WeChat reveals the fraudulent method of “refunding and repatriation”, reminding users to be wary of refund notices that impersonate official institutions – Passionategeekz

Passionategeekz On June 19, the WeChat Security Center issued the “Announcement on the Crackdown on “Refund and Repayment” Fraud Acts” today. Recently, WeChat received a complaint from users, and some criminals impersonated an official institution to issue a refund notice.Claiming that the fees paid in advance can be refunded, inducing users to contact false customer servicecommit fraud under the pretext of rebate for purchase of financial products or freezing of funds.

Analysis of the fraud method of “refund and refund” at Passionategeekz:

1.Use speechAdd friends：Scammers obtain the victim’s personal information through illegal channels and use template speech (such as “Hello, please notify me of something”) to add the victim’s WeChat friends.

2. Forged notifications to drain traffic:After adding friends, the fraudsters will send false “clearance notices” through pictures, videos, collection functions, online cloud documents, etc., induce victims to enter the fake online website or divert them to external WeChat platforms to contact the so-called “customer service”.

3.Fake identity to gain trust: The criminals pretended to be refunding customer service specialists and attempted to deceive the victims’ trust by displaying fake official certificates such as forged government department documents, debt transfer agreements, and company business licenses. The victim is required to provide personal identity information and screenshots of the preliminary fee payment for so-called “clearance registration”.

4.Induce download of specified apps：After obtaining the trust of the victim, the criminals will inform the victim that the refund amount will exist in the form of so-called “debtor’s rights”, and require the download of the designated app to convert the debt and withdraw the cash, so as to complete the refund process.

5. Induce investment:The victims are induced to purchase so-called bonds, stocks, funds and other financial products in the app that handles the refund, and falsely claiming that they will refund the prepaid fees through investment benefits.

6. Implement fraud:During the fraud process, the fraudster will first return a small amount of funds to gain the trust of the victim, but when the victim continues to invest a large amount of funds, the fraudster will refuse to return cash and ask the victim to continue transferring money on the grounds of freezing the account, insufficient handling fees, and paying handling fees to continue withdrawing cash, until the scam is exposed.

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