The form of winning scams often appears in advertising popups on websites, messaging applications of social networks, and SMS messages. Even a winning scam call. These messages beat the greed of users advertising to win great prizes.
As technology in the 4.0 era is increasingly developed, tricks to defraud property are increasing. According to the Commander of the Police Department to prevent crimes using high technology: social networks with applications develop many utilities, helping to identify people who use the same application, and connect with each other. Taking advantage of these utilities, bad actors have exploited personal information, gender, grasped the user's preferences and living habits to conduct criminal activities... in order to appropriate property.
The content of OTT messages always refers to the account owner, the subscriber has won the prize. The prize can be a voucher to be used instead of cash, money or even in kind (motorcycle, smartphone,...).
Specifically, the bad guy will announce that you have been lucky to win and ask to verify the information of the prize holder, ask the user to visit a website to enter information, then request a transfer to pay the fees. From there, the bad guys take advantage of the user's ignorance to exploit personal information, OTP codes, bank accounts, ... Or ask for fees to receive prizes, shipping fees, converting prizes, etc.
Not only stopping at the level of mere fraud, the bad guys also use the name, image as well as operating license information of the company that owns the OTT application, this is a violation of the law, agencies and organizations. The investigation agency is still processing, but there are still signs of spreading.
Although the method of fraud is not really sophisticated, but with a large number of users of OTT applications and enough social classes, many gullible users will be taken advantage of by bad guys.
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