According to Lieutenant Colonel Dao Thanh Binh - Deputy Head of the Cyber Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention Department - Khanh Hoa Provincial Police, in the first days of 2025 and the Lunar New Year, people's demand for shopping, selling, vacationing, traveling, and traveling increased.
Cyber criminals will also focus on the above needs. With fraudulent scenarios impersonating tourist areas, hotels, shopping centers, travel services with attractive introductory information to approach and lure victims into fraud traps.
In particular, scammers flexibly use many different forms, focusing on people's greed, confusion, and lack of vigilance. If people lack skills or are subjective when using social networks, they will easily become victims when participating in shopping, booking rooms, buying travel tickets online, using online services, etc.
According to the leader of the Cyber Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention Department of Khanh Hoa Provincial Police, to prevent online fraud during Tet, people need to identify signs of fraud.
The most obvious sign of an online scam is a request for personal or bank account information via text message, email, or phone call.
Usually, scammers will ask for money transfers or provide OTP codes, bank account passwords for urgent reasons such as receiving quick bonuses, attractive promotions, etc.
People should not share bank account information, passwords, OTP codes, credit card codes, or any personal information through unknown channels. Calls, messages, or emails asking for this information are all signs of fraud. And be careful with overly attractive shopping offers or receiving overly attractive gifts.
When discovering that they are the victim of an online scam, people need to immediately stop all transactions and act according to the subject's request.
In particular, it is necessary to change passwords, lock related accounts and not delete evidence related to the scam such as messages, emails, calls, or documents sent by the subject.
This is important information to help the police during the investigation process... After identifying fraudulent behavior, people should immediately share it with family, friends and relatives so that they can also avoid similar scams.
In 2024, Khanh Hoa Police received 122 new cases of property appropriation on cyberspace with a total loss of 135 billion VND.
The most common methods of fraud are calling for investment participation on virtual currency and stock exchanges; impersonating the Police, the Procuracy, the Court, Social Insurance, Tax; impersonating fanpages of big-brand hotels and resorts located in the center of Nha Trang to appropriate service deposits...
