Why you easily fooled on the Web?

The phenomenon of web creation calls for virtual financial investment in the past only a small part of fraudulent practices using Internet tools today. People, especially netizens, will be cheated if they are not alert

From e-mail, forums, websites . anywhere, donkey traps are also ready to face down because of the bait that the scammers apply to hit the greed of each person.

Motivate greed

With only a few operations on specialized software, often called spambot, a series of email addresses have been collected from forums, chat rooms, websites . A few more operations, millions of email addresses It has been included in the CD and is easily sold on the Internet as well as computer equipment stores. That huge number of mail addresses is also the number of victims at risk.

Why you easily fooled on the Web? Picture 1 If you do not see the promotional mail, each time you visit your email address, nick freddie_mercury will almost always receive a few million dollar worth of congratulations from the site. He said: ' At first, when I received Microsoft' lottery 'congratulatory letter, I was surprised, read and contact. I thought the money fell from the sky but after a few exchanges, the bonus did not come to me and they invited me to send thousands of dollars to 'do procedures'. Until now, if such a mail is found, delete it! . When he contacted these addresses, he added, it was almost impossible for mail senders to let go of the prey they were able to get, constantly sending letters urging money to be sent with winged words to receive children. Huge number of virtual bonuses.

In addition to the million-dollar congratulations, invitations to huge-profit investments also entered the mail box of netizens. A character claiming to be Amhed Usman, the managing director of the Bank of Africa (BOA), distributed a message with a call to help bank account. Due to the fact that the director owns a heavy account of a dead person without a will, Amhed Usman calls on the person to set up a bank account to transfer the money. The account holder will receive 30% of the account's assets. Leaving the letter somewhat convincing, Amhed Usman asked the recipient to keep it a secret that he would "retire the next year, wanting to earn some old money." However, when it was named and responsible for that account, how difficult it was for this cunning director to deal with that account.

Huge profits

' How to profit your money with a home computer ' is the most frequently asked question in email calls for financial investment online. In the current world gold price fever, a website has sent hundreds of thousands of e-mail messages with extremely attractive content: Paying money to invest in gold mines with only 30% of the current price. Investors will have to pay at least 300 USD to participate. Similar to the tricks of the Colonyivest, the investment time must take at least 100 days. Attractive clause in such a short period of time, gold price, no matter how volatile it is, investors also shake their thighs and charge interest. It is not known how many light-hearted people have participated in this program, but with the provision of vague information, the commitment to accept the risks that investors must accept, this site has revealed fraudulent tactics. popular on the net.

Unlike fishing, sending fraudulent messages to get information about customers of banks and financial corporations to access accounts, spam-phishing scams hit the greed of the recipient because of the huge profit so It is understandable that netizens cheated by this trick. According to researchers, only about 5% of recipients become victims of these online scams, but these high-tech donors still patiently spread the letters because only with that number did they sitting without collecting a lot of money.

Why you easily fooled on the Web? Picture 2

Forum for bait - big fishing

The members of the 'fashion, cosmetics, jewelry' section of the TTVNOL forum still cannot forget the fraud up to tens of millions of VND of a famous member nicknamed Enrique81. With the number of hundreds of thousands of members participating, the announcement: ' Having a brother in the US, can buy goods sent to Vietnam with little interest, guaranteed cheaper than Vietnam many times '. Less than a week after putting that information up, she collected nearly 20 million dong and disappeared .

When Enrique81's fraud has just subsided, the young members of an economic forum are chattering because of super trick DG Other than Enrique81 case, the forum members know this guy's face. Several times offline, DG actively contacted each person in the group, meeting separately to discuss methods of getting rich. From those meetings, DG collected tens of millions of dong from investment, running for the juniors in the forum.

Profits are too big, sometimes up to hundreds of thousands or millions of USD makes investors easily try their luck. When I found out that I was cheated, it was the victims who sucked the Sapindales sweetened. That passive attitude is the reason why the number of people being cheated is increasing. Thus, the authorities are even more difficult to prevent these high-tech donkeys. The best way is that netizens still have to be smart, learn and be alert to the profits, congratulations worth millions of dollars sent to them.

Cheats have been defiled

The US Security Investigation Commission appears to be quite professional in breaking these lines online. Here are some cases that have been uncovered:

- Matthew Bowin case: By calling an online investor to join Interactive Products and Services, the scammer earned $ 190,000 from 150 investors who are profitable. Contrary to the good promises at first, Matthew Bowin used the money to buy and profit from grocery sales and small audio equipment. The price of this scam is 10 years in prison.

- The case of "Big Brother 777": In China, super fool Jilin, nicknamed "Big Brother 777" (Pioneer Eldest Brother) has also been convicted of fraud. Netizens in China have spent a lot of money on the "Big Brother 777" when investing in his speedy plan while the big brother takes advantage of the loopholes of the Chinese stock market to make a profit.

Phuong Quyen