A female college student was cheated when buying concert tickets! She went online to seek help from her "sister" and was cheated again
In recent years, many consumers have encountered online fraud when purchasing concert tickets through unofficial channels.
Most victims reported the case in time, but a few tried to find a solution by posting online after they found themselves being cheated. Little did they know that some scammers had already put on vests and were waiting...
Recently, Lily, a college student in Hangzhou, found an account through Weibo that buys concert tickets on behalf of others.
Lily paid the other party 1,699 yuan for the ticket plus 500 yuan for the purchasing fee, for a total of 2,199 yuan.
Who would have thought that she wouldn't receive the tickets nor get a refund.
After knowing that she was cheated, Lily wanted to get her money back. So she searched on a social platform for "How to get money back if I was cheated when buying concert tickets". Unexpectedly, someone posted a message about a similar experience.
"Sister, have you been cheated? I have been cheated too." Lily couldn't wait to leave a message.
Soon, the other party replied, claiming to be Li Xingxing, a student at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangdong. Some time ago, he was defrauded of 3,000 yuan when buying JJ Lin's concert tickets online. With the payment record, he successfully recovered the money yesterday.
When Lily asked, "Li Xingxing" revealed that he had a brother who was a programmer, and that his brother hacked the scammer's WeChat account through the payment records and got the money back. He encouraged Lily that as long as she had the payment records, she could ask her brother, a highly skilled "hacker", for help, and she would definitely be able to get the money back.
Then, Lily contacted her brother through the introduction of "Li Xingxing".
The brother "reluctantly" agreed to Lily's request and asked for the WeChat account of the person who purchased on her behalf, the account number for receiving payment, and Lily's bank account. After a while, he solemnly informed her that all the money that had been defrauded had been returned to the account.
However, the funds in Lily's account need to be further verified before the money can be credited.
In this way, Lily scanned the code twice to transfer a total of 4,400 yuan. At this time, "Li Xingxing" said that she needed to transfer another 5,600 yuan to get all the money back. After Lily said that she did not have so much money, "Li Xingxing" also said that she should borrow money from a loan platform first to make up the difference, and said that he did the same thing at the time.
Eager to recover her losses, Lily was once again deceived by the "white-cut-black" scammers lurking on the Internet.
After receiving the warning, Sandun Police Station immediately stopped payment and started to recover losses. At present, the losses of Lili's second fraud have been recovered one after another. The police officer in charge of the case clearly told Lili that if the public security organs cannot recover the fraud losses, other individuals and institutions will not be able to help you recover them.
Scammers publish "Alarm QQ, Anti-Fraud Center QQ" on the Internet, or embed them in clean promotional videos to prevent online fraud, or launch an "Online Alarm Platform" page on the Internet, and use search engines to guide people searching for alarms to the so-called "Online Alarm Platform" or "Online Alarm Center" webpage.
Scammers will select precise targets and use forums, QQ groups, Weibo, scammer reporting websites, or self-built websites to find and collect people who have been deceived. Then they will analyze the value of secondary fraud based on the reasons for being deceived, prepare fraud routines, and lock in key targets to carry out fraud.
Some people who have been cheated will share their experiences online. When the scammers see this, they will add them as friends and say that they have also encountered the same scam. Then they will gain their trust by complaining and proceed to the next step. This type of scammer often says that they recovered the money by using the source code on the Internet. If the other party believes it, they can set up a trap.