China News Service, July 23. According to the website of the Ministry of Education, the 2020 college entrance examination has ended on July 10. Follow-up examinations of candidates, application of volunteers, and college admissions will soon begin. In the past, this period was also a period of high incidence of all kinds of fraud involving college entrance examination. "Spend money to enter prestigious schools", "internal indicators", "issue scholarships in advance" and other fraudulent methods are often performed. In recent years, with the development of technology, criminal fraud methods have been constantly renovated, and some enrollment frauds have even put on the cloak of informationization.
The education and public security departments remind candidates and parents to be more vigilant, increase awareness of prevention, beware of recruitment traps, and beware of being deceived.
Data map: College entrance examination candidates walk out of the examination room. Photo by China News Agency reporter Liu Zhankun
Trap 1: There are "Trojan horses" for sub-checking SMS, and there are backdoors for "phishing" websites
After the exam, candidates and parents are most concerned about the college entrance examination scores. Some criminals will seize this psychology and try to invade candidates’ computers or mobile phones by forging “phishing” websites or sending mobile phone messages with “trojan horse” viruses. Once successful, they will steal candidates' mobile phone numbers, ID numbers, bank card numbers and other information, and then steal online payment accounts for fraud.
[Case] According to media reports, after the college entrance examination in 2019, the candidate’s parent Mr. Liu received a text message saying “You can know the college entrance examination scores in advance, prepare early, fill in your volunteers better, and strive to get your child to a good school”. When Mr. Liu was happy, he clicked on the link on the text message, but what Mr. Liu did not expect was that the child’s college entrance examination scores were not found, and the more than 10,000 yuan in his mobile phone’s online banking had disappeared. I kept receiving the text messages, very distressed.
[Reminder] After the college entrance examination is over, local admissions and examination agencies will promptly announce the time and method of inquiry for the college entrance examination results. The police reminded: Candidates and parents must be aware of the authenticity when inquiring about the test takers’ scores, and check the scores through the school or education department’s official query method or the scoring website. Remember not to easily click on links of unknown origin in mobile phone text messages.
Trap 2: There is an internal relationship, you can record it with money
After the criminals steal candidate information, they use the fluke of candidates and their parents to register with low scores and high scores to send fraudulent text messages through "pseudo base stations" that can be admitted in advance with low scores, or to spend money under the guise of "internal relations" by the admissions agency. Fraud on the grounds of money admission.
[Case] In the 2017 college entrance examination, Ms. Wu’s son barely reached the three-book mark because his grades were not very satisfactory. The family unanimously decided to repeat the course for another year. In the 2018 college entrance examination, Ms. Wu's son still played unstable. Ms. Wu is very worried that her child will not be able to attend the ideal school in the second year of the college entrance examination. At this time, Ms. Wu received a call from her own college admissions, saying that she could make arrangements in advance for Ms. Wu's son to obtain the qualifications for admission to her school, but she needed to pay a deposit of 30,000 yuan. Faced with the temptation to attend a second school and the high deposit, Ms. Wu hesitated for a long time. When Ms. Wu decided to contact the other party for payment, she found that the phone of the "person in charge" had been shut down.
[Reminder] In the past, scams such as "internal enrollment", "special indicators", and "re-enrollment" often appeared after the college entrance examination volunteer admission. Criminals falsely claim that a certain college has not been able to recruit a full number of places. By spending money to "manage" candidates, candidates can obtain special indicators or make up for enrollment. In recent years, scammers have used various excuses to ask parents to pay to reserve places before the exam. The police reminded: the college entrance examination admission system has a strict national unified authentication encryption system and supervision mechanism. The so-called spending money to go to a good university, a good major, and not enough scores to go to college are all deceptive tricks. Candidates and parents should understand and confirm exam admission policies and information from regular channels, keep a clear head at all times, and carefully screen out notifications from unknown sources, and don't trust them. Once you find that you have been cheated, please call the police in time.
Trap 3: Hackers can change points, pay money to "cover"
Criminals use the psychology of examinees and parents to pass the exam successfully, by spreading fraud information such as "Failed exams, internal operations", "Internal bonus points", "Pass wallet" and other fraudulent information, claiming that they can change points through technical means to defraud the victim to transfer funds .
[Case] After the announcement of the college entrance examination results in 2019, Xiao Shao was a little dissatisfied with his results. At this time, a mysterious stranger contacted him and declared that he was a hacker and could modify the college entrance examination results. Xiao Shao was very skeptical at first, but when the hacker claimed that he had penetrated into the score system and accurately stated Xiao Shao’s name, school, grades, and other information, Xiao Shao began to believe in the mysterious hacker and made bank transfers. Pay a deposit of 1,000 yuan. The next day, the hacker contacted Xiao Shao and said that the grades had been changed, but his personal information could not be updated in time. He asked Xiao Shao to pay 500 yuan, and the impatient Xiao Shao transferred another 500 yuan. At this point, the mysterious man disappeared without a trace.
