What is a Vishing Scam?

A scam refers to a deceptive trap or deceitful deception, deception, trick or activity.

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(1) [cheat; fraud]: Design deceptive traps.

His economic contract turned out to be a big scam.

(2) [racket]: Deceptive trick, trick or activity.

In his opinion, everything is a scam. ^[1]

Refers to deceptive traps.

Ming Gaoming's "Pipa Ji · Remains in the Temple": "What's wrong with you, you turned into a scam and stripped off all my clothes." The first time in "The Status Quo of Twenty Years of Witness": "There are still many Scams, abductions, gambling games, all things weird and weird, all appeared in Shanghai. "Manan Village," Yanshan Night Talk · Gold and Sword Scam ":" There are so many scammers in ancient times. Scam, fooled others. " ^[1]

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Cardiff Giant Scam

This is the earliest and largest media scam that occurred. The "Cardiff Giant Scam" began in 1869. Workers dug a well on a farm in Cardiff Harbor, New York State, and dug out a mysterious fossil whose shape is a Up to 10 feet tall. After the newspapers covered the space, the debate began, and even some "experts" speculated that this "human fossil" should come from the time recorded in the Bible: giants walking on the earth. At the same time, farmer William C. Newell opened his farm to the public and allowed others to buy tickets to watch the megalithic statue. Soon, he sold the fossil to Thira for $ 30,000. A large consortium at the port of Kuzaza. Two months later, the fossil began touring, and the scam was uncovered by a distant relative in Newell, George Hull. The cigar seller said that they had joined forces to create this scam just to prove how Americans are. The ground is easily deceived. Today, this "Cardiff Boulder" is preserved in an agricultural museum in Cooper, New York.

Pildan Scam

In 1912, Charles Dawson, an amateur collector in Pildane, England, announced a major discovery. It was a cranial fossil that is said to solve the mystery of the evolution of apes to humans ... the whole world is boiling for this Some anthropologists have even made this discovery their career in graduation studies. Only in 1953 did scientists realize that this world-famous cranium was in fact a fake, made from a bone of an animal found on Earth. To this day, this scam is still considered one of the most famous deceptions in the history of science.

Vermeer scam

After World War II, someone found a work by Dutch master Johannes Vermeer from the collection of Nazi officer Hermann Goering ... The official quickly traced that the painting was by a Dutch painter Hans Van Mechelen sold it to Goring. After Mechelen was arrested for treason, he uttered an astonishment in court. The original painting he sold was forged. To prove this, he also copied another Vermeer painting in prison. . It turns out that Mechelen is one of the world's greatest reproduction painters. After careful identification, he also found 14 other paintings that were faked into Vermel's handwriting, and Mechelen profited millions of dollars. The methods he imitated were so brilliant, even after he publicly stated his fraud, some experts still couldn't tell whether the paintings were real.

Stone Age Tribal Scam

In the 1970s, President Ferdinand Marcos' Minister of Culture Manuel Eliezard announced to the world that he had "first intimate contact" with a newly discovered tribe in the Philippines, Tasang Generations, they are said to represent the ancient past of mankindthe Tasangites lived in caves as if they were living in the Stone Age, naked all over, using drills and fires, using stone tools or bamboo tools, mainly relying on collection A living life. National Geographic magazine and the media's news network have sent reporters to the past, but few people can find them. When Marcos fell, however, those who studied the Tasangites found that they were wearing T-shirts and jeans and using a lot of modern tools. Members of the tribe then acknowledged that they had received Ilizander's gratuity, lost their clothes, used fake stone tools, and lived "primitive" here.

Boston Marathon Scam

In 1980, the first woman to cross the finish line at the Boston Marathon shocked every judge on the scene, not only because she broke the world record for this project, but at the same time, she was utterly complete in this field. Nothing fame. Her name was Rose Rutz. Later, investigative agencies and eyewitnesses stated that Lutz ran at least 0.5 miles less than others before crossing the finish line ... Although Luz repeatedly stated that this accusation was groundless, however The jury still canceled her first place and Jackie Gallo, the second crossing finisher, became the new champion.

Research scam

The Seoul Metropolitan Procuratorate released the final investigation results of Huang Yuxi's stem cell fraud on the 12th, and decided to prosecute Huang Yuxi for the crime of fraud, embezzlement of public funds and violation of the "Bioethics Law. Simultaneously prosecuted were several important aides to Huang Yuxi. ^[2] There are also scams in China's scientific research, and the techniques are still very poor. For example, the second prize of the 2005 National Science and Technology Progress Award, "Research on Key Technologies of Scroll Compressor Design and Manufacturing, and Product Development", was publicly revoked by the Ministry of Science and Technology. The public may not be unfamiliar with this second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, as early as last March, the winner of the achievement, Li Liansheng, was terminated by Xi'an Jiaotong University because of academic fraud. In the reports of CCTV and other media, this achievement was mentioned-six old professors found that as early as 2004 and 2005, Li Liansheng received two other important awards-the first prize for scientific and technological progress in Shaanxi Province and the national science and technology The second prize of the Progress Award is also suspected of fraud.

Drug addiction scam

This was one of the most scandalous scandals in 1980. That year, Janet Cook, a black female reporter for the Washington Post, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her touching and heartbreaking story about an eight-year-old boy named Jimmy who became addicted to drugs. story. When the government asked Cook to disclose the true identity of the boy so that he could be given appropriate assistance, she refused, claiming that this would endanger her life. But under continuous pressure, Cook finally had to admit that "Jimmy" was a completely fictional character.

Hitler Diary Scam

One of the biggest news stories that happened in 1983, the German "Star" weekly said it had collected a diary of Adolf Hitler from 1932 to 1945. The diary was found in a crashed plane and was kept for decades by an East German general. After a storm of copyright battles, Star said that these diaries were 100% true. However, when experts finally had the opportunity to see these diaries, they found that the diaries were not only fake, but also very poorly crafted. Later, "Star" had to admit that he had been deceived by a West German collector who wrote these diaries.

Millic Valley Choir Scam

The German Milli Valley Choir was a heavy artillery shell on the music scene in the late 1980s and also won the Grammy Award in 1989. However, later there was a scandal that caused all the fans to collapse. It turned out that the duo has no musical talent, just through counterfeiting ... The Millivali choir was deprived of the Grammy Award, even if they tried Released their own album to restore popularity, but unfortunately their scandal hurt the fans too much.

Alipay scam

On November 13, 2016, Guangzhou citizen Zhang Ying (pseudonym) used a second-hand item trading software "Xianyu" to hang her own fitness card for 5,000 yuan. A netizen purchased a fitness card from Zhang Ying through the platform and asked her to change the price to 19600 yuan. The buyer requested a price change for various reasons. As a result, Zhang Ying transferred 10 times to the other party, deducting more than 40,000 yuan from the other party She transferred a total of 74451 yuan. ^[3]

Your courier is lost, please apply for compensation as required

On July 17, 2018, Ms. Lu received the product purchased in Australia, but before that she was almost defrauded by the person posing as a courier for 20,000 yuan. It turned out that after purchasing the product, Ms. Lu sent a message to the courier company on the Internet to change the mailing address. The next day, she received a call from a person claiming to be a courier, who said she was willing to pay twice for the loss of the goods.

Under the guidance of the "courier", Ms. Lu filled in the personal information including the bank card account number and password on the "Alipay Refund Center" page sent by the other party, and was transferred 20,000 yuan. Ms. Lu called the police in time. When the police arrived, she stopped Ms. Lu from the last operation and retrieved Ms. Lu's transferred 20,000 yuan in the "Peace Fortune Treasure". ^[4]