Communication University of China is holding a successful lecture on combating telecommunication fraud on campus, addressing the escalating issue of university students falling prey to such scams. The lecture aims to raise awareness and equip students with knowledge to protect themselves from falling victim to similar schemes in the future.
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Yesterday, the Communication University of China successfully conducted a campus anti-telecommunication network fraud lecture.The problem of university students encountering telecommunication fraud is becoming more and more serious. In August 2021, China Internet Network Information Center released the 48th Statistical Report on the Development of China's Internet Network in Beijing, showing that the size of China's Internet users reached 1.011 billion and the Internet penetration rate reached 71.6%. Therefore, the development of the internet has continuously fostered and escalated telecommunications fraud.
University students are the main group of Internet users in China. College students can not travel, shop and mobile payment without the Internet, and the Internet has become a habit of life for college students in contemporary universities. This makes the unscrupulous elements aim at the lack of social experience, simple and affluent college students to implement fraudulent behavior.
Telecommunication fraud refers to the criminal behavior of criminals who set up a scam by making up false information through telephone, SMS, network, etc., to commit non-contact fraud on the victims and induce them to send money to the criminals. Criminals mainly commit crimes through fraudulent means such as shopping fraud, prize winning fraud, identity impersonation fraud, game fraud and campus loans, and these undesirable means can easily make college students with younger behavioral thoughts fall into the trap of remittance, and they have become the hardest hit by telecommunication fraud.
Yuan Yidian, a college student from Communication University of China, details the entire process of her fraud as one of the victims of a telecommunication fraud. Yuan traded headphones with strangers through Weibo social networking platform, and the criminals used a fake transaction link to lure her into a payment interface, eventually sending them more than 1,500 yuan. "After I realized I was scammed, I went to the police station to file a case. But the police said his IP address was outside the country, so the case could not be accepted, and I did not get my money back." After this lesson, Yuan reflected that his awareness of prevention still needs to be improved: "I used to think that my anti-fraud awareness is quite strong and I must not be scammed by criminals.“
The police of the Anti-Economic Crime Section of the Chengyang District Public Security Bureau in Qingdao, Shandong Province, said they receive an average of five cases of fraud a day, involving amounts ranging from 50,000 to 200,000 yuan, which shows that telecommunication fraud is a frequent occurrence and is also of great concern to the police department. It is worth mentioning that the police call on all college students to be the first to call the police after being subjected to telecommunication fraud and to freeze the money account so that the police department can track down the criminals in time and improve the probability of solving the case. However, the most important thing is for college students to improve their own anti-fraud awareness, firmly believe that there is no such thing as a free lunch, and any network behavior should be carried out through regular channels and ways.
China is currently stepping up its fight against telecommunication fraud, for which a relevant investigation department has been set up specifically to vigorously promote the National Anti-Fraud Center app, a platform for combating and managing new types of telecommunication network crimes, integrating resource integration and investigation and command. Yuan added: "I decided to download a national anti-fraud center app in my phone after I was cheated." The police also mentioned that college students should try to download a good National Anti-Fraud Center app in their cell phones, but at the same time, they should not rely too much on this app, its interception rate is not 100%, and accurate prevention still needs to rely on their own stronger awareness.
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