Don't believe it! It may be a new Mid-Autumn Festival scam, "free mooncakes" are delivered to your door
As the Mid-Autumn Festival approaches, scammers have come up with the idea of mooncakes.
Recently, many netizens reported receiving "free mooncakes" by express delivery. The reporter's investigation found that this is similar to the previous routine of sending cheap gifts such as mobile phone holders, water bottles, notebooks, etc. The scammers first send the express blindly, using scratch cards, lottery tickets, red envelopes, free gifts, etc. as bait to screen out Target customers and finally commit fraud.
Netizens received "free mooncakes" by express delivery.
Recently, many netizens posted that they received an inexplicable express delivery, which contained a box of mooncakes and a lottery ticket. However, there were no mooncake orders in their recent shopping records. After asking relatives and friends, they had never sent mooncakes.
The raffle tickets sent with the mooncakes have different prizes, and the attractive "grand prize" includes an iPhone 14 mobile phone. However, the lottery ticket shows that you need to scan the QR code to follow a certain public account and add customer service WeChat to claim the prize. After some netizens added customer service WeChat, the other party asked for delivery information, payment code and bank account number. They also said that after the prizes were sent, the courier tracking number needed to be checked on the other party’s designated App. They asked to download an App and sent a link. The netizen decisively refused.
In the "free moon cake" package received, the lottery ticket showed that many netizens had won the iPhone14128G.
In addition to the winning information, the lottery tickets also include a winning probability announcement, which shows that the probability of winning an iPhone 14 is only 0.02%. However, many netizens said that the lottery tickets they received showed that they had won the iPhone 14. This is most likely because fraudsters printed a large number of identical lottery tickets and delivered them in large quantities. They used high-value gifts with a small probability of winning as bait to trick the recipients into scanning the code, and then committed fraud.
At the same time, the so-called "customer service" will repeatedly emphasize that this is a lottery for the merchant alliance and is only for high-quality customers. But in fact, relevant platforms including Meituan, JD.com, WeChat and other related platforms have already issued statements that they have never conducted similar feedback gift activities, and will not contact users through customer service to request to join groups, distribute red envelopes, etc.
The customer service used high-value prizes as bait to trick the recipients into scanning the QR code.
You can’t eat the moon cakes if you don’t have three, and you can’t trust the lottery by scanning the QR code.
It is not difficult to find that the "free mooncake" express delivery is still a fraud trap in nature, similar to the previous routine of sending cheap gifts such as mobile phone holders, water bottles, notebooks, etc., inducing the recipient to scan the code to join the group, add customer service WeChat, download fraudulent apps, etc. .
The "free mooncakes" are all "three-no products" and food safety cannot be guaranteed. Recipients are advised not to try to eat them.
Although fraudulent express delivery is packaged in a variety of ways, compared with normal express delivery, it often has the following characteristics. It is not difficult to find the problem after careful identification:
One is that the sender information is abnormal. The outer packaging of fraudulent express delivery often does not have item information and business name, and the shipping address is also a fake address. For example, some netizens received an express delivery from "No. 8888 Jianjian Road, Qinghe District, Qingjiangpu District, Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province". In fact, there is no No. 8888 on Jianjian Road at all.
Second, there is no express phone call or text message notification. Many netizens reported that they had not received any phone calls or SMS notifications before and after receiving the fraudulent express delivery. If they had not seen it on the express delivery cabinet, they would not have known about this express delivery. However, there are also some fraudulent couriers that are delivered by regular courier companies. You can verify with the relevant courier companies. For example, some netizens claimed that the "free mooncakes" they received were delivered by STO Express. When they asked about STO Express, the other party made it clear that it was a fraudulent express delivery and suggested that the recipient deal with it promptly.
The third is that the recipient information is abnormal. If it is a large-volume blind delivery, there is often a problem that the recipient information does not match the actual situation. For example, some netizens reported that the information usually left when shopping online is not the full name, but the receiving information on fraudulent express delivery is complete. Some netizens have moved or changed jobs, but the express delivery is still delivered to their former apartment or company.
The fourth is to induce people to scan the QR code to claim rewards. No matter how it is packaged, the last step will definitely lead to fraud. Therefore, if scratch cards, lottery tickets, red envelopes, free gifts, etc. appear in the express delivery, and you are asked to scan the code to redeem the prize, it can basically be determined to be a fraud.
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