Spring Festival tickets to go home Don't fall into these traps

Shanxi Daily new media reporter Wu Xiaoqing reported that the 2022 Spring Festival has begun, everyone is busy booking tickets home, some criminals have also waited for the opportunity, designed a variety of ticket purchase scams, you can be vigilant, do not fall into the Spring Festival fraud trap. On January 19, the Taiyuan Anti-Fraud Center summarized several fraudulent ways to buy tickets in a fake way:

First, the cottage 12306 website

Criminals have created a highly simulated copycat 12306 website to carry out fraud in the form of phishing. When the user "successfully purchases tickets", the money is sent to the account set up by the criminals, and the user's personal information will be stolen.

Second, the ticket-snatching software hides a Trojan horse

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.

3. Fake customer service refund fraud

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 the user clicks on the link, follow the prompts to enter personal information, bank card numbers, passwords, etc., and then the criminals can easily steal the money in the bank card.

Fourth, the "scalper" sells fake tickets

"Scalpers" use false booking screenshots to defraud users of tickets and purchasing fees. Criminals forge electronic train ticket information through train ticket synthesizer small software to fake the truth. However, after the user scans the QR code, no information about the ticket can be found in 12306.

In addition, some ticket-snatching passengers must be familiar with the "acceleration package", which is a ticket-snatching service launched by the third-party ticketing platform, which is known as after purchasing the "acceleration package", which can improve the speed of the remaining ticket refresh and grab the ticket faster. However, this is only a gimmick for merchants and a means of winning traffic, and the "Railway 12306" official has debunked rumors that the acceleration package used by consumers does not have the right of priority to purchase tickets.

Here, the Taiyuan Anti-Fraud Center police remind everyone: be sure to book tickets through formal channels, do not believe in false information such as "low-cost tickets" and "discount tickets", do not buy from strangers; when receiving information such as friends to help buy tickets, you must verify the situation in many ways, do not transfer money to unfamiliar accounts; when receiving flight delays and cancellation TEXT messages, do not directly contact the phone number provided in the text message, you should ask the official customer service of the airline or the airport staff; remember that you do not need to enter the password and verification code when refunding tickets and refunds. There is no need to send money first; do not easily click on unfamiliar links, and do not disclose personal information, especially bank card account numbers and passwords.

If you want to increase the chance of success in ticket snatching, you can use the standby function in the official channel of 12306.

(Shanxi Daily)