What are the main means of refund and change fraud?

Legal analysis: The fraudulent means of ticket change mainly includes the following steps:

1. Criminals obtain passenger flight information through illegal channels (or online purchases);

2. The criminals use the rebranding software to display their number as the official customer service phone number of the airline, pretend to be the airline staff, call or send a text message to the victim who ordered the ticket, and falsely claim that the scheduled flight was delayed;

3. Pretending to be a customer service phone to suggest that the victim change the visa or refund the ticket, and will pay compensation to the victim or refund the ticket price to gain the trust of the victim;

4. Once the victim believes it, the criminals ask the victim to operate through mobile banking, ATM, online banking, WeChat Alipay scanning code, etc. And enter the so-called verification code to transfer the funds in the victim's bank card. After defrauding the first money, criminals will also look for various reasons to implement serial fraud until all the money in the victim's bank card is transferred away.

Legal basis: Article 266 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) defrauds public or private property, and if the amount is relatively large, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance, and shall also or 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. Where there are other provisions in this Law, such provisions shall prevail.