Beware of online fraud!

Phishing scams are everywhere in the virtual world with lots of ways and unpredictable levels. Internet users will be easily fooled if not careful .

Trap .

In early August, V. (a student from Ho Chi Minh City Polytechnic University) received an email informing you that he had won $ 250,000 in a lottery program of the British Lottery Company in the UK. With a little understanding of English, V. quickly understand the content of the letter. After that, V. sent $ 100 to the company's bank account to 'do the awarding procedure' at the request of the other lottery company. After one month, V. did not receive a penny. Knowing I was tricked, V. confided in a very regretful and sad way: ' At first I was skeptical but the amount was too big and I found them to be very honest. I'm desperately needing money, so . '.

Email users will receive a letter (usually titled as Winning Notification) with the content of the announcement that the winning program of a certain company overseas has been won (usually from English, Dutch, Spanish .). The prize is quite large, the amount can range from hundreds to millions of dollars. The letter asked the recipient to quickly contact again to confirm the bonus procedures. The letter is quite clear, including the name of the lottery company (The UK National Lottery, Trans-National Lotto UK, Royal Netherlands Sweeper BV .), contact address (foreign address), phone number, fax, email, maybe even a website. The solemn letter content announces' you are lucky in a certain dial-up program of the company. Your email with a lottery ticket has a serial number . already in the lucky numbers. Therefore, you have won the amount . '.

Notably, they are even more convincing by telling you that you are ' lucky person in hundreds of thousands of email users around the world in their regular lottery program. ' They recommend that you keep it a secret until you receive the money to ensure security. Next, you will be asked to contact a representative of the company (with a name, senior position, phone number, email contact very clearly) to carry out the procedures. necessary to receive prizes.

Trap .

Come here, although I still have doubts but because the prize money is too big, someone tried with the hope that if I win the real lottery !!! The mistake starts here, if you believe and contact the 'lottery company' again, you will quickly receive the next email with the content asking you to provide personal or sent information. a sum of money called a fee for doing rewarding procedures or providing a bank account to transfer money to your bank account.

The purpose of these letters is to steal your bank account by installing spyware or at the very least 'asking for' some of your fee very skillfully. As a result, the victims not only did not receive a winning coin, but even the entire money in the bank account could be 'evaporated'.

Website of 'lottery company' is a very effective trick trick. When the victim accesses the website to check, it is obvious that his name is on the list of winners. Someone is even more careful by emailing other winners to verify. Of course, the reply email will answer that you have received the money, even the picture. Such tricks will easily trap people who use email without being very familiar with the Internet.

The best prevention is still the awareness of Internet users. never touch emails with similar content, even if you are curious to see how. Because it is possible that scammers have installed spyware on email and when you are curious about it, it has been "hit". All of your information and activities will be collected and sent to scammers through this spyware. The consequences that you suffer will be unpredictable just because of unnecessary curiosity.

DUC THIEN