#千万IP创科普# A girl met online while playing games and was defrauded of more than 20,000 yuan! Be careful of these scams targeting students!

It's winter vacation

Students have a long-awaited holiday

Some children are playing "killing monsters and leveling up" in the virtual world.

Beware of being targeted by criminals

Falling into the trap of online game fraud

Recently, an 11-year-old student in Quanzhou Taiwan Investment Zone was defrauded of more than 20,000 yuan by an online friend who claimed to "remove restrictions on his game account" while playing games. The police reminded that summer and winter vacations are the peak season for student-related frauds, and several common telecommunications and Internet frauds targeting students should be guarded against. Parents should not only educate their children to raise their awareness of fraud prevention, but also manage the payment passwords of their personal accounts.

Examples:

Meet people while playing games

Girl was cheated of more than 20,000 yuan

One day during the winter vacation, Xiaoya (pseudonym), an 11-year-old girl living in Zhangban Town, met an online friend while playing games on her mother's mobile phone. After chatting online, the other party sent a picture and lied to Xiaoya that she should remove the restrictions on her game account, otherwise her parents' bank cards would be deducted 60,000 yuan and she would go to jail. Xiaoya didn't understand what restrictions the other party wanted her to remove, but she was very scared under the other party's threat. Then, under the other party's inducement, she downloaded remote control software and turned on the screen sharing function, showing her mother's WeChat, Alipay, and bank accounts to the other party one by one.

Under the continuous online threats from the other party, Xiaoya sent her mother's payment verification SMS to the other party, using the online consumption method to purchase two mobile phones, and was defrauded of more than 20,000 yuan. After that, the other party guided Xiaoya to delete the chat history and continued to ask her to operate online. Xiaoya realized that she might have been deceived and stopped contacting the other party, but she did not dare to tell her parents immediately. The next night, her mother found that her credit card had been swiped for more than 20,000 yuan, so she quickly called the police.

analyze:

Several common student scams

Be more careful during the holidays

According to the police, online advertisements such as "Scan the code to receive a red envelope", "Free game equipment", and "Remove anti-addiction restrictions" are very eye-catching and tempting to young people with weak awareness of prevention and insufficient social experience. Behind these advertisements may be hidden traps of fraudsters, and you may be deceived if you are not careful.

The police reminded that winter and summer vacations are the peak periods for student-related frauds. Currently, there are several types of telecommunications and Internet fraud targeting students.

The first is the "big trap" of free skins. Fraudsters falsely claim to give away game equipment and game skins for free, and then defraud minors of their money through "activation fees, certification fees, and verification fees", inducing children to use their parents' mobile phones to open "screen sharing" to transfer money.

The second is to "set a trap" by threatening and intimidating. The fraudsters posted information through short video websites, game communities and other channels, lured minors to join QQ groups, and then pretended to be police officers, lawyers and other identities to commit fraud, intimidating students to keep the case confidential and not tell anyone, including their parents, otherwise they would come and arrest the whole family. Out of fear, the child had to obey and transfer money to the other party to "prove his innocence."

The third is to impersonate acquaintances to "borrow money widely". Many minors have low awareness of mobile phone security, which leads to the theft of their QQ or WeChat accounts, and some even directly authorize others to log in. Fraud gangs take advantage of this opportunity to borrow money everywhere in the name of minors, or send fraudulent information to commit fraud.

Fourth, fake shopping "offline payment". Fraudsters use social platforms such as WeChat, QQ, and Xiaohongshu to send a large number of false advertisements, with exquisite pictures and copywriting packaging. Under the temptation of low prices, many minors will pay directly after negotiating the price offline, resulting in being deceived.

Fifth, online star-chasing is "tempting". Fraudsters lure minors into fake fan groups, using star autographs or gifts as bait, and commit fraud in the name of ranking, gift giving, and fundraising, and guide minors to transfer money or swipe orders.

remind:

Plan your gaming time wisely

Parents should manage payment passwords

During the holidays, how can we help children avoid the risk of telecommunications and Internet fraud?

The police reminded parents that during the holidays, they should tell their children not to believe any information about free game skins or game props, not to trade privately with strangers, not to transfer and recharge at will; do not trust strangers who deliberately chat up on the Internet, do not easily add stranger friends, and immediately quit the group when being pulled into a strange group. Do not make video calls and screen sharing with strangers ; do not trust the so-called "no threshold" and "high-yield" part-time job advertisements on the Internet. Those that require payment before joining are all scams. On the other hand, parents should manage their payment passwords, regularly check their online consumption records, payment bills, etc., to verify whether there are any recharges or transfers. If there are large amounts of unknown expenditures, relevant records should be kept in time, and rights protection or legal channels should be sought from relevant platforms. Children should also be guided to plan their game time reasonably to avoid being addicted to games for a long time. Parents need to maintain close communication with their children, keep abreast of their children's activities in the online world, and guide their children not to click on unknown links at will, and not to disclose important information such as real names and addresses to strangers. If children are threatened or intimidated, they should report to their parents or teachers as soon as possible and seek help.

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Don't take some part-time jobs

In addition to being wary of various scams, students should also be wary of the following part-time jobs.

Helping fraudsters withdraw cash: In order to quickly transfer stolen money, many criminals will hire people to help them withdraw cash offline and transfer funds. Some part-time jobs are to help them buy precious metals, etc., and they promise high rewards. In fact, these jobs are to act as "tools" to launder money for telecommunications network fraud crimes.

Buying and selling bank cards and mobile phone cards: renting, lending, or selling your own phone cards, Internet of Things cards, telecommunications lines, SMS ports, bank accounts, payment accounts, Internet accounts, etc., or acting as an offline "card head" or "card dealer" will make you an accomplice of fraudsters and you will also bear serious legal responsibility.

Building GOIP and VOIP: Most of the fraudsters are hiding abroad. They will use "high-paying recruitment" as bait to lure job seekers to rent houses in China to build virtual dialing devices to remotely control mobile phone cards, make fraudulent calls to domestic victims, and send fraudulent text messages to commit fraud. These virtual dialing devices convert overseas calls into local domestic calls, which increases the confusion and makes victims more likely to be deceived.

Fraud induction: Some fraud gangs recruit "operators" and require them to follow the set scripts and illegally obtain citizen information lists to make calls or send text messages to guide victims to add the contact information of upstream fraudsters. This kind of work is fraud induction behavior.

Offline promotion and diversion: They often use small gifts as bait, asking the victim to scan a QR code or create a group by inviting people or sending false advertisements to receive small gifts for free. These so-called part-time jobs are actually helping the fraudsters to conduct offline promotion and diversion, preparing for the fraudsters to carry out the next step of fraud.

There's no such thing as a pie in the sky

1. All fake orders are scams.

2. Do not trust messages about free game skins or game props, and do not trade privately with strangers. 3. Do not trust calls from people claiming to be customer service staff, and you can verify them on the official platform first. 4. If you encounter friends online who ask for money, you can verify their identities through phone calls or in person, and do not trust transfers. 5. Do not add strangers randomly. If you cannot tell whether it is a scam, you can communicate more with parents and teachers. 6. When shopping online, pay attention to the authenticity of the shopping platform, and do not fall into scam traps for the sake of small profits.