Why did the National Day trip planned by a female college student fall through the cracks after scanning a QR code?

During the National Day holiday, Xiao Tang, a female college student in Nanjing, was very depressed. Because she was planning to travel to Chengdu with her classmates, but the trip was ruined because she scanned a QR code. what on earth is it?

It turns out that just before the National Day holiday, Xiao Tang was deceived. At 4:30 pm on September 22, 2017, Xiao Tang went to Nanjing Xinjiekou Police Station to report the incident with a frustrated look on his face.

Xiao Tang is from Nanjing. He is currently studying in a university in Nanjing and has just become a senior. She and her classmates plan to take advantage of this National Day Golden Week to travel to Chengdu, a city they have long admired. Xiao Tang booked his flight tickets early and excitedly made a detailed guide. However, on September 22, a fraudulent text message shattered all these beautiful visions.

At around 12:50 on September 22, Xiao Tang’s mobile phone received a text message saying that the flight Xiao Tang bought was canceled for some reason, and attached a customer service phone number for Xiao Tang to contact customer service. Discuss refunds or changes to tickets. Xiao Tang then called the customer service number. The customer service told her that due to the shortage of air tickets during the Golden Week, there is no way to change the ticket and can only refund the ticket. If the refund is agreed, the airline will compensate the customer 450 yuan per ticket for "missed flight". fee". Xiao Tang bought two, so she will be compensated 900 yuan.

Subsequently, the customer service asked Xiao Tang to open WeChat and follow a public account named "shenhang1123", and refund the ticket through the steps introduced on the WeChat public account. After Xiao Tang did so, he found that the money for his air ticket was not returned to his account, and he did not receive any compensation. Xiao Tang then contacted customer service again, and this time the customer service told her that because her account limit was not enough, she needed to change her WeChat account. So, Xiao Tang took his classmate’s WeChat account and did it again.

At this moment, Xiao Tang’s roommate came over to see what Xiao Tang was busy with. After understanding the ins and outs of the matter, the roommate told her that she might have met a scammer and asked her to check herself quickly. Is there any money in the WeChat wallet and the bound bank card? Xiao Tang was shocked when she heard this and quickly checked her account, but it was too late. Xiao Tang's own account was missing 9997.98 yuan, and her classmate's bank card was missing 4558.99 yuan. How come I was defrauded of nearly 15,000 yuan in just a few minutes?

Xiao Tang couldn’t figure out how his money was transferred by the scammer, so accompanied by his classmates, he went to the Xinjiekou Police Station to call the police. After listening to Xiao Tang's story in full, police officer Wang Xi discovered that the problem lay in a QR code picture that Xiao Tang received and scanned after following the WeChat official account.

It turns out that although the QR code was marked with "no-show fee", it was actually a "poisonous" QR code. Fraudsters implanted a Trojan horse virus in the URL linked to the QR code. As long as Xiao Tang scans the QR code to enter the website, the Trojan horse virus will be implanted in Xiao Tang's mobile phone, and then steal his mobile phone number, bank card number, password and other private information. , and then the fraudsters used this information to transfer the money of Xiao Tang and his classmates.

This incident also reminds friends once again that there is no pie in the sky, and you must be cautious when it comes to money.