Creating fake sales pages to take money from consumers

According to statistics of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, revenue ecommerce Vietnam in 2021 will reach 13.7 billion USD, in the group of 3 countries with the highest growth rate of online retail market share in Southeast Asia. The COVID-19 epidemic after 2 years has accelerated the trend of multi-channel shopping. However, along with that, forms of fraud and fraud on e-commerce have taken place with many new and sophisticated tricks such as forging sales pages, appropriating all consumer purchases.

From 10 to 20 million dong, even hundreds of millions dong is the value of items sold by a high-end fashion store. According to a representative of this store, recently their fanpage has been faked, many customers have been guessed all the money.

“Starting around before the Lunar New Year, we received a complaint from a customer who purchased a product that was transferred to us but did not receive the item. After we asked the customer where to transfer the payment, we talked about it. , just discovered that there is a fanpage similar to ours from the number of followers, customer photos, including product advice, only the two account numbers provided by that party are not our account numbers. us”, said Mr. Phan Duc Linh – High-end fashion store manager.

It is worth mentioning that when there are no measures to prevent, this fake site continues to exist and is having about 10 more customers being scammed every day, the total amount of customer damage has reached billions of dong.

A representative of a store said that recently their fanpage was faked, many customers have been guessed all the money.

According to a cybersecurity expert, the objects online scam There are more and more sophisticated tricks. Specifically, registering a bank account with fake personal documents, money transferred to the account immediately transferred to another account, hiring to run ads on fake facebook pages to trick more people.

Therefore, even though the information is saved on social networks and the money transfer account records are kept in the bank, it is still difficult for the investigative agency to track down these scammers.

According to the economic lawyer, creating social networking sites like facebook is now too easy and does not bind conditions, so clear ownership verification is a prerequisite.

According to experts, the most suitable for stores is still attaching the verification of their sales page. As for consumers, experts warn that it is necessary to carefully verify before online transactions, can use COD delivery method, see the goods and then pay, to be safer when shopping.

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