Tips for preventing telecom fraud

1. Don't be credulous even if you encounter a phone call or text message that can tell personal information such as name and address. You need to verify it through other channels.

2. In particular, pretending to be a public security investigation, pretending to be an airline to return and change a ticket, pretending to be a friend and family to transfer money, pretending to be Taobao, and customer service refunds, such calls are basically fraud;

3. Don't easily click on links sent by strange text messages, emails and social tools, and don't install strange applications casually;

4. Security software should be installed on the mobile phone, which can effectively identify and intercept fraudulent calls, fraudulent short messages, phishing interception and Trojan horse programs;

Legal basis: According to Article 2 of the Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate on Several Issues Concerning the Specific Application of Laws in Handling Criminal Cases of Fraud, whoever defrauds public or private property to reach the amount standard stipulated in Article 1 of this Interpretation and has any of the following circumstances may be given a heavier punishment as appropriate in accordance with the provisions of Article 266 of the Criminal Law:

(1) Sending short messages, making phone calls or publishing false information through the Internet, radio and television, newspapers and magazines, etc., defrauding an unspecified majority;

(2) defrauding disaster relief, emergency rescue, flood control, special care, poverty alleviation, immigration, relief and medical funds and materials;

(three) fraud in the name of disaster relief fund-raising;

(four) defrauding the disabled, the elderly or the disabled;

(5) Causing the victim to commit suicide, mental disorder or other serious consequences.

If the amount of fraud is close to the standards of "huge amount" and "extremely huge amount" as stipulated in Article 1 of this Interpretation, and it falls into one of the circumstances as stipulated in the preceding paragraph or belongs to the ringleader of a fraud group, it shall be deemed as "other serious circumstances" and "other particularly serious circumstances" as stipulated in Article 266 of the Criminal Law respectively.