[Reminder] Such claims that they can modify the scores of the college entrance examination are pure scams. The college entrance examination online scoring is not the Internet as generally understood, but the internal network scoring is used, and there is no possibility of external hacker intrusion. The online scoring subjects are first scanned in a confidential place, and then sent to the relevant scoring points through a dedicated line, and the whole process is supervised with "no dead ends". There is nothing in the world for nothing. Don’t believe that hackers change into scams.
Trap 4: Volunteer to find an "expert", be careful of being deceived and misled
In recent years, voluntary services such as "big data predicting admission probability" and "one-to-one consultation with experts" for college entrance examination have become popular. Some training institutions, consulting companies, individuals, etc. fraudulently use education departments, recruitment agencies or universities to apply for on-site consultation and counseling activities in the name of college entrance examination, or imitate official websites to carry out online consultation and counseling, known as expert guidance, enrollment, and ask candidates Collecting high consultation fees, tutoring fees, and big data platform usage fees from parents can cause financial losses to candidates and parents. More importantly, they may be misled and lose normal admission opportunities.
[Case] In July 2019, candidate Xiao Chen downloaded a college entrance examination volunteer service app provided by a certain company, and spent 599 yuan to purchase the exclusive membership voluntary registration service. After 10 days, he found that some of the score line data given by the system was different from the official data, so he contacted the software customer service. The customer service responded that it could not be processed and the personal data was modified. After that, Xiao Chen contacted customer service many times, but was unable to handle it.
[Reminder] Candidates must recognize the sponsor to participate in voluntary reporting and guidance consultation activities. Be vigilant for fee-charging voluntary reporting and consulting activities organized by various consulting agencies in the society. Some apps, websites or consulting agencies that charge high-priced services have problems such as irregularities and security risks. In particular, candidates and parents are reminded that on-site or online consultation activities organized by local admissions and examination agencies and admissions colleges are free. Please check their official websites. College entrance examination policies and information must be published by provincial admissions and examination agencies. , Don’t trust the information learned through other informal channels to avoid being deceived. At the same time, keep in mind the filling time of each batch of volunteers and soliciting volunteers, and fill in the volunteers in strict accordance with the requirements and procedures within the specified time to avoid missing or wrong filling, and don't miss the filling time. It is necessary to keep the password for filling in your own volunteers, and do not disclose it to outsiders to prevent others from tampering with your volunteers.
Trap 5: "Pheasant University" has many tricks, and you can't be fooled to distinguish the authenticity
"Pheasant University" is also called "fake university" and "learning shop". Its purpose is to make profits. It usually uses names that are easily confused with well-known universities and colleges, recruits students in a confusing way, and issues diplomas randomly. These schools are all fake universities that are not qualified for admissions, do not have the qualifications for running a school, are suspected of forging and selling false academic diplomas, are suspected of illegal admissions or online fraud. A little carelessness may lead to mistakes, especially for candidates whose test scores are not satisfactory.
[Case] After the college entrance examination in 2018, some candidates reported that a website named "Wuhan University of Economics and Business" was highly similar to the "Hebei University of Economics and Business" website. From web design, school emblem, campus landscape photos, and even introductions from school leaders, almost completely plagiarized Hebei The official website of the University of Economics and Business. According to the website, the school began preparations in the second half of 1992 and was approved by the Hubei Provincial People's Government on June 14, 1993. In response, the Hebei Provincial Cyberspace Administration of China conducted an investigation into the fake official website of Hebei University of Economics and Business by "Wuhan University of Economics and Business (domain name: whjmd.com)". After verifying with the Hubei Provincial Department of Education, there is no "Wuhan University of Economics and Trade" among the 168 regular colleges and universities in Hubei. The school is a "Pheasant University" and the website is illegal. The Hebei Provincial Cyberspace Administration, in conjunction with public security, education and other departments, conducted further investigations into the website and related personnel involved, and shut down the website according to law.
【Reminder】Usually, "Pheasant University" will use various tricks such as false propaganda, fake enrollment qualifications, fake enrollment promotional materials, falsely claim that the state recognizes academic qualifications and other tricks to entice candidates and their parents to apply for the exam. Department of Education reminds: In 2020, the list of 3,005 national colleges and universities qualified for college entrance examination has been published on the official website of the Ministry of Education. Candidates and parents can log on to the official website of the Ministry of Education (website www.moe.gov.cn/jyb_xxgk/s5743/s5744 /202007/t20200709_470937.html) to check and verify. Candidates and parents are requested to recognize the regular colleges and universities when they volunteer to report, and do not be deceived.