Online scam: It's not just about people!

Not just strange stories in electronic newspapers and foreign websites! Online fraud has appeared a lot in the Vietnamese netizens community. We want to talk about "web and email fraud issues" that appear a lot recently!

From foreign fraud .

Hoang Viet Tien (Phuong Mai - Hanoi) is a programmer who regularly contacts the Internet, he often access foreign websites and forums to search for information and entertainment. One day, Tien discovered in the mailbox a "sensational" email: " Congratulations to the winner " (CONGRATULATIONS WINNER !!!!!), in which, a person claiming to be an employee of the UK lottery room, announces that Tien's Yahoo email address is set to the same number by default, and in the lucky draw round of the British lottery, Tien won £ 250,000 out of a million. table of promotional bonuses. However, they also said that Tien can only pay directly in the UK when giving them all personal information.

A form of winning lottery scam emails.

Naturally has a big money (£ 250,000), who is not eager ?! Almost immediately, Tien replied to this email and continuously the following days, every two days, Tien received email exchanges from the lottery company, from staff, to the head of the payment department and all levels. higher. Finally, the representative on the other side said in an email, " You can choose the form of direct payment at our headquarters, or pay via electronic banking and post office . " With payment via online banking system, send us your bank account number ".

However, the essential point they give is very natural: They have to send in advance to their international bank account number of £ 400 in advance so they can make online payment procedures to send money to Tien. " The amount of this procedure cannot be discounted from the bonus, so you must send it to our account before . a week! ".

Having suspected that the money from the sky had fallen, Tien immediately replied to this email with some requests to verify the information from the lottery company and what was involved. However, he received only vague information afterwards and continued to be urged . to pay the procedure £ 400 to receive £ 250,000 in bonuses !. " Now, I think this case has 90% fraud ," Tien said!

However, when exchanging this issue with some IT experts, we all receive the same sympathetic and affirmative attitude: This is a 100% clear online scam. One of the experts affirmed: " If you send out £ 400, you will become a victim of a beautiful old scam, but if not, they will still bother you again because you are foolish. leaked their mail ".

There are many similar email scams, an information security and security expert who made a small statistic of online fraud cases, such as: " You bought a product of a certain X, Y online stores and winning or promotion products or a specific amount of X, Y . " or simply: " You are the 1 billion customer to access our site and you get a gift .". Most of these phishing emails require recipients to send to the address, usually an international bank account for some money to process. And since then, users who believe in it, are not alert, so easily fall into these traps.

Previously not long ago, on some forums in Vietnam, there were also kinds of "calling for charity" for relatives of victims in the US on the occasion of 9/11, on the occasion of Hurricane Katrina . Name of These call organizations are often associated with UN humanitarian organizations . But it is good to know what your support will be used for when reviewing many international media. I don't see the names of these organizations (??).

. to "Super trick" online cabinet!

LHA and TMT are two webmasters co-founded a rather large music forum that has been operating for more than two years, due to the same programming and administration, so the two often exchange and share information, forum resources through Yahoo! Messenger. One day, both dozen fire fighters because all the resources and database of the forum were taken away by strangers and destroyed. Being hacked is also a pain, the evil player then shows his identity as a "super trick", and teases him that LHA gave his name and password to access the database system.

" The scammer used an identical yahoo nick of the 2nd admin and chat with me, because I didn't notice it, I couldn't recognize this nick yahoo just different, replacing the letter w in my friend's nick to The two letters v together, consequently, I was comfortable talking, giving my information and resources to a stranger and thinking that it was my best friend "- LHA recounted the blood lesson!

The form of fraud that LHA encountered is now quite common, many people regularly live on the Internet and have published Yahoo mailboxes, then have been used by bad guys to cheat their friends through chat. This method is quite simple and fast, a virtual nick is similar to the real nick to fake the type of email phanvanhung45 to phananhung45 ; nguyenminhvhf into nguyenminhhvf . if not observant, it is difficult to recognize!

But the most pressing is probably phishing and email types. If it is from a foreign country, it is often the email scams as mentioned above, the same way through the web. In Vietnam, such types of scams from Vietnamese netizens are appearing more and more.

One of the problems that caused netizens to complain the most, is a number of personal websites and forums dedicated to hacking Online Game, sharing free autoplay software, doubling the map, ( dupe map), hack the account of others . Hundreds of gamers who are passionate about the immediate benefit have followed and entered their game account information into these websites, consequently losing all the assets games (items) in large numbers, even losing accounts (accounts) without knowing who to call .

In addition, bad guys also take advantage of free domain names, create websites with the same address as the website of the Online Game Service provider, or the bank . send the user an email saying that the password email, or your games account has low security. Ask you to change it by re-entering your password information, a secret question . This type of scam is quite sophisticated and complicated, lightly hijacking email, account, items, games, then taking control of the name domain, hosting or bank account . very dangerous !.

Users need to know!

" Most of the fraudulent methods of online and bad guys rely only on a very small probability of being light-hearted or self-avid users to succeed. Imagine only 0.5% of the 10 million addresses. emails that spam them every day will reply again, " commented Trinh Cong Thanh.

For the types of online frauds available in Vietnam, including non-physical assets (email, Online Game account, Domain, Hosting .) or physical assets, money - the victim is also very difficult. have the opportunity to be compensated and dealt with appropriately. Because online evidence is difficult to collect, and the law is incomplete. With forms of fraud from abroad, it is even more difficult. " If there is someone who wants to go abroad to sue for a lawsuit, then the initial legal cost is about 1,500 USD, " Thanh said.

Therefore, users need to pay attention and cannot be indifferent, believe and need to consider each time they want to click, want to fill in information and especially where to transfer their money.

The Phong