The latest statistics from the "165 Anti-Fraud Dashboard" show that although the total number of fraud cases and financial losses of various types declined last month, "phishing link fraud" accepted 505 cases and caused financial losses of more than 54.51 million yuan, which was 253 cases higher than the same period last year. The number of cases and financial losses amounted to more than 13.05 million yuan, but it showed a significant multiple increase. Most of them were fake telecommunications and traffic toll notices, and then used the excuses of "points or points are about to expire" and "parking fees have not been paid" to trick people into clicking on Internet links to defraud; criminal police At a regular press conference on statistical data analysis today, the Bureau reminded the public to be careful not to fall into the trap of "phishing link fraud". It also invited artist Zhang Huaiqiu to attend and jointly called on the public to develop the anti-fraud habit of "pause, check first, and then act" to avoid being deceived.
The Criminal Bureau stated that last month, a total of 10,652 telecommunications and Internet fraud cases were accepted nationwide, with a total financial loss of more than 4.1757 billion yuan, compared with 13,701 cases and a financial loss of more than 6.32696 million yuan in the same period last year, a decrease of 22.3% and 35.1% respectively. %, but the "phishing link fraud" part has shown significant growth. They often use email notifications familiar to the public from e-commerce, government agencies, financial services, logistics companies, etc. to reduce their vigilance, and then use words such as "invoice winning" and "order exception notification" to induce operations.
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Among them, "fake telecommunications and transportation charge notices" have been the most popular recently. They use "points or points are about to expire" and "parking fees are not paid" as excuses to trick people into clicking on links to redeem goods or pay fees, and then steal credit card information and use it fraudulently.
Common forms include: pretending to be government agencies such as the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Transport, and scamming people with tax refunds, winning invoices, or unpaid fines; pretending to be Chunghwa Telecom, Yuantong Telecommunications, ETC, eTag, etc., and scamming people by telling them that points or points are about to expire, telecom fees are overdue, parking or tolls have not been paid, and deductions have failed; pretending to be banks, Lanxin Cash, etc., using scamming techniques such as payment failures, transaction abnormalities, or account verification.
Counterfeit e-commerce and shopping brands such as MOMO, Xiaosan Meini, Shopee, etc., and use fraud tactics such as orders, refunds, repeat orders, or abnormal membership information; fake logistics such as Huhuubian, Hsinchu Logistics, Black Cat Delivery, and Home Delivery to use fraud tactics such as order abnormalities, delivery failures, or sellers have not completed certification; fake Thailand Digital Arrival Card (TDAC), American ESTA, British ETA, and other travel or entry application service websites to publish fraudulent advertisements to attract people to click.
The Criminal Bureau emphasized that phishing link emails or URLs usually contain garbled characters. If you are not sure whether it is an official notice, you should close the original screen, reopen the official APP, manually search the official webpage, and contact official customer service for verification. Do not directly click on the links or website advertisements attached to the message. In some other cases, after people click on the link, they will be further induced to join LINE's "online customer service", and then fake customer service or fake bank specialists will take over, using reasons such as "removing wrong settings", "cancel repeated deductions", "account authentication" or "identity verification" to require operations such as online banking, ATM transfers, cardless withdrawals, and scanning QR codes, further "inducing remittances", resulting in higher property losses.
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