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Recently, the U.S. government announced that it would impose economic sanctions on 19 fraudulent companies in Southeast Asia and cut off their chain of funding, including nine Myanmar companies and 10 Cambodian companies.
By way of logic, the United States and Burma could not fight the eight-barrel, should be regardless and right. why now suddenly also fight Burma electric fraud?
Is North Korea cheating on Americans?
In response to this issue, the U.S. government claims that these fraudsters are actually deceiving the Americans.In the last year alone, the fraudsters deceived the Americans $10 billion, and the victims were countless.
Not only did they cheat money, but some even kidnapped and imprisoned Americans by means of violence.Moreover, even forced them to prostitute, making them a living cash slave.
It can be said that Americans suffer no less harm in fraud groups than Chinese people. So the question is, how on earth are Americans deceived?
As we all know, it is almost difficult for ordinary Americans to be tricked into northern Myanmar. After all, the main target group of fraud groups is not Americans.
Many fraud groups often use high-paying temptations, as well as linguistic similarities, to seduce Chinese or Southeast Asian people to “work.”
But for Americans, the success rate is very low because Americans are relatively lazy and don’t understand the Chinese route, so no matter how tempted scammers are, they are indifferent.
Furthermore, for most Americans, Myanmar is a very distant place, spanning almost half the globe.Americans want to go there “to work”?
It’s like getting the Chinese to work in Venezuela or Honduras, if it were you, would you go?
So, how did those Americans cheat?
Romance Trap + Cryptocurrency pig butchering scampig
On this issue, we are dealing with the three main lines of American fraud.
The first suite is Romantic Trap + Cryptocurrency Killing Pig. On Instagram, Facebook and other social platforms, many scammers will steal pictures of beautiful girls and package themselves as high-quality people.
In their profiles, often revealed rich, successful, gentle, attentive labels, many scammers will even apply the identity of Asian entrepreneurs, rich second generation, to increase their attractiveness.
With these "prerequisites", the swindler will start the big move of love.
They spend a lot of time on emotional business every day, such as asking for warmth with the victim, sharing life, or selling flowers to the victim through a series of friendly operations, allowing the victim to enter the state of online love.
After gaining trust, the next step is to harvest. Cryptocurrency, on the other hand, is a common scam targeting American victims.
In this process, scammers will “unintentionally” reveal that they have an opportunity to make money, such as obtaining internal information, knowing that a new currency will rise, or discovering that a trading platform has a vulnerability.
Then deceive the victim, so that they feel that the opportunity is difficult.The victim hears this "opportunity", at first does not want to invest too much, only thinking about small investments.
But I didn't expect that the money invested could really be cashed back successfully, earning thousands of dollars. When there are more and more such operations, the victims are carried away by the benefits.
Soon, the victim will invest huge amounts of money, even with loans, mortgages and real estate, and will earn a lot of money.
Seeing that their money cannot be presented, the victim can only seek help from the fraudsters, while the fraudsters say that they have to pay collateral and pay taxes to unlock.
Once the victim is drained and there is no money to cheat, the platform will be closed immediately and the scammer will disappear without a trace. By this time, the victim has completely fallen into the pit.
Of course, this is actually similar to pig butchering scampig, which deceived the Chinese. The biggest difference between them is nothing more than different projects.
U.S. version of Killing Pigs, often make all-English high-simulation websites, as well as English version of investment platform app. The professional interface, almost all of the U.S. popular financial products, such as cryptocurrency exchanges, stock trading platforms and so on.
When the victim sees these familiar financial products, it’s undoubtedly overwhelmed.
The scammer then guides the victim to transfer money to the scammer’s wallet address via a Bitcoin ATM or exchange. In this case, the harvesting of a pork dish is inevitable.
Pretending to be a U.S. government official
As for the second route, the fake government agencies threatened to intimidate the victims. Unlike the slaughter of pigs, the victims were mostly new immigrants from the United States.
In this process, scammers will use fake base stations, and in the future the electronic display will be disguised as agencies such as the U.S. Tax Administration, the U.S. Social Security Agency. Some can even mimic the actual numbers of the FBI to increase the credibility of the victims.
