Quarantined after receiving a phone call? Beware of new scams!

Quarantined after receiving a phone call? Beware of new scams!

The epidemic continues in various places

This gave the scammers an opportunity to take advantage

A new scam is starting

They lied that they were staff from the epidemic prevention and control department.

Claim you may be a close contact

Or process ticket refund or change

Selling special anti-epidemic drugs and other scams

Encountering the above situations

Remember not to be gullible

The epidemic prevention department will not tell us

Send any unknown links

Or request a verification code

and bank account information

During the anti-epidemic period

Fraud cases like this are endless.

Criminals take advantage of the epidemic to make money

Many people were deceived

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Posting fake mask ads to induce payment

Gu from Jiashan County, Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province learned that someone was selling N95 masks with a certificate of conformity on WeChat, so he took the initiative to contact the person to negotiate the purchase and directly transferred a total of 39,200 yuan to the other party through WeChat. Shortly after the payment, Gu found that the other party had blocked his WeChat account and realized that he had been cheated.

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"Special medicine" to defraud property and information

Mr. Chen believed the scammer's promotion of "special preventive medicine for the new coronavirus" and was defrauded of 9,000 yuan. Afterwards, he realized that he had been deceived and contacted the other party but the phone was turned off, so he reported the case. The police found that the so-called "special medicine" purchased by Mr. Chen was only packed in a simple transparent plastic bag, green in color, with a total of 42 pills, and the ingredients were unknown. After being arrested, the suspect confessed that the pills were just ordinary health care medicines.

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Impersonating a charity organization to defraud donations

In 2020, a case of fraud occurred in Jieyang City, where a fake public account was registered on WeChat using donations for the epidemic. On the evening of January 29, the Criminal Police Brigade arrested the suspect Cai. After investigation, Cai initially confessed that he had committed more than 100 frauds using the fake public account, involving more than 8,000 yuan, and people in many places were deceived.

Below I brought

During the epidemic

The latest scams

And precautions against fraud

If you encounter

But don't be fooled!

There are many kinds of online fraud

While doing a good job in epidemic prevention

Remember to use your keen eyes to identify scams

Beware of fraud traps

Source: Science Popularization China WeChat Official Account

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