Recently, some netizens reflected
After the college entrance examination, I received a text message from the "Education Bureau".
Call yourself in the exam
Being monitored and found to be cheating
The score for this subject is 0 points
And leave the "education department" phone number
Ask them to call for advice
A few days ago, the police in many places across the country issued a reminder
When you receive a similar text message, delete it immediately
In this regard, the police said:
This is a typical SMS scam
The other party is posing as the education department
or another department that asks you to answer the phone,
Click on the SMS link or download the app
Take your information step by step
Eventually, you will be caught in the trap of transferring money and remittance
Please pay attention to all candidates and parents!
Note that the college entrance examination is over
The "chances" for scammers are just beginning
Teachers, students and parents are advised to be wary of these scams:
01
Check your test scores in advance
After the college entrance examination, scammers will take advantage of the eagerness of parents and candidates to know the results, and send mass text messages through fake base stations, saying that they can query the results of the college entrance examination, and attach a website link. After receiving such information, many candidates will be eager to click on the URL link, and the online banking and other information in the mobile phone will be stolen by the Trojan virus in the link. There are also scammers who will directly offer a price, asking parents to pay hundreds of yuan to thousands of yuan to check the score, the price is not expensive, and there are not a few people who are fooled.
The police reminded candidates and their families to look for the inquiry method and the website designated by the education department when checking the scores, and not to easily click on the links from unknown sources in the SMS messages. If you accidentally click, you should immediately uninstall Alipay and other payment tools on your mobile phone to ensure the safety of your funds, and reset or factory reset your mobile phone after backing up important information such as your phone's address book, or ask professional technicians for help to remove viruses.
02
Tampering with the candidate's wishes
For candidates who have been studying hard for many years, it is heart-wrenching that the volunteers they originally filled in carefully were tampered with by others. According to relevant case reports, in July 2019, there were two incidents of maliciously filling in and tampering with other people's volunteers in Zhejiang and Henan, resulting in the serious consequences of candidates not being admitted to their voluntary schools and majors.
The police reminded the majority of candidates to raise their awareness of prevention, properly keep their personal admission tickets, passwords and other information, and do not entrust others to conduct online information inquiries or information registration operations; Volunteers must be filled in by themselves, and no department, school, or individual has the right to require candidates to provide login passwords or fill in volunteers on behalf of candidates.
03
Fake acceptance letter scams
Scammers pretend to be college admissions officers and send fake admission letters to candidates to get money by transferring tuition and fees to their designated bank accounts. Similar scams are used to create fake phishing websites, where scammers are designed to defraud students of their living expenses, tuition and fees.
The police reminded that in this kind of scam, the scammers will be very professionally prepared. Not only will the school emblem and logo similar to the original school be used, but also the enrollment brochure and other materials will be provided, and the university address filled in will be exactly the same as the original version. After receiving the admission notice, candidates should log on to the website of the education examination department or take the initiative to call the education examination department for verification, or they can go to the local admissions office to check their admission information. Don't trust the admission letter from the institution you didn't apply for, and don't transfer money easily.
04
If the score is not enough, you can "make up" the money
After the college entrance examination voluntary admission is over, the scammer lies to the candidate's parents that the quota of a certain college is not full, and the candidate can get a supplementary quota by spending money to "dot" the candidate, so as to defraud the candidate's parents of money, and some suspects use various excuses before the exam to ask the parents to pay money to reserve the place. There are also scams in which scammers falsely claim to have a special relationship and can buy "internal metrics" and "unplanned metrics".
The police reminded that there will be no additional fees for formal admissions, and all "enrollment indicators" that need to charge deposits, admission fees, and index fees cannot be trusted.
05
Frauds such as falsely claiming to help apply for grants, subsidies, etc
Scammers take advantage of the financial difficulties of some candidates' families and need to pay the tuition fees through financial aids to go to college, pretending to be university staff and education department staff, and can apply for college grants for candidates and ask parents to pay the registration fee first. The examinees and their parents believed it and remitted money to each other, but later found out that there was no such thing at all.
The police reminded that when receiving calls and messages from people claiming to be staff of colleges and universities, education, finance, etc., to issue "national grants", "return of compulsory education fees" and "student aid", candidates and parents must take the initiative to contact the local education department or school for verification.
06
Defrauding parents of living expenses and training fees
Pretending to be a student or a student's teacher, defrauding parents of tuition, living expenses, and training fees through phone calls, text messages, online messages, and links. This form of fraud can be carried out from before the college entrance examination to after the college entrance examination, and it is relatively common.
The police reminded parents that if they receive a phone call, text message, Internet message, or a link asking for money, they must contact the student in person to verify and do not rush to send money.
Source: China Youth Daily