People's Daily Online, Beijing, May 9 (Zhou Jingyuan) As the “cultural museum craze” continues to heat up, more and more young people are falling in love with “museum shopping”, and it is “hard to get a ticket” for many popular cultural and museum venues. On some third-party platforms, some people easily increase the price by one to two hundred and start a business of making reservations for museum tickets. There are also people who are blocked after paying because they trust agents to rob. In this regard, the “Truth Seeking” column of People's Daily reminded netizens to be more vigilant and avoid being deceived.
Recently, Ms. Wang contacted a seller on the social platform who claimed to be able to grab tickets on her behalf, hoping to reserve two tickets for a certain museum. The other party sent an inducement link, telling her that the ticket grabbing rate could be increased, and asked Ms. Wang to click on the link.
Ms. Wang made the reservation according to the other party's guidance and thought she had got a ticket. Unexpectedly, nearly 10,000 yuan was debited from her bank card that night. When she sent another message to customer service, she found that it had been blocked by the other party.
In fact, this is a recent scam targeting museum ticket reservations. Instead of official platforms, criminals choose third-party platforms, using the pretext of making reservations and grabbing tickets on their behalf to attract attention and send relevant inducement links. After the victim clicks, the criminals steal the customer's bank card amount and block it.
In this regard, the “Truth Seeking” column called several museums, and the staff all said that to make ticket reservations, please look for the official channels.
Hou Xinmiao, a researcher at the People's Data Research Institute, said that on the one hand, in the context of the “museum boom”, criminals are taking advantage of people's urgent need for tickets to popular venues to commit fraud; on the other hand, despite clear reminders from many museums that tickets should be reserved through official channels , but there are still people who fall into fraud traps because they do not understand or ignore official information, which also reflects the weak public awareness of online prevention.
The “Truth-Seeking” column once again reminds netizens to enhance their awareness of online security and fraud prevention, and to properly keep their personal information. Be vigilant about ticket purchase information from unofficial channels and do not easily click on links from unknown sources. If you encounter such a situation, be careful and call 110 to call the police.
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