BEIJING, Beijing, May 10 (Xinhua)-"44% of fraudulent short messages come from paragraph 170/171". In the past month, the serious problem of telecom fraud in paragraph 170/171 in virtual operator has aroused great public and official concern. “‘ 170/171’ Do you dare to answer the phone at the beginning? " Worried, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, after interviewing relevant enterprises, recently issued a document asking virtual operator to complete the work of re-registration of user identity information within one month. According to a survey conducted by a reporter from Zhongxin. com (WeChat WeChat official account: cns2012), at present, real-name registration system, virtual operator is facing a series of technical screening problems, and the phenomenon of non-real name sales still exists, but the real-name registration system degree of "170/171" has been improved.
No.170/171 Duan Cheng Telecom Fraud New Label Users are afraid to answer when they see "170/171"
Tencent’s mobile phone housekeeper security experts found through big data monitoring that "nearly 44% of fraudulent SMS messages came from virtual operator’s 170/171 paragraph." Behind this data is that paragraph 170/171 has become a new label of telecom fraud. In the daily monitoring, the Anti-telecom Fraud Center of Guangzhou Public Security Bureau found that the numbers starting with 170 and 171 have become high-risk telephones for telecom fraud.
In the past month, with the risk warnings issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the public security departments, as well as the media and WeChat friends circle’s reports and publicity on the fraudulent practices of paragraph 170/171, the public’s vigilance against paragraph 170/171 fraud has been greatly improved.
Mr. Chen, who is engaged in the publishing industry in Beijing, told the reporter of Zhongxin.com, "There are two friends around me who have been cheated by the fraudulent phone call in paragraph 170. Now I dare not answer the phone call in paragraph 170, let alone click to view the text message sent by paragraph 170."
"Excuse me, do you need a loan? Do you need to invest in financial management? … …” Through investigation, the reporter found that paragraph 170/171 was used by fraudsters and also by some enterprises for marketing, which became annoying phone calls and text messages for the public. Several Beijing taxi drivers and supermarket shopping aunts interviewed randomly by reporters all said, "Recently, the number of calls received from various investment and wealth management or some commodity promotion in paragraph 170 has increased significantly, and I don’t know how to know my number."
Fraud takes advantage of the victim’s greed and cheapness to pretend to be a special subsidy issued by the government.
According to the fraud alert data released by the Anti-telecom Fraud Center of Guangzhou Public Security Bureau last week, there were 93 telecom fraud alerts involving paragraph 170 last week, among which the most prominent fraud methods were pretending to be government departments to issue special subsidies and pretending to be teachers to say that children needed surgery fees for injuries. There were 87 cases of telecom fraud involving paragraph 171, of which 67% were fraudulent by sending short messages with Trojan links.
According to Zhongan Online, at 19 o’clock on April 25, Mr. Feng suddenly received a text message: "××××, your child’s performance at school has dropped. Please click the link below to check the score." Mr. Feng looked at the number that sent the short message. It was a number that started with 171 and belonged to Hefei. Mr. Feng casually clicked on the link attached to the short message, but I didn’t expect it to open. Not long after, the bank card bound by the mobile phone sent a reminder message saying that 2000 yuan in the card was taken away.
According to reports, the telecom fraud in paragraph 170/171, pretending to be a government department to issue special subsidies, pretending to be a teacher to say that children need surgery fees, credit card withdrawals, handling large credit cards, and neonatal subsidies, all take advantage of the victim’s greed for benefits.
The police reminded the general public that when receiving a phone call or text message at the beginning of such a number segment, they should verify the real identity of the other party, don’t click on the link in the text message easily, don’t transfer money or make online transactions casually according to the requirements of the other party, and install mobile phone security protection software as soon as possible to prevent being cheated.
When the official rectification is in progress, the real-name registration of section 170/171 should be completed before the end of May.
In fact, on April 7th, the Network Security Administration of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Information and Communication Development Department, and the Information and Communication Administration, together with the Beijing Communications Administration, urgently interviewed three mobile communication resale enterprises (virtual operator) that were not implemented in real-name registration system. The three companies are required to immediately conduct a comprehensive investigation on the development of the company’s real-name registration system and seriously carry out rectification.
On April 27th, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology further issued the Notice on Strengthening Standardized Management to Promote the Healthy Development of Mobile Communication Resale Business, further requiring resale enterprises, that is, virtual operator, to immediately carry out self-examination and self-correction, and complete the work of re-registration of user identity information for telephone numbers that were not registered in real name or falsely registered in the previous period within one month.
At the same time, the notice made it clear that resale enterprises should strengthen the supervision and management of entity and network agency channels, strictly enforce the access conditions of agency channels, distribute uniform signs for agency channels, and prohibit the signing agency channels from developing subordinate agents without authorization. If a resale enterprise goes through the network access formalities through physical marketing channels, it must verify and automatically enter the user identity information through the second-generation ID card identification equipment, and it is forbidden to manually enter the ID card information. If you go through the network access procedures, you should verify the user’s identity in strict accordance with the relevant requirements. Resale enterprises should establish a regular self-inspection system for real-name registration and increase the inspection of their own marketing and principal-agent channels.
Virtual operator: Rectifying and benefiting the development of the industry faces technical screening problems.
According to the public information of the domestic virtual operator platform, since April, most virtual operator have started self-examination and self-correction, and the real-name registration system situation of the virtual number segment has been improved to some extent. A president of virtual operator, who asked not to be named, told the reporter of Zhongxin.com on the 9th that the work in real-name registration system is related to the immediate interests of users and the healthy development of communication enterprises and industries. The company has raised the standards of rectification and further strengthened the implementation of the work in real-name registration system.
However, the process of strengthening real-name registration system in virtual operator is facing the difficult problem of technical means screening. According to an employee of a marketing department in virtual operator, the second-generation ID card reader distributed by the company to offline channel vendors has been cracked, and it is currently working with relevant enterprises and departments to make up for the leak.
When the reporter visited a newsstand selling virtual number segments in Beijing, the newsstand sales staff said that they could help to handle a virtual mobile phone number of segment 170 without issuing an ID card, and they could use other people’s ID card information to help. A person in virtual operator said that some vendors used other people’s ID card information in violation of regulations, taking advantage of the "One Certificate No.5" loophole. Virtual operator needs to strengthen the inspection of channels together, screen through technical means, identify users by telephone call back for verification, and clean up fraudulent numbers in time.
Real-name authentication from online sales channels is also difficult. Although some virtual operator online real-name registration systems are enabled, it is required to fill in the user’s real name and ID number, and upload the front, back and half-length photos of my second-generation ID card. However, according to the IT Times, some virtual operator registered with fake real names can still enter the order submission and payment process smoothly. In the whole process of online real-name authentication, we mainly rely on manual audit and express copy of ID card, and there will be more uncontrollable situations. Zou Xueyong, secretary-general of China virtual operator Industry Alliance, thinks that technical means of authentication, such as video face recognition, should be strengthened.
