Beware! Scammers are targeting "young people"! !

When it comes to telecom fraud, is this the image that pops up in your mind? "A PhD from the Chinese Academy of Sciences was deceived and taken abroad", "A female master's student from a 211 university encountered a scam and was defrauded of 1.38 million in two weeks"... Faced with the various tricks of the fraudsters, many people, whether highly educated or experienced, have fallen for it. According to China Mobile's Wutong big data, the fraud gangs have targeted a new target group: young people. Let's follow China Mobile's Wutong big data and take a look at today's new youth scams!

The most common types of fraud scams

Provincial distribution of the number of victims of online fraud per 100,000 people

Birth Year of Fraud Victims

Gender distribution of victims of telephone fraud

Gender distribution of victims of various types of online fraud

The most vulnerable online fraud schemes for people born in the 1980s and 1990s and their gender distribution

Why young people are easily deceived

1. Anxiety and eagerness to make big money;

2. They have poor anti-fraud awareness and are easily deceived;

3. Lack of social experience and weak identification ability;

4. The dependence on high-tech products such as communication tools is relatively strong, personal information is more likely to be leaked, and the risk of exposure is greatly increased;

5. Many criminals have begun to use artificial intelligence and other means, such as AI voice calls and AI face-changing video calls to impersonate friends. Young people are exposed to many new things and are more likely to be scammed by new means.

Young people who used to laugh at old-fashioned scams while surfing the Internet have now become the "hot commodity" of new telecommunications network fraud gangs. To prevent yourself from being scammed, you must remember: don't listen, don't believe, don't transfer money, strengthen your self-prevention awareness, and keep your wallet safe!