From November 1 to November 30, 2023
Types of online fraud with a high incidence of crimes
The top three are, in order
Impersonating the public prosecutor's office
Networking part-time
Pretending to be an acquaintance
Typical cases
Impersonating the public prosecutor's office
Case 1:
On November 29, 2023, the victim received a foreign ** at home, and the other party claimed to be a police officer from the Public Security Bureau, saying that the victim was suspected of money laundering and now needed to cooperate with the investigation, let the victim add him as a WeChat friend, and scan the code to ask the victim ** to remotely control the app. The other party obtained the victim's bank card password and verification code through the shared screen, and transferred the money in the bank card in 17 transactions, and the victim found that he had been deceived after losing 19,977 yuan, so he called the police.
Case 2:
On November 8, 2023, the victim received an application from a WeChat friend at home, who claimed to be a staff member of the anti-fraud center, claiming that 5 million yuan of stolen money involved in the case had been deposited in a bank card in the victim's name, and asked the victim to verify it through fund comparison, otherwise all assets of the victim would be frozen. The victim argued that he did not have the bank card in his name, and in order to prove his innocence, he transferred 900,000 yuan to the "safe account" provided by the other party as required to carry out the first step of verification. Later, the victim found out that he was blocked by the other party, so he called the police.
Networking part-time
Case 1:
On November 4, 2023, the victim joined a part-time WeChat group and installed an app under the guidance of the group owner to carry out the task of swiping orders. At the beginning, the owner of the group told the owner that recharging in the app could increase the rebate amount of each brushing task, and the owner recharged several brushing tasks after recharging, but found that he could not withdraw money, and realized that he had been deceived, so he called the police.
Case 2:
On November 29, 2023, the victim passed a stranger's friend application, and was pulled into a rebate group by the other party.
Pretending to be an acquaintance
Case 1:
On November 10, 2023, the victim was pulled into a WeChat chat group with "company leaders", and the "leaders" in the group sent a message saying that there was a payment for goods that needed to be paid urgently, and sent the account information of the recipient in the group, asking the victim to send the money immediately. The victim believed that it was true, and after the transfer, the victim reported to the leader that the payment had been completed, but the leader did not know. The victim found out that he had been deceived and called the police.
Case 2:
On November 24, 2023, the victim Zhou received a private message from a person claiming to be his "fourth aunt" on a **app, saying that she could not buy a ticket due to traffic restrictions and wanted the victim to help buy a ticket back to China, and provided a screenshot of a false transfer that had successfully transferred 49,700 yuan to the victim, and also asked the victim to book tickets from the person she designated to book tickets. The victim transferred 49,700 yuan to the booker, and mentioned the matter when he contacted the fourth aunt the next day, the fourth aunt said that she had no idea, and the victim found out that she had been deceived, so she called the police.
*: Capital Cyber Police.