A customized script for highly educated people makes netizens shout "It's really hard not to be deceived when you encounter this kind of scam!" ”
Recently, a third-year graduate student of China Medical University shared his real experience of being defrauded by cross-border scams with his tutor.
The reason was that the two co-authored an article and submitted it to a foreign academic journal, and the other party sent an email saying that it was intended to be adopted, and attached a bill requesting to pay the relevant fee of $25 within a month.
The blogger was busy with the exam, so she didn't deal with it immediately, and after about half a month, she received an email from the official journal saying that it had been published online, and the blogger and tutor were of course very happy.
As a result, the next day, they received another bill, which was almost exactly the same layout and wording as the previous bill, which detailed the title of the article, the author's information and the time of publication, the only difference was that this time they were charged a "publication page fee", the price was 3,295 US dollars, equivalent to more than 20,000 yuan, and asked for payment on the same day.
After all, this is a matter of academic future, so the blogger hurried to the bank, but because he did not bring his ID card and the bank's business hours, he did not succeed on the same day.
In fact, sometimes something doesn't go well, maybe it's a signal from God to you to pay more attention.
It's a pity that the blogger didn't think much about it at the time, and sent an email to the other party when he went back to explain why the money was not paid that day, and then the next day, he still actively went to pay the money.
The scammer received the payment and pretended to send another email, saying that he would send an invoice receipt when we sorted out the accounts, and the blogger had no other suspicions.
As a result, a day later, the blogger received a call with the number "96110".
Here's a word about it, 96110 is a unified national early warning and dissuasion phone launched by the Criminal Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, which will only call people who are experiencing telecom fraud or high-risk groups who are easily deceived.
It's a pity that the blogger's reaction was: "Scam? How can I be scammed? You're a liar, right? Then he hung up the phone.
It can also be seen from this detail that the blogger has not been exposed to anti-fraud propaganda very much.
It wasn't until 96110 made a second call, accurately reported her remittance records, and asked her to go to the nearest police station to report to the police, that she really realized that she had been deceived.
Netizen comments: It's really a response to the sentence "You haven't been deceived because you haven't encountered a scam that suits you".
After careful consideration, it is indeed extremely scary that this liar has at least two pieces of information:
The first is the blogger's information, such as the title of the article, the author's information and the date of publication, and the email address.
The second is the information of the publication, which can be deceived the day after the official email of the publication, and the format and content of the email are no different from the official one, which shows that it is very knowledgeable.
Either there was a serious information leakage accident in the process, or it was said in the comment area: there are journal personnel involved, and non-practitioners can't make it up like this.
Some people may ask, this is too difficult to prevent, what should I do when I encounter it?
There are thousands of deceptions in the world, and I will teach you a trick to respond to all changes without change.
That is, all those who need you to operate transfers, report verification codes, send QR codes, and send account information, regardless of whether they are true or false, will be treated as fraud.
You just say directly: I suspect you are a fraud now, I want to find the official customer service to verify, no problem I will cooperate with the handling, if there is a problem I will call the police to deal with it.
Then you call the customer service number announced by the official platform to ask about it, if it is true, then you will let the official customer service assign you a new salesman to handle it, without any loss; If it's fake, wouldn't it save a lot of money?
At the same time, you can also leave a recording when you check with customer service, in case the other party provides you with wrong information, resulting in you being deceived in the end, then you can hold the platform responsible.
Of course, we don't want to speculate on each other with malice and treat others as fraudsters, but the real fraudsters are taking advantage of everyone's belief in the psychology of "human nature is good", so there is no way, we can only lower the expectations of human nature.
Finally, I wish this blogger success in recovering his losses, and I also hope that friends who deal with academics have learned a lesson and not fall into similar scams.