"Phishing" scams are often false, and citizens may become "water fish" if they are not careful.
In the first four months of this year, the police received 127 email phishing scams, involving up to 330 million yuan, and the losses accounted for more than 30% of the total technology crime.
The biggest scam this year involved a US-funded investment company that lost US$9.6 million, or about HK$75 million.
The fraudsters have various methods and are close to the "trend". The Police Cyber Security and Technology Crime Investigation Bureau found 77 cases of "phishing" using voice calls this year. Most of them impersonated the electronic payment platform PayMe and bank staff, claiming to be helping victims to register consumer coupons. , obtain their personal information and then rob the account to defraud property.
Fake postal service at most falsely claims that the package is blocked and requires the victim to enter personal information
Superintendent Fan Junye of the Cyber Security Division of the Police Cyber Crime Division said that fake postal services have always been the most popular method of "phishing". Fraudsters usually use fishermen to cast their nets and send text messages or emails to the public to inform the victims that their parcels have been blocked. If there is a delay, you need to pay money immediately to solve the problem. The party concerned is not afraid of fraud, and clicks the link to enter the information to pay, that is, you fall into the trap of fraudsters and use the personal information of the victim to further defraud money.
He said that in the first four months of this year, the police received a total of 135 mail service fraud cases. Although the number was less than the same period last year, the total loss amounted to $4.7 million, an increase of 1.3 times.
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Pretend to be PayMe to help register consumer coupons, extract transaction passwords, and transfer money from accounts
Fan Xu said that the police noticed the latest "phishing" tactics. Some fraudsters switched to voice calls, pretending to be bank employees, especially related employees of the electronic payment platform PayMe, falsely claiming that the victim could register a consumption coupon, asking the other party to provide the transaction password, Or one-time passwords, and eventually hijack the account to transfer the money.
For the first time this year, the police counted the number of cases related to counterfeit electronic payment platforms. In the first four months of this year, 77 cases have been received, with a total loss of 900,000 yuan.
Anti-fishing tips.
(provided by the police)
Emails can be fake, police call for careful attention
The police also said that the fake e-mails and websites seem to have a high degree of authenticity, but if you look closely, you will find that they are fake, such as writing "1" as "l", "0" as "O", etc., reminding the public to pay attention.
The Police have also produced tips for preventing phishing scams. The Cyber Crime Bureau has also set up two systems, the “Suspicious Email Detection System (V@nguard)” and the “Phishing Fraud Finder” on the “Net Guard” netizens earlier for the public to use .
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