to take the bait, the victim is required to send multiple 200 yuan red envelopes in the name of collecting deposit, security fee, clothing fee and vehicle fee.

The victim was hacked by criminals while waiting for the young lady to come to the door for service. Victims of this kind of fraud are often reluctant to report to the police, and even when the police verify their deception, it is easy to show their feelings of not cooperating with the investigation.

5. Online stock recommendation fraud

Criminals actively add the victim's WeChat, chat with the victim in words and gain the victim's trust, then drag the victim into the WeChat group, and then the so-called "stock recommendation master" bragged about recommending stocks through the webcast platform, and other "stock friends" in the group helped trick the victim into injecting funds into the fake securities trading platform.

In fact, the money went into the criminal's private account. Criminals use manual transactions to make victims profit first and encourage them to continue investing. Then they defrauded the victim's funds by making losses, and persuaded the victim to continue investing on the grounds of unstable market and recovery of principal. After the victims raised questions, criminals cut off the contact information between the victims and them by closing the live broadcast room, blackmailing the victims and dissolving the WeChat group.

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