How to prevent winning scams?

Winning a prize is a very lucky thing for everyone, but winning a prize by cheating is not a happy thing. In life, swindlers often take advantage of people's joy in winning prizes.

65438129 October, Aunt Hu, who lives in Liangzi River Village, Shalizhai Town, Fengcheng City, received an urgent letter from Beijing. "My family has no relatives in Beijing. Who will send me a letter? " Aunt Hu was surprised to open the envelope, which contained a publicity color page of "2 1 Anniversary Brilliant Lottery" of a health care product company in Beijing. The color page had a scratch area and a winning number. Aunt Hu picked up the leaflet and scraped it, only to find that she won the second prize, with a bonus of 6,543,800 yuan. Aunt Hu felt unreliable at first, but the notarial certificate, photos and materials sent with the publicity color pages made her feel that she might really win the prize. It is clearly stated in the instructions for redemption that the winner should contact the "Bonus Hotline of Notary Office" within 3 days after receiving the letter, so as to redeem the prize.

She won the "Million Dollar Prize" without spending a penny. Aunt Hu is very excited and wants to call the bonus hotline immediately, but she still has doubts in her heart. Aunt Hu found Mr. Liu, a neighbor who works in other places, and asked him to help verify the winning situation. When Aunt Hu told Mr. Liu about winning the prize, Mr. Liu smiled and said, "Aunt, this must be a scam. You didn't attend their celebration. How did you win the prize for no reason? " How can there be good things in the sky? "

Seeing that Aunt Hu had not given up winning the prize, in order to prove her statement, Mr. Liu dialed the winning hotline on the publicity color page on the spot. "notary"

After checking the password on the color page, it is said that Mr. Liu did win the grand prize of 1 10,000 yuan, but he needs to pay the prize amount of 1% as the notary fee according to the requirements of the activity to win the prize. The other party also gave Mr. Liu a bank account number.

"Remit 1 0,000 yuan first and then receive the prize!" Aunt Hu is sure that she has met a liar. Mr. Liu also reminded her that in addition to the notary fee, she may be asked for other fees below. In short, swindlers just try their best to cheat more money.

Deception case

Zhang, a villager who lives in Sifangxi Township, Sangzhi County, Hubei Province: "On the afternoon of March/KLOC-0, 2065438, I was chatting on my mobile phone at home, and a winning message popped up, which read Congratulations! You have been selected as a lucky user by an off-site QQ lottery in the second quarter of a column, and you will receive a beautiful prize from the column group.

When Zhang saw the information, he was so moved that he believed it. He immediately logged into the prize-winning website, entered his personal data and account according to the page prompts, and reminded the winner that he needed to remit 4 800 yuan to the designated account to receive the prize. Zhang gave up accepting the prize.

On the morning of March 2, Zhang received a phone call from the column group, saying: You have signed a contract through the website, and it is a breach of contract to voluntarily give up the award. You must remit 4 800 yuan to the designated account, otherwise the column group will sue you, and after the prosecution, you will have to pay tens of thousands of yuan and be detained by the local police station for one month. Zhang was so scared that he quickly sent 4 800 yuan to the other party through Alipay.

On the morning of March 3, Zhang received a phone call from the column group again, saying that the money from Zhang Hui had not arrived yesterday and should have been stopped by the IRS to pay taxes. Now he needs to remit another 6 400 yuan. At this point, Zhang had doubts about the authenticity of the "column group" and felt cheated. He immediately called the police.

When the police logged into the award-winning website through Zhang's QQ again, the page showed that the malicious fraud website could not log in, and the police dialed the contact number of the "column group" and could not connect. After being deceived, Zhang regretted it.

The police warmly reminded the general public: ① Don't trust the winning information on QQ and other networks, especially those who ask for remittance before receiving the prize are mostly traps set by criminals to defraud money; The public should fully understand the legal knowledge such as contract law, so as to see through the fraud tricks of criminals and avoid being deceived.

Temptation analysis

The reason for the success of this scam:

1. Lost vigilance in the joy of winning the prize; 2. covet "big bargain", but be taken in.

Case warning:

Liars think that rural information is blocked and they can't keep abreast of their latest tricks. They publish false winning information to you by making phone calls, sending mobile phone text messages, and false web links. And then cheat money in the name of paying taxes and fees. I would like to remind farmers not to trust the so-called program groups, winning short messages or emails, and to be cautious about strangers' calls, strange numbers, strange mobile phone short messages and information posted on the Internet. Raise the awareness of fraud prevention, and be more careful and verify in many ways when encountering money exchanges. You can call the official telephone number of relevant departments or log in to official website for verification. At the same time, don't believe in the good thing of "pie falling from the sky" to avoid unnecessary losses.