Online fraud is still a problem

Cyber ​​fraud has recently become very complicated, causing serious damage to organizations and individuals, and negatively impacting the socio-economy.

Although the authorities have issued warnings and propaganda, with sophisticated tricks and constantly changing fraud methods, many people still easily become victims on the Internet. Therefore, many National Assembly deputies expect the Government to direct the relevant agencies to come up with truly effective solutions to overcome the above situation.

Delegate Nguyen Huu Thong (Binh Thuan delegation) when discussing the socio-economic situation raised the issue: Most National Assembly delegates have at least a few times received calls from strange phone numbers that are annoying advertising companies; impersonating officials of this agency or that organization to make calls with the purpose of fraud. In fact, many people, including officials and civil servants, have been scammed out of huge sums of money. Although the authorities have taken many measures to prevent fraud through cyberspace, they have not yet been able to handle it thoroughly.

Online fraud has become very complicated recently. Illustration photo: tapchitaichinh.vn

People being scammed in cyberspace with losses ranging from several million to hundreds of millions of dong is not uncommon today. Subjects using high technology with forms of fraud such as: Impersonating law enforcement agencies, taking over accounts; impersonating relatives to borrow money; luring people to do tasks on high-profit apps; impersonating employees of telephone service providers to warn about blocking phone SIMs; impersonating websites of agencies and businesses such as social insurance, banks, securities; recruiting jobs; impersonating summer camp activities; impersonating editors of media agencies organizing photo contests/recruiting collaborators...

Even many people, when conducting online interviews via the application or receiving phone calls about relatives having traffic accidents, and then, without being vigilant, following the requests of the subject, have been scammed out of money.

It can be seen that cyber criminals often grasp trends, events, and current activities, taking advantage of the psychology of victims to commit fraud. The subjects often use fake information to register personal or anonymous accounts, creating virtual accounts on social networking sites with servers located abroad.

To prevent cybercrime, first of all, propaganda work needs to be stepped up, aiming to improve knowledge about information security, early identification and vigilance against methods and tricks of cybercrime. Along with that, it is necessary to adjust the legal corridor to keep up with newly arising issues.

Currently, there are no specific regulations on identifying internet users; the process of handling fraud cases still has some difficulties, especially coordination with credit institutions and banks to trace the flow of fraudulent money, which takes a lot of time and has low recovery efficiency; coordination with online service providers also takes a lot of time and is not very effective; the problem of junk SIM cards and buying and selling bank accounts, although being focused on, is still widespread, making cybercrime investigation activities difficult.

According to People's Army Newspaper

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