After the victim received the phone, hearing the other person seemed to be a serious official, was soon frightened.
At this time, the swindler will say, "You have a huge amount of unpaid taxes or are suspected of money laundering. If you don't cooperate with the investigation, the police will issue an arrest warrant within 24 hours and freeze your account".
During this period, the scammer will also strictly warn the victim not to hang the phone.At the same time, don’t tell your family, don’t tell the local police station and bank.
The fraudsters claim that this is highly confidential, and once the leakage aggravates the crime.When this series of combined fist hits out, the victim is immediately caught by the fraudsters.
Of course, in the process of cheating money, scammers generally don't ask the victim to make a bank transfer, because it will be tracked. He will prompt the victim, buy a large number of Apple and Google gift cards, and then reveal the card number and password to the scammer.
As for the reason for buying a gift card, the scammer will claim, “This is the only approved confidential payment method.”
The reason why many Americans fall for this trick is mainly because Americans are extremely afraid of the tax system. Especially new immigrants, they don't know anything.
Once you are bluffed by a swindler, you will immediately fall into panic. In this way, the victim can only obediently be at his mercy.
Technical computer fraud
As for the third route, it belongs to technical fraud, which is mostly targeted at older Americans.
As we all know, many elderly Americans have their own personal computers. After all, in the era of computer popularity, these American veterans have long caught up with the trend of the times. Therefore, their skills of playing with computers are better than those of us elderly people.
It was based on the prevalence of computers among the elderly in the United States, so the scammers built a scam program.
For example, at some point, the victim's computer screen suddenly pops up a virus warning, claiming that "your computer has been infected."
The victim was afraid that the computer would collapse, so he rushed to call. At this point, the scammers will pretend to be Microsoft, Apple, and guide them to download remote control software. In this case, the scammers can gain control of the victim's computer.
Next, the scammer opens the command prompt CMD, scrolls some code that ordinary people don’t understand, and then claims it’s a virus.
When the victim is asked what to do, the scammer will say, “You have to pay a service fee to get rid of the virus. Otherwise, the computer will soon be paralyzed.
The victim was then obsessed, so Liu Ma, under the guidance of the fraudsters, transferred money by telephone.
During this period, the money transferred by the victim will also be laundered through multiple intermediate "money mules". After it completely flows overseas, the money becomes clean.
Of course, this is a good thing. some evil scammers will even have the opportunity to install keyboard recording software on the computer, to steal the victim’s online money, credit card passwords, etc. Through this operation, the victim’s deposits will be cleared directly and even the debt will be accumulated.
If other sensitive private information of the victim is stolen, it can even be threatened and blackmailed.
Fraud groups also have international divisions?
Speaking here, many people may have asked, all say that the Chinese understand the Chinese most, how did the scammer learn to cheat the Americans?
Strictly speaking, today's Burma-North fraud park is still really partitional.
Like the Chinese group inside, most of them targeted people from the mainland, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, etc. Because of the large number of victims, this area became the main cash flow of the Myanmar-North fraud group.
In addition to the Chinese group, the fraud group has other small species groups, such as Japanese, Korean, English, etc. The fraudsters in these groups generally cheat groups such as Europe and the United States and South Korea.
The three tricks mentioned above are actually common routines of English groups. And their target audience is those Americans.
During this time, the scam group will recruit some good English-language people with financial difficulties to give them regular training (and, of course, may have been fooled in the past).
After the training, these people will play classic American scripts and tailor a series of deceptions for American victims, such as American payment methods, American technical means, American intimidation, etc.
After these victims fall for it, then it's time for the demon to do whatever it wants.
ended
In summary, the English version of cheating and the Chinese version of cheating are all subsidiary products of the Southeast Asian fraud group. They exploit human corruption or fear psychology, but whatever you take their way, behind it is the end of homelessness.
So, against any type of scam, everyone has to keep an eye on. can break the rationale, encounter the threat directly alert. When you build a scam dungeon for yourself, you can avoid most risks and losses.