New types of online scams: Respondents pointed out that shopping and online loan scams are the most common

  "E-commerce swipe orders, so that you can make money at home with your fingers" "Follow the teacher to make a lot of money in stocks"...On the Internet, users can often receive similar messages from various software pushes. These attractive "pies" "Behind it is a dangerous "trap".

With the rapid development of the mobile Internet, new online fraud tactics are emerging in an endless stream, making people hard to prevent.

Recently, the Social Survey Center of China Youth Daily and the Social Survey Center (wenjuan.com) conducted a survey of 1175 interviewees. According to a survey conducted by the interviewees, the most common new types of online fraud tactics encountered were shopping and online loan fraud.

16.2% of the respondents said that many people around were deceived, and 69.2% of the respondents said there were some.

73.2% of the interviewees expect public security agencies, enterprises and institutions, schools, communities and other organizations to attach importance to the "anti-fraud propaganda" work.

What are the common methods of new online fraud

  Just a few weeks ago, Zhang Peng (pseudonym), a post-90s post-90s working in Beijing, encountered a new type of online fraud. “The scammer said that I had a transaction suspected of money laundering before, and I need to deal with this transaction, otherwise it will affect my subsequent fraud. Believe. I talked a few more words with the liar, and then I believed him and I was deceived."

  The survey showed that the respondents themselves or the people around them have encountered shopping fraud (55.7%), online loan fraud (44.1%), identity fraud (41.3%), "part-time job earning extra money" fraud (40.3%) and other new types of online fraud .

Others include: referral fraud (36.9%), flight cancellation and rebooking fraud (23.4%), “cloned” friend fraud (21.2%), “virtual gold coin” fraud (17.6%), etc., only 5.5% of the respondents No one has ever encountered it.

  Xiang Hui (a pseudonym) born in the 90s who worked in Wuhan said that some people around him have encountered stock-recommendation scams, "part-time job earning extra money" scams, and "virtual gold coin" scams.

"There are also people who buy and sell game equipment, participate in order checking, and buy virtual coins, all of which have suffered losses."

  In the survey, 16.2% of the respondents said that many people around were deceived, and 69.2% of the respondents said there were some.

  Li Jia (pseudonym) of a university student in Beijing had friends who were deceived. Some criminals used their social accounts to impersonate others to borrow money. Some merchants swiped orders but sent empty parcels for shopping fraud. “Just find that there are relatives and friends around. If something is wrong, I will communicate with them immediately to help them stop the loss in time."

  “I’ve always felt that I have a strong anti-fraud awareness. I don’t think I’m not greedy for petty gains and scammers can’t lie to me. But after the last incident, I found that I was too easy to trust strangers, especially scammers. Some illegal things are used to intimidate, and they are fooled." Zhang Peng said.

71.3% of respondents expect diversified forms of anti-fraud publicity

  If they encounter a new type of online fraud, 64.2% of the respondents said that they could be identified in the first place, 12.4% of the respondents could not, and 23.4% of the respondents said it was hard to say.

  Yang Jie (pseudonym), an employee of a university in Beijing, encountered a scam not long ago and was almost recruited.

"First, there was a number that kept calling me, and I answered it to see what was going on. The other party said that my express was lost, and they were the official express customer service, who wanted to pay me three times the price. The courier, where it was sent, and the tail number of the courier were all very accurate. I believed it. I told the other party that it was 104.7 yuan for a three times the price. The other party said that he would pay me 108 yuan and let me add his QQ. Number. I realized something was wrong here. It would be fine if the compensation was paid directly through the official platform. Why would I ask for a QQ account, so I ignored it and hung up the phone.”

  "About an hour later, the customer service lady of the National Anti-Fraud Center called me and told me that I just answered a fraud call and asked if I cooperated with them. She was relieved when I said no. Come. After that, I received a short message from China Unicom informing me that the fraudulent call is an overseas call." Yang Jie said that the country has made great efforts in anti-fraud, and initial results have been achieved. Protected.

  In the survey, 73.2% of the respondents expected public security agencies, enterprises and institutions, schools, communities and other organizations to attach importance to the "anti-fraud propaganda" work.

  Xiang Hui believes that it is indispensable to continue to increase publicity, and can focus on the types of fraud that have a high incidence among people of different age groups and specific occupations.

  Zhang Peng believes that companies need to be urged to strengthen the protection of personal private information. Nowadays, registering a software randomly requires a lot of private information. If this information is leaked, it will be easy for scammers to grasp your key information and gain trust from the beginning. Committing criminal activities.

  Li Jia said that if everyone is a master of anti-fraud, then the scammers will naturally have nowhere to hide. Relevant departments must promptly research and publicize new scams that have emerged to help the public understand and identify new scams.

  What are your expectations for combating online fraud?

In the survey, 71.3% of the respondents suggested that the forms of publicity should be diversified, not limited to posters, leaflets, etc., 63.7% of the respondents believed that companies should be urged to strengthen the protection of personal privacy information, and 58.5% of the respondents suggested The anti-fraud propaganda work is added to the performance appraisal to play a supervisory and guiding role. 41.0% of the interviewees believe that various departments should form a joint force to strengthen the offline crackdown on criminals.

  Zhao Zhanzhu, deputy director of Beijing Yunjia Law Firm, believes that, first, the relevant regulatory authorities, including the public security department and the judicial department, must increase their crackdown on cyber fraud and other criminal acts to form a normal working mechanism. A long-term and arduous task; second, relevant companies, especially Internet companies, must take more technical measures to find problems with certain URLs, QR codes or software, remind users to visit with caution, and provide clues to the regulatory authorities in a timely manner; Third, everyone should increase their awareness of surfing the Internet safely, and understand some of the commonly used methods and anti-fraud methods for online fraud.

  Among the respondents, the post-00s accounted for 13.4%, the post-90s accounted for 58.1%, and the post-80s accounted for 28.5%.

30.1% are located in first-tier cities, 42.1% in second-tier cities, 23.0% in third- and fourth-tier cities, 3.7% in counties or towns, and 1.1% in rural areas.

  China Youth Daily·China Youth Daily reporter Wang Pinzhi and intern Yao Yipeng Source: China Youth Daily

  Version 05, January 06, 2022