Spring Festival ticket rush, these 4 kinds of ticket purchase scams should be vigilant

The 2022 Spring Festival has arrived,

The ticket snatching war is in full swing,

Did you grab the ticket?

"Human sorrow and joy are not connected",

The sorrows and joys of ticket snatchers are also not the same.

However, there are some outlaws

Also take the opportunity to plot all kinds of ticket purchase scams,

Defraud travelers of money.

On January 19, the Taiyuan Anti-Fraud Center released information to the public, according to the various police situations that appeared during the Spring Festival in previous years, reminding passengers to beware of the following four scams when purchasing tickets.

The highest incidence of many scams, high imitation 12306 website phishing. Criminals have created a highly simulated copycat 12306 website to carry out fraud in the form of phishing. When the user "successfully purchases the ticket", the money is sent to the account set by the criminal, and the user's personal information will be stolen.

The most secret scam when cheating, ticket snatching software hides Trojans. Criminals disguise viruses and Trojans as ticket-snatching software, and spread them on social networks under the guise of "free" and "spikes" to attract users to download and install. Once recruited, the malware can secretly intercept the user's personal information, resulting in financial losses.

The scam with the biggest loss after being deceived is the ticket snatching scam. Criminals create fake ticket-buying websites that claim to be discounted or 100% tickets for ticket buyers. When the user is deceived, he then requires the ticket buyer to complete important personal information such as bank card account number and password on the grounds of incomplete information, and then defrauds the money.

The scam with the widest coverage at the time of deception, the "unsuccessful ticket purchase" text message may be sent by fake customer service. Criminals pretend to be official customer service to remind users in the form of sms that the ticket purchase is unsuccessful, need to be refunded, or pay a certain amount of deposit or deposit before the ticket can be issued, and attach the corresponding link. When passengers click on the link, they need to enter personal information, bank card numbers and passwords as prompted, and then the criminals can easily steal the money from the bank card.

Here, the police remind that during the Spring Festival, the majority of passengers should book tickets through formal channels, do not believe false information such as "low-cost tickets" and "discounted tickets", and do not buy tickets from strangers.

Written by: Shanxi Evening News all-media reporter Xin Ge

Source: Shanxi Evening News