The holiday has arrived, and many primary and secondary school students will play online games and browse social media platforms at home to relax. Among various players and bloggers, there are scammers who are quietly approaching by disguising their identities. Minors who lack experience and low vigilance are the preferred targets for scammers. While casting a net and intimidating, I managed to trick a second year college student named Xiao Qi into playing an interactive social mobile game. Sometimes, she also shares some gaming experiences on her social media accounts, searching for game "buddies" (companions) to play together. But just a few days ago, the experience of being targeted by scammers made her laugh and cry. At that time, a person named 'Zirou' found me through her social media account and said she also played this game and wanted to shoot materials with me Shooting materials refers to two people playing games together and shooting videos. Xiaoqi needs to cooperate with each other to create some "program effects", and then the other party can send out the video to "increase fans". To show sincerity, "Zirou" also said that she could give Xiaoqi a skin as a gift. Xiaoqi picked out a product and was waiting for the other party to send the skin over, but what she didn't expect was a "risk warning form". It's broken, why didn't you tell me you're a minor! You got involved Zirou warned that she asked her brother who works in a game company to help retrieve skins from the backend to give to Xiaoqi, but because Xiaoqi is a minor, giving skins is not allowed. Her brother's backend has been frozen, and the skins inside are worth a total of 60000 yuan. The system has now locked Xiaoqi's network address and home address, and Xiaoqi must cooperate to unfreeze within 30 minutes. Hurry up and go to a deserted room, I'll call you and tell you how to operate. But I'm not a minor, I'm already a sophomore. "Xiaoqi's words made both sides feel embarrassed. When the scammer saw that the trick had failed, he stopped talking to Xiaoqi. Xiaoqi shared this experience on social media, which unexpectedly resonated with many players. Among them, there were underage players who said they were scared at the time, very scared, but because they were too timid, they didn't dare to answer the other party's call and directly blocked them. From everyone's comments, it seems that the tricks of scammers are almost identical. They all use the identity of a woman to get close to each other, claiming that they have a brother who works in a game company and can help deliver skins. They also use the excuse that the player is a minor to claim that the brother's backend account has been frozen and ask the player to help lift it within 30 minutes. Even the picture of the "risk warning form" sent is the same. The reporter noticed that there are actually multiple grammatical errors in the main text of this warning sheet. The general meaning is that if the player does not cooperate with the unfreezing, 60000 yuan will be automatically deducted from the player's parent account, and the parent will also be sentenced to 3 years in prison. We have received several reports of skin scams in games from parents of minors Wang Jia, a police officer from the Chaoyang District Anti Fraud Center in Beijing, introduced that once a child is intimidated by a scammer and answers their phone call, the scammer will gradually induce the child to transfer all the money in the parent payment software to the scammer's account. As little as a few thousand yuan, the most common case is when parents discovered that their child had already transferred 130000 yuan when transferring money. "Fake customer service and fake platform account said goodbye to all the money." Hello, your account looks good, do you sell it? "Recently, Xiaojie received a private message from another player while playing a mobile game. The other party suddenly offered 300 yuan, which surprised Xiao Jie a bit. Xiaojie's game account is a second-hand account that he bought online for 100 yuan before. After buying the account, Xiaojie didn't deposit any more money into it and just played around casually. When the scammer sent the message, he was already tired of playing and was considering whether to "get out of the trap" and not play. In Xiaojie's opinion, these online gaming accounts are becoming less valuable the more they play. That's why someone can spend 300 yuan to receive an account bought for 100 yuan, which is really heartwarming. But Xiaojie also kept his guard in mind. He took a look at the account trading platform and found that there were many accounts being listed for sale with better resources than the account he was currently playing, and those accounts were only priced at one or two hundred yuan. It's too strange to keep a cheap account and insist on spending 300 yuan to buy my account Doubt aside, Xiaojie still contacted the other party by adding QQ, and then the other party sent the address of a trading website, saying they wanted to trade on this website. Xiaojie climbed up and saw that it looked very similar to a legitimate account trading website, but the browser issued a warning saying that this website had risks. Out of caution, Xiaojie asked if the other party could conduct transactions through other legitimate platforms, but the other party refused for various reasons. At this point, Xiaojie basically confirmed the identity of the other party as a scammer and directly blocked them. What would happen if Xiaojie trusted a scammer and conducted transactions