Elementary school students were tricked out of 7,000 yuan by their master for playing "eating chicken" The man was caught playing the "worship ceremony" routine, beware of online scams targeting primary and middle school students
In daily life and learning, many primary and secondary school students have become inseparable from the Internet, but due to their lack of discernment and control, they have become the target of some fraudsters.
Recently, a reporter's investigation found that using games as a tool has become one of the main ways to induce primary and secondary school students to be deceived.
In game fraud cases, most of the scammers attract the attention of primary and secondary school students by receiving free game equipment, skins, and receiving star autographs and other benefits.
Grabbed the gift red envelope
The master disbanded the WeChat group
Xiao Geng (pseudonym), an 11-year-old primary school student in Jinan, downloaded the game on his mother's mobile phone after accidentally coming into contact with the mobile game "Chicken Eater".
However, in the process of playing the game, due to poor operation, Xiao Geng was often eliminated early.
However, by a chance coincidence, Xiao Geng met a master in the game, and it was precisely because of the appearance of the master that Xiao Geng tasted the taste of "winning the championship" for the first time.
In the following period of time, under the leadership of the masters, Xiao Geng often won the first place in the game, but he was not satisfied. In order to improve his skills, Xiao Geng came up with the idea of learning from a teacher.
Coincidentally, a few days later, the master said that if Xiao Geng wanted, he could be his teacher. Not only that, he could also give Xiao Geng some equipment.
As the saying goes, to worship a teacher, there must be a ritual of worship.
During a chat, the master suddenly set up a WeChat group, and in the group proposed to let Xiao Geng pay his respects.
In this regard, Xiao Geng used his mother's mobile phone to send dozens of WeChat red packets to the group within two hours, totaling more than 7,000 yuan.
Unexpectedly, after the people in the group frantically grabbed the red envelopes, the master not only failed to deliver the equipment, but even the WeChat group was disbanded.
The sudden change left Xiao Geng at a loss. In desperation, he had to inform his mother about the situation. Afterwards, the mother and son immediately reported the case to the police.
After receiving the police, Jinan Licheng police quickly launched an investigation.
During the period, the police finally successfully arrested the criminal suspects Li Li (pseudonym) and Yang Mei (pseudonym) through analysis and judgment of the transfer records.
According to Li Li's confession, after he became a master and apprentice, he learned the WeChat account and password of Xiao Geng's mother in chat, so he figured out how to log in to Xiao Geng's mother's WeChat with his mobile phone and send a red envelope to his WeChat account. idea.
However, after several attempts, the red envelope could not be sent. After that, he came up with a routine of drawing friends to form a WeChat group to worship the teacher, and step by step, he induced Xiao Geng to send red envelopes to the group.
"Free game skins"
It's a scam
Not long ago, a 12-year-old student received a message saying "free game skin" while playing a small game on his father's mobile phone.
After that, the student took the initiative to add each other's friends and reported his home.
After the other party learned the student's information, he clearly informed that he must use his father's or mother's mobile phone to scan the code to get the skin for free. As a result, according to the other party's instructions, the student scanned the code three times to pay, totaling more than 7,000 yuan.
In January this year, Wenzhou police released a message.
According to Wenzhou police statistics, since January 2022, there have been 78 cases of minors being deceived in Wenzhou city, the youngest being 8 years old, and the proportion of males and females in terms of gender is 48.7% and 51.3%.
In terms of types of scams, the top three are impersonating acquaintance scams, game scams, and fake shopping scams.
10 year old child
easier to be deceived
Cao Fengchao, captain of the Second Squadron of the Criminal Police Brigade of the Licheng District Branch of the Jinan Public Security Bureau, told reporters that in the case of primary and secondary school students encountering telecommunication and network fraud, the fraud methods are mostly fake shopping, impersonating classmates and game frauds, among which game frauds and impersonating classmates Fraud dominates.
"The scammers use free game accounts, game coins, game skins, star signatures, etc. to lure elementary and middle school students into being fooled, and then induce students to transfer money step by step in a straightforward way. For example, if you buy game skins or game accounts do not ship, Only when the students asked for an explanation did they find that the other party had blocked or deleted them." Cao Fengchao said that in game fraud, scammers generally choose certain small games or small program-style games as tools, and some scammers even try to implement them. Scammers may develop unqualified games on their own.
In this type of game, there will be a chat mode. During the process, the liar will spread the words under the banner of "free" in the game to attract students who lack discrimination and control.
Among primary and secondary school students, students around the age of 10 have some cognition and discrimination of society and life, but lack of cognition and discrimination, so they are more likely to be deceived when faced with the temptation of liars.
Cao Fengchao reminded that as a parent, we must strengthen the supervision and education of minors in the use of mobile phones and social software, and usually spread the knowledge of telecommunication network fraud prevention to children. It is also recommended that parents do not easily open password-free payment, face payment, etc. payment method.
Reporter Zhang Guotong