Common forms of online fraud are:

1. Fake consultation information

The securities industry is a hugely negative impact of fake online consultation information. Stock market mafia or securities company insiders disclose false information online to drive up stock prices. After deceived investors raise the stock price, they start dumping the stocks.

According to the BBC, the stock price of the British Coberg Group, which operates a coffee roasting business, has soared abnormally not long ago. The company’s investigation found that this was mainly spread by an anonymous person online. It may be caused by news of upcoming transformation. The Koberg Group had to issue a statement to clarify this. In addition, some British companies discovered that in some online chat rooms, some investors tried to manipulate stock prices by providing false information in order to make profits.

Those who publish fake consultation information have only two intentions: one is to make profits, and the other is to prank, but the losses caused to the victims are not small, and it has a negative impact on the Internet environment. It's also huge. Netizens must treat information on the Internet differently and cannot accept everything as true. After all, the Internet is virtual.

2. Online auctions

Online auctions and online shopping are undoubtedly hot spots for online consumption. While they provide shopping convenience for consumers, they also cause many related complaints. Among them, the most common complaint is that after buyers successfully pay at the auction, they either do not receive the goods at all, or the goods they receive are completely different from what they saw online.

3. Scams related to Internet services

Consumers see some online advertisements saying that as long as they register for free on a certain website, the website will provide free Internet services. When registering. The site asks for your credit card information, but promises never to charge you. After registration, they will ask you to download the software you need to access the Internet, saying it is for you to access the Internet.

Don’t you know that this software contains a virus? Once installed in the computer, every time you click on the Internet access device, the computer will freeze and you will not be able to access the Internet at all. Meanwhile, your credit card has been used multiple times. Providing Internet services is fake, and obtaining your credit card information is the real purpose of this scam.

4. Information/adult service scams

Websites with "adult content" often have many patrons. Some people pay to download photos from these sites. Some scams target such consumers, offering free downloads of "adult content" photos as bait. As a result, when customers download photos, they also unknowingly download a dial-up software.

After that, their computer was automatically dialed an international call by this dialing software without anyone noticing. Customers didn't know they had been cheated until they received a huge phone bill.

5. Computer software purchase scam

When you buy a computer software online that is much cheaper than other stores, when you download the software, the scammer Viruses are downloaded to you, steal information from your computer, and then use this information to commit crimes online.

6. Work from home plan

Many American women hope to find a balance between family and career. Working from home is of course the perfect solution. This type of scam is carefully designed to target this mentality. The most common form is to receive an email from a headhunting company, saying that it can help you find a job to work from home. Not only is the work easy, but you can earn more than $1,000 a week.

As long as you pay them about US$100 for materials, they will provide you with various work options for working from home. Once you send the money, you will either get no news or you will receive a pile of waste paper asking you to participate in a pyramid scheme.

7. Loan application fee

Some people online offer house or car loans with very low interest rates, and the application conditions are also quite loose. They say that as long as you pay a loan application fee, you are guaranteed to be approved. You take out a loan. As a result, after the application fee was collected, there was no further news. This type of scam uses low-interest loans as bait in order to defraud application fees.

8. Credit card application

Some people have difficulty applying for a credit card because of their poor credit history. This type of scam is aimed at this consumer, claiming to provide them with a credit card with "no credit check". As long as the applicant pays an application fee, the credit card is guaranteed to be issued to him. As a result, the applicant still could not get the credit card after paying the application fee. This is a scam designed to defraud credit card application fees.

There are many types of online scams, and the methods of deception are changing with each passing day, making it difficult for people to guard against them. So, how can you prevent yourself from becoming a victim of online scams? First, you should increase your awareness of prevention. Second, while maintaining personal vigilance, you should also promptly report some suspicious behaviors to consumer organizations or the media so that they can urge relevant departments to carry out their work. Further investigation to prevent further consumer victimization.

Extended information:

Internet fraud prevention skills:

(1) Use a search engine to search for this company or online store, 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 express that you are very 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 a good reputation 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, as 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, let alone Pay any fees to it.

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

Reference materials:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Internet Fraud