What are the common means and preventive measures in telecom fraud?

The methods to prevent telecom fraud are as follows: hang up the phone when receiving the phone related to the bank card; Telephone, Internet, SMS and other strangers who ask for money transfer and remittance. Don't listen, don't believe, transfer money or remit money; Hang up as soon as you receive the call and say you won the prize; All short messages, as long as they are linked, will be deleted; Don't answer any phone that starts with 170.

Telecommunication fraud refers to the illegal act that criminals fabricate false information and set up scams by telephone, short message, internet, etc., and conduct remote and non-contact fraud on victims to induce them to transfer money to criminals. Fictitious child kidnapping, using telephone recording to cause family panic, asking family members to remit money to redeem people. Pretending to be relatives and friends, committing fraud on the grounds of car accident, illness, illegal payment, etc.

Pretending to be a member of the telecommunications bureau and committing fraud in the name of telephone arrears. Pretending to be the staff of state organs such as procuratorates, law firms and companies, and committing fraud on the grounds that the victim is suspected of money laundering, fraud and other criminal activities. Pretending to be an officer of the tax bureau, asking the victim to operate the ATM in the bank on the grounds of tax refund and implementing fraud. Lie that the victim won the prize and ask the victim to pay personal income tax, service fee and handling fee to commit fraud.

Common fraudulent means

Send a text message saying that the victim's bank card was swiped in a different place. When the victim called back, the criminals impersonated the bank staff to commit fraud. Send information such as bank account number and "quick remittance" through SMS to deceive the victims who just want to remit money. When publishing false winning information, the victim will find QQ winning or online game winning when surfing the Internet, but he must pay the handling fee and personal income tax first, so that criminals can defraud the victim of remittance.

Whoever defrauds public or private property in a relatively large amount shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance, and shall also, or shall only, be fined. If the amount is huge or there are other serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years and shall also be fined. If the amount is especially huge or there are other especially serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years or life imprisonment, and shall also be fined or confiscated.