In order to improve understanding and equip necessary skills when using the internet, contributing to identifying and preventing forms of online fraud, the National Political Publishing House of Truth publishes the book "Identifying and preventing online fraud", edited by author Nguyen Thai Binh.
The content of the book is divided into 2 parts:
Part 1: Online fraud: Current situation, causes and forms.
Part 2: Prevention and combat of online fraud: Current situation and solutions.
The book emphasizes that, in the face of the strong development requirements of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, high-tech crime has been and is becoming one of the biggest non-traditional security challenges.
Based on analyzing specific and common scenarios/situations, the book helps readers quickly identify and provide appropriate responses to avoid becoming victims of online scammers.
According to statistics from functional agencies, Vietnam currently has about 79.8 million internet users, equivalent to about 78.8% of the population, with the highest density of social networks and online services in the region.
This is an opportunity for Vietnam to deploy digital government, digital economy, and digital society. However, the downside of technology development is the strong outbreak of online scams.
Online fraud in Vietnam is increasing in scale and scale. Forms of fraud are increasingly sophisticated, causing serious economic and social consequences and greatly affecting the psychology of individuals, organizations and the community.
In recent years, a series of cases of people being scammed out of hundreds of millions of VND, even billions of VND through social networks, fake e-mails, malicious applications, fraudulent websites... have been continuously recorded.
What is worrying is that subjects are increasingly sophisticated, using high technology, targeting fear, gullibility, greed or lack of vigilance, so even people with knowledge of information technology can fall into the "trap". The ultimate goal of fraudulent acts is to seize property.