on the platform provided by the other party? Officer Wang Jia introduced that the Chaoyang Branch has also received similar account transaction reports before, including cases of minors being deceived after selling their accounts. These platforms are all phishing websites created by scammers If Xiaojie puts his game account on a fake platform, the platform will soon show that the transaction is completed, but then a "customer service" will tell Xiaojie that he entered a wrong information on the website, resulting in the account being frozen. He must first deposit a sum of money to become a member of the website before he can unfreeze it. Afterwards, the platform will pay Xiaojie the unfreezing fee and transaction amount together. In fact, this' customer service 'is also a fake by a group of scammers. Even if Xiaojie follows the requirements of the "customer service", the money he deposited will only go to waste, and the previously agreed "transaction amount" will naturally not be obtained. The game account has also been cheated by the scammer. In addition to phishing on fake platforms, some scammers also use the screen sharing feature to deceive players' accounts. Scammers may falsely claim to purchase accounts, but they must first verify the resources on the player's account through a shared screen. Once the login interface shows the phone number used by the player to register their account, scammers will use the game's "Change Binding" function to enter the player's phone number and obtain a verification code. At this point, because the screen is in a shared state, the verification code will be directly seen by the scammer and entered into the unbinding system, and the account will be taken away by the scammer. Lack of experience and vigilance can easily deceive minors. In addition to skin scams and account buying scams, there are also scammers who target children's love for celebrities and pretend to be members of celebrity teams, inviting minors to join the group. "Officer Wang Jia introduced that there will be another scammer" relay "who pretends to be a public security, procuratorial or judicial personnel or a celebrity's lawyer, claiming that this group is suspected of leaking celebrity information and that everyone needs to be investigated. Afterwards, scammers will use various pretexts to demand that the child pay a guarantee fee, saying that they will refund it after the investigation is completed and the child's suspicion is cleared. However, this money cannot be refunded in the future, and the child cannot even contact anyone. The above-mentioned forms of fraud are not new tricks, and some even appeared more than a decade ago. If an adult encounters a similar situation, they may just laugh it off, but if a child lacks social experience and is easily afraid when faced with things, they may fall for the trap of scammers. As a result, minors have become the preferred targets for some scammers to commit fraud. How do scammers target minors? The reporter's investigation found that currently popular online games on the market can be roughly divided into two types. One of them is called an online game, but the game content is mainly played by a single player, and there is no interaction between players. In this game, it is not easy for scammers to accurately find underage players. But there is another type of online game that is played in an online format. Many players will participate in a game together, and a "public chat channel" will be set up in the game, where each player can chat. For the convenience of communication, such games are often equipped with voice systems, allowing players to directly send voice messages. The reporter randomly clicked on some voice messages sent by players, and several of them sounded like young children. According to the anti addiction regulations for minors in online games, minors can only play games between 20:00 and 21:00 on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, and statutory holidays. But the reporter found that outside of this period, there are also many minors "appearing" in the game. They are likely to have registered the game using the ID card of an adult at home, and once they encounter scammers, their parents' identity information may also be "stolen" by the scammers. On social platforms outside of gaming, some minors do not have a high level of vigilance. When Xiaoqi shared her experience of encountering scammers, several accounts in the comment section stated that they had experienced similar scams. The reporter clicked on their homepage and saw that some people not only post their own game videos, but also take selfies on the homepage, and their facial features show that they are only eleven or twelve years old. To prevent children from being deceived, education from both parents and schools is crucial Wang Jia said that on the one hand, parents should educate their children on some basic anti fraud knowledge, such as never sharing screens with strangers, public security, procuratorial and judicial personnel will never handle cases online, and the more scammers ask you not to tell your parents, the more you should inform them in a timely manner. "On the other hand, we also hope that children can learn some anti fraud knowledge in school. Currently, the Chaoyang Anti Fraud Center has designed a set of anti fraud propaganda courses and is coordinating with the Education Commission. After the Spring Festival, this set of courses is expected to be promoted to primary and secondary school classrooms in Chaoyang District