What is telecommunications fraud and what are the common scams?

Revelation of several common telecom fraud tricks:

Telecom fraud is when criminals use mobile phones, telephones, the Internet and other related telecommunications infrastructure to defraud victims of money and affect people’s lives. Caused great harm. In fact, the fraud methods of criminals are always the same. Most of them are common tricks such as winning a big prize, having your credit card overdrawn due to malicious spending, my account has changed. Please transfer money to this account, hide-and-seek, and having an accident with your family. As long as we stay vigilant at ordinary times, think calmly when encountering problems, do not believe in good things falling from the sky, and overcome the mentality of being greedy for petty gains, even clever deceptions will fail.

Trick 1: You won a big prize in a car

Criminals usually pretend to be staff at national notary offices and tax agencies, and call and text your phone number. I won the first prize with my mobile phone number in a lottery organized by a certain group company. The prize was a car worth 200,000 yuan. As long as you pay 2,000 yuan in notary fees or taxes to the account of a certain notary office, you can bring your ID card to the notary office and take the car home. Some people trust the state agencies, and some people can't stand it. Dazzled by the temptation of the big prize, he muddle-headedly transferred the money to the account provided by the scammer, resulting in being deceived.

Reminder: Believe what the ancients said, pie in the sky will never fall. If you receive these spam messages and delete them or ignore them, the scammers' schemes will not succeed.

Scam 2: Your credit card has been maliciously spent and overdrafted

Example: The criminal claimed through text messages that the victim’s Agricultural Bank of China credit card had been swiped for consumption in a shopping mall. When the victim pressed the scammer’s During the telephone consultation provided in the text message, the other party claimed to be a bank employee and deceived the victim into transferring money from the bank card to the criminal's account. Recently, Mr. Wang from Linyi City, Shandong Province received a text message on his mobile phone. The text message stated that Mr. Wang’s credit card handled by the Agricultural Bank of China was used in Hangzhou to spend 3,000 yuan. Mr. Wang contacted the person on the other end of the phone according to the text message. Claiming to be a staff member of the Customer Service Center of the Agricultural Bank of China, he said that in order to prevent his credit card from being maliciously overdrawn again, he asked Mr. Wang to go to the Agricultural Bank of China teller machine for "upgrade |" processing. When Mr. Wang completed the operation at the teller machine according to his prompts, he found that the 8,000 yuan on the card was missing.

Reminder: Banks, postal and telecommunications agencies and other institutions will not use phone calls to notify parties to handle some arrears and overdrafts. When parties receive phone calls informing them to transfer money from their passbooks to other people's accounts, they should be vigilant. , choose to hang up the phone decisively.

Trick 3: My bank card is broken, please transfer the money to 356***** Chen’s account

The bank card is broken, please transfer the money to 356* ****Account Chen, the scammer sent out a large number of text messages like a goddess spreading flowers. Some victims happened to be planning to remit money and transferred the money directly to the account number provided by the criminal without verification. Recently, Xiao Zhang's father had a car accident in Jinan. Xiao Zhang was about to transfer money to his father at the bank when he received a text message from a criminal. In a hurry, Xiao Zhang transferred the life-saving money of 10,000 yuan without thinking carefully. Got out.

Reminder: Scammers’ text messages have a certain lethality. When you receive a request to transfer money with a strange name or account number, you must call the other party in time to check the authenticity of the account, or you can choose to call the police. At present, the police and relevant departments have established a cooperation mechanism to jointly combat telecommunications fraud.

Trick 4: Guess who I am

The scammer calls without a fixed target to harass. When the call is connected, the scammer does not say who he is and asks you to guess who the scammer is. , scammers often say, I am your classmate, friend, do you still remember me? The deceived person thinks that it is his business partner, former classmate, and friend joking with him, and the victim is telling the other person's name, the liar He said that you got the answer right, and I am here to do something somewhere. After I finish the work, I will treat the client and the victim to drinks, and promised to prepare generous gifts for the client. Soon, the client received another call from the scammer. The scammer claimed that he had been caught by the public security organs for soliciting prostitution or gambling and had been fined. He wanted to borrow money from the client and asked the client to transfer the money directly to a designated account.

Reminder: Do not directly guess the other party’s name when receiving a similar call, but stay vigilant and do not send money to a stranger’s account without truly knowing who the other party is. To avoid being deceived.

Deception 5: Your child has been kidnapped

Perhaps one day, you will suddenly receive a chilling phone call saying that your child had an accident somewhere. , or said to be kidnapped, the child's cry is heard on the other end of the phone, and the scammer can tell your child's name and birthday on the phone, and the scammer asks you to immediately transfer money to his designated bank account.

Reminder: Don’t panic when you receive a similar call. Stay calm. Don’t rush to transfer money first. Call your child’s phone number and other effective contact information such as classmates, teachers, colleagues, work units, friends, etc. to confirm the truth of the matter. sex. You can also call 110 to seek help from the police. The police will provide you with necessary help as soon as possible.