Ten Common Forms of Internet Fraud

First, false winning fraud

Fraudulent means: Send the winning information by email, QQ, forum SMS, online games, etc. Trick netizens into visiting their fake winning websites, and then defraud netizens of money in the name of paying personal income tax and deposit.

Second, impersonating relatives and friends to defraud.

Fraudulent means: obtaining online contact information such as QQ number and email address of the victim's relatives and friends by deception or hacking, pretending to be the victim's relatives and friends to borrow money, and some even playing video chat videos of the victim's relatives and friends to defraud the victim's trust and money.

Third, marriage and dating fraud

Fraudulent means: contacting the victim with false information through online marriage media. After defrauding the other party's trust, choose the opportunity to put forward various excuses such as borrowing money for turnover, cooperative operation, and emergency medical care. And then disappear after defrauding money.

Fourth, online shopping fraud.

Fraudulent means: directly set up an online shop or shopping website on the Internet trading platform to sell goods far below the market price. In order to increase credibility, fraudsters often claim that goods come from illegal channels such as smuggling, confiscation and stolen goods. If online shoppers believe it and remit money easily, there is a great possibility that they will never return it.

Verb (abbreviation for verb) recruitment fraud

Fraudulent means: fraudsters publish false recruitment information in major website forums, set up a false recruitment website of a large enterprise, and commit fraud in the name of asking job seekers for handling fees, referral fees, security deposits, etc.

Sixth, online game equipment fraud.

Fraud means: fraudsters sell all kinds of game equipment, order cards or claim to provide game training services to gamers on many popular online games websites, and clearly mark the price, ranging from tens of yuan to thousands of yuan. When the game player remitted all the money to the other bank account, the other party disappeared.

Seven, lottery fraud prediction

Fraudulent means: fraudsters set up a lottery prediction website, boasting their historical prediction results in the name of inside information and authoritative prediction, and tricking netizens into sending money to join the membership.

Eight, stock rich fraud

Fraudulent means: After the stock investment website was opened, fraudsters pretended to be regular securities companies, boasted about their historical investment performance in the name of insider information and authoritative analysis, and recommended so-called "blue chips" and "stable stocks" by charging membership fees to trick netizens into investing.

Nine, private fund fraud

Fraudulent means: After the information is widely spread on the Internet, fraudsters falsely claim that the "overseas online private placement fund" jointly launched by a government securities trading institution and an internationally renowned investment company has a national certification and accreditation certificate, and the monthly rate of return is extremely high, which can recover the principal in a short time and pay dividends every year to attract netizens to invest.

X. Phishing fraud

Fraudulent means: fraudsters use hacking means such as "Trojan horse stealing from Japan" and "network monitoring" to steal personal information such as bank accounts, securities accounts and password information of users, and then obtain illegal benefits by transferring money, online shopping or making fake cards.

legal ground

Article 266 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC). Whoever defrauds public or private property in a relatively large amount shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance, and shall also, or shall only, be fined; If the amount is huge or there are other serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years and shall also be fined; If the amount is especially huge or there are other especially serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years or life imprisonment, and shall also be fined or confiscated. Where there are other provisions in this Law, such provisions shall prevail.