I don’t know if you have ever bought a “crab card”? Hairy crabs have a cycle. Starting from November every year, hairy crabs enter their most fertile season. Therefore, many merchants will start selling crab cards during the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day. In November, buyers can redeem crabs with their crab cards, which means they can pick up the goods. Hairy crabs are something that you can enjoy yourself by eating them yourself, and it is also very decent to give to relatives and friends. Therefore, many people have fallen in love with them in recent years, and crab cards have become popular.

Our company also issued crab cards during the Mid-Autumn Festival ~


In the past, during the Mid-Autumn Festival and the National Day, everyone would talk about which crab card store to buy is affordable and delicious, but this year the hottest crab card topic is: crab card fraud...

Even Lu Ziqiao in "Love Apartment" was almost defrauded by Crab Card↓↓


Shichao searched the Internet again and found that the fraud gang was still casting a wide net to commit crimes. Countless people said that they had also received such crab cards and were almost deceived.


In order to prevent more unsuspecting people from being fooled, Shichao has also done some research and personal experience. Today I will tell you about the "crab card" fraud routine and how we can beware of it.

First of all, scammers will try to get a batch of mailing information from the Internet. The information will include addresses, phone numbers, names, etc. After getting the information, they will send you "crab cards" in batches, mainly casting a wide net. After all, as long as the net is wide enough, you can always encounter a few careless people.

One-sided Crab Card Express provided by an enthusiastic netizen


Coincidentally, you are also within the scope of their fraud and received such a crab card.

After opening this express delivery, you will find that inside is a beautifully packaged crab card, which is very similar to the crab card you opened before. It contains cooking methods and a letter to you. In short, it is very decent.


You carefully look at the delivery card marked "male 4.0 tael 4 pieces, female 3.0 tael 4 pieces" and find that you only need to contact customer service and you will be able to eat crabs in a few days~

If you think about it carefully, the recipient, receiving phone number and other private information on the package can be matched. In addition, the crab card has the nature of a gift. Is it possible that you might think that this is a gift from a friend?


Wow, scan the code.

If you scan the QR code with the hope that "it may be a gift from a friend", it means that the scammer's scheme has been successful.

After scanning the code, a customer service staff will greet you. What is very clever is that he will ask you to provide your redemption card and mobile phone number, both of which are indispensable.

This scammer also knows how to steal Taobao’s name↓↓


Generally speaking, if the other party is a scammer, you definitely want as many people to be fooled as possible, so the threshold is often not very strict, but "crab card" scammers are a little different. You have to go through layers of identity verification to get benefits.

First of all, all fraudulent express delivery they send has information stubs. If the mobile phone number you provide is not on their list, it will be rejected directly.

Shichao used his mobile phone number to try three QR code customer service, but all of them were tragic↓↓


If you think that after passing this level, everything will be fine, then you are wrong. They are extremely cautious and have identity verification in multiple links.

A young lady shared that she entered the group in the later stage and used a WeChat account that did not match her mobile phone number to claim the prize, but she was also kicked out of the group↓↓


Chat back~

If we happen to be on their scam list and our phone passes verification, what happens next?

Although Shichao failed to join the group, I interviewed two young ladies who successfully broke into the group. Combined with what other netizens shared on the Internet, I roughly restored what happened next.

As the country continues to promote anti-fraud, fraud routines are now almost universally known, and scammers are very aware of this. Therefore, after picking up the password, they will not directly start fraud, but focus on appeasement.

It said that it was verifying the registration, and also emphasized that "no need to pay shipping! No need to pay any fees"!


Of course, the big bad wolf will show its tail sooner or later. After a while, they will invite you to join the group with the gimmick of "paying attention to the delivery progress" and throw out bait: there will be benefits in the group and rain red envelopes for you!

When the crab has been promised, many people will not mind and pick up some wool to go home.

After all, no matter how you think about it, the other party will suffer.

What's more, in fact, when you take the first step, reason has already given way to "lucky mentality".


When it comes to sending red envelopes, you have already entered the scammer's routine: first use small money to lure you and gradually build up trust in him. After you believe him, he will then cheat you in a big way by swiping orders / completing tasks / downloading the app.

After you join the group, the rain of red envelopes and exclusive red envelopes they give you are all real.

The more aggressive one even ordered you afternoon tea↓↓


But when you are done enjoying it, the scam begins.

How could I lie to you? In fact, it is the most traditional scam, such as telling you that you can get cash back by downloading an APP.

In fact, the APP may be developed by them themselves, and later they will induce you to enter information in the APP, bind your bank card, etc., thereby committing fraud.

It is also possible that their APP cannot be found on the app market at all. At this time, they will "kindly" proactively send you a virus file packaged as a download package.


For another example, they can tell you that you can get cash back by swiping orders.

However, in the early stage, the order processing went smoothly, but in the later stage, something suddenly went wrong. The principal and rewards were stuck in the system, and money needed to be paid as a guarantee before they could be withdrawn.

In short, there are many ways to deceive you...

By the way, during the whole process, other people in the group will continue to post screenshots of themselves successfully paying money and making money to encourage you to boldly "make money", so when you are in this group, the "lucky mentality" that has happened several times will come back to you↓↓


In the process of experiencing their scam, I also found that many people "know that there are tigers in the mountains and prefer to travel to the tiger mountains". They clearly know about these fraudulent crab cards, but they are collecting these crab cards for 100-200 yuan.


After careful questioning, an old man told me that they wanted to use P-pictures to lure scammers, that is, the red envelopes and other benefits paid by scammers in the early stage.

Could it be that "starve to death the timid and starve the bold to death"?

Shichao would like to emphasize here that these behaviors of deceiving swindlers are high-risk behaviors. You walk on the tip of a knife. You won’t know who the winner is until the end. Do not follow suit...


On Weibo, many netizens feel that these crab cards are hard to guard against, but if you look carefully, there are still flaws.

For example, the seemingly exquisite packaging always reveals a sense of randomness↓↓


A more attentive scammer will give you a fake card, while a more perfunctory scammer will not even have a card, just a small paper card.

Moreover, the password for picking up the goods is also streaked. The passwords for the regular crab cards I have come into contact with all have a coated area.

fake


In addition, these fraudulent crab cards often only accept QR code pickup, but generally speaking, most crab cards support multiple pickup methods such as QR code pickup, official website pickup, and phone pickup.

Not to mention that the delivery method is extremely simple, the method of manual customer service + group recruitment is also very labor-intensive. It is already 2023, why do we need to use a high-labor consumption method to solve batch demand?

Think about it carefully, if you call the service phone number of a bank or express delivery company, will anyone answer your call? Is it all AI that cares about you...

In an industrial and commercial society, you have to consider costs when doing business.

In fact, if you take a regular crab card, you will find that they will recommend you to follow an official account. There is an official mini program in the official account. You can withdraw crabs by entering the coupon code and other information. The main feature is full automation.

They only need you to provide crab card and delivery information, there is no fancy work waiting for you↓↓


Of course, deceptions are always ever-changing. Today someone uses crab cards, and tomorrow someone uses mooncake cards. More importantly, there is no such thing as unwarranted kindness!

If it were just a scam like "false orders" or "downloading the APP", I believe many people would have seen through it. Last year, the uncle who was engaged in anti-fraud came to our office three times ~ for fear that we would be deceived ~

But it coincides with the crab season, and you may have a few close friends who may give crabs as gifts, but you may take it lightly, so after much thought, I wrote this article, hoping that more people can read it, and that fewer and fewer people will be deceived...