The following situations are considered Internet fraud:

1. Designing false stock trading software

In order to obtain illegal benefits, criminals design false stock trading software. Through a commercial margin trading trading platform, the platform is promoted on the Internet in the name of a well-known futures company and other people's capital management Co., Ltd., and the platform is falsely believed to be able to provide customers with a large number of stock trading businesses, and misleads customers into depositing large amounts of funds in the platform. Fake stock buying and selling transactions are used to commit fraudulent activities.

2. Use online search engines to increase the attention of fake websites

In order to increase the popularity and click-through rate of fake shopping websites and expand business volume, criminals use the "bidding ranking" of online search engines. "Promote" business, rank fake websites prominently in search engines, and lure users to "take the bait."

3. Falsely claiming to increase the credit limit

For the purpose of illegal possession, criminals use Baidu promotion, QQ and other online platforms to publish false information such as applying for unsecured small loans and increasing credit card limits. information and leave contact information to trick the victim into falling for the scam. Once someone makes contact, the criminal will pretend to be a bank employee and obtain the victim's identity information and credit card information to commit fraud.

4. Imitate the criminal methods described in TV programs to commit fraud

In order to make a fortune, criminals even imitate the criminal methods described in TV programs to commit fraud. Once the victim is "trapped", the criminals will fabricate various lies to carry out serial fraud.

5. Preparing fictional charity donations

Criminals pretend to be wealthy businessmen and make friends through QQ chat to find victims and gain their trust. After luring the victim with "charitable donations" as bait, other accomplices acted as "well-known lawyers" around the wealthy businessman and required the victim to pay taxes, handling fees, notary fees and other fees on the pretext of handling relevant donation procedures on his behalf. After the victim was deceived into withdrawing money, the suspect quickly transferred it to his "safe account" through the Internet.

6. Fake express after-sales service

Criminals purchase a large amount of express company document information through illegal channels, and after screening out customers who need returns or exchanges, criminals pretend to be after-sales personnel or companies. The manager contacted the customer as a manager and asked the victim to deposit a return or exchange deposit of about 400 yuan in the name of helping to return or exchange goods. After receiving the payment, he tricked the victim into continuing to remit the money on the grounds that the bank deducted handling fees and the company's accountant issued invoices with different denominations. .

Extended information:

A few ways to avoid being deceived:

1. Use a search engine to search for the company or online store and check the phone number, address, Check whether the contents of the contact person, business license and other documents are consistent, and verify the authenticity of the website. The homepage of regular websites has a "red shield" icon and an "ICP" number, which appear in the form of text links.

2. Check whether the company's office address is stated on the website. If so, you may wish to negotiate with someone from the company to indicate that you are close to the address and can pay directly to the company. If the other party uses various excuses to shirk and obstruct, it proves that it is a trap.

3. When shopping online, it is best to purchase the items you need from websites run by companies with good reputations in real life or large, well-known shopping websites with credit systems and security guarantees.

4. Don’t be fooled by the low-priced products on some websites. These are often baits set by criminal suspects.

5. Be especially careful when soliciting information on investment and money-making plans or get-rich-quick schemes on the Internet or through emails as friends. Do not easily believe notifications such as free gifts or winning big prizes, and do not submit any information to them. It pays any fees.

6. Any bad information and websites suspected of fraud should be reported to the public security organs in a timely manner.

Reference material: Baidu Encyclopedia - Internet Fraud