But the truth is..., insurance and brokerage services have expired? Many people in Shanghai received SMS notifications
"Your bill is about to expire. It will be automatically deducted at 12 o'clock today. Please handle it in time. Our company has fulfilled its obligation to inform you." "Dear user, your free experience has expired and password-free payment has been enabled. It will be deducted today." "Automatic renewal"... Recently, many fans have reported to the Shanghai Rumor Refuting Platform that they have received similar text message notifications. The senders include insurance companies, securities companies, and unknown companies, but the fans do not remember that they have purchased relevant services. Therefore, Question: Can these text messages be trusted? Especially the "unsubscribe or renew" phone number attached to the text message. Can I call it?
Some citizens have received text messages. As of press time, the phone numbers in the text messages are all empty.
An investigation by the Shanghai Rumor Refuting Platform found that this is a new type of telecommunications fraud that focuses on "those who are willing to take the bait". The phone numbers or links attached to the text messages cannot be trusted.
The reporter also received an "expiry notice" purporting to be from an insurance company. Since I had purchased short-term travel accident insurance products from this insurance company before, the reporter was a little skeptical when I saw the "bill due" at first glance. But after seeing the attached phone number, I immediately discovered a problem: the phone number in the text message was completely different from the insurance company’s official hotline; and then looking through the previous insurance records, I found that there was no such thing as “expiration” or “automatic”. "Buckle" and other expressions. The reporter dialed the number starting with "0798" in the text message and found that the number was empty.
Ms. Wang, a citizen, received a text message claiming to be from a certain brokerage company saying "the free trial has expired", and the attached contact phone number also started with "0798". Ms. Wang was not sure whether she had chosen the company's services, so she called. After being connected, the other party said that he wanted to add WeChat and query specific order information. When Ms. Wang added WeChat, a security prompt popped up on the WeChat page. She immediately realized: "There is something wrong with the text message" and reported it to the Shanghai Rumor Refuting Platform. When the reporter called the phone number again, it was found that it had become empty.
According to incomplete statistics, most of the text messages received by citizens recently are insurance companies, securities companies, etc., and the reasons are mostly "the free service has expired", "the user has activated password-free automatic deduction, and the payment will be deducted soon", etc. The attached phone number The area code is mostly "0798". Citizens who made the call were told that they could contact "customer service" through WeChat to cancel the order or stop automatic deductions. However, if you listen to the above statement, you may be led into a trap step by step: if you want to "cancel automatic transfers", you have to enter your personal account information in the designated link or even transfer money to a "safe account" to prove your innocence - these are all Fake, the purpose of "customer service" is to defraud money.
In fact, the above scam is basically the same as the "million guarantee expiration" that has been refuted by the police. The difference is that in the "million guarantee expiration" trap, the scammer will pretend to be the customer service of third-party payment platforms such as Alipay and WeChat and actively contact the victims. People call; and in the new "service due" scam, scammers leave their contact information and wait for the victim to take the bait.
As for the subsequent routines, the routines are exactly the same: the fraudsters use the reason that relevant insurance, securities and other services have expired and the renewal requires hundreds or even thousands of yuan, or the victim has opened functions such as password-free payment and will be automatically deducted. Attracting the victim's attention and even causing panic; if the victim expresses that he wants to cancel related services, the scammer will induce the victim to click on a designated link, use screen recording or screen sharing software, etc., to defraud the victim's account information and money.
It can be seen that if citizens receive such text messages, they do not need to pay attention to them and just delete them. If the individual has purchased insurance or used related services. If you are worried about missing the formal notification, it is recommended to consult through the original purchase channel or the official customer service hotline of the service company. Do not trust the phone number and link in the text message, and do not click on the link or enter personal information at will.
