New trick: Send SMS the scratch card code to

Recently, some people became victims of a winning SMS fake game to capture the prepaid recharge card number. A scam is not new but the tricks are improved quite sophisticatedly to maximize the trust and carelessness of users.

Texting fake telecommunications service providers or value-added service providers on mobile phones is not a new issue. But more and more information shows that these forms of fraud are continuously "refined" and more difficult to prevent.

Many readers said that recently there have been many acts of phishing mobile phone users through SMS messages from two-way messaging service - between Yahoo Messenger and nick subscribers.

Typically, you Giang Tuan Anh in Hanoi, (owner of phone number 0913311 .) said, two days ago you received a very long SMS content (divided into four consecutive messages):

VASC's YMsms service ( http://ym.vietnamnet.vn )

" Quatangvina: We have to regulate the amount of 200,000 VND in VinaPhone in the banh xeo cycle. You are earning 980 out of 1,000 lucky people through the funeral. buy a high-ranking vinacard 100,000 VND and believe it according to the number of people (ym quantangvina xxxx-xxxx-xxxx) to 997. I would like to have a good time with the plan 300,000 VND. Please commit to participating in the process . "

Because the message title is quatangvina , and the number of 997 message centers is too familiar. Tuan Anh was not subject to inspection and immediately bought scratch cards, texted the recharge code according to the instructions to 997 but . still waiting for the promotion to see an additional 200,000 VND in the account!

After receiving information from readers, VietNamNet PV has verified and found out the problem. Accordingly, it can be said that this is purely a hoax to appropriate recharge codes for prepaid mobile subscribers.

Not long ago, there was also a situation that some prepaid VinaPhone subscribers reflected similar fraud: SMS Notice that you won the promotion on the occasion to trick you into declaring the prepaid recharge card price still therapeutic use.

After contacting the Value Added Service Provider on VASC mobile phone, Mr. Hoang Duong - M-Comerce Center - VASC company affirmed: " The nature of the incident is the owner nick yahoo Quatangvina using YMsms service as a communication tool, taking advantage of the subjective and carelessness of users to deceive them, this is one of the cases of fraud through YM or IM services that have appeared in VASC's services. bad has deliberately registered a chat nick Yahoo Messenger Quatangvina to deceive those who are careless, careless .

Mr. Duong explained that VASC currently has a two-way messaging service between Yahoo Messenger and mobile subscribers in Vietnam named YMsms ( http://ym.vietnamnet.vn ). Syntax messaging from Mobile to a nick YahooMessenger is: YM NickYahoo NoiDungTung and send to 997.

YMsms is a new service of M-Comerce center - VASC company. Mr. Duong added: " In case of sending a message to nick Quatangvina . according to the above syntax with the content of the message is the recharge code is a form of fraud by the owner nick Quatangvina . in order to get the activation code to deposit and account take account of prepaid subscribers ".

" YMsms is a service provided automatically to customers, complying with security regulations . But because it is a service generated by customers (among millions of users of Yahoo and IM services), it is very difficult. control: VinaPhone and MobiFone have long warned and repeated that these providers never have any form of promotion by asking subscribers to send SMS to attend. Currently, our technical department has tried to block the nickname "Quatangvina" using YMsms service to receive mobile news . " - VASC representative emphasized.

Talking more about this issue, Mr. Ngo Dien Hy - Deputy Director of VinaPhone Customer Service Center recommends: " VinaPhone customers need to pay close attention and should not believe in messages that require content declaration. If the prepaid card number is still valid, VinaPhone does not have any promotional forms or services in combination with the number 997 (of VASC) with such content . "

The Phong